Burke still leads the POY race
Burke should take it. Indiana relies on Oladipo and Zeller and as we saw last night Trey carried this team by himself to the end. Again.
dipo--which I don't see coming--I think it's Burke by acclamation. I hope some of the bball team is conspiring as we speak about how to shut Oladipo down Sunday, and help secure the award for Trey.
I'm pretty sure this is s/...or maybe not. In any event, I would hope the bball team is focused on shutting down Indiana and winning the game. Again...probably s/.
vow not to let Oladipo go off on Sunday?
But Burke is special. He is the only player to score at least 15 points in every B1G game. His bad game is a good night for most everyone else.
So...15 out of 64 voters didn't have Burke in the top 3. Holy bias.
But that's simply impossible. Accxording to Dan Dakish Burke isnt even Player of the Year in the B1G, much less the nation.
All hail King Oladipo. As evidenced by the OSU game - when he's ready to take a game over....it's OVER.
Take Burke away from Michigan- we're a pretty average team, probably similar to minnesota. Take Oladipo away from IU and they can replace him with the highly over rated Sheehey and they're still in the B1G race. Burke means more to us than any other player does for their respective teams.
went wrong with Dakich? When he first game on the scene I thought he had promising candor and good insight. This year he is an unmitigated jackass.
even Vitale didn't suck when he first came on the scene, but his ego arrived soon after and we continue to suffer some 30 years later.
I also agree on Bilas--he is (much much better and) more objective than Dakich so long as we can look past his Amaker-UofM brain fart.
Burke is #3 on the floor but #1 in America's heart
Oladipo is great but his PPG (13.7) is pretty underwhelming for such a serious NPOY candidate.
I think we win on Sunday, but say the Hoosiers squeek it out in a game where Burke is great and Oladipo is just OK. In that scenario, I would expect Oladipo to win the Big Ten POY and Burke the National POY since Midwesterners are notoriously provincial and put a far greater stock into the conference championship than national heads do.
and I think he's had a few good games plus his tendency to create highlight reel material makes him easily to love from a MSM perspective
that IU is considered to have two players who are reputed to be on Burke's level*, you really wonder how they ever lose a game
*they aren't
Zeller is not even on the level of DeShaun Thomas, let alone Burke.
Oladipo averages 27.5 minutes per game. Tell me the last person to win POY under 30 minuites per game.
Because Burke doesn't already have a target on his back? He's played with that target all year and put up fantastic numbers. Him winning it would not have anything to do with how far we go in the tournament whatsoever.
Burke was left off 15 ballots? What the hell?
Also, come on man...who voted for Ben McLemore #1? This isn't based on who will go first in the NBA draft. And get out of here, Mason Plumlee got a first place vote.