Totally agree. I also at least understand their being upset that the women played that initial Thursday after the pause but the men did not. I think there are valid reasons, but the optics were kind of bad.
Illinois is my second favorite team in the big ten so I might be biased but I think it would be great if Howard made a statement in support of the co-champions idea. I would not be saying that if we finished 15-2.
Heās already made a statement that heās not going to do that.
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If the B1G had opened the door for co-champs in advance, I would have been fine with it, but they didnāt, and Michigan knew they were outright champions regardless of what happened against MSU.
Itās not on Juwan to fix that, and given how Illinois has acted towards Michigan, thereās no reason to extend an olive branch.
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this is insane!!!111 illinois stole chaundeeās award that is rightfully his lets hate them forever and hang our own banner
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This is pretty hilarious. Conference all defense teams might be the consistently worst things that get voted on
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Politics politics and more politics in the voting.
Who votes on the B1G all defense team? Coaches? Writers? If itās writers, perhaps itās time to re-evaluate the criteria to be selected.
Coachesā¦ probably more likely SIDs.
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Got itā¦yeahā¦I wish people would put more effort into their jobs. ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Folks donāt realize how much defensive skill it takes to funnel your man right into your teammateā¦who is an absolute turnstile.
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I donāt know what the advanced stats say, but Iād absolutely give us a better chance of 3-0 against NW/PSU/IU than 2-0 against Sparty. MSU at Breslin was a pretty good team. They just couldnāt play on the road. Then you throw in the rivalry factor, playing them back to back and that they were playing for their NCAA livesā¦
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To be honest I do think that if Illinois were to be named co-champs it would be pretty fair and I could at least understand it.
But holy #%^&ā¦ I knew Illinois fans were hungry for that first banner in 15 yearsā¦ I didnāt know they were this desperate 
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From the letter: "In November, the conference agreed that winning percentage would be used to determine the regular-season champion in basketball. "
It also does sound like Illinois is going to raise a āBig Ten Champs in our heartsā banner, based on the last line of the letter.
What we did not anticipate, and what we now realize, is that this same metric would actually penalize a team ā in this case, Illinois ā that was fortunate enough to play its entire schedule of 20 games.
This is pretty funny to me. How could you not anticipate that? Picking winning percentage as your criteria is an active choice to not give teams a benefit for playing more games.
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Good letter to energize your donor base. Everyone needs something to rally behind
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Now I desperately need Illinois to lose the BTT tournament and not make the Final Four so that they end up raising a āBig Ten total regular season winsā banner.
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