Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Annoying of Rutgers to even give us a glimmer of hope, lol.
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Iowa convinced me they can give themselves a chance in Lincoln.
Noblesville Illini
- Nappanee, IN
You have watched the tournament before, right? Your bracket is gonna be busted early if you keep that mindset.
MARCH MADNESS, BABY!!!!!
At least Holy Cross had little chance of advancing much further. Also, the standings in that league are pretty wild. Navy is #1 at 17-1. Lehigh is #2 at 11-7.
The near comeback still managed to take 1pt off MSU's KenPom net rating, dropping them to #10. Hopefully that counts for something in the minds of the committee
Regular season. They still play in the A10 tournament starting Wednesday.
They also play Saturday
OnlyOrange
- Belleville, IL
Why is this exactly what I was thinking the entire comeback by Rutgers...
And for the record, I'd be first on this board blowing my top about it.
In all honesty, didn't we have this last year against Northwestern?
Honestly don’t remember. I just looked at the game log.
We were up 22 at half, and NW cut it to 8 with 45 seconds left and we won by 11.
I also think this Rutgers team is a lot worse than that NW team.
Here's the postgame after that game:
How have they been lucky? NW is the only close game they've won this year.
Oregon at mackey.
Oh, and USC who went 4/13 from FT against them (and had boneheaded plays just like NW).
IlliniwekKDR
- Colorado Springs, CO
We just need anyone else's luck. Losing 4 games in OT/last second kind of stings how close we could be to 19-1 in the conference this year.
Illinois is 305th in Kenpom luck metric. Purdue is 200.
Miami OH is 13th (which feels kinda low tbh).
Miami OH is 13th (which feels kinda low tbh).
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
We have 7 losses. 5 of them by a combined 13 points. If we were in the top 100 in luck, we’d be 26-4 on our way to a 1 seed.
My problem with Yaxel winning POY would be how much by committee their team is. There's numerous nights where he isn't their best player.
How I'd personally rank it:
1. Fears
2. Wagler
3. Yaxel
First team:
Stirtz, Fears, Wagler, Sanford, Lendenborg.
How I'd personally rank it:
1. Fears
2. Wagler
3. Yaxel
First team:
Stirtz, Fears, Wagler, Sanford, Lendenborg.
@Indy Illini Fan This has gotta be the end for Marty, right? Right???
Could interpret those numbers as an inability for IL to make plays down the stretch to win tight games. And a lot of those plays aren't necessarily on the offensive end. Some key defensive rebounds wins a few more games. Michigan beat Iowa last night with a few defensive stops at the end. Iowa hung with Michigan because they turned them over a lot. Some was sloppy play by Michigan but Iowa does get their hands on the ball.
Either IL gets nastier on the defensive end or the Ivisic brothers and/or KB has to start shooting better from 3 for IL to win games past the first weekend of the NCAAs. My guess is if help comes it will be in shooting better. I don't see them remedying a lack of quickness and athleticism on the defensive end. Also the front line is soft
It is never easy to decide POY. I think Fears and it's not close. Your argument about Yaxel could go for Wagler. But, without Smith Purdue is Oregon this year. Smith is All Big at the least.
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I agree 100%…it has to be a formula of either the best player on the best team vs the best player by a mile who CARRIED a team to being really good vs the clearly best player in the conference on a mediocre team.
Unfortunately I think this year’s formula should favor Fears. MSU would be lost without him
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