B1G/NCAA basketball

[The Oracle]

Which I'm sure JBs would be too...don't recall him being asked that yet. He'd probably just take a no comment.

[Mike]

No doubt.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Basketball season is already upon us...and here's first weekend of games. The first real big night of hoops will be next tuesday

Friday Nov 13
Maryland v Mount St Mary's (BTN)
Michigan State v Florida Atlantic (ESPN3)
Iowa v Gardner-Webb (ESPN3)
Indiana v Eastern Illinois
Purdue v North Carolina A&T
Michigan v Northern Michigan
Wisconsin v Western Illinois
Illinois v North Florida
Minnesota v Missouri-Kansas City
Northwestern v UMass-Lowell
Rutgers v Rutgers-Newark

Saturday Nov 14
Nebraska v Miss Valley State
Penn State v VMI

Sunday Nov 15
Purdue v Vermont (ESPN3)
Illinois v North Dakota State (ESPN3)
Iowa v Coppin State (BTN)
Ohio State v Mount Saint Mary's (ESPNU)
Wisconsin v Siena (ESPNU)
Minnesota v LA-Monroe (BTN)
Rutgers v Howard

[Cody_Russell]

I didn't get why Wisconsin was rated so high based on players returning, but losing to Western Illinois?
Wisconsin might have a much worse season than I thought.
No way they should have been ranked in the top 25.

[WM Wolverine]

Wisky's best players graduated or left early, no reason they'll be a top 25 team. Not sure they will go .500 in B1G play.

[The Oracle]

I'll take that bet.

[entropy]

@HuskerHoops: #Huskers go into the locker room at the half leading 43-21.



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[Dr. Strangelove]

Reminder of today's games if you'd prefer something to the NFL

Basketball season is already upon us...and here's first weekend of games. The first real big night of hoops will be next tuesday

Friday Nov 13
Maryland 80, Mount St Mary's 56
Michigan State 82, Florida Atlantic 55
Iowa 76, Gardner-Webb 59
Indiana 88, Eastern Illinois 49
Purdue 81, North Carolina A&T 40
Michigan 70, Northern Michigan 44
Western Illinois 69, Wisconsin 67
North Florida 91, Illinois 81
Minnesota 76, Missouri-Kansas City 58
Northwestern 79, UMass-Lowell 57
Rutgers 72, Rutgers-Newark 59

Saturday Nov 14
Nebraska 97, Miss Valley State 51
Penn State 62, VMI 50

Sunday Nov 15
Purdue v Vermont (ESPN3)
Illinois v North Dakota State (ESPN3)
Iowa v Coppin State (BTN)
Ohio State v Mount Saint Mary's (ESPNU)
Wisconsin v Siena (ESPNU)
Minnesota v LA-Monroe (BTN)
Rutgers v Howard

[Dr. Strangelove]

Some good games get started the coming week. This is the first year we are also doing a challenge with the Big East

Monday Nov 16
Indiana 102, Austin Peay 76
Michigan 88, Elon 68

Tuesday Nov 17
Michigan State 79 v Kansas 73 @ Chicago
Maryland 75, Georgetown 71
Villanova 87, Nebraska 63
Penn State 68, DePaul 62
Wisconsin 78, North Dakota 64
Ohio State 82, Grambling State 55

Wednesday Nov 18
Providence 60, Illinois 59
Purdue 96, Incarnate Word 61
Northwestern 79, Fairfield 72

Thursday Nov 19
Temple 75 v Minnesota 70 @ Puerto Rico (ESPNU)
Indiana 86 v Creighton 65
Iowa 89 @ Marquette 61
St John's 61, Rutgers 59
Nebraska 75 v Delaware State 60

Friday Nov 20
Xavier 86, Michigan 70
Georgetown 71 v Wisconsin 61 @ NYC (ESPN2)
Michigan State 92 v Arkansas-Pine Bluff 46
Duquesne 78, Penn State 52
Minnesota 74, Missouri State 69 @ Puerto Rico
Maryland 65 v Rider 58
UT-Arlington 73, Ohio State 68
Northwestern 83 v Columbia 80

Saturday Nov 21
Purdue 61 v Old Dominion 39 @ CT
Chattanooga 81, Illinois 77
Rutgers 87 v Central Arkansas 84

Sunday Nov 22
Nebraska v Southeastern Louisiana (BTN)

[hack]

I'll take that bet too, WM. Bo Ryan's been there since 2001. He's gone 9-7 once and 10-8 once, and otherwise he's been very comfortably over .500. The system they've got there is extraordinarily resilient. It's as if Ryan extracted the good bits of Izzo without the bad, and the good bits of Beilein without the bad, and Wisconsin basketball is kind of what you get as a result. Very rough comparison, but still. Koenig and Hayes are two nice players to start with, too, especially if Hayes is ready to step into a bigger role.

[WM Wolverine]

I haven't looked at everyone's roster close enough yet (after football season) to evaluate the conference and how good the Badgers will be in it. I just have Wisconsin not being close to their typical team.

[hack]

Agreed. Still gonna be a bitch to play though. Still a tournament team I'm sure. Ryan, with the system he runs, doesn't need gads of talent.

[Cody_Russell]

Northwestern might be good this season with Olah and Demps returning.
Chris Collins has nearly been .500 in his first two seasons as head coach. With all the experience they get back, maybe 8-10 B10 conference wins?

Then again, I love the depth of the B10 this season... We might see everyone beat up on each other.

[hack]

Yeah. We'll see if Crean can put it together too. I might be forgetting somebody, but in truth IMO it's basically Maryland and then Purdue, Michigan and Michigan State and Indiana each with questions. Michigan has a deeper roster than all of those teams, and more experience. Those teams are all bringing in an elite big. (What do you think of THAT, John Beilein?)

I'll believe Crean's ability to put it together when I see it. Thus far he's only done that once. It can go either way with Izzo when he has real talent, but in truth what matters is what he does with that elite big. But he sure has reloaded stronger than he has in a while. If Purdue gets a good year from Hammond, and Swanigan is an immediate difference-maker, then Purdue's gonna be real damn good.

[Hannibal]

I wonder why the BTN doesn't show every game. All that I have been hearing about for the past five years is how live sports programming is such solid gold that we need to seriously consider adding Houston Community College to the conference so that we can get that TV market. It's not like there's anything else of value on while Michigan is playing Elon and the BTN constantly shows shit like field hockey and soccer.