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2018-2019 B1G Men's Basketball (Official Thread)

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Nebraska has a good shot, they return most of the core from last year's team, but they really need to stay healthy as they don't seem to have much quality depth at all.

Who knows with Minny. If Oturu plays up to his ranking, yeah, I think they could be decent, Coffey and Murphy are a great duo at the forward spots. I dunno about Pitino's coaching, though, and every season they seem to have awful luck with suspensions, injuries, etc.

I probably wouldn't pick 7 B1G teams to make it, but if I was picking 6 I'd probably pick the ones Vitale picked besides Minny.
 
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Jon Crispin on BTN yesterday during the IU gane put out his list of 3-4 candidates for each position for picking preseason all conference. Not a single Buckeye on first, second, or third team. He had about 18 players listed to choose from. Par for the course from the pundits this year.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Jon Crispin on BTN yesterday during the IU gane put out his list of 3-4 candidates for each position for picking preseason all conference. Not a single Buckeye on first, second, or third team. He had about 18 players listed to choose from. Par for the course from the pundits this year.
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No respect
 
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DZ83CK said:
Jon Crispin on BTN yesterday during the IU gane put out his list of 3-4 candidates for each position for picking preseason all conference. Not a single Buckeye on first, second, or third team. He had about 18 players listed to choose from. Par for the course from the pundits this year.
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Oh wait what school did Crispin graduate from--he can go fu*k himself.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Jon Crispin on BTN yesterday during the IU gane put out his list of 3-4 candidates for each position for picking preseason all conference. Not a single Buckeye on first, second, or third team. He had about 18 players listed to choose from. Par for the course from the pundits this year.
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Well you'd have to assume Kaleb is going to be our best player and if picking by position, you are putting him up against Happ, Ward, Fernando, maybe Juwan Morgan though probably more a PF, Watkins who frankly got the better of Kaleb in the head to head last year and had slighty better overall numbers. I can understand him not being in the top 3 of that list. The only other possible guy that could make an all conference team is CJ. You wouldn't pick CJ over Cowan, Edwards, Winston. Now, if you weren't picking players strictly by position and just the 15 best players in the league, you'd likely include Kaleb on that list, but can understand that no one else would be considered at this point.
 
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Not sure about those last 2 (Nebraska, Minny).
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I like Nebraska's chances, they have the talent at the top, just needed a bit more depth last year (or a big nonconference win). I am skeptical on Minnesota. I dont think Little Richard can coach his way out of a wet paper bag. Northwestern and OSU both have underrated teams at this time, very solid tourney chances. Purdue and UM are overrated and definitely not top-25 teams, most likely to be on the bubble.
 
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Well, everyone played cupcake games besides MSU and OSU, but through the first batch of games the B1G took care of business and looked pretty solid doing so.

Illinois absolutely scorched Evansville with a really balanced scoring attack. The Illini had five players with double digits and three others with 8, 8, and 7. Coach Underwood is known as an offensive guru and this season the Illini have several guards who can really score the ball (5-star frosh Ayo Dosunmu is just gonna be a beast on the perimeter) so if the Illini can make their defense work and get adequate frontcourt play, they could surprise.
 
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I like Nebraska's chances, they have the talent at the top, just needed a bit more depth last year (or a big nonconference win). I am skeptical on Minnesota. I dont think Little Richard can coach his way out of a wet paper bag. Northwestern and OSU both have underrated teams at this time, very solid tourney chances. Purdue and UM are overrated and definitely not top-25 teams, most likely to be on the bubble.
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Agree with regard to Nebraska but I do not think that ttun is overrated. Purdue with Edwards will be in the top tier of the Big Ten. I need to see our Buckeyes play a few more games before I start feeling really good about them and you never know what Northwestern brings until they start playing. I would not be surprised if Little Richard joined Ricky on the sidelines after this season.
 
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