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[i'vegotwinners]

Fla plus Ga have as many blacks as Illinois, Ohio, Ind, Wisc, Mich, Minn, Iowa, Neb, combined.

North Carolina has as many blacks as Ind, Mich, Wisc, Minn, combined.

Houston alone has more blacks than Mich or Ohio, and as many as Ind and Wisc combined.

So Cal has as many people as Mich, Ind, Wisc, Iowa, combined, and feeds one major bball program.

and the weather in the midwest sucks in winter.

not sayin, just sayin.

 

[VanPastorMan]

People were saying the same thing about Bates before he stepped foot on campus. People really need to wait and see what these guys can do before hyping them up as the next sure thing. How many examples do we need. Bates, Hanner, Hollowell, Ron Patterson, Peter Jurkin, Lander, Logan, etc. Even Victor did not light it up his first year.

It's always my policy to wait and see if a player can really have an impact. I didn't scream,"Oh No" when we got Annunoby even though he was not well known. I waited to see him and said, "Looky here. I think we got a player".

 

[Harry Hondo]

Down go the Buckeyes!

Down go the Spartans!

Down go the Badgers!

Pretty poor conference performance. Now hanging our hats on Michigan and Purdoo.

Maybe the B1G should study/examine why our teams don't do better in the NCAA tournament. Officiating? Scheduling? Better recruiting? Bend the rules like Cal and Self?

Getting to be an annual frustration. B1G hasn't shown any prowess in years, let alone win a championship.

Aren’t 2 seeds supposed to beat 7 seeds? The only upset was Wisconsin.

 

[SouthBendJim]

So, all those teams are over-rated and IU placed 9th in the B1G. Ouch. It is beginning to look like IU will battle the bottom of the B1G next year unless the portal is good to them.

I was talking about the B1G conference. Maybe should have been more explicit.

 

[Harry Hondo]

Fla plus Ga have as many blacks as Illinois, Ohio, Ind, Wisc, Mich, Minn, Iowa, Neb, combined.

North Carolina has as many blacks as Ind, Mich, Wisc, Minn, combined.

Houston alone has more blacks than Mich or Ohio, and as many as Ind and Wisc combined.

So Cal has as many people as Mich, Ind, Wisc, Iowa, combined, and feeds one major bball program.

and the weather in the midwest sucks in winter.

not sayin, just sayin.

WTF?

 

[VanPastorMan]

WTF?

I am not sure the point he is making either.

 

[CriticArisen]

It's super fun to be living in an era during which data is almost always trumped by narrative and "beliefs". So, the Big 10 sucks because it is 1-7 in the National Title game since the dawn of the new millennium, and as you say that doesn't happen by accident.

I think that in my lifetime only IU, MSU and Michigan have cracked the code to winning the NCAA Tournament, and they've each only done it once since the field expanded to 64 back in 1985. So, that's just 3 Titles in 37 tournament. By your reckoning the Big 10 has always sucked, so why make such a big deal about it now?

The crazy thing is that if the Big 10 had snuck a couple more teams in the Sweet 16 this weekend, many would be saying "Wow, look at how good the Big Ten is".

The Big 10 wasn't great this year, but you didn't have to wait until today to know that. The conference didn't receive a #1 or #2 seed. The buzzsaw Hawkeyes, the hottest team in the land, only got a #5 seed after winning 12 of their last 14 and a BTT Championship.

It seems to me that the conference has done just fine in the 2022 tourney. Nothing great accomplished yet, but pretty much just as might be expected based on seeding. There are still games to be played, and thus far only the ACC has had a decidedly better performance. By late Friday night we'll know more.

Also, at the beginning of the season, only Purdue and Michigan were ranked in the Top 10 and here they are playing for the right to go to the Elite Eight. Illinois was ranked #11 and got bumped off by #15 Houston. OSU was #18 and lost to #4 Villanova. Iowa, MSU, Wisconsin, Rutgers and IU were all perceived to be outside the Top 25 before we ever tipped off the season. All in all the Big 10 just went according to Hoyle so far. Hard to spin it as an agitating underachievement for the conference imo.

I disagree with your first sentence but glad for you that you feel that way. Post modern basketball analysis gives me a terrible case of cognitive dissonance. It does however provide an opportunity for teams like Texas Tech to quietly put together good basketball teams unencumbered by the social media expectations of fans that learned about basketball from NBA Live and know the super speed cheat code.