Bold Predictions for 21-22 Season

Michigan Basketball
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One for each team, no particular order:

  1. Fatts Russell is coming off the bench for Maryland by February, and they’re a better team for it.
  2. Nebraska has a player enter the transfer portal mid-season.
  3. Michigan State beats Kansas but goes 2-2 against Butler + the Battle 4 Atlantis
  4. Purdue finishes 12-8.
  5. Chris Collins and Northwestern agree in late February to mutually part ways at the end of the season.
  6. Jaden Jones (Rutgers) is this year’s Keegan Murray, impressing in his role and getting 2023 draft buzz.
  7. Minnesota finishes 4-16 and everyone agrees that’s actually a pretty good season for them.
  8. Iowa finishes higher than Wisconsin.
  9. Wisconsin has at least three rotation players transfer after the season but retains Greg Gard anyway.
  10. Michigan’s only OOC loss will be at home to Seton Hall.
  11. Illinois is a dominant 16-0 when Michigan beats them in the State Farm Center, but the Illini rally to win the conference.
  12. The air comes out of the Indiana balloon when they lose 2 of 3 in the Syracuse, Nebraska, Wisconsin stretch in late November/early December.
  13. Penn State finishes 7-13 but none of the wins are against a tournament team.
  14. Ohio State’s guard play is a mess early on and the Buckeyes lose to Xavier, Seton Hall, and Duke early. They steady the ship and beat Kentucky and finish 13-7.

Bonus:
The Big Ten wins the Gavitt Games 5-3 and the B1G-ACC Challenge 8-6.

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I don’t think Maryland has another PG on their roster to take his spot.

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Some non-B1G takes:

  • Marcus Carr wins the Naismith and Texas is a 1-seed
  • Chet Holmgren returns for his sophomore year
  • Seton Hall wins the Big East
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Boutros:
burning-man-man-on-fire

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Maybe he means a lineup of Ayala - Hart - Martinez - Scott - Wahab? I could see that actually. That’s four shooters + a center which is a nice recipe in the B1G as we’ve seen lately

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Yeah, that’s fair, and I guess Ayala ran most of the point last year anyways - so ignore my comment. I do agree with the intent of his take though in that Fatts is just not that good.

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I think Fatts takes might have gone from one overreaction to the other. Will be interesting to see.

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Fatts Russell should have transferred to Prairie View A&M where he belongs!

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Turgeon might be too stubborn and benching a high-ish profile guy like that is tough to do, but he does seem to make more sense as a 6th man to me. Get in there and fire up some shots when Ayala and Scott need a break. I could be underrating his passing but I thought Rhode Island had some decent pieces last year and he did a poor job of involving them. But also going to Turgeon is, somewhat surprisingly, a (significant?) coaching upgrade especially for his offense.

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It’s just hard to get excited about a guy who has taken over 1,400 career shots at a 36% clip in the A10.

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Fatts Russell changes his name to Farts Russell by mid February

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Boutros taking his jinxing to a whole new level. He’s trying to will an alternate universe where Fatts is at Prairie View so he can guarantee a Michigan loss in DC

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Purdue is not in the top 2 of the final Big Ten standings despite their easy Big Ten schedule.

Michigan state finishes above Ohio state

Michigan’s offense finishes outside the Kenpom top 25, defense finishes top 2

Michigan shoots below 34% from three as a team

Johns starts slow and 99% of the forum is irate that Diabate isn’t getting the job over him, Johns eventually pulls it together and it all works out.

Crisler attendance is noticeably lower than usual despite the expectations

If Jones isn’t starting by the end of the year, it’s Kobe Bufkin, not Frankie Collins, in his place.

Curbelo and Ivey can’t stop turning the ball over and it helps both teams lose some really dumb games.

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You sound like a perfect mashup of my dad when he was my age and me now. Maybe all dads with teenage sons sound like this?

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Bold prediction: Cheddar carves out a 5-10 minute roll at the 4/5 by the end of the season and ends up averaging more than 0.5 made threes per game. He earns the coaches’ trust with clutch performances early in the conference season, providing just enough clutch offense to keep the game in reach when Hunter and Diabate get into foul trouble.

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I LOL’d in particular at ``contribute to society’’.

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Jaden Ivey….not as good as everyone thinks.

Illinois wins Big Ten.

Michigan undefeated in non-con.

Kobe Bufkin 25 MPG in March.

Tom Izzo B1G coach of the year (I’m green wall remember)

Minnesota 0-18 in conference play

Nebraska makes the tournament

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What about their other two games? :wink:

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As a dad with two teenage sons, I definitely sound like this. “Why isn’t he up? I don’t care if he doesn’t have anywhere to be…you shouldn’t stay in bed this late on a Saturday.”

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English was always my strong suit not math :rofl: