Is Ty expected to be back around the time of conference play?
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if we get that defense back to top 35, then all we need is to be top 10 on offense to profile as a top 10 kenpom team overall. if we push that offense up to top 5, we start knocking on the door if top 5 kenpom if you look at the last few years.
with our length and rebounding, top 35 defense shouldn't be unreasonable. top 50 at minimum.
Well its official, we go against 80% of top 100 players on this list. Goodness hope we dont give up 90 per game.
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The Boogie Fland love is surprising. He barely played in the tournament games even when healthy because he was ineffective- many on here did not want him to come here at any price. So to think he’s the 21st best player in the country is a far cry from that
I think the end of 2025 is the goal there.
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Yep, it is also going to be interesting with NIL next season to see how our $$ will compare to some if they left being a mid to late 2nd round pick. I am skeptical of anyone being a first round pick next year. If we have the $$ to retain these guys our team could be experienced and even better next year.Illinois will be interesting this year - and it appears for the foreseeable future? - in that they are going about roster construction very differently than most schools. It is a very interesting concept, going after “European Pros” in reality? If it works, look for many other schools to look at the model. It really is an exercise in financial responsibility vs supply and demand constraints?
This is college sports in 2025
My dad’s name was Jerry West I am definitely all about it
Maybe people are still focused on football and haven’t pivoted away yet (although, after the Washington loss, that might be happening sooner). I plan on going, and about three weeks ago (it may have even been longer ago, time flies), I checked the various ticket-selling sites, and maybe I didn’t read them correctly, but it seemed that most of the good seats were already taken, and the good ones that were still available were priced pretty high. One was $1500, and another was $1000, although those were outliers. Most were in the $300 or so range (I think), and for now, I don’t really want to pay that much. But I am an oldster and still haven’t gotten over how high prices are, so for all I know $300 may be a bargain. Like I said, it was 3 weeks or maybe more ago, so I may not be recalling correctly. I thought I would wait until closer to the date, and check the site that resells tickets. I think that one is Stubhub.
How are you scraping times for games? Monday's Illinois game is the right time (ET) but Thursday's is wrong (it's the same time as Monday's game).
But I'll second the request to add broadcast information if possible from scraping
I would say 8 minimum. Depends on the defintion of “meaningful minutes”. So, for reasons which I won’t go into here, I expect the starting lineup to be KB, MP, AS, BH and TI. But swapping KW for MP, or Mirk for BH, I think it won’t change anything. Based on what we have seen so far and from comments from insiders and BU himself, how are you not going to give Mirk, Z, and KW meaningful minutes. So that is 8 right there. Even if we switch Mirk for BH, I think Ben will still play meaningful minutes. That is based on comments about how improved he is, put on weight, feels more confident and comfortable and this is his second year in the Big Ten. And BU has said he wants to play Jake a lot, which may be coachspeak or wishful thinking, and given Jake played about 10 minutes a game last year, would a few more minutes, say 15 total, constiture meaningful minutes?
Last year in the B1G, the average bench player played 10 mpg. So that's probably a good place to start.
Teams who made the tournament had 8 players averaging 10 minutes or more per game. Teams who missed the tournament had 9 such players.
That's the plan - I hope to have it mostly automated with very little interaction with myself! Unfortunately I am out of town next week, so I wont really be able to get to testing things until the weekend.
Should be able to - looking into it!
Good catch - should be getting it from ESPN which shows 8:30 so not sure why my code is saying 7 - will look into it as well as the channel!
We're all about getting new faces to play together as a unit. Gel I guess. IMO it could take nearly the whole month of November, although I hope not. My primary hope rests in this: We have veteran players (several are grown men) who have plenty of court savvy and mature vision. But if you haven't heard this, think about Memphis. 14 of 15 players for Penny are new to the program. They're all freshmen, transfers, or NIL "free agents." And we think WE'VE got introduction issues!
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Exactly. Forgetting who’s who on the team, 7-8 players should see those 10+ minutes. I’m guessing the ninth will see maybe 4-7. The 10th will see spot minutes here and there, in more rare cases. Anything beyond that is probably just practice squad / scouting team. I seem to recall that Brad’s lineups tighten up quite a bit once we get into conference play.
As do most coaches/teams. Depth is a nice luxury in case of injury, foul trouble, etc. But most coaches prefer to have their best group on the floor as much as possible. And the more your best players are on the court together, the more smoothly they function together.
It seems every year, there is a group of fans ruminating how great it would be to go 10 or more team (and even use hockey type player substitutions). And it's not just our fans - from what I can tell, fans of most teams do the same. But it's rarely the way things work.
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