College Bball Thread

[Dizz]

2 minutes ago, IUfan_Charlie said:

The Big Ten is so bad man. Just getting stomped. 

Happens once or twice, its a fluke.  Happens to every team?  Time for the league to change.

[TheWatShot]

I think the top 14 SOS rankings on Kenpom being the entire Big Ten should have been a giveaway that there's something screwy with all the metrics. There's just no way this conference was that much tougher than anywhere else. 

[IUfan_Charlie]

Just now, HoosierAloha said:

The talent disparity in this game is remarkable too.  The only chance Big 1.0 teams have against more talented teams is playing great team ball but they have failed miserably to do that in this tourney. 

Illinois was the one B1G team I thought would do well in March but even they got destroyed. I do think UM would go far if they had Livers but without him... we will see. 

[Hoosier Guy]

I think it’s funny. Iowa is almost always overrated. No way they should’ve been a 2 seed. I mean they lost to IU both times. Iowa isn’t that good

[IU - Kaulie]

I wish it was a Wellness Day for me.  Are the Ducks going to drop 100 on them?

[IUc2016]

Illinois and Iowa's best teams in well over a decade and they can't even get out of the first weekend. Pretty comical

[reconmkd]

Iowa getting embarrassed! Was hoping the Franimal would make an appearance, that would be icing on the cake!

[HoosierAloha]

9 minutes ago, IUfan_Charlie said:

Illinois was the one B1G team I thought would do well in March but even they got destroyed. I do think UM would go far if they had Livers but without him... we will see. 

Agreed, thought O$U could do well but they're done Kyle Young.  Why is half the league missing a key guy?!

[mdiu28]

Iowa.....woof

[IUc2016]

Fran was just extended through the 2028 season. lol 

[Uspshoosier]

Fran has  never coached past the round of 32 

Dana Altman and the Ducks, 296th in game pace, deciding to get in a track meet with Iowa gives me the Knight feeling when he decided to get in a track meet with UNLV 

[RaceToTheTop]

30 minutes ago, Magnanimous said:

Is Demezi hurt or just at the end of the bench? He has 5 points on the season.

End of bench.

[IUfan_Charlie]

Damn Garza is bumming me out. He was too good to get bounced like this. Hope he can surprise and carve out a nice role in the league. 

[hoosierbgh]

25 minutes ago, Dizz said:

Happens once or twice, its a fluke.  Happens to every team?  Time for the league to change.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that. 

[DMGHOOPS]

I think that the B1G teams staying in the NCAA bubble for the extra week after the B1G tournament ended has negatively affected the B1G teams.  This is probably the reason for the losses more so than not being able to compete against these other teams.  Live and learn I guess...

[NashvilleHoosier]

Yeah whatever it is that needs to change as a conference, let's lead the charge. I still don't understand (or maybe a better word is buy) the concept that one particular league is supposed to be the best overall and be made up of several great teams but the league plays in a way and is officiated in a way that is detrimental to tourney success. If the league was and teams were great, adjust, and be great. Until some change happens, it's really just the Big Ten being a fraud. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

3 minutes ago, DMGHOOPS said:

I think that the B1G teams staying in the NCAA bubble for the extra week after the B1G tournament ended has negatively affected the B1G teams.  This is probably the reason for the losses more so than not being able to compete against these other teams.  Live and learn I guess...

Or they are just overrated. 

[theriverpilot]

I keep seeing this student athlete NCAA commercial with Kyle Hornsby in it. Dude doesn’t look like he’s aged one bit. Maybe he still has some eligibility!


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[HoosierAloha]

4 minutes ago, NashvilleHoosier said:

Yeah whatever it is that needs to change as a conference, let's lead the charge. I still don't understand (or maybe a better word is buy) the concept that one particular league is supposed to be the best overall and be made up of several great teams but the league plays in a way and is officiated in a way that is detrimental to tourney success. If the league was and teams were great, adjust, and be great. Until some change happens, it's really just the Big Ten being a fraud. 

Why is the Big 1.0 a fraud though?  Identifying a problem is only half the battle, solutions help to fix it.

[NashvilleHoosier]

5 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Why is the Big 1.0 a fraud though?  Identifying a problem is only half the battle, solutions help to fix it.

I think both can be right. If there is a problem, yeah figure out how to fix it as a league. But hearing how great the Big 10 is this year and in the past few seasons, then seeing so many flops in the tourney kind of contradicts that. If the best league with all the great teams continually underperforms when it counts, it's hard to justify the claim that it's such a great league.