2025-2026 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

Well I think you have to include Ohio State for being heavily connected to Dusty May and then deciding to go with Jake Diebler instead

That's a separate OSU/IU fan support group

[bayareabadger]

OSU shooting well.

UW, out of sorts. 

Bleh.

[ELA]

Watched the end of Villanova beating Xavier in OT.  Villanova is 21-5?  The Big East is a mess.  I think UConn is good, but that league is so far off what it was, I have a hard time knowing if any of those teams are good.

Even after that win, Villanova is #27 in KenPom, which is actually higher than I would have guessed.

[ELA]

The LA schools are aggressively bad going east.  I think UCLA and USC might lose by a combined 120 points in their 4 games in Michigan

[Brutus Buckeye]

Wisconsin isn't going east very well tonight. 

[ELA]

Its weird that only college softball has a mercy rule.  If it just one sport, baseball has arm issues, if its a safety thing. Softball pitchers can pitch forever.  But you are also apt to get pissed off kids doing dangerous things

[ELA]

Wisconsin isn't going east very well tonight.

As Ive said, they might have the widest gap between floor and ceiling of any Big Ten team I can ever recall.  However you pick them to do in the tournament you will be wrong. 

And you better pick them to the Elite 8 or to get upset in the first round, because those are the only outcomes for this team

[ELA]

My most recent old man take, and MSU is as guilty as anyone, but I hate wearing your darks at home

[ELA]

Even if Bennett Stirtz didnt play for his dad in HS, the announcers would say he did, and everyone would agree

[CatsbyAZ]

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The Sandbagger within Me is imagining the buckeyes rallying on Tuesday and popping UW in the nose.