Random Thought 2/24
Heres my quick rant of the day..I was going to say my quick tirade of the day but I dont think its escalated to that point yet:
Do you think that in 3-4 years the Big Ten will be considered a mid-major in college hoops? Obviously Illinois has a pretty decent team seeing as how they havent lost a game, but after that I think that the Big Ten conference is very weak. Mich. St is in the top 10 with approximately zero good wins (top 25 RPI wins) and only two top 50 RPI victories against Stanford (neutral court) and at home vs UCLA. Tell me that is a resume for a top 10 team and I will slap in you in the face with my dueling glove.
Wisconsin, 20th in the country, may actually be better than MSU having beaten them, Maryland and Bama. Should be a great game tonight as those two face off in East Lansing tonight. And by great, i mean the final score will be 52-46. Seriously, have you watched a Big Ten game this year and not wanted the last two hours of your life back? I am a huge Michigan fan and I can't even watch their games...partly because they suck and are never shown on tv, and partly because when they are shown on tv they lose.
Can anyone name me 3 top tier players from the Big Ten that are not guards from Illinois? I can try.....Bracey Wright from Indiana is pretty good, even though he is a 7th year senior...i think he might have played against Ray Jackson and Jimmy King when they were seniors. Ummmm, Dion Harris is solid at Michigan...does Brian Cardinal still play for Purdue? There are too many white guys on Wisconsin for me to remember which is the really good one. Pierre Pierce and Daniel Horton could be a solid backcourt combo in their prison league this summer though. Thats it pretty much all I got. No big name players, no great teams (aside from Illinois).
My prediction is that only the three teams mentioned above get in the tourney as well as Minnesota possibly. Minny will lose in the first round with Wisconsin and Mich St. getting upset as usual in the second round. Illinois will have a bad game against a solid team and lose in the Elite Eight. And Michigan will lose to Creighton in the first round of the NIT's.
Do you think that in 3-4 years the Big Ten will be considered a mid-major in college hoops? Obviously Illinois has a pretty decent team seeing as how they havent lost a game, but after that I think that the Big Ten conference is very weak. Mich. St is in the top 10 with approximately zero good wins (top 25 RPI wins) and only two top 50 RPI victories against Stanford (neutral court) and at home vs UCLA. Tell me that is a resume for a top 10 team and I will slap in you in the face with my dueling glove.
Wisconsin, 20th in the country, may actually be better than MSU having beaten them, Maryland and Bama. Should be a great game tonight as those two face off in East Lansing tonight. And by great, i mean the final score will be 52-46. Seriously, have you watched a Big Ten game this year and not wanted the last two hours of your life back? I am a huge Michigan fan and I can't even watch their games...partly because they suck and are never shown on tv, and partly because when they are shown on tv they lose.
Can anyone name me 3 top tier players from the Big Ten that are not guards from Illinois? I can try.....Bracey Wright from Indiana is pretty good, even though he is a 7th year senior...i think he might have played against Ray Jackson and Jimmy King when they were seniors. Ummmm, Dion Harris is solid at Michigan...does Brian Cardinal still play for Purdue? There are too many white guys on Wisconsin for me to remember which is the really good one. Pierre Pierce and Daniel Horton could be a solid backcourt combo in their prison league this summer though. Thats it pretty much all I got. No big name players, no great teams (aside from Illinois).
My prediction is that only the three teams mentioned above get in the tourney as well as Minnesota possibly. Minny will lose in the first round with Wisconsin and Mich St. getting upset as usual in the second round. Illinois will have a bad game against a solid team and lose in the Elite Eight. And Michigan will lose to Creighton in the first round of the NIT's.
posted by Eric at 3:54 p.m.
1 Comments:
If this were a poetry reading, I'd be snapping my fingers to indicate approval.
Seriously, the Big 10 is crap. No way Illinois wins the title this year. The 8/9 seed that they play in the 2nd round will give them a better game than any of their conference games. I think MSU goes farthest just because Izzo knows his shizzit and Paul Davis might actually be really very pretty good.
On the Big 10 scoring point...Big East games have similar scores. The difference is that in the Big East we play nasty, physical defense. In the Big 10, they play nasty, crappy offense that is slow because there are no players good enough to create offense.
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