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Gotta say, this response sure sounds a lot like MplsGopher...

Pretty dumb comment. Iowa very rarely struggles to score (under Fran). Now defense, that's an entirely different issue. They were improved last season on the defensive end though, compared to prior seasons.

Some men just want to watch the world burn... It's not even slowly at this point. College basketball as we know it is getting destroyed very quickly. Ugh.

I'm with you, though I won't begin to guess the Big Ten wins needed. I don't mind the power 6 opponents + UNLV (assuming we beat Cal Baptist) on our non-conference schedule. Was hoping for a different Gavitt games matchup, but whatever. It's the multiple low end mid-major teams that will drag...

I rarely get too caught up with non-conference schedules, but I'm a little dumbfounded with the mid-major selections this year. When it comes to scheduling the 'easy' opponents, coaches are always trying to 'game the NET' by staying away from teams that have big roster turnover, avoiding those...

Figured we could use a thread specifically for preseason rankings. Pretty good analysis by 247 sports... (though I disagree with Wisconsin). https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/College-basketball-Updated-Big-Ten-power-rankings-headlined-by-Illinois-Iowa-189417440/#189417440_1

Calm down everyone. Don't kill the messenger. Was just contributing to the thread about what ESPN was reporting.

Sums it up perfectly right now... 😅

Never said it couldn't be done, but there's a really big obstacle in the way.

ESPN reported today that Notre Dame cannot move it's football program to a non-ACC conference without penalties. Because all of Notre Dame's other sports programs are through the ACC, a deal was signed that if they ever wanted to join a conference for football, it has to be the ACC. They were...

I bet the SEC commish dropped his coffee on himself while reading this news...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/by-committing-to-eastern-michigan-emoni-bates-could-be-repeating-mistakes-that-stunted-once-promising-career/ This CBS article explains it quite well...

That was an odd DePaul team. Beat Iowa, Minnesota, NW, and Texas Tech in the non-conference. I was at that DePaul game and Charlie Moore hit dagger after dagger in the second half. The same well-travelled Charlie Moore that lead Miami to the Elite Eight this year. I remember turning to my dad...

Another lazy take by Saturday Tradition. Did this guy confuse the wrong Virginia team in the ACC? No one else is predicting VT to be a top 6 seed in the NCAA tournament at this point, not to mention a slam dunk tourney team. Gophers can win this game.

I don't understand why Ben would schedule Chicago St. In the last two years, their NET rankings are 340 and 346. Since the 2014-2015 season, they have a grand total of 9 (!) conference wins in the WAC. Basically they average one conference win a year.

Ugh ugh ugh. I was most excited to see Fox play this year. Man when is this program going to get over the dang snake-bitten injury issues...

Ewing knows his seat is extremely hot. They actually did quite well in the off-season restocking the team. I'd bet they're competitive in the Big East next year.

I've seen some pretty lazy takes on preseason Big Ten standings around the internet lately, just like how it's pretty clear that Saturday Tradition did about 1 min of research before writing that up. Though we all know rankings this early are a crapshoot, it takes very little effort to find out...

Maybe we'll see a little bit of Ihnen at the top of a 3/4 court press like Holman back in the day. That was fun to watch, though I can't remember how effective it really was.

Wouldn't shock me at all if UNLV is quite competitive next year. They return the bulk of their team, other than Hamilton, and have some solid transfers coming in.