Big Ten Basketball 2020-21 Discussion (Part 1)

College Basketball
1938

Gonzaga shooting poorly from the FT line, too. Normally shoot 74%.

1939

Michigan is an enormous TBD. And have they? Maybe slightly better. Syracuse is ok. Boeheim was happy to tell anyone who would listen that they barely even got to practice leading up to the season and were out of shape. And Maryland is worse than PSU.

1940

Today definitely proved the “if Iowa has a bad shooting day they’re done” theory, but Bohannon alone has missed like three open looks to make this thing interesting and a 9-point deficit to Gonzaga with how poorly they are shooting from three and from the line honestly doesn’t make me think any less whatsoever of Iowa’s chances as a contender

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1941

Wow, Suggs with a ridic stepback three-pointer.

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1942

That’s an NBA shot.

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1943

I would take Suggs over literally anyone in this year’s draft

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1944

Today proved that Iowa plays no defense. I don’t think you can really take much from the margin of the game just because it wasn’t the 20+ final deficit that it was early in the 2nd half.

Gonzaga is really good but Iowa had more horrific defensive possessions in this game than some (contending) teams will have all season.

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1945

Iowa has gotten a pretty friendly whistle this half.

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1946

Yeah, going back really to about halfway through the 1st half, when Gonzaga started to run away. Rubber banding.

1947

Yeah but I don’t see those two as linked - you can’t control how well the opposition shoots FTs. If Iowa did what they normally did, this game could be a nail biter right now.

1948

Is there an argument for putting Michigan way down at 7th or 8th?

1949

They play no defense, shot as bad as they will all season and didn’t get run off the floor by the team that is head and shoulders better than everyone else in the country.

This should have been a 30 point loss but Garza went nuclear (as he does every game) and Gonzaga stopped making threes at a 66% clip.

1950

They didn’t get run off the court? The last 10 minutes of this game was basically open gym.

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1951

Sure - they ain’t played no one.

1952

At this stage I think where you put Michigan has more to do with your own pre-conceived notion than performance (because there really isn’t a meaningful datapoint).

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1953

They missed five open shots to make it a two possession game with under four to play, so I would say no they were not run off the court.

1954

Iowa’s best defense has been their offense getting Kispert and Timme in foul trouble. Might be their best defense all the time

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1955

Garza threatening 75% from floor after today? Unreal offensive numbers.

1956

Refs are seriously trying to give Iowa everything they can here.

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1957

Down to 8! Might be a game. Closest its been all half! (Still not competitive)