Definitely noisy, but also speaks to how little we’ve learned about these teams without playing many legitimate games. Preseason adjustments and predictions have to do a lot of the legwork.
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Absolutely. Hard to have any strong new takes on any team at this point
Also I never saw this mentioned here but Wisconsin took my idea and scheduled Illinois Chicago. They play at 8 tonight.
Loyola* and they rescheduled the Louisville game.
Right, duh. They play vs. Loyola, vs. Louisville, vs. Nebraska, and @ MSU all before Michigan plays again 
What are the prospects that home vs neutral vs away results get adjusted? It obviously seems like home court is worth less this season, but conference play will be the clearest indicator of that theory.
They were talking about that in the other thread. I do think you probably need conference games to come up with any real assessment of that. The other issue is that the reasons for homecourt advantage are different at different levels (travel is obviously a bigger differentiator at lower levels) which will make any sweeping HCA adjustment difficult.
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I’m not going to defend Michigan’s opponents vs anyone right now and that’s the whole point of trying to rank teams this early in the season.
With that being said, are you referring to the same Providence team that got blown out by Alabama (3-2) and has a single digit win over TCU and a 1-point win over Davidson? And while Stanford might be good, they’re currently 2-2 with their best win being a blow out of that same Alabama team.
I mean, you can downplay games however you want. Big Ten teams have 16 wins total over high major teams. Indiana’s are some of the more impressive wins by any computer metric because of the margin.
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Indiana just got a commitment from grad transfer guard Parker Stewart from UT Martin. He started his career at Pitt, went to UT Martin after that (104 ORTG on 28 USG his only year there), and now is going to Indiana.
Seems like Indiana may be trying to get him eligible for next semester? Not sure if that will happen. He hit 71/184 3’s as a freshman at Pitt (compared to 51 2’s attempted), and then 64/188 from 3 last year (up to 168 2’s attempted) so he’d provide a shooting threat at the minimum that Indiana really needs.
that would be unprecedent. A mid-season transfer eligible immediately? I don’t see this happening.
Just to complete the story, he’s leaving UT Martin because his father, who was the head coach, passed away this fall.
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Good point. If we’re being honest I didn’t put 2 and 2 together and realize that’s who it was.
Oh man. I hadn’t even heard he was transferring.
Did Illinois start Curbelo, Frazier and a bunch of randos tonight or is the ESPN box score showing the starters incorrectly?
So Jon Crispin decided to make a career out of doing a Dan Dakich impression. Now we need a third guy to do an impression of Crispin doing Dakich.
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I was wondering the same thing, I missed opening tip but Fox has the normal starting lineup for Illinois.
Illinois is up 24-21 at the under 8 after being down 18-10. Illinois has played 10 guys so far and Minnesota has played 12. In what could be a preview of Dickinson vs a stretch big, Liam Robbins for Minnesota had 6 points on 2/2 from 3 in the first 4 minutes. He went out with his 2nd foul at that point, and since then Illinois has taken the lead and Cockburn has scored 10 on Minnesota’s backups. Getting a stretch big like Robbins in foul trouble down low is probably the best solution to that matchup problem against Hunter.
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Minnesota is a tough watch
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Was just coming to say the same. I wanna rip on Marcus Carr for being a one man show but then I look at his teammates try to play and you can’t blame him.
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Loyola Chicago is playing Wisconsin pretty tough on BTN. Cameron Krutwig is a senior now.
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Does home court advantage exist or does Minnesota suck? 