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I think they likely will make the BTT at this point. It may have more to do with other teams’ roster attrition, but that won’t show up in the standings. I think we need to be prepared that an argument will be made that this exceeds expectations given personnel.

What about Cochran? I assume he wants to keep a year of eligibility and claim a medical redshirt at this point, but if M Mitchell is indeed out, his services might be helpful.

The world has changed. Attendance is declining for college sports everywhere across the country. Every game is on TV. It’s hard to compete with the convenience of watching at home for the casual fan. And, if you do decide to show up and put up with the hassle and expense, you experience an...

Poor Northwestern lost another starter for the year (Leach). That’s 31 points per game they have to replace on the fly. I watched a little bit of their game last night at Washington - they lost a close one, but man do they battle with whatever they have. Can’t even credit Collins because he’d...

People on this board mostly celebrated his departure.

Welp...

Currently 3-7 in the MAC and #308 in T-rank…the MAC is pretty awful, too, with 5 sub-300 teams. Maybe the spreadsheets were right?

Yeah, ain't happenin' of course. However, if I was designing this, I'd throw all the P5 teams together and then create 5 tiers with promotion and relegation after every year. Mid majors ain't gonna like it, but this is fantasy anyway. It's more interesting in the pros - instead of tanking to...

I believe Woodson to be the 18th best coach in the league, and that’s being generous - there are some assistants that are likely better. He’s exhibit A why having a talented (and expensive) roster is not the most important thing.

Yeah, the stakes aren’t nearly as high as EPL - good point. I was thinking that the 3 coaches of the “relegated” lose their jobs, but I don’t think that’ll be true for the west coast UW if they’re one of them, nor PSU.

Well, it’s relegation, but yes, I’ve been seeing the parallel from the time they announced that 3 teams would be left out. It does add intrigue to the bottom of the table battles.

I think Nelson is just the guy who tweeted at Mr. Wolfson....

Horstman - whoever that is - is trying to sound like analytics guy but apparently doesn’t understand that pace has nothing to do with efficiency. This is a Wolverhampton v Leicester type of battle to avoid relegation from the BTT.

I'm seeing that Iowa just lost Freeman for the rest of the year, and previously saw that NW lost Barnhizer for the year. I guess these bits of news bolster the Gophers' chances at playing in the BTT (especially owning the tiebreaker over Iowa).

These are better stats because it gives you rates rather than raw numbers - I filtered for conference only. Mitchell and Patterson take much better care of the ball than the other two. They really didn't yesterday, but that was abnormal. You need Odukale for D. Asuma is a better shooter, for...

Is it the Special Sauce?

Everyone seems to be in agreement about the overly dogmatic 2-fouls-and-you-sit rule. It wouldn't matter if it was basically any other player. There is no replacing Garcia. On the not playing Asuma in the second half, I put this in the second-guessing because of outcome category. The team on...

Pedantically, the final 4 is in April, so March is the penultimate month of college hoops (for only 4 teams, though).

The Asuma fan club on this board is well-represented. The first half was productive for him mainly because he became a primary scoring option with the benching of Garcia with 2 fouls (separate coaching issue - let's stick with the Asuma is god narrative). He played well, but the fact of the...

I was worried about Osobor coming into this - he's not scoring all that well, but he is a foul-causing magnet, and that definitely hurt the lineup continuity. Gotta find a way to combat this. It's doable, Wash is not gonna be able to keep at this level.