Big Ten Basketball 2021-22 Discussion

Michigan’s official athletic site (mgoblue.com) generally has a live audio link to the games in their game preview. No app required.

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Ah dang I didn’t know they paywalled college sports.

Anyway, I’m the Reverse Sheep guy. (To everyone else: this sounds dirty but I assure you it’s not)

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“I’m the Reverse Sheep guy.” I’ve said some odd things to people in my time, but I’ve never said that to someone.

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Probably gonna turn my VPN on before Googling it

The level of excitement with these BTN studio guys about Rutgers is really quite something.

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Caught up in the crowd energy. Energy we rarely see at Crisler.

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Talking about in the studio before the game! Katz was coming out of his shoes. :joy::joy:

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Well we know Andy has an affinity for Rutgers basketball after he rated Geo Baker a top 10 player nationally last year

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I think I’m all in on Rutgers. They might have been horrible two months ago but I think they’re very good now. Mulcahy/Baker/Harper/Omuruyi is a better top 4 that can actually play on the floor together at once than anybody has in the conference except for maybe Illinois

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Rutgers shot 8-of-17 on non layups/dunks
Illinois shot 1-of-19 on non layups/dunks

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Now that’s a spicy take

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You also don’t need to go all the way back to two months ago. 3 weeks ago they had a 1-3 stretch with losses to Minnesota, Maryland and Northwestern and a 2 point win over Nebraska. It is wild how good they’ve been playing over this current four game stretch. They’ve arguably had the worst and the best four game stretch in the conference. Jekyll and Hyde

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Mulcahy best assist guy in the league, two scorers, Omuruyi solid. Wisconsin and OSU both have stars but their 3rd/4th options feel like they’re far behind. Purdue I guess would work but you’re still working with Stafanovic + Thompson/Gillis/Hunter is the 3/4th. But I just love the way those four fit together.

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You can have my Rutgers stock. I make sure to never have any

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There’s alot to be said for experience.

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Yeah the 3rd and 4th guys might be better than most, but Ivey/Edey or Williams is significantly better than Baker/Harper so I don’t think the 3rd/4th quite makes up for that difference.

After Purdue and Illinois, there is a gap though and Rutgers is in that next group

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Illinois choking another Big Ten title away.

What’s new…

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Appears to be deserved.

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It’s fine. They are pretty creative. They’ll figure out a way to justify raising their own banner

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Basically everyone is trying to keep Purdue alive.

They might win it, but are certainly getting some assists on it.