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DZ83CK
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OSU is 18-12. A chance to finish the regular season 19-12, but they have to win at Rutgers.
The Scarlet Knights have a much tougher week, having to travel home tonight from Nebraska, then turn around and travel to Wisconsin, play there Thursday night, and come home in the early hours of Friday morning to prepare for OSU on Sunday.
Contrast with OSU, who's already at home after beating UM and just has to prepare for Rutgers & travel there next weekend. A chance to rest and focus for a RU team that's been good at home, but looks like a very winnable road game on paper. Bring toughness, effort & your A game, and bring home another W.
The Scarlet Knights have a much tougher week, having to travel home tonight from Nebraska, then turn around and travel to Wisconsin, play there Thursday night, and come home in the early hours of Friday morning to prepare for OSU on Sunday.
Contrast with OSU, who's already at home after beating UM and just has to prepare for Rutgers & travel there next weekend. A chance to rest and focus for a RU team that's been good at home, but looks like a very winnable road game on paper. Bring toughness, effort & your A game, and bring home another W.
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I thought I was done. Fuck these cunts up north. Take that. Breathe it in. Get high on the fumes of cognitive dissonance. Be bitches about it. Remember the exact opposite of being relevant, it's here.
You fucking suck bitchigan, and your two best prop coaches were racists and/or cheaters. Be proud of that by all means. Or just bury your head in the sand, that's fun.
You fucking suck bitchigan, and your two best prop coaches were racists and/or cheaters. Be proud of that by all means. Or just bury your head in the sand, that's fun.
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Maybe those racist cheating coaches learned to be racist or cheaters wherever they went to college, though.
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DZ83CK
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Looking at OSU's nonconference schedule, it may be a real factor in keeping them out of the tourney - that is, if they don't make a run in the BTT. They literally had just 2 good nonconference opponents - Bama and A&M. That's inexcusably low.
Really drives home when you see you're competing with teams on the bubble, and all of them have more than OSU's 2 nonconference games vs top-100 teams (Kenpom ratings). I rag on the MWC, but all their potential NCAA at-large teams have at least 3 top-100 nonconference games, and a couple have 7-8.
OSU put themselves at a disadvantage when they cast a small net in nonconfernce - that, and UCLA & WVU both had down years. The Santa Clara upset over Oregon cost them another chance, but other teams also have to deal with tourney unpredictability & opponents having down years.
I know they want to play a lot of home games, but they should make a more concerted effort to schedule the very best mid-majors that will give them a game in the Schott, even if it comes at a higher cost. I realize none of this matters if OSU had handled their business in the B1G. But to me it's yet another example of how in the Holtmann era, I'd sum it up as "not quite good enough, in every single category." The little things all add up to sink you when you don't excel in anything.
Hopefully this team makes a run in Minneapolis & solves the problem, but it didn't have to be that way.
Really drives home when you see you're competing with teams on the bubble, and all of them have more than OSU's 2 nonconference games vs top-100 teams (Kenpom ratings). I rag on the MWC, but all their potential NCAA at-large teams have at least 3 top-100 nonconference games, and a couple have 7-8.
OSU put themselves at a disadvantage when they cast a small net in nonconfernce - that, and UCLA & WVU both had down years. The Santa Clara upset over Oregon cost them another chance, but other teams also have to deal with tourney unpredictability & opponents having down years.
I know they want to play a lot of home games, but they should make a more concerted effort to schedule the very best mid-majors that will give them a game in the Schott, even if it comes at a higher cost. I realize none of this matters if OSU had handled their business in the B1G. But to me it's yet another example of how in the Holtmann era, I'd sum it up as "not quite good enough, in every single category." The little things all add up to sink you when you don't excel in anything.
Hopefully this team makes a run in Minneapolis & solves the problem, but it didn't have to be that way.
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They don't schedule murderers row every year because the Big10 always takes a toll. They do play a tournament at least every year which is sometimes ridiculous plus the cummerbund challenge games. The only stuff I'd do is get rid of any games not against P5 or P7 in hoops. Just the way the season shakes out plus losing games that we had won
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DZ83CK
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Yeah but I'm not advocating for a complete overhaul. Work with the structure you have, similar number of buy games, but be more selective & smarter about the teams you're scheduling. Try and do your best to schedule mid majors that might be top-100 teams. Avoid scheduling teams if they aren't expected to have a good season. They got a little bit unlucky, but this is a lackluster nonconference resume for a team that only lost 1 of those games.
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HenryMuto
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A win vs Rutgers does not guarantee the 10 seed. A loss does not guarantee the 11 seed.
Even with an Ohio State win they could be the 11 seed if Penn State wins and Indiana loses. (3 way tie at 9-11 and Ohio St went 1-3)
Ohio State can also get the 9 seed with a win, a Minnesota loss and a Penn State loss.
mred's Big 10 MBB Tournament Seeding Tiebreaker
Big 10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Seeding and Tiebreakers
bball.notnothing.net
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