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He pulled “one of the best big men in the country” out of CA that curiously nobody in the vicinity bothered to recruit. Seems like Kansas and Texas were mildly interested, the battle was us and TCU. That doesn’t sound like a borderline 5 star player. He definitely looks like a solid rim...

I think the only reason this team is “fun on paper” is because we’ve had nothing else to talk about so we were gushing about a bunch of lightly recruited freshmen beating one of the worst teams in the NCAA. Battle and Garcia are good players but have some flaws. Payne is a high major talent, no...

Is something up with Evans if he’s supposedly a top 15 player in the country and has 1 blueblood and then 4-5 2nd tier or lower major offers? Just style of the game?

I think this is quite optimistic to say the least. All we need is. Veteran PG and we’re basically a tournament team…?

Guys, I don’t think he’s truly pissed off. He finds it quirky and funny. Also, he’s probably right:

I realize we can hit the portal again and Battle, Fox, and Ihnen will be here…but will it be that much more talented? Curry and Willis are pretty good…

Remember with the TT hype that Iowa is probably the most likely Big 10 team (including Nebraska in this list) where I could say, “throw a brand new big man in there and he’ll put up numbers.” Theyre a good team but they’re very soft. Let’s see what TT does against most other teams with a tough...

Not that I think Ben had any other choice, but this culture is being built but guys where over 75% of them cannot be here next year. We’ll have to see what the actual wave of home grown players can do.

I could not believe that. There are a lot of times in basketball where a guy hits the floor hard on a rebound and needs a second to catch his breath or maybe he’s drumming up the injury…in those cases I’ve seen the coach/trainers let them work it out for a minute. it was pretty clear curry was...

To Indiana? 😀

We were one of the luckier major conference teams last year in the same metric. Has a way of evening out.

wisky lucked out that that took place outside of 2 minutes. You could read the ref...he blew his whistle and patted his knee (of which it hit King’s knee pretty clearly) but then decide to switch because maybe (?) he missed a foul that knocked it out of King’s hands.

Damnit.

They may not be THAT good, but West Virginia (17 KenPom), Wisconsin (24 KenPom), and the Gophs (38 KenPom, at home) are all also good teams.

Someone that is as obsessed with themselves as PJ, Bert, or 75% of major college coaches is very likely a jerk. If you’re that obsessed with yourself, you are likely an asshole at some point.

Sure, Chryst is almost impossible to dislike. I may not like Wisconsin but I mean Chryst is just a guy so along with Gard...there isn’t much to hate other than Chryst winning. The interesting comment I see is that he’s “not Bielema”... Is it just because he was a pompous guy for a rival or are...

Predictive models also assign probability of winning the game outright (basically correlated to spread). If you grant that the predictive models are the best at picking an opening spread, wouldn’t you also agree that that same money line assigned giving Auburn about a 70% chance to win with the...

Bet generation is basically built into predictive models. There are so many games where a 4-4 team is favored over a 7-1 team and get money flowing. Or the “hot” team is an underdog to the “cold” team. When Wisconsin was favored over us, how many dudes at a bachelor party in Vegas sprinted to...

Yes, and to get bets generated, they use an algorithm that puts the line somewhere that will land at a number that lands at 50/50 in final results. If it was a bunch of guys in a smoke-filled room saying, “well Minnesota only has 2 losses but fans will bet on the SEC teams, let’s put it here”...

Pick spreads or winners of games? I think the casual fan can pick Alabama to beat a bad Vanderbilt just as well as any rating. Spread is a different story. Anyways, the point is that these spreads come from something similar to Sagarin. If you asked the casual fan what the spread would’ve...