Ben Simmons doesn’t have a problem with that. He approves of this strategy.
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Starting to think Ohio state may be the best team in the conference.
If Branham’s going to play like this down the stretch, they just might be.
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Liddel + Branham is really something.
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Angry. They will destroy us
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OSU managed to almost blow a 12 point lead with 2:30 left and got the benefit of the whistle all night. They also just lost to Iowa at home and Rutgers before that.
OSU is significantly better than I thought they’d be, but they’re still incapable of playing defense and a worse version of what they were last year. It’s Purdue, then a gap, then the grouping of OSU/Wisky/Illinois, and then another gap down to our tier with Rutgers, MSU, Iowa and us IMO.
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Remember…they might be the better team, but just remember they had the easiest schedule too.
Highest ranked B1G team on KP is Purdue… at 13th 
But we dominate the 13-30 range. I still think Illinois is easily the most balanced team, but hard to trust them in a lot of ways for some reason. Regardless, dont think the title drought is gonna end this year
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And Purdue’s defensive numbers don’t line up with teams that are historically successful in the tournament.
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Pretty funny that the B1G this year is the conference of great offense and terrible defense. Purdue, OSU, Iowa, Michigan all in that profile
I’d go so far to say I don’t think the league will have a final four team. Probably a good half dozen teams are capable of playing to the second weekend — including the good guys.
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If we were to get into the tourney, how far do you think we can go? Like, the fan in me thinks we could go to the FF but the realist in me acknowledges we can lose to anybody and our likely ceiling is the second round/sweet 16 because we haven’t been able to string to together multiple wins all season.
Even given all the issues, Ifhoustan lived up to the lottery hype, um would be right there as top team in the b1g. Down year and next year looks worse.
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If Houstan and Diabate are back next year might not be worse from a results stand point. If one or both leaves that changes things but also means we have transfer spots to fill. IDK, maybe I’m just riding a Bufkin high right now but I feel better about next year than I have all year. Houstan leaving would erase a lot of that feeling though
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Looks NBA ready to me
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If Houstan and Diabate come back, you can imagine a starting 2-5 of Bufkin, Jett, Houstan and Diabate. Still a lot of potential downside there if Jett struggles and Kobe/Caleb don’t take a step forward, but that’s an incredibly modern 2-5 with a lot of upside.
Frankie still has room to grow as well, but I think if we can get another transfer PG, I’d feel pretty decent about being a tourney team.
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Yeah this is the theoretical rotation I just put together. There’s some flexibility there depending on which of Barnes, Tschetter, Glenn is a better player next year.
| pg | sg | sf | pf | c | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dug | 20 | Bufkin | 30 | Howard | 15 | Houstan | 20 | diabate | 30 |
| Collins | 20 | Howard | 10 | Houstan | 10 | Twill | 20 | Reed | 10 |
| Barnes | 15 |
And yes fight me for giving TWill 20 minutes. I know you all are mad!
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That sounds about right to me. Like I said I’d feel pretty content with that team as our “down year” as long as we bring in a transfer PG
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I’m good rocking with Frankie and Kobe as our starting backcourt next season. Think that duo would have a chance to be really good. It would be an absolute blessing to get Caleb and Moussa back as our starting PF and C next season. Maybe get a transfer guard/wing for SF, but after that we got lots of young and versatile depth. Next season’s roster has a chance to be a really fun team that grows tremendously as the season goes on.
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