MBB saves us from worst sports weekend ever POSBANG
November 29th, 2020 at 8:25 PM ^
Hail the 7'2 point God Hunter Dickinson!
November 30th, 2020 at 1:53 AM ^
Big Dick
November 29th, 2020 at 8:26 PM ^
Should be awesome to see this team finish .500 and a NIT 1st round out and then have Dickinson leave for the NBA.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:28 PM ^
You sir are the definition of asshole
November 29th, 2020 at 8:29 PM ^
I'm just guessing based on how things have always gone for us.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:31 PM ^
Yeah. Because the men's basketball program hasn't had any success in the last decade (rolls eyes)
November 29th, 2020 at 8:34 PM ^
Right. We only lose the national championship because of the worst call in officiating history.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:35 PM ^
Worst call? Probably not.
As much as I hated that call and it still sickens me to this day, that in no way guaranteed Michigan would win that game.
Instead of complaining about a call, the team should have figured out how the hell to stop Luke Hancock.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:38 PM ^
You should just accept the fact that we were all put here on this planet to suffer horribly until we die a lonely death and rot in the grave.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:43 PM ^
You spending too much time at Arby’s?
November 30th, 2020 at 9:23 AM ^
Those chicken sliders are good.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:44 PM ^
That's a little dark.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:52 PM ^
life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
November 29th, 2020 at 10:56 PM ^
Would you like to try our apple dippers?
November 29th, 2020 at 10:38 PM ^
You look like you could use a hug
November 30th, 2020 at 4:43 AM ^
You should just accept the fact that we were all put here on this planet to suffer horribly until we die a lonely death and rot in the grave.
Now I know what I'm writing in all my Christmas cards.
November 30th, 2020 at 8:49 AM ^
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:48 PM ^
it didn't help that Hancock should have fouled out, but ya know, refs.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:00 PM ^
he should have fouled out in the first half? that's a lot of fouls that they missed.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:28 PM ^
He’s already leaving for the NBA because he had a decent game against Oakland?
November 29th, 2020 at 8:34 PM ^
I actually agree with your first statement though - this all reminds me and feels like UM hoops circa early 2000’s. Lot of hype and hoopla around a lot of different players but very sloppy and consistently mingled around .500 play for years.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:34 PM ^
Fire Harbaugh!!!!!!
November 29th, 2020 at 9:03 PM ^
Don't come in here and shit on my posbang!
November 29th, 2020 at 11:26 PM ^
This will make your posbang all better....
November 29th, 2020 at 8:27 PM ^
Dickinson Is fairleigh fun to watch!
November 29th, 2020 at 9:10 PM ^
thank god for leslie rockymore!
November 30th, 2020 at 11:31 AM ^
Antoine Joubert says hello.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:27 PM ^
Wins a win but they got some work to do. Too many turnovers and gotta better defend the 3. Gotta adjust the starting lineup too. Should be hunter livers Wagner chaundee and smith/brooks
November 29th, 2020 at 8:57 PM ^
You liked Chaundee's 1 for 10 from deep, eh??? There is a ways to go before this team settles in and finds itself.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^
If you're basing it on play so far this season, Wagner shouldn't even be playing ahead of Williams.
November 30th, 2020 at 8:58 AM ^
Wagner made a number of heads-up plays, the kind that don't show up in the stats but are vital to a team win. I'm a huge fan of Williams' potential, but he had a number of deer-in-the-headlights moments. I'll take Wagner's court sense over Williams' inexperience.
November 30th, 2020 at 9:25 AM ^
Well, I'll take Wagner's 13 rebounds last night even if his shots aren't falling.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:28 PM ^
So, today is "a win is a win"...
Yet when the FB team beat Rutgers last week it was a "disaster".
Got it.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:31 PM ^
Thought the same thing
November 29th, 2020 at 8:33 PM ^
Pretty simple here.
In football, the better team ultimately should pull away from a weaker team. Upsets DO happen, but not NEARLY at the rate of basketball. Over the course of 60 minutes, big dogs typically wear out the little guy.
In basketball, especially college, this shit happens almost every day- weaker teams push and often upset big dogs. Every year, we all freak out on this board about barely beating some weak ass squad and then forget about it two weeks later when we are getting a huge win. 16 beats a 1, 15 can beat a 2, so on. If college football had a 16-playoff, upsets would be minimal at best.
Terrible comparison.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:36 PM ^
See Kentucky a few hours ago....
November 29th, 2020 at 9:24 PM ^
They lost to what is essentially a top-25 team. Not a good comparison
November 30th, 2020 at 5:46 AM ^
Fine, see Virginia two days ago.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:42 PM ^
Normally I would agree with you but it’s Oakland....the same Oakland that lost to Xavier by 52, Toledo by 27 and Bradley by 14 - not exactly fitting into your narrative there but I get your point.
November 29th, 2020 at 8:51 PM ^
Every game is different. A team can lose by 59 one week and then jump up and lose to someone by 2 points the next.
It really doesn't matter how bad the team is. These are D-1 kids and they are all streaky as hell. Michigan was turning the ball over at a massive clip because their zone was causing havoc and they were making big plays.
Sorry, it's really not all that shocking this game was close- this shit happens all the time.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:13 PM ^
Well, some of Oakland’s issues had to do with having all of three practices before playing three games in three days. They were getting a little better game by game and then caught Michigan reading their press clippings.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:53 PM ^
I blame it on a collective, team-wide turkey coma. There’s a reason Beilein scheduled bodybag games around the holidays.
November 29th, 2020 at 10:26 PM ^
Oakland has literally improved every game they've played. Also they've played 4 games compared to this being our 2nd game. The zone also gave us issues and we're not gonna see a zone often, but if we do, we learned from this game
November 30th, 2020 at 9:46 AM ^
If you lose to anybody by 52 points, there is nowhere to go but up. You don't have a choice but to improve.
November 30th, 2020 at 10:46 AM ^
Meh. I mean Kentucky lost to a bad Evansville team last year and life went on. As noted above, it's wayyyy easier for a little guy to upset the big dog in basketball. Bad win but we'll move on and be fine
November 29th, 2020 at 9:02 PM ^
You have this backwards, Leo:
Football is a game where scoring happens infrequently and is much more heavily affected by fluke events (pick-sixes and other such momentum change occurrences). One or two bad luck plays can change the outcome of the game easily. (The Plinko-effect as Brian calls it in hockey.)
Basketball is the long game of attrition and persistence. It is common, if not expected, to score on most possessions and the winner is ultimately the team that can better handle the marathon of possessions. Single bad luck events, such as a turnover or foul, do not individually make much of a difference in the long run... the better team almost always wins because just a few mistakes cannot cause that much damage. (Akin to playing the War card game... winning one hand doesn't matter since there will be hundreds more.)
You have been around long enough to know this.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:16 PM ^
This makes absolutely no sense. If this was the case, there would be plenty of upsets in football, and no upsets in basketball.
Basketball is the absolute, flukiest sport of runs, momentum, streak shooting, etc. That is why a 16 has beaten a 1, 15 beats 2s, etc.
When it comes down to it, in a football game, things GENERALLY even out. One team may have a turnover or two more than the other, but if the team is superior, they will work through it and take care of business. Alabama could turn it over 3 times to Michigan's 1 for example, but they'd beat us by 28+.
On the other hand, a shitty team in college basketball can shoot 50 percent from three on a fluke streak of luck and a normally proficient team can shoot 20 percent and lose.
You've been around long enough to know this.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:30 PM ^
To further your point, basketball teams ranked around 250 make the NCAA tourney, because their conference is awful but all conferences have an autobid to March Madness.
You will never see a team ranked in the 200s beat a top 10 football team at the end of the year when we know who is good.
P.S. Sagarin had our opponent in the horror ranked ahead of a handful of bigten teams and in the 60s.
November 29th, 2020 at 9:46 PM ^
Absolutely. If his point was true, football would be filled with frequent upsets and basketball would rarely have upsets, which is factually wrong.
The better teams win in football for a reason- it's a long, grinding, 60 minute game when the downright physical and superior team is TYPICALLY going to win (not always).
The better teams get upset in college basketball at a relatively high clip because the sport is 40 minutes of high-paced action. Inferior teams can get lucky and hit a high percentage of their shots while a superior team goes cold.
It's a pretty simple explanation here. And the facts in reality bear it out- I'm not really sure this was an arguable thing?
November 29th, 2020 at 10:28 PM ^
You are forgetting that there are close to an order of magnitude more bball games occurring in a season that football - and that the definition of "upset" is highly subjective. If you were to normalize the data to a per-game basis, it would be much closer than you think.