Big Ten Basketball 2020-21 Discussion (Part 1)

I think the Minnesota/Ohio State game will be fascinating today… Computers continue to like Ohio State but I’m kind of “meh”… Minnesota swept OSU last year but I’m not really sure how “legit” they are this year.

Feels like a game that will tell us a lot about both teams.

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Minnesota 8-0 at home this year and OSU 0-2 in conference road games :eyes:

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Minnesota just scored 14 points in its first five offensive possessions.

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Ha! Is that good?

On pace for 196 points in a 70-possession game!

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Why do you think the computers like them so much?

Judging by what Liam Robbins is doing to OSU… should be a good matchup for Hunter Dickinson.

Robbins will be fascinating next weekend also… best shot blocker with legit size that Hunter will have faced.

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I know Minnesota and OSU are both ranked and I’m glad they are for the conference and SOS purposes, but these are the two teams I feel are a bit overrated in the league right now.

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Not the 17th ranked team? :wink:

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Ok, fine. These are the three teams…

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I haven’t seen Minny, but not surprised OSU is overrated. Very often are.

I’ve actually consumed so much “sky is falling” MSU content in the last week I forgot they were ranked at all. Wild

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It’s genuinely baffling to me at this point. I forgot until I watched their game yesterday and was shocked.

KenPom ranks OSU higher than the pollsters. And that is despite KenPom not knowing their best player missed some games.

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If I remember correctly, I think KenPom has been higher on them the past few years as well.

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since KenPom is an unbiased computer that would argue pollsters underrate them

The announcers getting into Dickinson over Hunter on the all B1G team while ignoring the idiocy of having two old school post centers in the same lineup is something.

Well, the All Big Ten team is not supposed to be the “best lineup” … It is supposed to be the five best players. There shouldn’t be positional qualifiers.

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Minnesota has been incredible at home this year but lost its two road games (albeit against the two top teams in the league) by a combined 39 points.