He just seems like he’s a case of a good player playing on a loaded HS and AAU team and sort of got obscured…probably should have been a sure fire P5 recruit.
Ahhh, even then I just don’t think there’s any correlation between how a league does in the NCAA Tournament.
Like is it one team making a run that you want to see? Teams performance against seed? Winning the whole thing? Overall record? How far the best team goes?
I don’t think there’s a straightforward way to even measure that. And I’m not sure what measuring it tells us.
Fair. The tourney is fluky too, like losing last year didn’t invalidate that there were a bunch of good B1G teams.
This year is just such a down year to me, I’m just not buying any of these teams at a national level. Like throw any Big Ten team from 2-11 into the Big East or the Big 12…they’re solidly in the tournament probably but none of them are top 3 teams in those conferences. And Purdue’s not running away with those either IMO.
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Not NW or Nebraska.
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Look up cause NW is only ONE gb Purdue! 
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michigan will win the BTT
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Props to Key for trying, but if he can’t handle some of the contact that’s gotten him going down in this game he shouldn’t be playing. Protect your players.
This Ohio State roster has quit on the season
So naturally we play them once this year.
Though we did avoid a loss not having to play at purdue.
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So what is the board view on Maryland? It sure seems like their early conference season struggles were home/road driven (0-4 on the road, average margin of defeat 17 points (yes, we killed them, but they also had 2 14 point losses), 2-0 at home) as had their “recovery” (6-0 at home, 1-2 on the road, with the one win @ Minnesota). Their road losses were better though - single digits at Purdue and at MSU.
It’s easy to look at the remaining schedule - 2 at home, 3 on the road - and say they finish 2-3. But their road games are @Nebraska (not a gimme, but very winnable), @OSU (who has quit and hasn’t won a game in 47 days anyway), and @PSU. 4-1 finish?
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I clearly remember saying after we ran them out of the gym that they would be playing on Wednesday in the BTT. Oops.
It is impressive what they have done and Willard has to get some credit bur I really can’t see them making any noise in the BTT or NCAA. So that’s my way of saying that I am still not seeing it with them.
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I feel similar. Have to tip your cap to them even if I can’t quite figure out why they are good or if I trust them. But they are way better than our Wolverines right now so kudos I guess.
I think it’s clear they’re good enough to beat pretty much anyone at home and lose by single digits to average teams on the road.
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Thats a bold prediction but I’m all for it.GO BLUE!
At this point, all I’m hoping for is UM destroying other team’s tourney hopes and not folding like OSU. If we can knock off MSU, RU and UW and aid in ruining their seasons, I’ll take that as a small victory.
Illinois fans now even more angry at Michiagn
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