This is an old Mizzou team. 3 grad students, a senior and a junior in the starting five, plus another grad student and 2 seniors coming off the bench.
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Can we start questioning how good the B10 is yet?
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See thatâs where weâre different. It does make me feel better.
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Me too, but Iâm just checking in now. Anything particular happen or was there just vibes?
Torvik has Missouri as the 2nd best offense in the nation, primarily due to their shooting, so while their shooting performance last night was aberrant, itâs something they do.
Theyâre an AWFUL defense, and Illinoisâ inability to punish that is bizarre
Illinois had very little off-ball movement and it seemed like half the time they got the ball into the paint, they got stripped. Itâs hard to convey how terrible they looked.
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Oh yeah Iâm remembering all the non-basketball reasons I didnât like Kevin Willard.
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Wow, he hates 9 PM tips more than I do if he found a way to blame them for the Big Tenâs national champ drought. Wish I had thought of that
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I know Willard isnât familiar with them, but someone should let him know when the national championship usually tips off
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The block was clean. The B1G has won a recent title, we canât help if itâs not recognized. Happy holidays, everybody.
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Ah yes, Big Ten scheduling is the reason they havenât won a title since 2000. Playing a 9:00 tip in January has really affected those March tournament runs.
Doesnât the Big East regularly have 8-8:30 games? Whatâs the difference?
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Out of morbid curiosity I thumbed through the conference schedule by day on ESPN and their latest start is 8 pm
His point about game clustering appears correct too - UConn basically only plays on Wednesday and then either Saturday or Sunday
My feeling is that game clustering is a thing that can lead to injury and maybe hurt a teams chances as result
Late tips more a quality of life complaint
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I understand not liking the late tips. But it has absolutely zero correlation with tournament results. Zero, none, nada. Villanova didnât beat Michigan in 2018 because they played earlier games in January and February. They beat them because they were stacked with NBA players. Seton Hall never did anything in the tournament with him as coach. You canât ride the coattails of Villanova and pretend that they won because Big East did something that contributed to it.
Sorry the Big East doesnât have the same TV appeal as the Big Ten. If it did, theyâd have a similar schedule to the Big Ten. It has nothing to do with Big East being better at scheduling. Schedules are mostly dictated by TV. The Big East just isnât a coveted TV product
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I agree the late tips donât have anything to do with post season success
I can see an argument for the clustered games (I havenât looked at their schedule but 6 games in 12 days seems too much if thatâs what theyâre doing)
The Big Ten up until the past two years has been as good as almost any other conference in the country in the NCAAT. Is game clustering a positive for the first 5 rounds and a negative for the championship?
Which injuries to Big Ten players caused by âgame clusteringâ do you think wouldâve resulted in a national title with different scheduling? Is there a lot?
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Itâs impossible to say with certainty that a player would not have been injured if they would not have had x amount of games within x number of days, and then further claim that missing player x would have caused a team to win a National championship (correlation and causation and whatnot), but Michigan did play 5 games in 11 days at the end of the 2020-2021 regular season after which Isaiah Livers broke his foot.
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Isaiah Livers literally had a stress fracture
I canât tell you itâs because of the schedule
But itâs a repetitive use injury, and those occur when the body is over taxed
Thanks
Regardless, it is science that players playing tired get hurt more than those that donât. Playing more in a condensed time period is more likely to yield injury, and a team with injured players is more likely to lose
Thanks for attending my Ted talk
Iâm sorry, Iâm dying at a fan of a team who had a top seed lose its captain to a stress fracture ask this question
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Obviously Iâm aware of Livers. I was expecting more of a list if thatâs the correlation we are going to make between scheduling and the Big Ten national title drought.
Again, obviously Iâm aware of Livers. The claim was that the Big Ten National Title drought is correlated to cluster scheduling injuries. Is the entire case study Isaiah Livers?
That seems like a giant reach.