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He definitely figured out what he needed after year 1 and stole the most physical player from an in conference rival. Stone cold

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2025/01/20/michigan-basketball-dusty-may-refs-game-vs-northwestern/77836430007/ if it’s behind paywall sorry. It’s from last year where he said he is still adjusting to how B1G is officiated and the physicality

Hofstra banks in a 3 with .3 to go. lol. Delivering. Heartbreak for Towson

OT

Hofstra/Towson tied with 1 min to go

It must be cause as Ant pointing out most come away with that thought. I think most coaches that come into the league think they can get away with just playing the way they played in the other leagues and the B1G is a different beast. I hate the style of play the B1G forces their teams to play and would much rather watch other conferences. Always wanted new coaches to come in and change the way the B1G is viewed but I’m afraid until Izzo and Painter are out of the league it won’t change. Beilien was the closest I saw someone be real successful by not playing the old B1G style. Most coaches get humbled in the B1G first and then adjust as needed. Words can’t describe how much I hate the B1G style of play.

Montana holds on

N Colorado has got this down to 2 with 1:30 to go. Montana was up 17 at half. 5/4 game in the the Big Sky

Furman is going dancing. Troy is going dancing as well. Big Sky quarterfinals on espn +.

You read the same thing I did then. His agent basically says he wants him to go where ever that assistant coach ends up

Cooper Bowser for Furman but he is from the DC area so I’m guessing wherever he goes will be close to there

Cooper Bowser for Furman is going to get a nice pay upgrade when he is playing for a power 5 team next year

Horizon semifinals will start out on ESPNnews just a heads up. The Girls game going over on espnu

Finally the CAA makes an appearance on tv. Semifinals on cbs sports network

Let’s have a night SoCon finals ETSU/Furman at 7 This conference always delivers

I used that example as well. Plus he changed his defense up as well. He aggressively overhelped and just a a very aggressive style D his first 2 years and got completely shredded with 2 of the worst years in Illinois basketball history. Corrected the mistake and know he is rolling at Illinois. That was back in my younger days when I gave a crap about what other fan bases thought and went to their boards and they wanted him out after year 1 and really wanted him gone after year 2. Luckily for them he stuck around

Just got to hope the defense can get close to the top 15 defense he had at West Virginia. Don’t need to worry about looking at the offensive efficiency though…… not great 134

I think a lot of coaches can misjudge the B1G when they first coach in it. The physicality and especially the center play is different than most others. Underwood brought his overplaying defense that worked before at SF Austin and his 1 stop at Oklahoma st and had terrible results and admitted he had to change the way he coached and recruited. Next year or the year after he land Cockburn and switched his defense. Willard hated coaching in the B1G and couldn’t get out of the league fast enough. B1G isn’t for everyone

Alcorn st up 4 over Alabama st with 4:20 to to in the SWAC first round

7 out of the 11 IUs road games were Q1a games (Highest value quad) 1 of the 11 was Q1b. So overall 8 of 11 games were in Q1 range 1 of the 11 was Q2a range 2 of the 11 was Q3 range I’m sure the staff can see these numbers and compare them to other bubble teams and see that if they get left out other bubble teams have easier chances for cheap Q2 road wins throughout their conference. Schedule better in the non conference and you can overcome an evaluation misses. Or it shows what kind of roster you need moving forward to compete with that kind of schedule. margin of error from getting left out to making it is small. For instance if Maryland and Rutgers wins fall in the Q2 range this year IU is probably in the last 4 byes territory heading into the BTT.