College Basketball 2015-16

[raw]

I kinda feel like Bob Knight with the conference tourneys. You played 18 games in the conference this year to determine who was the best team. Granted, now you have 96 teams in conference and unbalanced schedules, but I never know how much to want to win at these things. Obviously, if you're a bubble team you want 2-3 wins. If you're a solid in, you want to try to improve your seed. But if you're the conference champion, how much do you really need to win the tourney too? For IU, B1G regular season title outright should be good enough for a 3 seed. 1 seed looks impossible unless you annihilate Michigan St in the finals. And even then, they'd clearly be the worst 1 seed.

 

I think I'll take a win over Michigan, whatever happens vs. Purdue and be fine with my 3 seed in Des Moines, and some rest to get Johnson, Hartman, and Morgan healthy.

[bcl412]

I like the idea of win winning as many things as possible but get the sentiment behind wanting the rest.

[UMFan83]

I kinda feel like Bob Knight with the conference tourneys. You played 18 games in the conference this year to determine who was the best team. Granted, now you have 96 teams in conference and unbalanced schedules, but I never know how much to want to win at these things. Obviously, if you're a bubble team you want 2-3 wins. If you're a solid in, you want to try to improve your seed. But if you're the conference champion, how much do you really need to win the tourney too? For IU, B1G regular season title outright should be good enough for a 3 seed. 1 seed looks impossible unless you annihilate Michigan St in the finals. And even then, they'd clearly be the worst 1 seed.

 

I think I'll take a win over Michigan, whatever happens vs. Purdue and be fine with my 3 seed in Des Moines, and some rest to get Johnson, Hartman, and Morgan healthy.

 

It's a fair sentiment. I mean hypothetically playing 3 games in 3 days (if you are high seed) and then turning around and playing 4 and again 6 days later is fairly grueling if the potential benefits are a higher seed or two.

[UMFan83]

Michigan is playing fairly well in this one, but I can't shake the feeling that Indiana looks really sluggish out there. They haven't really played their style of basketball for most of the game.

[UMFan83]

Wow Donnal might have just choked the tournament away for UM

[raw]

Holy horsefeathers. Ok, damn. Shitty calls down the stretch to keep Michigan in it (last 2 IU fouls were bogus at worst, extremely weak at best). But helluva shot to win it.

[UMFan83]

And I'm a moron

 

a happy one tho

[sneakypower]

HOLY horsefeathers

[UMFan83]

HOLY [expletive]

 

Better late than never for a coming out party!

 

Now go PURDUE (can't have Illinois mucking this up for us)

[sneakypower]

i don't know what's real anymore...

[UMFan83]

i don't know what's real anymore...

 

Beilein is real. Beilien is love. Beilein is life

[UMFan83]

Joe Lunardi ✔ ‎@ESPNLunardi

Michigan from "Next Four Out" to "First Four Out." Also loving the view from my NYC... http://es.pn/1UlPakq

 

Ugh

[illiniguy]

HOLY [expletive]

 

Better late than never for a coming out party!

 

Now go PURDUE (can't have Illinois mucking this up for us)

If we get through you cake walk to the finals, seems like you'd like that shot at the auto bid?

[bukie]

Michigan fans see opportunity. Illinois fans see an actual path to the conference tournament final (where they'd get blown out by MSU/Maryland)

[illiniguy]

Michigan fans see opportunity. Illinois fans see an actual path to the conference tournament final (where they'd get blown out by MSU/Maryland)

I know, we can't beat any of those teams from down there. If we could have just been on the bubble, lol.

[UMFan83]

HOLY [expletive]

 

Better late than never for a coming out party!

 

Now go PURDUE (can't have Illinois mucking this up for us)

If we get through you cake walk to the finals, seems like you'd like that shot at the auto bid?

 

its a tough call. If Illinois were to get through Purdue and Iowa in back to back days they wouldn't necessarily be a cake walk. Do you risk your first bad loss of the year when about 80% of people are saying you are in already? It's a tough call.

[illiniguy]

Good thinking on Nunn's part to not run Mathias off the three point line, can't have him killing us with his dribble penetration. :roll:

[bukie]

Purdue is playing well and Illinois looks tired and slow. Not a good combo.

[UMFan83]

Jeez, 60-27?

[bukie]

Jeez, 60-27?

It was 25-21 midway through the first half. Then Illinois stopped doing. ..pretty much anything.

[weis21]

Welp. This UCONN/Cincinnati game is pretty much the best game in the history of basketball. Glad I've been watching it instead of working today.

[CubInOK]

At the end of the 3rd OT between UConn and Cincinnati, a Cincy player gets an offensive rebound, passes the ball to another Cincy player, and the player hits a 30-footer to put Cincy up 3 with .8 seconds left. UConn inbounds the ball to someone who shoots a 75-footer, and he makes it. The game is now in the 4th OT, and both teams are likely on the bubble.

[UMFan83]

At the end of the 3rd OT between UConn and Cincinnati, a Cincy player gets an offensive rebound, passes the ball to another Cincy player, and the player hits a 30-footer to put Cincy up 3 with .8 seconds left. UConn inbounds the ball to someone who shoots a 75-footer, and he makes it. The game is now in the 4th OT, and both teams are likely on the bubble.

 

UConn is more on the bubble than Cincy, they needed that.

 

And I am so glad I decided to put the game on to kill off my last hour of work.

[KrisBryantisaBeast]

I am glad I turned on the Uconn game at the start of the first overtime. Best game I have watched in years!

[raw]

At the end of the 3rd OT between UConn and Cincinnati, a Cincy player gets an offensive rebound, passes the ball to another Cincy player, and the player hits a 30-footer to put Cincy up 3 with .8 seconds left. UConn inbounds the ball to someone who shoots a 75-footer, and he makes it. The game is now in the 4th OT, and both teams are likely on the bubble.

 

I feel like this happens every year with either Cincy or Uconn in the conference tourney.