~2017-18 Big Ten Basketball Thread~

[ELA]

Anyone in favor of expanding the CFB playoffs?

I stand by the fact that unless the P5 is going to break away for the GO5, a 12 team, 10 auto bid tourney will actually improve the regular season.
I have less issue with Loyola than I do with KSU and FSU hanging around.

[Anonymous Coward]

Please no. And I wouldn't mind adding a "conference champions only" qualifier to the 4 who do go...or a situation where the committee has to find the 3 most deserving conference champs and 1 at-large.

[ELA]

And I'm fine with that too.  But then then the P5 needs to split off.

But let's be honest.  It'll be 8, with 6 auto bids very soon.  So 12 just means you have a reason to care about weeknight MAC and Sun Belt games, even though they will never win those 1st round games.

[ELA]

This is why I picked Texas Tech to lose to Florida.  Every time I watched them, they defended the hell out of the ball, but couldn't shoot worth shit, or get to the line.

[HailHailMSP]

My rooting interests obviously sit with michigan but I find this Bill Self Kansas team to be worth rooting for and a bit different. There is no Wiggins, Embiid, etc. They have key players, but it’s more the makeup of the sum of the parts that Hs made them successful. It would be interesting to see this be the team bill self breaks through with after tourney woes with heralded 1 and dones.

[ELA]

My rooting interests obviously sit with michigan but I find this Bill Self Kansas team to be worth rooting for and a bit different. There is no Wiggins, Embiid, etc. They have key players, but it’s more the makeup of the sum of the parts that Hs made them successful. It would be interesting to see this be the team bill self breaks through with after tourney woes with heralded 1 and dones.

I've actually never really had a problem with Self's teams.  I'll eliminate Izzo for home purposes, but among the coaching royalty, I've never had an issue with him compared to K, Pitino, Roy, etc...

[ELA]

Did not think Villanova would be in a game, let alone leading, shooting this poorly

[847badgerfan]

Mrs. 847 asked me who I wanted to win, and I said a giant meteor would be good.

She said, "So Kansas then? I hate Dook."

And so it's been said.

[847badgerfan]

Two more quotes from Mrs. 847:

"He looks like a weasel."

"I'd like to slap that look off his face."


Take a guess who would be the victim.

[ELA]

Only thing better than Dook losing is Grayson missing the key shot in both regulation and OT

[HailHailMSP]

I thought that Grayson shot was falling at the end of regulation.

Duke’s zone was incredibly soft. The high post to baseline was open all day and when Kansas made a few three’s there was little they could do.

The OT ended up hanging on that block/charge call. Carter fouls out and Kansas ties it up. If Duke gets that call, I think th script flips

[847badgerfan]

The officials tried really hard to help Dook. They really did. They always do. Really.

[Anonymous Coward]

I never understand the Duke hate, so I came close to pulling for them, but I think Kansas, without that zone defense, is a better match-up for Michigan. The worst match-up, should Michigan get there, is Villanova. They are the same team as Michigan but more talented.

Michigan : Loyola :: Villanova : Michigan

But that's why we play.

[ELA]

Michigan would have decimated that zone.  Duke was prbabpro the best matchup for them.