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2014 B1G Basketball Tournament (official thread)

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Discussion thread for the upcoming tournament. We'll have separate threads for each Buckeye game.
 
Ohio State has the closest thing to a "gimme" game in the entire bracket, and even their game vs. Purdue won't be easy if they don't come out focused. Usually I'd say Painter would have his team ready for a game like this but after the last two seasons it's hard to say that.

I don't think any of the top 4 seeds have an easy road to the semis... wouldn't surprise me to see two of them lose. Of course it also wouldn't surprise me to see all four win... such is Big Ten basketball this year.
 
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bkochmc said:
Ohio State has the closest thing to a "gimme" game in the entire bracket, and even their game vs. Purdue won't be easy if they don't come out focused. Usually I'd say Painter would have his team ready for a game like this but after the last two seasons it's hard to say that.

I don't think any of the top 4 seeds have an easy road to the semis... wouldn't surprise me to see two of them lose. Of course it also wouldn't surprise me to see all four win... such is Big Ten basketball this year.
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I just cannot see Bucky getting beat by Minnesota or PSU and it probably will be the Gophers. I agree with the possibility of the other 3 #1 seeds not possibly making it.
 
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LitlBuck said:
I just cannot see Bucky getting beat by Minnesota or PSU and it probably will be the Gophers. I agree with the possibility of the other 3 #1 seeds not possibly making it.
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Minnesota is not a good matchup at all for Wisconsin (quick guard who can capitalize on the high screen). They split the season series this year.

There are fewer "sure thing" games in the tournament this year than I can ever remember.
 
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If we excel like Thad's teams usually do in the B1G Tourney we should be fine. Nebraska is beatable and Michigan is a great game for the team going into the real tourney. Then the title is up for grabs, maybe I'm just overconfident after Sunday. :lol:
 
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This is the most unpredictable I have seen the Big Ten tournament in years. All of the teams that have a bye have all lost to at least one team seeded 8th or worse. PSU and Northwestern are the only teams that have such little talent that you couldn't reasonably expect to see them winning a couple games in this bracket.
 
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Why does the B10 website think we're too stupid to follow a bracket? Every other conference that I print out just has blank spaces for the lines where the team is TBA. The B10 conference thinks we need "Game 2 Winner" written on the line, so now I can't fill it in as each team wins.
 
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Watching the replay of last year's championship run just shows much we are missing Thomas this year I think with Thomas we would have won the Big 10 regular season championship and have been in the discussion for a #2 seed in the NCAA's and a chance to make it back to the Final 4.
 
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HenryMuto said:
Watching the replay of last year's championship run just shows much we are missing Thomas this year I think with Thomas we would have won the Big 10 regular season championship and have been in the discussion for a #2 seed in the NCAA's and a chance to make it back to the Final 4.
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Again with Thomas? It's March. Let him go. We all know we would've been better with Thomas.
 
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Wells4Heisman said:
If we excel like Thad's teams usually do in the B1G Tourney we should be fine. Nebraska is beatable and Michigan is a great game for the team going into the real tourney. Then the title is up for grabs, maybe I'm just overconfident after Sunday. :lol:
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We won at Wisconsin and beat Sparty. We also lost twice to Penn State. Anything is possible. :wink:
 
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HenryMuto said:
Watching the replay of last year's championship run just shows much we are missing Thomas this year I think with Thomas we would have won the Big 10 regular season championship and have been in the discussion for a #2 seed in the NCAA's and a chance to make it back to the Final 4.
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Thomas? The real guy we should be talking about is Sullinger. He's the guy who really could have made a difference on this team. And then add Thomas!! 40-0 Baby!!
(Where is that sarcasm font?)
 
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HenryMuto said:
Watching the replay of last year's championship run just shows much we are missing Thomas this year I think with Thomas we would have won the Big 10 regular season championship and have been in the discussion for a #2 seed in the NCAA's and a chance to make it back to the Final 4.
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Thomas whining? Check

meaningless NCAA seeding? Check

Big Ten Title (that was by no means assured last year)? Check

Well you hit all your normal points....
 
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