Big Ten Basketball 2020-21 Discussion (Part 1)

Illinois is really fun when they play well. Can definitely see myself picking them 1-2 rounds too far in my bracket

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One more rebound for Ayo to get that triple double.

Potter and (especially) Davison just look broken. Shells of what they were last year - no idea what happened.

Illinois has 18 turnovers and leads by 14. Crazy.

They are a very, very good basketball team. I don’t want to say how good I think they are! :wink:

Davidson has been pretty much unplayable. And to Gard’s credit he has sat him a long time.

Pretty wild four factors gaph.

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Maybe Davison is actually 34, not 24. Their centers were their difference makers…and they’ve been all over the place this season.

Kind of crazy how Davison has been the exact same player for 4 years. Seriously, look at his stats. Only thing he’s really improved at is turning the ball over less, but he’s also somehow gotten worse at the rim

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Triple double! SO good! 21 - 12 - 12

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Make that 0-3 against Michigan/Illinois/Ohio State. Huge three for Trice to hit the under 17.5 for margin of defeat. Good job Badgers!

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I’m surprised to see he’s shooting 38% on 3’s this year – he must be going crazy in the games I’m not watching.

So much of Wisconsin basketball has been running multiple sets, guys setting solid screens, making hard cuts. And obviously the 3 ball. That team is not connected this season for some reason. Not saying they can’t pull it together before the BTT, but they’re not playing Badger ball. And maybe running it back doesn’t work, as Dylan has noted in the past.

Final box from Illinois over Wisco.

I definitely overrated how good Wisconsin was last year. They were pretty good, but before the last 8 games of the season they weren’t even top 25. Then they got hot at the end of the season. And that messed up my preseason picks.

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Davison has to have one of the lowest (if not the lowest) conversion rates inside the arc.

Teams look a lot more connected when they make threes.

https://twitter.com/umhoops/status/1358170496194469890

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If he just embraced being Just A Shooter he’d be could be a good piece for a very good team. Don’t know if it’s him trying to do things he can’t or Wisconsin is asking him for that

Wisconsin has this slate left, 8-5 today in conference. What do they end up?

at Nebraska
vs Michigan
vs Iowa
at Northwestern
vs Illinois
at Purdue
at Iowa

That will do it. Surprising to see a team that has so many shooters shoot that poorly over an extended stretch