Michigan receiving votes in MBB AP Poll
Michigan has received the 6th most votes of the others receiving votes (aka ranked 31st) with 5 votes. Ohio State has the 4th most among that group with 29. The only ranked B1G teams are MSU and Purdue, at 4th and tied at 5th with Wichita State respectively. That means this week Michigan is hosting #5 and going to #4.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:32 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^
What is your deal with being the first guy to post all the time?
January 8th, 2018 at 3:55 PM ^
What's YOUR deal?
January 8th, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^
because Mom's got good Internet in the basement and with no good cartoons on TV, there is nothing better to do.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 5:04 PM ^
I dislike you because you didn't wear a bullet proof vest.
January 8th, 2018 at 5:09 PM ^
"If there is another reason i am disliked i wish people would tell me"
Maybe because: obvious troll?
January 8th, 2018 at 5:15 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 5:26 PM ^
I have no idea who you are or even what you post. I just see Abe Lincoln's face immediately beneath most OPs. The idea that you have a "personality" that MGobloggers either like or dislike is misguided.
January 8th, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 5:32 PM ^
If I was to go over and create a troll account on RCMB I would use the same approach. It depends on if you are planning for the long game or short game.
January 8th, 2018 at 5:42 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
week for the basketball team. I am, however, getting a little bit tired of the noon tips in East Lansing. This is like the 4th straight year that we have played at Michigan State in this slot and I think it is time for some variety. Even like the State game yesterday in a late afternoon time slot would be cool for a change of pace.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
It's just not a good drinking time, too early. Not that I don't like drinking at noon, it's that it makes me sleepy too soon later
January 8th, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
trying out this "not drinking at all thing" (I know, lol right) now so really no time is particularly that great of a time for me. Actually, now that I think about it, noon might be the best time for a game while I have this little experiment going on.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
If you're going dry, noon sounds perfect! Unless they can play earlier ...
January 8th, 2018 at 2:55 PM ^
on MSU!
January 8th, 2018 at 4:15 PM ^
no kiss either, I suppose
January 8th, 2018 at 6:28 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
I dont like having no drinks finished when the game starts, especially when JB's teams start slow at MSU. The game can essentially be over before the first beer is done.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:19 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 3:21 PM ^
The later in the day, the louder the home crowd. I'll take noon.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:29 PM ^
They'll be loud.
Every one of those gumps remember the day they received their "Regret to inform you... but good luck in your academic pursuits..." letter with a block M letterhead.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 3:57 PM ^
because we're just too arrogant. So arrogant that they actually got in, but decided to go to MSU instead. . .Or so says about 90% of MSU students/grads who tell me.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:30 PM ^
They'll be loud, but would be louder still with a few more hours of drankin' time.
January 8th, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 3:50 PM ^
have a say in those times I wonder?
If it's the hosts, it's a big advantage to do it earlier. By making it a noon game, they're pretty much forcing us to make the trip the night before which puts us in hotels, etc. If it's a later game, the team could sleep in it's own beds, keep it's usual Friday routine, and bus over on gameday. Pretty sure this is what MSU football did last season and it's what Dantonio was talking about in terms of it being more like a home game since it's so close and they can keep much of their home game routine.
This could explain why MSU would do it to us every year.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
Do we ride bicycles to that game? It's a little over an hour by bus.
January 9th, 2018 at 1:07 AM ^
15 min before start time. You want to be there well before start, and you obviously need a buffer for travel issues. It's possible they leave early in the morning, but even if they do, that distrupts their ability to have a morning walk-through which would be done on a home gameday (and could still be done at home per routine before a night game in EL).
Your comment was funny though, so I appreciated that.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:28 PM ^
I'm pretty sure TV sets the time. Also, I think our guys would be spending Friday night in a hotel even if the game were in Ann Arbor.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
not sure about the basketball team. But still would rather stay in your usual hotel than one in EL. Keeping as much of your usual routine the same is best. And any chance to disrupt that routine is something these coaches would try to do. If it's TV setting it, this is moot anyway.
January 8th, 2018 at 5:44 PM ^
Concur. At least for our nationally-televised premium matchups. I know for years CBS has liked us in the noon slot prior to their PGA Tour coverage (which generally begins in late January in San Diego). This Saturday's tilt is on Fox, serving as a lead-in for another college hoops game (Creighton-Xavier). I would assume we will get Gus Johnson on the broadcast team. Much prefer his basketball coverage over football.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
Honestly surprised that OSU didn't crack the top 25 with that win. But now I can laugh that they still aren't ranked
January 8th, 2018 at 2:45 PM ^
recieve votes. We are as good as anyone.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:52 PM ^
Still astonished that they didn't protect home-and-home rivalries in MBB -- no reason MSU and Michigan should ever only play one game a year. Make it literally any other school.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
Some one please start a MBB scheduling thread this week
January 8th, 2018 at 4:28 PM ^
Haven't you heard?!?!?! WD is too busy these days!
January 8th, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^
Why is Kentucky still ranked? Their best win is Louisville at home and they have 3 losses and a handful of close games to middling teams.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
6 kenpom top 100 teams, including a road win at a decent LSU. They're highly talented. They don't have a bad loss. They're 12-3 against a pretty tough overall schedule (29th per kenpom, they played a lot of those 100-200ish teams that you want to play). They're 22nd in kenpom. There aren't 25 teams with a better combo of talent and resume. That's why they're still ranked. It's fine.
January 8th, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
How dare you respond to my post with reason and facts! This is the Internet! I still think they don't have the resume of a top 25 team so far (not that they can't or won't get there). KenPom top 100 is an arbitrary cut off. Michigan has beaten 6 KenPom top 100 teams, and no one on here is arguing they should be ranked top 25 so far.
January 8th, 2018 at 5:24 PM ^
but I just used it to say they've beaten some quality teams.
Yes, Michigan also has 6 kenpom top 100 wins and they're ranked 31st.
There's an arbritrary mental cliff people have about being ranked and not being ranked, but there isn't much difference between being ranked 20-something or whatever UK is ranked and being 31st in terms of team quality. It's a very small margin.
The reason UK has a better resume than we do, IMO, is pretty simple: they have the same number of losses but a far better SOS (again, their non top-100 games are largely against teams that at least had a chance to beat UK, ours mostly did not at they were horrible).
I would also argue they performed better against our two common opponents (UCLA and LSU) because we needed a home win in OT to go 1-1 whereas they went 1-1 with a neutral and road game.
Plus, I'm a numbers guy and if kenpom says they've performed better than Michigan, I don't see any reason to think they haven't (unless they've suffered an injury or something such that their current team isn't the same as the one that produced the results being pumped into kenpom's algorithm).
January 8th, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
I think M will be a 6 seed by the time the tournament comes around. The team is improving and should have a pretty decent record at the end of the year. This is helped by a little bit of a down B1G, but whatever.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:52 PM ^
This is one of the most wide open college basketball seasons I can remember. I really don't buy ASU as one of the 10 best teams in the country. Same goes for Xavier. But they'll hover around there for a while.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 4:15 PM ^
And I think we finish 26-6 after 1 win in the BTT losing in the semis. Still 6 is the glamour line for this squad I think. a 5 line wouldnt be as great.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 4:31 PM ^
Because the Big Ten is terrible and their overall record isn't that good (13-4).