It looks like we are almost a lock to draw North Dakota at this point. I think the only way we draw Maine is if UND finishes 5th (meaning a Michigan win) and Cornell finishes 12th, and I don’t think both of those can happen.
The big question is whether we get put in a regional with BU or MSU as the 1 seed. I think if we win tonight, with UND as the overall 5, we get paired with MSU, likely in St. Louis. If we lose, UND is the 6 and gets paired with BU because the Minnesota-Omaha series has to go to Sioux Falls, and they’ll put Denver there if they can.
Probably Umass losing to BC. I think UMass is now the bubble team, but they can only be knocked out by St. Cloud.
EDIT: I played with the pairwise predictor and found a scenario where Colorado College gets in over UMass, but in any case, it seems like Western is safe, and probably in the 12 spot unless Cornell wins the ECAC.
So we are playing one of Maine, Denver or UND in the first round then. I’m sure the committee would love for UND to win the NCHC and set up a UND-Minnesota-Omaha regional in Sioux Falls, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. If UND loses tonight I think we will play them in the first round unless Cornell wins the ECAC and gets to the 3 seed band.
It depends on your definition of “bid steal.” The only way Cornell gets in is by winning the ECAC, and that reduces the remaining at-large spots by 1. They’d be higher-seeded than an at-large team, but it’s still kind of a bid steal.
in any case, looks like QPac is going down today, so Colorado College is going to be out.
Impressive showing by Gomez to make the semis. Gave up an early takedown but escaped and got a nice takedown of his own and rode out the period to get a 1-point lead. His opponent tried to be the aggressor in the second and Gomez took advantage to earn two more takedowns and build a big lead.
I’m hoping to hear more about DT depth. I think Graham and Grant could both go pro after this year, and while I think Benny can take one of those spots in 2025, I’d like to hear about two others that could rotate at DT next year.
There's a decent chance that hockey avoids BC and BU in the regionals. If Maine does well enough in the Hockey East tournament, they can pass Minnesota and get to 6th, and likely face Michigan in either Denver or North Dakota's regional. Looks like Denver will likely get an empty building in St. Louis for their regional (I doubt the committee takes UND out of the Sioux Falls regional), so that would be the ideal situation if M is to avoid a virtual road game against a 1 seed.
Scoreboard watch: Not That Miami 1, Western 0 after 1. Western is 15th in PWR but barely behind us in RPI, and Miami is ass, so hopefully this keeps up (sorry, Bronco fans).
Not sure why he’d come here. He’s near the top of the best conference in college basketball, and I don’t think basketball takes a backseat to football at Iowa State the way it does here. Why leave that to inherit the smoldering crater that is our basketball program?
I think we’ll have to roll the dice with some mid major coach that gets hot in March and parlays that into a jump to a power conference. Beilein came here after winning the NIT and had been successful at the mid major level before that. I don’t know if there is a Beilein out there, but I think they should be looking at places like the CAA and the MVC for a coach that may be ready to take a step up.
Juwan should have enough respect for himself and the program to resign. You can’t go 3-16 in a weak B1G, capped off by 20+ point blowouts at the hands of the teams in 11th and 12th place, and think that you’re headed in the right direction. His shit worked when he had a team full of fundamentally-sound seniors and NBA-ready talent that could run it, but between poor talent identification and acquisition, bad roster management, and just plain old bad coaching and development, the whole program needs to just start over from scratch, and whoever comes in is going to need a 6 year contract guaranteeing they will have enough time to turn this catastrophe around.
At the end of the day, a successful college basketball coach is a teacher first and a tactician second, and Juwan just isn’t a good teacher.
This team is single-handedly proving the flat earthers wrong. If Earth was flat, Michigan basketball would have found the underside of the Earth by now.
3 minutes in and I’m already contemplating turning it off. OSU is only up 2 but they’ve blown a layup and an open 3. Meanwhile M just took a long fadeaway 2 in transition, which is one of the dumber shots I’ve seen this year, and that’s saying something.
Everything we do on offense just seems so difficult. It’s hard to execute an entry pass, then it’s hard to do anything with the ball without turning it over, then the play goes well you have a contested jump shot. But it’s ok, because apparently “this shit works.”
If uscho.com is accurate, we are back in the 14 spot in the pairwise, having jumped St. Cloud. A win would move us at least past Western into 13th, and possibly past UMass as well since it’s a road win.
And then they gave OSU an embellishment on a PSU penalty that was called, and when the OSU player complained they gave him a 10 minute misconduct on top of it. PSU scored on the ensuing 4-on-4.
i still don’t feel bad for them, but I can see how someone who didn’t hate Ohio State would.
I agree, but there are plenty of guys that Moeller coached (he was Warde’s DC) that loved him and think that M didn’t have to fire him. But even if that were true, Juwan isn’t having the equivalent of a couple 4-loss seasons. He had two of those, then this year is basically like a 3-9 season. That probably would have gotten Moeller fired too.
I think Warde didn’t like that Moeller got fired 30 years ago, and the lesson he learned from that is “firing people is bad.” It worked out for us with Harbaugh, but that only reinforced the faulty “don’t fire coaches” premise. The Mel Pearson saga and now Juwan have been massively embarrassing to the department as both were kept long past the point where M should have parted ways. Firing people that perform poorly or embarrass the University is part of his job, and if he’s not willing to do the job, Michigan needs to find someone that is.
The fact that Juwan is still around after punching an opposing coach and running the program into the ground faster than I thought possible, let alone everything that happened between him and Sanderson specifically, is all Sanderson needed to know.
Sucks that he is gone and Juwan is still employed here, but given everything that has happened I’m not at all surprised to see him look for a position where he is better supported by the coaches and AD.
No. Expanding the tournament just allows in a bunch more high major schools that are 9-11 in their conference. They’d also probably force more 16 and 15 seed play in games, and that’s not fair to those schools. I like having the best one-bid leagues getting a 12 or 13 seed where they are a dangerous upset pick. I’d rather stay at 68 and have all four play in games be for the last four at large spots.
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A hot day is the best day for Big Nude Saturday. Just pop a little sunscreen on the nipples and you’re good to go.
Not surprising. After all, Otter is Van Wilder’s dad.
What a fucking joke. Thanks zebras.
I’m not Polish, but I will happily celebrate my dyngus.
How about the sore loser from UND trying to line up a dirty hit at the horn and just hurting himself?
These are just corruptions of the concept of “beer.”
It looks like we are almost a lock to draw North Dakota at this point. I think the only way we draw Maine is if UND finishes 5th (meaning a Michigan win) and Cornell finishes 12th, and I don’t think both of those can happen.
The big question is whether we get put in a regional with BU or MSU as the 1 seed. I think if we win tonight, with UND as the overall 5, we get paired with MSU, likely in St. Louis. If we lose, UND is the 6 and gets paired with BU because the Minnesota-Omaha series has to go to Sioux Falls, and they’ll put Denver there if they can.
Probably Umass losing to BC. I think UMass is now the bubble team, but they can only be knocked out by St. Cloud.
EDIT: I played with the pairwise predictor and found a scenario where Colorado College gets in over UMass, but in any case, it seems like Western is safe, and probably in the 12 spot unless Cornell wins the ECAC.
So we are playing one of Maine, Denver or UND in the first round then. I’m sure the committee would love for UND to win the NCHC and set up a UND-Minnesota-Omaha regional in Sioux Falls, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. If UND loses tonight I think we will play them in the first round unless Cornell wins the ECAC and gets to the 3 seed band.
It depends on your definition of “bid steal.” The only way Cornell gets in is by winning the ECAC, and that reduces the remaining at-large spots by 1. They’d be higher-seeded than an at-large team, but it’s still kind of a bid steal.
in any case, looks like QPac is going down today, so Colorado College is going to be out.
Wow, a last second takedown gives Davison the upset against #2 Bastida! What a finish!
Impressive showing by Gomez to make the semis. Gave up an early takedown but escaped and got a nice takedown of his own and rode out the period to get a 1-point lead. His opponent tried to be the aggressor in the second and Gomez took advantage to earn two more takedowns and build a big lead.
Those three are busy working as B1G hockey refs.
Holy shit, that was a worse call than the Trey Burke foul.
I’m hoping to hear more about DT depth. I think Graham and Grant could both go pro after this year, and while I think Benny can take one of those spots in 2025, I’d like to hear about two others that could rotate at DT next year.
Apparently they don’t give much of a shit about ISU’s NET ranking.
They have a winning record over the last month. They went 4-1 against Wisconsin and got a split at Munn.
How in the hell was that overturned? Does Munn have a blue line camera that they didn’t show on BTN?
There's a decent chance that hockey avoids BC and BU in the regionals. If Maine does well enough in the Hockey East tournament, they can pass Minnesota and get to 6th, and likely face Michigan in either Denver or North Dakota's regional. Looks like Denver will likely get an empty building in St. Louis for their regional (I doubt the committee takes UND out of the Sioux Falls regional), so that would be the ideal situation if M is to avoid a virtual road game against a 1 seed.
His only job is making money for the conference: Putting out a quality sports product is nice if it happens, and if there’s money in it.
If announcers got fined for negative comments about officials, Al would have lost several billion dollars this year.
Caption: “Big Ten referee practices blowing a game”
Up to 10th in PWR for the moment.
Scoreboard watch: Not That Miami 1, Western 0 after 1. Western is 15th in PWR but barely behind us in RPI, and Miami is ass, so hopefully this keeps up (sorry, Bronco fans).
Sounds like a Raiders pick already.
Best available player at all positions including coach.
Not sure why he’d come here. He’s near the top of the best conference in college basketball, and I don’t think basketball takes a backseat to football at Iowa State the way it does here. Why leave that to inherit the smoldering crater that is our basketball program?
I think we’ll have to roll the dice with some mid major coach that gets hot in March and parlays that into a jump to a power conference. Beilein came here after winning the NIT and had been successful at the mid major level before that. I don’t know if there is a Beilein out there, but I think they should be looking at places like the CAA and the MVC for a coach that may be ready to take a step up.
Juwan should have enough respect for himself and the program to resign. You can’t go 3-16 in a weak B1G, capped off by 20+ point blowouts at the hands of the teams in 11th and 12th place, and think that you’re headed in the right direction. His shit worked when he had a team full of fundamentally-sound seniors and NBA-ready talent that could run it, but between poor talent identification and acquisition, bad roster management, and just plain old bad coaching and development, the whole program needs to just start over from scratch, and whoever comes in is going to need a 6 year contract guaranteeing they will have enough time to turn this catastrophe around.
At the end of the day, a successful college basketball coach is a teacher first and a tactician second, and Juwan just isn’t a good teacher.
It feels like we’re missing five good players and a coach.
This team is single-handedly proving the flat earthers wrong. If Earth was flat, Michigan basketball would have found the underside of the Earth by now.
Well, so far we have twice as many turnovers as points, so my expectations are being met, but it’s still painful as fuck to watch.
3 minutes in and I’m already contemplating turning it off. OSU is only up 2 but they’ve blown a layup and an open 3. Meanwhile M just took a long fadeaway 2 in transition, which is one of the dumber shots I’ve seen this year, and that’s saying something.
Everything we do on offense just seems so difficult. It’s hard to execute an entry pass, then it’s hard to do anything with the ball without turning it over, then the play goes well you have a contested jump shot. But it’s ok, because apparently “this shit works.”
Au revoir, gophers.
Rutger! LFG!
Rat farts.
That should only be a penalty on Minnesota.
I loved that two of the first people to congratulate him were JJ and Roman.
If uscho.com is accurate, we are back in the 14 spot in the pairwise, having jumped St. Cloud. A win would move us at least past Western into 13th, and possibly past UMass as well since it’s a road win.
Being Michigan in a sports competition.
Vermont beat Maine 2-1 as well. Likely doesn’t impact M but every little bit helps.
Providence loses 2-1 to Merrimack despite outshooting them 46-16. Nice result for M if we can take advantage.
And then they gave OSU an embellishment on a PSU penalty that was called, and when the OSU player complained they gave him a 10 minute misconduct on top of it. PSU scored on the ensuing 4-on-4.
i still don’t feel bad for them, but I can see how someone who didn’t hate Ohio State would.
I agree, but there are plenty of guys that Moeller coached (he was Warde’s DC) that loved him and think that M didn’t have to fire him. But even if that were true, Juwan isn’t having the equivalent of a couple 4-loss seasons. He had two of those, then this year is basically like a 3-9 season. That probably would have gotten Moeller fired too.
I think Warde didn’t like that Moeller got fired 30 years ago, and the lesson he learned from that is “firing people is bad.” It worked out for us with Harbaugh, but that only reinforced the faulty “don’t fire coaches” premise. The Mel Pearson saga and now Juwan have been massively embarrassing to the department as both were kept long past the point where M should have parted ways. Firing people that perform poorly or embarrass the University is part of his job, and if he’s not willing to do the job, Michigan needs to find someone that is.
The fact that Juwan is still around after punching an opposing coach and running the program into the ground faster than I thought possible, let alone everything that happened between him and Sanderson specifically, is all Sanderson needed to know.
Sucks that he is gone and Juwan is still employed here, but given everything that has happened I’m not at all surprised to see him look for a position where he is better supported by the coaches and AD.
Don’t get me wrong, I liked the Daily Show when Kilborn was there, but if he was better, he would have at least had a steady job in the last 20 years.
If you keep him after this year, how could he ever get fired?
A very Juwan end of half possession.
No. Expanding the tournament just allows in a bunch more high major schools that are 9-11 in their conference. They’d also probably force more 16 and 15 seed play in games, and that’s not fair to those schools. I like having the best one-bid leagues getting a 12 or 13 seed where they are a dangerous upset pick. I’d rather stay at 68 and have all four play in games be for the last four at large spots.