Ohio State 86, Illinois 83 Postgame

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DMWSuperFan said:
Correlation does not equal causation.

I’m not saying winning the conference tournament increases your chances. The data shows that the conference winners perform better in the tournament. I think it’s likely because those teams are better and playing better and thus winning games - but that isn’t what’s being said here.
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I would say winning a conference tournament is a confounded variable. I rather be seeded 1-3 than win my conference championship

Remember Syracuse won the Big East in 2006 and got bounce first round because winning your conference tournament means nothing for the actual tournament
 
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Navy_illini said:
I would say winning a conference tournament is a confounded variable. I rather be seeded 1-3 than win my conference championship

Remember Syracuse won the Big East in 2006 and got bounce first round because winning your conference tournament means nothing for the actual tournament
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Being seeded 1-3 really doesn’t mean anything either. How you play in the tournament does.

For every Syracuse losing 1st round, there’s a UConn that runs the big East tourney and just keeps winning.

I would also say that MOST conference tourney winners (in the power 5 at least, specifically the big ten) will also be a 1-3 seed.

But I think at this point we would be best to move on from this topic.
 
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Here it is real simple. You want your team playing its best basketball come March. You want it all, O and D, peaking in the NCAA.
 
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battle said:
I think coaches see fouls on game film are not called so a 'refs won't call fouls if we hack/bump Kofi ....' IS the game plan .... then the refs confirm they won't call, so in-game adustments are to ramp it up more (which is what Holtman was saying). Then the next game, it repeats .... i thought it started last year, not just Kofi, but the other thread comment that fouls are at all time low ... and i thought some teams noticed and exploited this at end of last year and in the tourney. Remember a few years ago when they implemented the 'reduce physical contact' and there were 50-60 fouls called each game ... that lasted about a 1.5 seasons and the pendulum swung the other way to increase physical contact and gets worse each year. In general, games have become unenjoyable to watch when defenses are allowed to aggressively bump.
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If I am Kofi, I am letting the first one go. After the second hard hack, I am going up to the ref and saying, "Since I see that hacking is allowed, I plan on making it my goal to dish out as much as I get. I can hit hard. Ask a ref from earlier this year. If you are not going to call this, I am going to dish this. Make your mind up now, because I am not taking it any more, and YOU put me in this position."
 
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GBIllini said:
Well the most common strategy to deal with Kofi is too double/triple team him while fouling the s#&t out of him counting on the refs to only call 1 out 10 fouls. Most of the time the refs comply, yet Kofi still gets 20+ pts and 10+ rebounds a game. No way you can stop feeding him the ball.
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We’ve lost three of our last five and in those three losses Kofi averaged 16.7/6.7.

If the refs allow those things to happen, then that’s an adjustment our staff has to make. It’s a fool’s errand to just hope the officiating is going to miraculously change in our favor.

That’s not what anyone here wants to hear, but unfortunately it’s reality. We made our big run with a smaller, unconventional lineup and a guy playing the five that started the year playing point forward.

Figuring out a rotation has been an epic struggle this season. It continues to be a struggle. But we need backup plans to attack teams when just throwing it to Kofi isn’t working. Whether it’s fair or not.
 
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BostonIllini

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There's 100 percent correlation between winning 6 games in the NCAA tournament as a top 64 seed and winning the national championship. How 'bout that? lmao
 
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