2018-2019 B1G Basketball Thread

[bayareabadger]

As God is my witness, if MSU is gonna be selectively swooning, ima be real irked if it had one solid enough game in Madison. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Wow... I always knew UC-Irvine was a different collegiate experience than a Big Ten university, but yeah, last night summed it up. My UCSB Gaucho alum wife and I went to the UCSB@UCI basketball game. 

First, we planned to go hit the Anthill Pub & Grill on UCI's campus before the game. Figured it would be a fun time to go show up in UCSB gear and interact with the local fans, and they have a good beer selection. It (as far as I know) the only place within walking distance of the stadium to get a good beer. It was... Closed. Supposedly it's normally open until 1 AM on Saturday nights, but I guess since it was a holiday weekend they decided to just close up shop. Can you imagine an on-campus bar at any B1G school being closed an hour and a half before game time? 

Second, the game was pushed to 9 PM because ESPN actually decided to televise it. So national TV, on a Saturday night, with the home team leading the Big West Conference, and with the school sponsoring a "white out" in the student section for the TV coverage. You'd think they could fill more than half of a 6,000 seat arena, wouldn't you? Nope... I think the non-student section was more full than the student section, and probably 25+% of the non-student section were Gaucho fans. It reminded me of what the stands looked like at Purdue football games 3 years ago, but that was because the team sucked donkey testes at the time. UCI is actually decent at basketball (by Big West standards, anyway). 

But I guess I can't complain... Got to sit courtside behind the UCSB bench for $26/seat lol...





Would have been a lot more fun if UCSB had won, though...

[MaximumSam]

Welp, that's one to go on the refs blooper reel

[ELA]

Some calls are hard.  When a guy comes flying through and smashes the ball out of bounds, it shouldn't be

I guess that's your makeup?  Yikes, two obvious blown OOB calls, one each way.

[ELA]

Feels like OSU is up about 10, and yet somehow MSU is up 1

[ELA]

If OSU loses, this feels like a blown one by Holtzman.  Do what Beilein does and just bail out when the shot goes up.  MSU is getting nearly nothing in the half court, but is on pace for about 30 fast break points.  The occasional offensive rebound is not worth it in a low scoring game like this, where your half court defense has been working.

[ELA]

CBS can feel free to abandon that cluster of a graphic.

[ELA]

4 on Tillman, Ward injured. OSU gets 7 minutes of Wesson against a glorified walk on.  This should end well.

[MaximumSam]

Worst thing for OSU was those fouls on MSU. Refs swallowing the whistle now to even things up. Bad luck.

[ELA]

Co-worst thing would be going 8 minutes without a basket with neither MSU big in the game, and Winston sitting down for about 3 of those minutes.  Wesson should have dominated the last two segments, and instead he hasn't made a shot

[MaximumSam]

Co-worst thing would be going 8 minutes without a basket with neither MSU big in the game, and Winston sitting down for about 3 of those minutes.  Wesson should have dominated the last two segments, and instead he hasn't made a shot

Like i said..

[ELA]

Well if this team needed to learn they could win without Ward, they did.

OSU I believe has now gone 10 minutes without a basket since MSU had to go deep into their bench due to injuries and foul trouble.  I'd call the guys they called on role guys, but they dug deeper.  Those were guys who typically only come in late in blowouts.  Game ball to the bench today for sure

[bayareabadger]

That’s one way to cover the spread 

[ELA]

Fred Hoibergs walk on son made the same number of baskets in the last 12 minutes (1) than OSUs whole team.  Usually a positive sign.