BTW, why did PSU-Ill start at 6:30?
FS1 starts games at 6:30 all the time, usually a Big East or Big Ten game.
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It would be very on-brand for Turgeon to follow up a road win at Breslin with a home loss to Northwestern.
Probably won’t happen though.
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The Dellavedova of college ball.
Mark Turgeon is either about to win the Big Ten or blow a conference title in a phenomenal Turgeon-esque meltdown. Either way, I’m proud of him
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We have tickets for tonights game at Rutgers, heading up from South Jersey and have never been on the Rutgers campus. Any helpful hints about the arena or campus?
Livingston campus (RAC site) was dreary in my day, but supposedly they’ve redeveloped it into something nice. For a good time hit downtown New Brunswick or Easton Ave for student eats.
I’m currently mostly concerned with getting 1 bye in the B1G tournament so I’ve been looking at scenarios. If we win 4 games we’re safe. If we win 3, it will come down to tiebreaks potentially. The tiebreaker puts us in a tough spot because we only played Minnesota once and lost and they are the net most likely team to be 10-10. So the other teams we tie with are important. All of this assumes we beat Wisconsin and Nebraska at home
-Purdue could just finish 9-11 and we’d be safe provided we win a different road game (but they’d have to lose 2 out of 3 of these games: Rutgers, @ Iowa, Indiana).
-If we beat Purdue we’re probably about guaranteed to be safe.
-If we beat Rutgers we are also in a very good position. That would most likely lead them to 10-10 and we’d be 2-0 against them which would be a massive boost in multi-team tiebreaks.
-If we beat OSU that makes 10-10 a more likely outcome for them. If they end up at 10-10 we will look good in a Minnesota-OSU-UM tiebreak because OSU is 0-2 against Minnesota. But they could still just as likely end up 11-9 even with a loss to us. Which could leave us in an unfortunate 3 way tie with Purdue and Minnesota
-If we beat Maryland that’d help a lot resume wise but not as much from a B1G tiebreaker perspective. It could lead to the dreaded Purdue-Minnesota-UM 3 way tie.
-Or Minnesota could just finish 9-11 and we’d be safe with any win.
TLDR: As long as go 3-3 we’re in a good spot to avoid the first day of the B1G tournament. The worst case is we beat Maryland or OSU and end up losing a 3 way tiebreak with Purdue and Minnesota. But that’s a pretty good worst case cause it gives us a really good resume win so this exercise has made me feel better.
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I figure there’s a good chance that two teams fail to get to 10-10. Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota and Michigan are all in that mix right now.
Maybe there’s a huge tie, but very likely that there are a couple of 9-11 teams playing on Weds.
Yeah I think it’s more likely than not that 2 of those teams end up at 9-11 or worse. In which case my post was a complete waste
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Indiana I think is a lock for 9-11 or worse. Minnesota needs to win all three home games and beat Northwestern on the road to get to 10-10; I see them dropping one of those four to finish 9-11.
I think Michigan steals the requisite road game to end up at least 10-10 while Purdue just needs to defend home court to make it as well.
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Rooting for Indiana tonight, for sure. Hoping Little Richy doesn’t let me down and actually reaches 10-10.
The implication of Chambers telling his players Dosunmu loves to go right ended up hurting Penn State on two of the biggest possessions of the game:
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How does ESPN not have Ayo going in a 2-round mock?
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If the NBA does not recognize Ayo’s potential when it is draft time, they will realize it in 4 years when he is a star.
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I saw a mock today that had Haliburton at #6 or 7 in the first round, while most mocks have Ayo in the middle of the second… what am I missing there? Maybe im just out of touch with what the NBA is looking for in guards.
Haliburton is 6-5 with long arms, a great passer, shoots 60% on 2s and 40% on threes for his career. Kid is a pretty special player.
Dosunmu has had a great year and improved as a halfcourt playmaker but he’s not a great perimeter shooter. I suspect that’s the big knock on him. I do think he’ll rise as people look closer at what he’s done this year, though. My knock on him has always been that he needs to be in a fullcourt game to be at his best – that’s slowly going away.
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Ayo is highly unlikely to ever be good enough to be a lead guard in the NBA, so how can he fit as an NBA role player? Pretty big question for a ball dominant guy that has an iffy 3 point shot and only recently started playing well at all in the half court. Haliburton has been the superior college player both years. When you look at stats it’s not even close, which is why analytical models love Haliburton. He also has shown great defensive ability and playmaking that Ayo has not shown whatsoever.
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Wow, I did not realize Haliburton’s shooting splits were that good. For his career (1.5 years) he’s 62/43/78. Maybe it’s his unorthodox shooting motion that made me think he was just an average shooter.
What’s crazy to me is that he played 83% of possible minutes last season and only had a 10% usage. I know Iowa State had guys like Shayok, Horton-Tucker, and Wigginton to feed but it seems nuts to me that a guy shooting 69/43/69 (137 ORtg) didn’t get off more shots despite playing 33 minutes per game!