~2017-18 Big Ten Basketball Thread~

[Brutus Buckeye]

Credit where due. 

I am impressed with the ease of which Michigan transitioned from being a football school to a basketball school. 

Seemingly seamless. 

[ELA]

Credit where due.

I am impressed with the ease of which Michigan transitioned from being a football school to a basketball school.

Seemingly seamless.

So seamless most of their fans don't know it happened.
I wonder if MSU fans notice the reverse happening?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's always dangerous for one person to speak for his entire group, but I'll take the risk and say Michigan fans aren't changed. We still, on averge, have an attitude toward basketball that is somewhere in the spectrum of mild enthusiasm/apathy/dislike, w/r/t the sport itself. We're also avid enough about Michigan to want everything good to happen to it and adore hype, in general. Deep tourney runs check off these boxes. This isn't new or surprising. And you know this. The magnitude of Michigan obnoxiousness is exponents-upon-exponents higher when they have a Top 5 football program. This basketball giddiness is a drop in the bucket by comparison. Sure, it's sincere happiness, but it pales in magnitude and (unlike the high tide football fervor which lasts 365), it will inevitably flee sooner than a month after the tourney. They are great and fun to watch, are getting lots of press, and John Beilein always makes the university look good. The end.

[ELA]

Yeah, I don't think anyone was more than tongue in cheek.

[MrNubbz]

Damn stated that I wanted to see Nevada-loyola and caught pieces/parts of the 1 st half.Got busy sorting/focusing on tax papers and poof - coulda sorted the damn papers today.Didn't see the Zags getting tripped up by the the Noles.Score indicates it wasn't that close.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I don't think anyone was more than tongue in cheek.

Ha, well that's the other thing about Michigan. Stereotyped for having a superiority complex - and even SCs that seem persuasive/real are *always* ICs in disguise. So, like people in general and with our own reasons, we're a sensitive bunch. Apparently I enjoy feeding that flaw as much as anyone.

[FearlessF]

NCAA stunningly gets something right, amends elbow brace rule for Purdue's Isaac Haas

[847badgerfan]

NCAA stunningly gets something right, amends elbow brace rule for Purdue's Isaac Haas

Good news. What is he going to be wearing?

[FearlessF]

Haas met with engineers at Purdue, who crafted a new brace that would allow him to play and get approval of game officials for Friday, and was seen sporting it at practice on Thursday. 

[ELA]

So Kansas' 20 point lead with 10 to play is down to 6 and Nova is down 6.

Michigan might be the highest seed left by the end of the night.

[ELA]

Or Nova is going to wake up and drive the final nail in my bracket.

[MarqHusker]

Interesting read in WSJ today about how boeheim convinced K to run a zone for team USA vs Spain when they needed a stop. Durante swatted 2 three attempts and USA held on to win.  K was like, hmm.  Capitulated when he later started playing lots of Freshman.

[ELA]

I'll never learn to get off the WVU and Purdue bandwagons in filling out my bracket.

[Kris61]

I'll never learn to get off the WVU and Purdue bandwagons in filling out my bracket.

WVU keeps running into great teams in the Sweet 16.  Our last 3 S16 opponents have been a combined 102-5 heading into the game.  I also thought we got a tough whistle in the 2nd half.  That’s not the reason they lost but it didn’t help.  The first 6 fouls of the second half were all called on WVU and came within the first 6 minutes and a couple (if not 3 of them) were just terrible calls.  The third foul on Jevon Carter and the 4th foul on Daxter Miles were vomit inducing.  Dax was our leading scorer in the game and had to sit for the next 10 minutes of game action.  By the 10:00 mark of the second half WVU had been whistled for 10 fouls and Nova 2.

Then Nova got hot and just pulled away.