College Bball Thread

[Brass Cannon]

15 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

B1G won Maui 

B1G is going to win Players era 

B1G is going to win Acrisure Classic probably 

B1G won the Hall of Fame classic earlier in the week 

B1G won their game at Night of Champions 

to say B1G is having a great non conference so far would be an understatement 

I say it every year but this is exactly what you want the conference your team plays in to do.   Last Sec got 14 teams in because of their history making non conference results.  B1G won’t be that good but they are going to get extra teams in the tourney because of this start.  

It’s amazing how things changed once everybody could pay players. 

[HinnyHoosier]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

Michigan/Zags

lets go 

The Michigan Wolver-wagons. They are trucking everyone. Makes me wish Dusty was already in his 60s so there would be some chance Indiana might win sometime before I die. At least they will run over Purdue during their best window for a title run. 

Screw you, Quinn. I hope your turkey is dry tomorrow.

[TheWatShot]

Michigan up 46 with 8 minutes left. 46. 

[Uspshoosier]

Unbalanced schedules stink.  The fact we only get 1 game of Purdue/Michigan during the regular season stinks.   Michigan only has to play Illinois, IU and Purdue once.   They have a brutal 10 day stretch in February though 

@Purdue 

Duke- Neutral 

@Illinois 

Home game with Minny in between the Duke and Illinois games 

 

[TheWatShot]

Michigan would be #1 next week if the media wasn't in bed with Purdue. 

[Uspshoosier]

4 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

The Michigan Wolver-wagons. They are trucking everyone

It’s a heck of little run here however just last week they were struggling with Wake and TCU.   They are easily a top 5 team but they won’t keep trucking people by 40.   Very impressive stuff right now though 

[Uspshoosier]

Zags 25 year olds showing their age.  No legs on a back to back to back.   Half joking of course.   Zags have 5 players 22 or older 

[HinnyHoosier]

3 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

It’s a heck of little run here however just last week they were struggling with Wake and TCU.   They are easily a top 5 team but they won’t keep trucking people by 40.   Very impressive stuff right now though 

Yeah. If I were a UM faithful I would definitely get concerned about peaking too soon.

[Deserthoozier]

18 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Yeah. If I were a UM faithful I would definitely get concerned about peaking too soon.

Man, the kind of problem we’d love to have!

[Home Jersey]

25 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

The Michigan Wolver-wagons. They are trucking everyone. Makes me wish Dusty was already in his 60s so there would be some chance Indiana might win sometime before I die. At least they will run over Purdue during their best window for a title run. 

Screw you, Quinn. I hope your turkey is dry tomorrow.

We will have plenty of fun match ups between DDV and Dusty led teams. I'm sure there will be years they get the best of us and years we get the best of them. I would've loved to hire Dusty when Michigan did but we also don't know for certain he'd want to coach here. Timing just didn't work out. Sucks, but I think we got another really good coach who can be here a long time. And yes, a big ole screw you, to Quinn.

[HoosierHoopster]

2 minutes ago, Deserthoozier said:

Man, the kind of problem we’d love to have!

We seem to be doing pretty well

[HinnyHoosier]

4 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

We will have plenty of fun match ups between DDV and Dusty led teams. I'm sure there will be years they get the best of us and years we get the best of them. I would've loved to hire Dusty when Michigan did but we also don't know for certain he'd want to coach here. Timing just didn't work out. Sucks, but I think we got another really good coach who can be here a long time. And yes, a big ole screw you, to Quinn.

Agreed. And I don't want or mean to sound ungrateful for DDV. I'm super encouraged with what he's doing so far with a patchwork roster. Like it was said last night: We got ourselves a coach. It'll be interesting to see how the recruiting battles play out in the coming years as well.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Dusty put a hell of a roster together this season. The Yaxel addition was HUGE.  Being able to play all 3 bigs together is borderline unfair.  I’m not sold on Cadeau at all but that front court and Dusty as a coach.  I’m sold.  
 

Dusty said the offseason was easy as players wanted to play for Michigan based on results and style. 
 

This is my hope for DDV.  We will need about 3 starter level guys out of the portal including  a PG and Center and maybe a SG as well.  

[J34]

Purdue, Michigan, and Michigan St might be the 3 best teams in the country 

[Jeff Flabjohns]

Dusty May is the truth. Sigh

[str8baller]

8 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I’m not sold on Cadeau at all but that front court and Dusty as a coach.

Same. When I watched them early they didn’t get great guard play and looked a tad underwhelming. They seem to have it figured out now. B1G is gonna be brutal this year. Upper teams all seem like that can drop 100 any given night.

[LIHoosier]

Someone's slacking haha

[Scotty R]

13 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

To each their own.   For me there is no such thing  as teams I have little interest in.  I have no problem watching any team at anytime.   If I waited until championship week to watch some of these smaller conferences and schools then chances are I missed out on a heck of a game on a Tuesday 5 games into the SoCon regular season.  For me seeing these little guys play all year makes championship week more exciting since I will know which schools can make a run in their conference tourney.   I’m not a regular fan though.   Even in the 90’s I was watching small conference teams year round.   Having an aunt and uncle who had one of those big satellites gave access to channels from around the US.  Going over there and watching West coast games was the best.   Boise States old floor brings those memories back.    ESPN then had the  full court offer that gave you access to all the games for a pay per view type price that I had my parents get and then I got it when I went to college.  Now i have just about every streaming service you can think of just to be able to watch as many games as possible.  My passion for college basketball hasn’t changed since those early days.  I’m known as the college basketball guy and I’m more then ok with that.  

I used to be just like that because I only watched college basketball from Nov-April and nothing else. I use to buy 3 or more pre season magazines and read them cover to cover but not today.

I just think all the player movement has made the sport less interesting and it is hard to get to know teams rosters. I use to know all the teams rosters going into the season but today I don't even know the big ten teams rosters.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

59 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Same. When I watched them early they didn’t get great guard play and looked a tad underwhelming. They seem to have it figured out now. B1G is gonna be brutal this year. Upper teams all seem like that can drop 100 any given night.

Lower Middle tier is dangerous too on a given night.  Northwestern, Nebraska. 
 

Rutgers, Penn State, and Minnesota are the only bad teams and I’m not sure Penn State or Minnesota are even THAT bad. 

[Uspshoosier]

Will Wade lost last night 

Happy Thanksgiving.  Thankful for this group of posters that love college basketball as much as I do.   Would of posted last night but the site was down for me when I tried