5 assists for Hauser. Someone call BQ
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Maybe slightly hot take, but I think I can actually talk myself into liking a starting lineup of Bohannon, Toussaint, Pat Mac, Murray and Rebraca? This is relative obviously, meaning I like it relative to the rest of the bottom half of the B1G. And the bench still seems like a disaster. But I think that starting 5 is fairly competent.
My first question looking at box score: who is Austin Ash?
Carter Kingsbury taking a pair of threes in as many minutes sounds right. Something tells me he won’t make as many as his dad though.
Hunter #4 and Liddell #3 in the Katz Kountdown.
I like Liddell but… come on
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I guess we’ll see Hunter’s response when we play OSU, and IU, and the Illini. 
And you know what we all think about the Katz list. 
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Sagarin’s first ratings are out.
B1G:
3. Michigan
4. Purdue
8. Illinois
11. Ohio State
18. Maryland
20. Michigan State
24. Iowa (???)
28. Indiana
30. Wisconsin (?)
31. Rutgers
52. Penn State
67. Nebraska
68. Northwestern
72. Minnesota
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Oh, my goodness, that’s the exact order I had them in! 
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TJD is #2 to the owner of the world’s largest container of LA Looks.
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Iowa 23 in KenPom so Sagarin not too far out of line there.
I find preseason ranks by KenPom and Torvik and Sagarin quite interesting. As seasons progress they basically end up quite similar to each other, but they can have some very large differences on teams preseason. I wonder if anybody has tracked the preseason ranks over time to see who is the most accurate, or if (more likely) they are all about as accurate overall you just don’t know which teams they are irrationally optimistic or pessimistic about.
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Found it: Stephen Bardo drinking game:
When he says “in my opinion”, drink.
When he says “I see you, young man (or player’s name)”, drink.
When he says “For those young players out there… (then proceeds to analyze a dunk)”, drink.
Absolutely blitzed by halftime.
Added caveat: When he says anything about a player’s hair style, drink.
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does “young fella” also count instead of just “young man”?
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Use variations at your own discretion; if he’s finding his happy catchphrase zone, I’d advise having only one or the other trigger a drink or you may not see the end of the game.
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I’d like to contribute, if he mentions their shoes and calls them “kicks”
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About 90% of it
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Where to begin?
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I can’t get over Audige and Davison
This list is so embarrassingly bad that I will literally never believe anything that Andy Katz says ever again. He could tell me to move out of the way from an oncoming train that is 10 feet away and I would stay on the tracks
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I would have “liked” this, BUT I seriously don’t want you taking a chance that he might be right about that train! You are too important to the world and to umhoops to take that chance! 
I will say this, though, I’m not going to believe much of what Katz says, either, and whenever I see or hear him, well…
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