January 9th, 2020 at 11:25 AM ^
Why frame it that way? How about:
"How long till all Michigan B-Ball wins are to Top 25 teams"
Edit: love how I'm getting sent to Bolivia for trying to have an optimistic spin. Beautiful.
January 9th, 2020 at 11:44 AM ^
Because that doesn’t make sense. Presbyterian isn’t going to be ranked any time soon.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:14 PM ^
Never borrow money from a Presbyterian.
January 9th, 2020 at 6:48 PM ^
And Warde certainly isn't going to stop scheduling the Presbyterians any time soon.
January 9th, 2020 at 11:26 AM ^
This has nothing to do with anything, but you have an impressive number of double consonants in your title and post.
January 9th, 2020 at 11:37 AM ^
A while. Illinois was receiving no votes in the most recent poll, Purdue 1 and Wisconsin 17. Beating mediocre Purdue and Wisconsin teams won't get them in the top 25. Only way would be if they won out before playing us on the 25th which would involve beating Rutgers and winning @ Purdue.
January 9th, 2020 at 6:52 PM ^
They probably wouldn't need to beat purdue, per se, but they would need to win out until that game (home Rutgers and NW) and then beat one of M or Purdue on the road that week.
January 9th, 2020 at 11:38 AM ^
How long until spring gets here?
January 9th, 2020 at 4:31 PM ^
Well, where I am, early January so far has been more like early March, except without that one freakishly warm day that confuses all the plants.
January 9th, 2020 at 11:50 AM ^
if you're talking ap/coaches, they're meaningless for the tournament, if that's what you're getting at. The net is the most important and here are the UM losses in the net"
MSU - 8
Ore - 15
Louisville - 16
Illinois - 34
Also, Northwestern went up (161 to 148) in the net even though they lost, since it was a close road loss, similarly IU went down (44 to 53, meaning out of the tourney, or at best bubble). Nebraska is the worst team in the big-10 at 154.
To answer your question, Illinois plays Rutgers, @NU, @Pur before coming to Ann Arbor, if they win the next three, they should be in the top-25 of the net, but a lot depends on how teams around them do as well.
January 9th, 2020 at 12:11 PM ^
I do not know, nor does anyone here. It's impossible to know.
January 9th, 2020 at 12:19 PM ^
I think you take things too literally.
January 9th, 2020 at 12:34 PM ^
I know but I'm not allowed to say
January 9th, 2020 at 6:40 PM ^
One can make a high probability educated guess, though.
They won't be ranked after this week even with a win over Rutgers Saturday but they'd get votes.
January 9th, 2020 at 12:14 PM ^
ON a side note, do you have any chats with Hotel Putingrad? Seems like you two would have some things to chat about.
January 9th, 2020 at 12:26 PM ^
I thought this was gonna be a thread asking when Michigan basketball will *never* lose to unranked teams. I even put my argument shirt on, damn.
January 9th, 2020 at 12:28 PM ^
We have the best losses in the country and the best win in the country.
January 10th, 2020 at 10:11 AM ^
You're wrong. I get the home team love, but come on, man. Based on NET rankings:
- Michigan lost to #8, #15, #16, and #34
- Butler has 1 loss to #5
- Kansas has 2 losses to #2 and #20
- Baylor has 1 loss to #41 (I'd take this one decent loss to 4 "good" losses)
- msu has 3 losses to #2, #24, and #49
- Maryland has 2 losses to #19 and #23
Michigan does have the one best win over Gonzaga, but the UNC win has lost significant luster.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:21 PM ^
I for one don't want to lose all of our games against top-25 teams. Hell, the football team takes care of that.
January 9th, 2020 at 6:26 PM ^
It's not that we've lost all our games against top 25 teams, it's that none of our losses (would be) to teams outside of the 25 which is more impressive.
January 9th, 2020 at 2:46 PM ^
Illinois isn't a top 25 team
January 9th, 2020 at 3:45 PM ^
I guess the answer is ..... never, because we will be taking down Illinois in Crisler soon enough
January 9th, 2020 at 6:04 PM ^
They'll have to keep winning for another week or two I would think.
The polls voters are pretty fixated on losses and they have five. There are no 5 loss teams there currently. Michigan is the only 4 loss team in the top 25. Voters are somewhat dialed into the fancy stats now such that if someone is really high on kenpom, voters might discount losses, but Illinois still isn't top 25 in any of the fancy stats (torvik, kenpon or NET) either.
They'll get a handful of votes next week if they beat Rutgers and might pop through if they beat NW the following week but might take a road win at Purdue or Michigan the week after.