Suck it Purdue. Don't like their style of basketball.
Indiana looks like the B1Gs most dangerous NCAA tournament team right now.
Indiana looks like the B1Gs most dangerous NCAA tournament team right now.
Other games.
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You would think IU would be a heavy favorite in Bloomington, but IU has lost so many heartbreaking games to the Hawks the past few years that their fans fear us. Thompson still isn't healthy, but they have a lot of talent.
Northwestern at Maryland. NW up 20-18 with 10:40 left 1st half.
Illinois at Ohio State. OSU leads 12-9 early.
Illinois at Ohio State. OSU leads 12-9 early.
Iowa on the road though is the great equalizer. Their lack of defense and shooting challenges outside of Carver . Both teams come off emotional wins. Will see how they react.
Glad we got Maryland when we did. They’re playing well right now.
They're basically the same as Iowa--they are atrocious on the road. They've won 2 road games all season: Minnesota and Louisville--maybe the 2 worst power 6 teams.
Sensabaugh with the dunk of the year vs Mayer and Illinois.
Maryland is MSU-hot right now from 3. Thought NW had a vaunted defense this year....gee maybe on any given nite a team like MD or MSU can just shoot lites out vs an Iowa or NW,huh.
Shooting happens....
Shooting happens....
We put 86 on them. They will give up 3s with all the doubling they do.
Illinois going down to OSU isn't a bad thing.
Let's go Michigan... Because....
Efff WISCONSIN!!
Efff WISCONSIN!!
Can someone explain this Quad 1,2, etc. thing to me please?
How can Rutgers be both Quad 1 and Quad 2?
How can Rutgers be both Quad 1 and Quad 2?
Q1 and Q2 is a metric used to assure P6 teams with losing conference records can be justified for getting selected to NCAA basketball tournament. Keeps potential regular season champs like drake and Bradley out of tournament. Just my rant😐
I’m a Drake fan and I agree but anything is better than the stupid RPI.
For reference, Nevada is #5 is RPI and Iowa is #67
Mid-Majors with At-Large births since the NCAA moved to the NET system:
2019: VCU, UCF, Temple, Belmont, Nevada
2021: VCU, Wichita St, Drake, BYU, Utah St
2022: Memphis, Davidson, St Mary's, San Francisco, Wyoming, Colorado St, San Diego St
17 total
Compare that to the last 3 tournaments of using RPI:
2018: Nevada, St Bonaventure, Wichita St, Rhode Island
2017: St Mary's, VCU, Cincinatti, Dayton
2016: Wichita St, VCU, Cincinatti, Dayton, Tulsa
13 total
One could argue with looking at this that the NET has improved the chances of mid-majors getting NCAA at-large bids.
I would like for it to work for smaller schools. If it does, great.
Yeah all of these teams are American, A10, MWC, WCC, and MVC teams. That's almost always been true because the strength of schedule component for leagues below this are just so low it's tough to gauge how good they are. Florida Atlantic and Charleston should be interesting case studies this year if they both lose the auto-bid.
The reality that fans of these schools don't want to hear, is that March Madness is ultimately trying to selling TV eyeballs. And UNC/Wisconsin in the play-in games draws a lot more viewers than Drake/Liberty. Cinderella stories sell, but want to know what sells more? UNC, Duke, Kentucky, etc. So it's unlikely they change the system to move away from Strength of Schedule, Q1/2 wins, etc. The most likely change is just tournament expansion which might include a bit more of the best mid-majors, but then you also get 10 B12, 11 B10, etc of all of the major conferences too. It's a double edged sword.
Michigan and Wisconsin down to the wire.
I’ll casually root for Michigan just because Wisconsin sucks so hard.
I’ll casually root for Michigan just because Wisconsin sucks so hard.
Wisconsin gets away with hitting the Michigan player in the head on that layup attempt.
Efff Wisconsin
MICHIGAN with a buzzer beater to send to OT....
This weekend is insane!
This weekend is insane!
This weekend has delivered when it comes to amazing college basketball. Dickinson bangs in a 3 to send it to OT.
Someone please tell me the Wisconsin win actually helps Iowa so that it doesn’t ruin my Sunday.
Wisky got home-towned screwed 2 ways in that last sequence in regulation:
On the last shot from the corner that got blocked the refs reviewed it an added .3 to clock going from 1.8 to 2.1. The replay clearly showed the ball did not land out of bounds til 1.8 seconds left. Clock does not stop til it touches out of bounds. Unbelievable that refs could review it and still get it wrong.
When the ball was unbounded the Wis defender tipped it, Dickinson fumbled it, then squared up and shot it. Took 2.5 seconds to get it off.
If they get the clock right in the 1st place even a slow-fingered Mich clock operator could not have been slow enough for him to get it off. Screw job.
Hawks needed a Michigan loss to claim that 4th seed. Gets very improbable now.
On the last shot from the corner that got blocked the refs reviewed it an added .3 to clock going from 1.8 to 2.1. The replay clearly showed the ball did not land out of bounds til 1.8 seconds left. Clock does not stop til it touches out of bounds. Unbelievable that refs could review it and still get it wrong.
When the ball was unbounded the Wis defender tipped it, Dickinson fumbled it, then squared up and shot it. Took 2.5 seconds to get it off.
If they get the clock right in the 1st place even a slow-fingered Mich clock operator could not have been slow enough for him to get it off. Screw job.
Hawks needed a Michigan loss to claim that 4th seed. Gets very improbable now.
It actually would have (probably) really helped Iowa if Michigan lost, but ...........
FVCK WISCONSIN!!!!!
[really hope this loss keeps the Badgers out of the NCAA-T]
I was kind of thinking that but I’d love for Wisconsin to miss the tourney or have to play day 1 in BTT so happy to see gard and his hackers lose. Where right now at 8-10 with Nebraska who has tie breaker over them but they have it over psu who would be 8-10 if they lose against Rutgers later.
But with Michigan their last 2 games are at Indiana and Illinois so can easily see them losing both.
I’d love to get Wisconsin in the BTT. I think we’d destroy them.
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