~2017-18 Big Ten Basketball Thread~

[847badgerfan]

Pretty good amount of speculation that he will end up at North Carolina. The thinking is he was waiting on the NCAA and now that they got off with nothing, he's available to be recruited.

There was this from him, only a few short weeks ago, after his visit:

In the midst of a huge scandal involving college basketball recruiting that's only reached the tip of the iceberg, Wisconsin commit Tyler Herro took to Twitter to make a statement for the Badgers.

Just in case you were concerned that UW might be dragged into in the mess that Louisville, Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State, USC, Miami (FL), and more to follow are currently caught up in, the four-star shooting guard says there's no worry.

My mood because I chose the right school. Feels good to be a part of a university that does things the right way?? pic.twitter.com/qedTFdyhkY
— Tyler Herro (@raf_tyler) September 27, 2017

 
Herro committed to Wisconsin last September. He chose the Badgers over Arizona, Florida, Marquette, Indiana, Purdue, Creighton, Xavier, and others.

The nation's No. 36 ranked player per the 247sports composite, Herro will be the fourth-highest rated prospect in program history, trailing only Brian Butch, Sam Dekker, and Joe Krabbehnoft.

[847badgerfan]

Starting to fall into place. Herro "blew up" this summer and lots of people have been in his dad's ear the past few weeks about how the kid could be a one-and-done and that UW isn't the place for that kind of player (it isn't).

Incidentally, his dad is a coach on the Wisconsin Playground Elite AAU team that he plays for. Not sure of what shoe company owns that outfit.

[ELA]

It's official, 20 game schedule next season, with protected 2 play rivalries, being MSU-UM, Indiana-Purdue and Illinois-NW

http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/101917aab.html

[ELA]

Yuck

@kylebaustin
Jim Delany said Big Ten hopes to have an 80/20 split between Big Ten tourneys in the midwest and in the east

[Brutus Buckeye]

Illinois and Northwestern as a protected rivalry is kind of funny. 

They are on the opposite ends of the spectrum, with regards to basketball history.

Obviously they want to protect all three of the in-state rivalries. 

I like the 20 game schedule. Do any of the schools have more than 2 or 3 non-conference rivalries that they play every year? 

[ELA]

I like the 20 game schedule. Do any of the schools have more than 2 or 3 non-conference rivalries that they play every year?

I don't think any have more than 1, and most have none.

[Brutus Buckeye]

I don't think any have more than 1, and most have none.

That's what I suspected. 
I would "like" to see OSU play Cincy, Xavier and Dayton every year. 
But the reality is that they rarely play any of those schools unless they have to. 

[ELA]

Yeah, UM and Duke played every year back in the 90s and early 2000s, but with the Big Ten-ACC Challenge, the fall of UM hoops, and Amaker not wanting to play K, that series went away.

MSU seems to play Oakland just about every year, but I don't have the evidence to back that up.  They oddly don't seem to play Directional MI in basketball all that often.  I think UM plays them more, particularly EMU.

[NickSmith4Three]

Illinois plays Missouri every year

I know Indiana and Kentucky stopped playing.  Who else has a regular non-conf rival?  I am having a hard time coming up with any of them

[ELA]

Illinois plays Missouri every year

I know Indiana and Kentucky stopped playing.  Who else has a regular non-conf rival?  I am having a hard time coming up with any of them

Those were the only two I could think of.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Iowa and Iowa State? 

[MarqHusker]

Ahem.
In addition to Marquette, UW often plays uwm  and GB

[ELA]

MSU opens at #2 in the coaches poll, Duke #1

http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/basketball-men/polls/coaches-poll/

Minnesota at #15, Northwestern at #20 and Purdue at #21 are the other Big Ten teams.

Wisconsin, Maryland and Michigan all receiving votes

[Brutus Buckeye]

Do any of the newbs still play their old rivals? Maryland?