Week of 3/2 Games Thread

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Much broader conversation…

The apathy towards basketball has grown there for a bit I think. But as an Indiana native, with so many IU friends, it seems they’ve reached a real weird tipping point on “passion”.

DeVries seems in the micro saved for a bad year, but if it’s because fans don’t care?
Football providing cover I assume.
 
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Ohio State gets this one and they’re in, right? Kind of a scary matchup. I wouldn’t want to face a team with Thornton in a single elimination tournament.
Can they play on their home court. There is no way I trust them especially away from home. They are not good against any team with a pulse away from home.
 
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Wish granted
Their demise was inevEDEYable
Happy Cracking Up GIF by MOODMAN
 
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Missing the boat on Dusty May when he would've walked there to take the job in favor of another year of Mike Woodson is a generational bag fumble.
That cancels out the absolute luck bag they walked into with Cignetti.
 
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With a Wisky victory over PU, then a Illinois/Wisconsin matchup is most likely in the Quarters?
Based on current odds,

Illinois Odds of being a 3 seed: 27.0%.
Illinois Odds of being a 4 seed: 66.0%
Illinois Odds of being a 5 seed: 7%

Wisconsin odds of being a 4 seed: 7%
Wisconsin odds of being a 5 seed: 93%

So yes, even if you consider the 5 v. 12/13 and 6 v 11/14 games to be the 5 and 6 as a 70/30 favorite, your odds of Illinois/Wisconsin as the 4/5 would look something like this right now:

Illinois-Wisconsin: 0.73*0.7 = 51.1%
Illinois-12/13 seed = 19.8%
Illinois - 6 seed = 18.9%
Illinois - 11/14 seed = 8.1%
Wisconsin-12/13 seed= 2.1%
 
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Correct. If UCLA wins, they would be the 6 and Purdue the 7, meaning that if Indiana won their first BTT game they would meet Purdue

if Purdue capped off this regular season by getting bounced in their first big ten tournament game by Indiana, which would ironically probably lock Indiana into the tournament, and give Indiana the 2-1 season h2h victory, it might be enough for some Purdue fans to lose it.
 
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UConn's loss has moved them back into essentially a tie with us for 6th best odds to win the NCAAT. DraftKings even has us slightly ahead now.

Edit: there's some seed prediction baked into these odds (i.e. how easy their path will be), so some of the movement may be about their reduced chances of a 1 seed, but some of it is certainly less optimism about their ability.
 
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Tennessee State defeats Morehead State 93-67 to win the OVC Tournament Championship. It is the Tigers' third NCAA tournament appearance, their first since 1994. The Tennessee State head coach is late 2000s Duke point guard Nolan Smith.
 
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Yeah, I just copied my original list, but I said in another post that I agree the balance has probably tipped in favor of our priority being keeping that Quad 1A win, given that TTU's ASU loss probably cemented them as a non-threat.
One other side note — though this may come off as a bit too down the road — but our priority in the B12 is needing Iowa State to lose. They are currently projected as the 5seed in the B12 tournament. If Texas Tech wins, ISU will face Kansas as the 4. If BYU wins, ISU will play Texas Tech as the 4.

It’s close, but IMO Kansas is the slightly more likely team to win in that scenario.
 
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