Recent content by justthefacts

I met him at a bachelor party when he was an assistant. Talked to him for a long time. Totally nice guy. But, yeah, this whole head coaching a power 5 team thing probably isn't working

If it's nearly impossible now, I shudder to think what "very easy" might look like

As mentioned above, I think Johnson has to go, but it's not fair to include auto bids in low major conferences to what it takes to get to the Tournament in the Big Ten. But the Power 5 examples are good ones.

I actually have spent a little time with Ben before he got this job and so was hopeful he could do it, albeit a little skeptical. Despite all that, I just don't know how you can argue with the results. That's the thing about sports, at the end of the day it's pretty easy to measure whether...

But what about all the cool slogans?

Has anyone considered John Wooden?

The Big East is not a superior conference, let alone a far superior one. The Big East hasn't ranked above the Big Ten in T-Rank (free version of KenPom) since 2018 https://barttorvik.com/trank.php?year=2018&sort=&top=0&conlimit=All&conyes=1#

Soon there will be no internal candidates from whom to choose

a) The Gophers are not going 0-20 or 1-19 or even 2-18, I'd say. I put the o/u at 3.5 B1G wins b) That said, about 90% of posts about last night's game make comments that are desperately lacking the context of Wahl's absence. For instance, talking about the rebounding edge. Hard to take too...

Congrats to Chicago State on the 'crootin

Why do we think Michigan is a lower-division team?

I honestly didn't realize that Cal Baptist was a D1 team, but you can't really look at the name and conclude anything. It seems like they'd be in the 300s in the computer rankings, but they're in the 170s. So being an underdog isn't as bad as it appears at first.

That Rutgers @ IU game is almost a tournament game

Sure, I was just responding to Face the Facts (clearly a board name stolen from mine :) ) comment "Once you're known to be that type of person, it doesn't scrub off." Dirty player, sure, but bad person, no. A good reminder that sports isn't real life.

If Huggy Bear hates the travel now, wait until they add BYU. UCF's travel for hoops is going to be insane.