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Big 10 Basketball 2009-2010

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NFBuck;1669909; said:
scUM. #15... :slappy:
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How about this one:

2) With a more talented roster than last year's team, is it Sweet 16 or bust for this squad?

A: Perhaps, but that's the thing when it comes to the NCAA tournament. Save for four to six teams, it really is all about the draw you receive. It's why a lot of times, upsets can be predicted ? Winthrop over Notre Dame in 2007, Villanova over Clemson in 2008 and Western Kentucky over Illinois last year. Those are just three examples but it all comes down to how a team is playing at the end of the year and what the first-round opponent looks like. For instance, if Michigan were matched up in the first round with a team that had a 6-11, 6-10, 6-8 front line, that would probably be a bad thing. That said, this team is certainly capable ? from both talent and coaching standpoints ? to make a serious run. But when it comes to March, look at that draw. The worst possible scenario for any team is to see a veteran mid-major or low major team that has been to the tournament the year before and put a scare into a high seed. Those teams often break through the next year.
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Basketball Q&A: Mike Rothstein | mgoblog

I don't know what's more pathetic about this preseason article--that the mgoblog author had the gall to ask the "Sweet 16 or bust" question or that the guy answering also took it as a given that they'd make the tournament. Talk about delusion. If they could have just refrained from specifying which tournament they were talking about--they could now claim that it was the NIT or, more appropriately, that new tournament that the teams who don't even make the NIT play in.
 
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buckeyesin07;1670077; said:
How about this one:



Basketball Q&A: Mike Rothstein | mgoblog

I don't know what's more pathetic--that the mgoblog author had the gall to ask the "Sweet 16 or bust" question or that the guy answering also took it as a given that they'd make the tournament. Talk about delusion. If they could have just refrained from specifying which tournament they were talking about--they could now claim that it was the NIT or, more appropriately, that new tournament that the teams who don't even make the NIT play in.
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Don't you have to be over .500 to play in the NIT? :lol:

Michigan 7-11 14-16
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Heard some post game quotes this morning on the radio from Beilein -- something about how he doesn't teach his kids to play defense like that -- inferring that MSU's physical defense isn't the way it should be played. Will be interesting how that settles with the scUM fanbase.
 
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Absolute disgrace that only two Buckeye starters were named all-Big Ten teams 1-3. Everyone knows we have the best starting 5 in the league. So why did we trail MSU and Purdue in the number of ABT awardees?

Lighty deserves to be 2nd team, as does Buford. Diebler is at worst 3rd team. Fie on these twits who voted. At least they had the sense to vote ET POY.
 
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MaxBuck;1670507; said:
Everyone knows we have the best starting 5 in the league. So why did we trail MSU and Purdue in the number of ABT awardees?
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Purdue has a very good argument. MSU doesn't. Too much respect for Izzo and the program he's built there. See Kalin Lucas winning Big Ten POY last year over Evan, who deserved it just as much, if not more. It came down to W's and L's, and MSU had 'em.

Just gotta take those guys with a huge grain of salt. We are just a "football school", afterall...
 
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MaxBuck;1670507; said:
Absolute disgrace that only two Buckeye starters were named all-Big Ten teams 1-3. Everyone knows we have the best starting 5 in the league. So why did we trail MSU and Purdue in the number of ABT awardees?

Lighty deserves to be 2nd team, as does Buford. Diebler is at worst 3rd team. Fie on these twits who voted. At least they had the sense to vote ET POY.
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There were actually 3 Buckeyes on teams 1-3 in the media selections. Lighty was 3rd team by the media but not the coaches.
 
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BuckTwenty;1670512; said:
Purdue has a very good argument. MSU doesn't. Too much respect for Izzo and the program he's built there. See Kalin Lucas winning Big Ten POY last year over Evan, who deserved it just as much, if not more. It came down to W's and L's, and MSU had 'em.

Just gotta take those guys with a huge grain of salt. We are just a "football school", afterall...
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My huge problem with Lucas winning it last year was that he shot 39.5 percent from the floor. Pretty bad in my opinion. Turner had a better year.
 
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buckeyesin07;1670671; said:
If I'm being completely honest, I'd take Purdue's starting five over ours (assuming a healthy Robbie Hummel, of course).
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Then why are the teams basically even? Both won on the others home floor. It can't be OSU's bench. So is it coaching?

I'll admit that it's close. But I think Turner puts us over the top in that argument.

They have the big 3. But we have the best player in college basketball and then 3 other guys who average over 12 points a game. And then Lauderdale who is a better player than either Kramer or Keaton Grant, in my opinion.
 
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KingLeon;1670793; said:
They have the big 3. But we have the best player in college basketball and then 3 other guys who average over 12 points a game. And then Lauderdale who is a better player than either Kramer or Keaton Grant, in my opinion.
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Turner's clearly the best player. But IMO, Hummel and Johnson are top 5 players in the Big Ten, and Moore is really, really close. So I think of the top 4 players on both teams, Purdue has three of the four. And I think that Grant may be just about as good as Lighty--they are pretty similar players, and I think Grant could do more if Purdue needed him to.

To answer your question as to why the teams are basically even, I think it's a combination of two things: (1) Matta's a better coach than Painter and (2) Turner is that much better than everyone else on the floor (at Purdue, he put the entire team on his back and willed us to victory--we lose that game by 15-20 without him).
 
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