We all need to agree that we were 1% not wanting to (potentially) play Illinois Friday, and 99% not wanting Illinois to be able to hang a banner.
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Not me. I just wanted to play Wisconsin without Davis. Illinois can have the banner, they’re the best team in the conference by far. To see the epitome of mediocrity in Wisconsin get sole possession of the B1G championship after losing to Nebraska would have been disgusting.
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You think so? I wouldn’t feel too safe if you lost to iowa.
The thing is almost all of the bubble teams are likely going to lose again too, and probably to teams worse than Iowa. BYU already did, Wake Forest will, Indiana (probably) will, SMU (probably) will, VCU (probably) will. So it’s hard to see us getting leapfrogged by another bubble team, and we’re ahead of all those schools except Wake Forest as of this moment on BracketMatrix.
The bad scenarios are SMU winning the AAC and making that a three-bid league or someone coming from way off the bubble to win the ACC/P12/B12/SEC… Oregon, Oklahoma, Florida, those sorts of teams.
I’m using a lot of qualifiers because I don’t want to accidentally jinx things and have Indiana win the BTT or something.
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Anyone want to cast their All B1G ballots?
With some positional policing (no 4 centers and a wing):
First Team
Jaden Ivey
Johnny Davis
Keegan Murray
EJ Liddell
Kofi Cockburn
Second Team
Trent Frazier
Alfonso Plummer
Malaki Branham
Trayce Jackson-Davis
Hunter Dickinson
Third Team
Brad Davison
Sasha Stefanovic
Hakim Hart
Ron Harper, Jr.
Zach Edey
Honorable Mention
Payton Willis
Eli Brooks
Pete Nance
John Harrar
Trevion Williams
| 1st Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kofi | Davis | Murray | Liddell | Hunter |
| 2nd Team | ||||
| Ivey | Frazier | Harper Jr. | TJD | Edey |
| 3rd Team | ||||
| Trevion | Branham | Willis | Nance | Plummer |
Murray or Kofi POY
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First team:
Davis
Ivey
Murray
Liddell
Cockburn
Second team:
Willis
Harper
Edey
Dickinson
Jackson-Davis
Third team:
Plummer
Frazier
Branham
Nance
Williams
Freshman:
Hepburn
McGowens
Branham
Houstan
Diabate
POY Cockburn (but it’ll be Davis)
FOY Branham (but it might be McGowens)
DPOY McConnell (but it might be Frazier)
COY McCaffrey (but it’ll be Gard)
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The shape of Micah Shrewsberry’s head is fascinating.
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why does Hoiberg look so morose all the time, he never seems to crack a smile.
And who is the coach who said Juwan? I swear they just added some random dude in a video of B1G coaches.
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Chris Collins (NW) and Ben Johnson (MN)
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I mean, this may look like ridiculous fluff generated by some PRbot and all, but it very well may be more useful content than, say, Andy Katz’s Big List of 25 Big Ten Players.
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shape of Micah Shrewsberry’s head
I think it’s not helped by the lighting and background - two overhead lights creating glaring off the dome and a pure white backdrop really emphasize that sagittal ridge.
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Big Ten gets great re-use out of all of their Big Ten Media Day random shoots.
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interesting choice for Juwan, I guess the 0fer + fanbases don’t really affect the coaches’ relationship. Kind of makes me hate Gard even more if that’s possible
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Today I had a chicken salad for lunch.
Kind of makes me hate Gard even more if that’s possible.
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I had overnight oats. No less angry about his ongoing existence. At least not so far
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Hey @umhoops is this the proper spot for me to take my victory lap for suggesting that Murray > Garza before the season? 
I don’t remember specifically what you said and Murray was definitely awesome this year. On the other hand, Iowa was better last year, Garza won B10 POY last year and the year before and Murray didn’t win B10 POY this year. 
If you mean NBA stuff, I think that was pretty obvious. Did anyone argue that Garza was going to be a pro let alone a good pro? I’m honestly a bit surprised he’s on a roster.
Keegan definitely had an incredible year and was in the top 2-3 percentile I could have imagined for him. I am really curious what happens with Kris next year 
He has similar rate stats and just didn’t really play.