Such a weird play. Yes, I think that’s what happened. The time was put back on the clock, but since the error wasn’t noticed until the throw-in ended, the subsequent throw-in became a spot throw-in.
Northwestern mucking it up again and in another close game late. Nearly had a steal on the inbound.
The official did do this (contrary to what the actual tweet says lol). The ref also told the commentators that he verbally told the player he can’t move. I personally don’t think the ref should be obligated to tell Painter that they can’t run the baseline. Yeah, I guess it’d be a nice courtesy, but I don’t think they should have to be that proactive with the rules like that.
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Good spot. Regardless of what we communicated, the confusion could be the play Purdue ran. It’s possible nobody knew that if you can’t run the baseline you can’t throw it to a teammate OOB.
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That’s pretty funny. Fans certainly do see what they want to see.
That is possible. Players don’t tend to know basic rules, let alone rare ones like this. Earlier this week, I watched Houston players (twice) intentionally miss a free throw and charge into the key as soon as they released the ball.
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Don’t forget Wisconsin…checks record…rolls eyes.
Also, Iowa scored 1.37 PPP last week in wins over Maryland and Nebraska. Ridiculous.
I’ve had a hard time believing in Iowa this year, but this shows that maybe there is some truth to what their doing? If so credit to Fran as I did not see this coming with this roster.
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Pretty typical Iowa thing going on where they destroy bad teams and don’t beat many good ones.
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The main thing that jumps out to me is Ohio State’s scheduling advantage. Holy moly.
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Should i read into “Sorted by efficiency margin with a unscientific boost for road games” in any way? I.e. is there a reason at Iowa is higher than Purdue at home? Or is this all just a way to generally scale and put forth a hierarchy?
I just sorted the teams by their efficiency margin and gave a 30% boost to that # for away games. The negative ones are a bit weird but I basically took 30% of their negative value and added it back.
Iowa at home would be 6.8, Iowa on the road would be 8.84 so that’s ahead of Purdue at home (8.5). That makes a lot of sense to me though.
For example, I think U-M was a 3 or 3.5 point underdog at home against Purdue and KenPom spread for Thursday at Iowa is 6.
The unscientific part is I just made up the multiplier to show home/away splits. The order is all that really matters though and I think it seems about right other than Wisconsin being an obvious outlier because of their EM stats.
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Sorry if this has been a heavy topic of discussion already, but are the changes to NET really messed up this year? Seems insane that rutgers is 81. Is their home loss to the number 320 team really weighing them down that much? Michigan jumps 30 spots after one win? Seems really off the wall. I like margin of victory factoring in but I think it holds too much weight.
It doesn’t really matter what metric you use to rank Rutgers… they don’t come out very favorably. The old RPI has them at 93…
They don’t just have “a home loss to number 320 team” they also lost to Maryland, UMass, DePaul, Minnesota, Penn State and Northwestern. That’s seven losses to teams that won’t make the NCAA Tournament.
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It would be funny if they win the B1G while not even close to the bubble
especially since the autobid goes to the BTT winner
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there’s no point talking about a Michigan bid anymore. it’s over. our bubble has burst
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