RaceToTheTop

More Leal, less Cupps. You don't need a traditional point guard against Penn State, just someone who isn't going to turn the ball over in the backcourt.

Bardo playing the other players for Cupps not handling single man pressure.

Big Ten runs thee give and not let go on screens.

I swear that the next illegal screen called in the Big Ten will be the first illegal screen called all year. Guys literally look like an upside down Y spreading their legs.

Leal and the gane 80, Penn State 60. IU puts it together today.

Clary's their best offensive player. That said, they did just win at Rutgers without him.

While the quad system certainly had its flaws (I’m not a fan of it), even it doesn’t attempt to split teams into just two buckets.

Gonna be some angry tim miles tweets

Nothing is that black and white. Teams aren’t separated into tiers of ‘good’ and ‘bad’.

Yeah, the thought that coaches turn down higher paying gigs because someone else was offered first is ridiculous. .

Link?

That was the play where Justin Smith flat out got burnt.

Ohio State intentionally misses the second.....Okpara looked like he should have had the rebound but no one corrals it. I will say it looked like there should have been a couple of tenths of a second left -- ball rolled out of bounds before the buzzer and was off of Perkins' heel and the refs didn't even review it.

Meh. TONS of coaches that are hired who weren't the first choice for schools are successful. If Woodson wasn't the right choice after Stevens, that isn't about him being the second choice.

When they threw it to him there, I thought "he is going to throw the ball away". Then he double dribbled before he had the chance to. I can't say how bad that play design was to have Okpara handling the ball 20 feet from the basket.

WTF, Okpara. Double dribble. Then again, why in the HELL is Ohio State passing the ball to Okpara at the top of the key when they are trying to run clock?

Ohio State ball, 38.6 left, Iowa up 1.

Quick google search: NBADRAFTROOM — 30. NBADRAFT.NET: 47 CBSSPORTS: 28 Tankathon: 20 Yardbarker: 28 the ringer: 17 aversge of those 6: 27. I’d say ‘top 20’ is a ceiling, not his projection.

I’m not sure why you would take homage with what Wayne posted……seemed like a pretty innocent take.

I consider last year a good season…but following your advice would have meant avoiding the board until mid season. I’m getting better at avoiding certain posters/posts, but there are certainly posters who I know that are exactly like people I do know in real life whom I don’t bother wasting time on.

Which one is Leal?

The number of posts of people crapping on any positive thought posted would lead me to believe that for a lot of posters that isn't the case.

Is there a thread for Leal v Penn State predictions?

True, but that was just one oddity. Boo Buie has averaged 5 1/2 free throws in Big Ten games and didn't get to the line against Purdue. In the first game against Purdue, he got to the line 10 times. The first game at Northwestern, Purdue had 41 free throws and Northwestern had 32. This time around, it was 46-8. Northwestern DOES foul a lot but I certainly didn't see any difference between the contact the two teams were doling out in the game in Evanston and the one in West Lafayette....but 46-8 and 41-32 are most certainly different numbers.

This is the thing: if there were that many uncalled fouls on Edey, the number of fouls that Northwestern would have been called for would have greatly dropped because they wouldn't have needed to foul Edey so much because he would have been in foul trouble or out of the game. It's a chain reaction. Ant tracking the uncalled fouls also doesn't account for the legitimacy of the fouls that were actually called. I look at a guy like Mason Gillis -- who didn't attempt a single shot inside the arc and wasn't a guy grabbing a lot of rebounds -- and see he shot 8 free throws. Strange thing is he had only shot more than 2 free throws once all year and even then that was only 4.