~2017-18 Big Ten Basketball Thread~

[Brutus Buckeye]

Today, the Ohio State basketball team announced that they would be opening the 2018 and 2019 basketball seasons against the Cincinnati Bearcats. 

[NickSmith4Three]

Castleton to Michigan

[ELA]

Seems like an upgrade over Currie to me

[HailHailMSP]

An interesting case. After Coach Cal's postgame comments and the radio station sharing the refs personal information the scorned Big Blue basketball nation attacked the referee from all angles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/04/youre-gonna-pay-kentucky-basketball-fans-trolled-and-threatened-referee-lawsuit-says/?utm_term=.8f4f42d569f3

I really wish Cal would go down with this shoe-gate episode as well. It doesn't feel right to see the Kentucky fans shooting off at Louisville, while trying to hold some moral high ground.

[ELA]

Taylor Currie decommitted from Michigan. He originally committed as a 2019 recruit and then decided he would graduate in 2018.

Meanwhile Michigan is getting a visit from Colin Castleton this weekend, who appears to be very similar to Moe Wagner. Illinois is his other top offer, where he has already visited. It's hard to say if/how interrelated these updates are. I think Currie still has an offer for 2019 (he would have likely just redshirted in 2018 if he enrolled then, anyway). Time will tell how this works out....

Currie visiting Wisconsin

[847badgerfan]

I wonder if they will offer. There is still a spot open for 2018, after they didn't get Hauser.

[MarqHusker]

I really wish Cal would go down with this shoe-gate episode as well. It doesn't feel right to see the Kentucky fans shooting off at Louisville, while trying to hold some moral high ground.

This sounds awfully familiar.  Don't we have two major parties that do this every day?  The absolute masters of whataboutisms?

It is indeed amusing though.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Purdue F/C Jacquil Taylor again hobbled with a foot injury. Most of you probably don't know much about him, but I think this is his 4th year in the program as a RS Jr, as basically every season has been impacted with foot/ankle injuries. 

The supposed prognosis is that he should be back by November, so if all goes well--bearing in mind that has never happened for Jacquil--he'll be back in time for the season. But it's TBD.

He's a piece that Purdue was really hoping could produce given that Haas may not be able to handle 30 minutes a game. Taylor has a nose for rebounding (needed after Swanigan), is a HECK of a lot more athletic than Haas/Hammons/Swanigan were, but versatile enough to play stretch 4 or in the paint. So a full recovery would be nice.

[Brutus Buckeye]

So 20 game Big Ten schedule, starting next year? 

Far out. 

[NickSmith4Three]

2018 Tyler Herro has decomitted from Wisconsin

[ELA]

4* SG Tyler Herro from Milwaukee decommits from UW.  Just committed a month ago.  Weird.  Except in crootin these days, it's really not.

[ELA]

4* SG Tyler Herro from Milwaukee decommits from UW.  Just committed a month ago.  Weird.  Except in crootin these days, it's really not.

Actually 247 doesn't specify year in their timeline, and that was the last event, so I assumed it was just this year, but he committed in September 2016.
Now seems like Kentucky, Kansas and UNC will get hard looks.  Swell of the guy.

[MichiFan87]

Not a fan of the move to 20 games. Unless the Big Ten eliminates byes in the conference schedule (ie. weekends and weeks where the teams don't play), there's no way to prevent conference play from starting before the weekend of/before New Year's Day, as it usually does (granted, with the BigTen's disappointing move to start scheduling Monday and Friday games, that might still be possible).

Two possible compromises I'd favor are to replace exhibition games with regular non-con games (and start the season on 11/1) and expand the games limit from 31 to 33 and/or move the NCAA tournament back a weekend (into April, not the other way). The first solution allows teams to still get sufficient guarantee games while allowing them to continue to schedule as many (or more) tough non-con games. The second prevents conference play from starting before NYD while still allowing teams to have at least 2 days rest between games.

Of course, much like my 13 game football season proposal, I don't expect any of this to happen.

[847badgerfan]

4* SG Tyler Herro from Milwaukee decommits from UW.  Just committed a month ago.  Weird.  Except in crootin these days, it's really not.

WTF?

I can't imagine why he'd do that.