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USAF said:
Princeton wins 2 games in the NCAA Tourney.

We won 2 games in the B1G.

Don't tell me about the administration, the NIL, the weather, this, that, or the other.

Get a fucking coach. FFS.
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Gopherguy0723 said:
I'll take a shirtless goon over a loser like Johnson any day.

We could have had him for $4 or $5 million, but he's at Arkansas due to our penny wise and pound foolish administration.

How much money have we lost with the sh!tty product Johnson has on the floor versus what we saved in coach salary? It has to be in the millions.
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Oh, I would take him in a heartbeat as well.
 



Watching these games, the teams that are winning are defined by speed and strength. Houston for example. Speed stopped Purdue. As we consider the Gophers they might have had plus speed at one position - Payne. Garcia solid and then the rest sub par speed. Henley was quick but not strong. Ben has to go get some faster players.
 


bga1 said:
Watching these games, the teams that are winning are defined by speed and strength. Houston for example. Speed stopped Purdue. As we consider the Gophers they might have had plus speed at one position - Payne. Garcia solid and then the rest sub par speed. Henley was quick but not strong. Ben has to go get some faster players.
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Wisconsin won a lot of games over the years playing methodical, plodding basketball. You may be seeing speed win today but it’s really just the team that is hot versus the team that is not.
 




Texas looking particularly good so far. That’s a shame.
 

howeda7 said:
Does Marcus Carr have a 47th year of eligibility? Does he enjoy a challenge?
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he has gone a long way from being a selfish ball hog NBA prospect who wouldn’t play D at the U to a solid all around player who won’t sniff the NBA at Texas.
 













big ten may end up with no one in the sweet sixteen. 5-3 in the 1st round, so far 0-3 in the 2nd.
 

Anybody else feel in the last few years! That the lack of athlete in the big ten has been exposed in March, much more than yeats past. I was on record that I wouldn't be surprised if mich st went farther than Purdue because of Purdue being slow, and Michigan st having walker and some other quick guards. Not sure it's easy to fix, Purdue has had one athlete, Ivey, in the last handful of years.
 

cncmin said:
maybe, but he’d have been great to see heading up the maroon and gold. His enthusiasm is admirable. You can tell he really cares. Reminds me bit of Fleck.
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What he is is tenacious. You know he's going to come at you with everything, and you know that, no matter where he works, that team is going to the NCAAs, and they're going to advance when they get there. Barring scandal or something on that order, he'll work in Fayetteville as long as he chooses.
 

march madness said:
Anybody else feel in the last few years! That the lack of athlete in the big ten has been exposed in March, much more than yeats past. I was on record that I wouldn't be surprised if mich st went farther than Purdue because of Purdue being slow, and Michigan st having walker and some other quick guards. Not sure it's easy to fix, Purdue has had one athlete, Ivey, in the last handful of years.
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I completely agree.
In the family bracket I filled out, I did not have one BIG team making the round of 16.
I am hoping, and it is a faint hope, that the BIG ADs start paying more attention to BB now that UCLA and USC are in the BIG.
If Princeton can dismember MO despite one official allowing MO to maul Princeton players and not calling a foul, why cannot the BIG have coaches and players as Princeton does?
It is not acedemics nor NIL but the provincialism, heads in the sand of BIG ADs and the BIG fans.
 

march madness said:
Anybody else feel in the last few years! That the lack of athlete in the big ten has been exposed in March, much more than yeats past. I was on record that I wouldn't be surprised if mich st went farther than Purdue because of Purdue being slow, and Michigan st having walker and some other quick guards. Not sure it's easy to fix, Purdue has had one athlete, Ivey, in the last handful of years.
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I agree. When you look at Houston or SEC schools it looks to me if you can put athletes that can switch and guard anywhere on the court you got a real shot in the tournament
 

Plato said:
I completely agree.
In the family bracket I filled out, I did not have one BIG team making the round of 16.
I am hoping, and it is a faint hope, that the BIG ADs start paying more attention to BB now that UCLA and USC are in the BIG.
If Princeton can dismember MO despite one official allowing MO to maul Princeton players and not calling a foul, why cannot the BIG have coaches and players as Princeton does?
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They’re smarter 🤓
Plato said:
It is not acedemics nor NIL but the provincialism, heads in the sand of BIG ADs and the BIG fans.
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My observation is that, to win in March, you have to make perimeter shots. You're going to face defenses that make it difficult to operate inside. You're going to have to get creative to get inside baskets, as Arkansas did in the second half against Kansas, or you go the path of least resistance, which is taking open 3-pointers. You just have to make them. Purdue wins that game easily if they make jump shots at their season average.

If I were building a team, I'd find skilled guys with enough size and athletic ability that they can play defense if taught well and they execute. Recruiting guys because they can jump out of the gym and then getting frustrated because they can't make a free throw is one of the lower levels of purgatory.

Last but not least, March is about game planning. FDU had the best plan against Purdue that I saw all year. It's the diametrical opposite what we saw in the Gophers' game against Wisconsin at the Barn: a poor defensive game plan and a stubborn inability to adjust during the game. Coaching matters. Why were Clem's Gopher teams so good this time of year? Great game planning was a big part of it. He always had good assistant coaches.
 

Plato said:
If Princeton can dismember MO despite one official allowing MO to maul Princeton players and not calling a foul, why cannot the BIG have coaches and players as Princeton does?
It is not acedemics nor NIL but the provincialism, heads in the sand of BIG ADs and the BIG fans.
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I wouldn't get too carried away by infrequent achievements. This is only the 3rd time this century that the Ivy League has placed a team in the final 16 (Harvard did it in 2014 and Cornell did it in 2010).

Either Florida Atlantic or Fairleigh Dickinson will make the final 16 this year but neither team has won an NCAA tournament game previous to this year.
 

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