2022-2023 B1G Basketball Thread

[FearlessF]

WHAT?!?!?

I turned to golf and that's not exciting either

[MarqHusker]

The Players has been fun, only to see how much $$$ these guys go up and down.  Poor Montgomery,  he basically ceded $1million in about ten minutes time.

huge purse today.   Top 5 clear a mil alone.    Davis heading that direction too.

[FearlessF]

wouldn't be that much $$$ w/o LIV

I do enjoy that tournament and would love the play that track some fine day

[Honestbuckeye]

wouldn't be that much $$$ w/o LIV

I do enjoy that tournament and would love the play that track some fine day

Make it a bucket list item.

I have played Oakland Hills, Oakmont, Bay Hill country club, Adirondack, etc. etc.

That course in Ponte Vedra is most definitely my favorite of all of them. It’s a beast in ways the others aren’t- it’s not the length.  It’s the nuanced angles and greens. So much fun-and aesthetically second only to Augusta.

[FearlessF]

top of my bucket is Pebble

I've played Hazeltine, TPC Scottsdale, Torrey Pines, Grande Oaks Golf Club (Caddyshack), The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island and others

Pinehurst #2 is on the list

so many courses, so little time and money

[bayareabadger]

Badgers will take an NIT bid, so I guess a bit more basketball for this team. 

[FearlessF]

awesome 

[ELA]

The Players has been fun, only to see how much $$$ these guys go up and down.  Poor Montgomery,  he basically ceded $1million in about ten minutes time.

huge purse today.  Top 5 clear a mil alone.    Davis heading that direction too.

This is what LIV takes away. That guy played well for 3 rounds, and got in the final group on Sunday, and is choking. Guaranteed purses takes that pressure away. Golf is hard, golf under pressure is impossible. The guys who can do it, are amazing.  Hopefully what LIV did do is consolidate which tournaments the guys play in.  Now you have elevated events and non elevated events.  Before, you get a random scattering of certain high ranking players in all non majors. This ideally, puts all high-ranking players in certain events, and the other events are purely for golf nuts. But if you like watching guys get exemptions, that makes it supremely entertaining

[ELA]

Badgers will take an NIT bid, so I guess a bit more basketball for this team.

Credit to Juwan.  Nobody is going to go to the NIT game.  Guys might opt out.  But the kids who may never play basketball again, deserve a chance to play every game they can.  UNC declining the bid is embarrassing

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1635095311092948992?t=Eg1AItpjOBctwbVKSAYTmA&s=19

[Kris60]

Eh, I see both sides.  UNC just became the first school to ever start AP 1 and  end up not making the tournament.  He had 4 starters back from a team that played for a national title last year.  I have to think his key players are already eyeing the portal or the draft.  Bacot was already ineffective in the ACC Tournament because of a bad ankle.  I doubt he is diving into treatment for the NIT.

It’s also a no win for Davis. Winning the NIT does nothing to pacify an unhappy fanbase and losing gives them more ammunition to criticize you.

[medinabuckeye1]

So the Tournament, we have:

• 1 Purdue
• 4 Indiana 
• 7 Michigan State, Northwestern 
• 8 Maryland, Iowa
• 9 Illinois 
• 10 Penn State 

I don't like the look of this setup for us. Six of our eight tournament teams are in the #7-10 range where the second game is usually near-impossible.

On average over the 37 tournaments since expansion to 64 in 1985, this group of seeds has produced:

• 4.87 first round wins
• 2.11 S16's 
• 1.18 E8's 
• 0.63 F4's 
• 0.34 NC Game appearances 
• 0.20 NC's

[TyphonInc]

It was 5-2 not 7-2. The bigger issue, as you pointed out, was that they won their first game in January and their last game in February but went 1-14 between those.

Your right, they went 5-2 in their last 7 is what I wanted to say; but reasons, I typed something different than I was thinking.

[847badgerfan]

Badgers will take an NIT bid, so I guess a bit more basketball for this team.

From Tyler Wahl's mom. Looks like he's done. 

Ominous that Chucky is also in the picture.