2015 Big Ten Tournament Game Thread

[biteoftheapple 4,115]

PSU still in the game with Newbill having difficulty hitting shots is awesome.

[TheWatShot 14,518]

As expected, PSU running out of gas. 

[Alford Bailey 12,480]

Trice taking over for MSU

[TrueHoosier62 1,621]

0.478 Miss.Valley State    

0.667 Texas Southern    

0.364 SMU    

0.45 Lamar      0

.389 E. Washington   0.4696 4-1

 

0.375 UNCG    

0.412 Pittsburgh    

0.476 Savanah State    

0.4 Louisville    

0.333 Grand Canyon  0.3992 4-1

 

0.471 Butler    

0.333 New Orleans    

0.419 Georgetown    

0.292 Nebraska    

0.208 Michigan State  0.3446  3-2

 

0.222 Ohio State    

0.429 Penn State    

0.44 Illinois    

0.682 Maryland    

0.48 Ohio State   0.4506  4-1

 

0.211 Purdue    

0.421 Rutgers    

0.542 Wisconsin    

0.412 Michigan     

0.4 Maryland    

0.563 Minnesota   0.424  3-3

 

0.313 Purdue    

0.37 Rutgers    

0.387 Northwestern    

0.4 Iowa    

0.375 Michigan State  0.369 1-4

 

0.410 Average 

   

I was bored, so I compiled a list of our shooting percentages from beyond the arc throughout this past season. I used the 3 point shot only, as it's such a high percentage of our offense. I've broken them down in to five game increments, (save one stretch of six games as the schedule wasn't equally divisible), then showed the average shooting % and won loss record for each stretch.
One of the first things that stood out to me, (though hardly surprising) was the diminishing percentage rates from the first Purdue game onward. Though we had an occasional spike, overall, the numbers began to fall, regardless of the level of competition. This would suggest, since three point accuracy is so tied to endurance, particularly one's legs, that we're tired. As one might expect, the better the defensive team we play, the worse our shooting percentage. Northwestern is really not very good at defending the 3-pt. shot, ranking about dead last in the conference. If we get our legs back, we might have a good game. There's a fairly strong correlation between our hitting the 40% mark in 3 point accuracy, and getting the win. Anything less than say .365, and things don't always turn out so well.

Well, IU shot .292 last night against Maryland, continuing their overall decline in 3 point shoot percentage over the past month or so. To Maryland's credit, they played good perimeter defense, but our legs were so tired, (we weren't moving our feet on defense), and our shorts were too often hitting the front of the iron. Unless we shoot 40%, we just don't have much of a chance to win, as the other aspects of our game aren't developed well enough to compensate.

[BlueDevil 9,071]

Painful watching Maryland take it to MSU early. Should be IU out there.

[biteoftheapple 4,115]

Nice comeback win for MSU over the Terps.

[Hovadipo 58,167]

Can we just skip the B1G tourney every year and have MSU play Wisconsin? It happens anyways, why delay the inevitable.

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,191]

Izzo coached the crap out of this very moderately talented MSU team. Salt in my wounds.

[biteoftheapple 4,115]

Can we just skip the B1G tourney every year and have MSU play Wisconsin? It happens anyways, why delay the inevitable.

Amazingly, this will be the first time Wiscy and MSU have met in the championship game.

[Hovadipo 58,167]

Amazingly, this will be the first time Wiscy and MSU have met in the championship game.

Seriously? I thought this was easily like the 3rd time in recent memory. It seems like they meet every year.

[biteoftheapple 4,115]

Seriously? I thought this was easily like the 3rd time in recent memory. It seems like they meet every year.

This

https://twitter.com/JeffRabjohns/status/576875845475782658

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

This

https://twitter.com/JeffRabjohns/status/576875845475782658

 

It seems O$U has been in the title game a lot too.  Man it sucks being the 5th best, at best, team in your own conference over the last 5ish years.

[yogisballin 2,382]

It seems O$U has been in the title game a lot too. Man it sucks being the 5th best, at best, team in your own conference over the last 5ish years.

Are we even 5th best?

[TheWatShot 14,518]

Are we even 5th best?

 

We're hot garbage in this tournament. We've only reached the final once, and we lost to the lowest seeded team to ever win the tournament (and that team was the only team to win it after playing on Thursday). 

[GloryDays 5,994]

It seems O$U has been in the title game a lot too.  Man it sucks being the 5th best, at best, team in your own conference over the last 5ish years.

Yeah but we're the 4th best in our state so there's that!