B1G report card: Final grades for each Big Ten basketball team in 2023

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Can't argue with this grade.

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Alex Hickey
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However bad you thought the ending to the 2022-23 Big Ten men’s basketball season was, it was actually worse.
Most fans zoned out after Michigan State’s 98-93 overtime loss to Kansas State in the Sweet 16. The Spartans were the last B1G team left standing in the NCAA Tournament.
But they were not the last Big Ten team standing in March. That was Wisconsin, which made its way to the NIT semifinals.
And it was the Badgers who provided this Big Ten basketball season with the final, ignominious ending it so richly deserved.
After scoring 41 points in the first half against North Texas — Wisconsin! scoring 41 points in a half! — the Badgers managed just 13 in the second half of their 56-54 loss. North Texas held Wisconsin scoreless for the final 9:01 of the game.
That, as they say, is the chef’s kiss.
But not everything about this Big Ten season was bad.
Indeed, this is as deep as the league has ever been. With the exception of Minnesota, everybody was competitive. A record 12 teams finished .500 or better. As recently as 2018, only 7 teams had winning records and only 4 made the NCAA Tournament. Now those were dark days.
Here, we will look at the whole picture of every team’s season. It is graded on a curve based on historical and preseason expectations. And like final exams, how you finished weighs heavily on the final grade.

Minnesota: F​

Minnesota finished dead-last nationally in free throw shooting at 61.9%. The Gophers didn’t do anything well. That’s just what they did the worst.

Minnesota is ranked 216th nationally by Ken Pomeroy, making this year’s Gophers the worst Big Ten basketball team to suit up since Rutgers in 2016.

Nothing better sums up Minnesota’s season than the following: 1 of the 9 teams the Gophers did beat, St. Francis Brooklyn, is dropping sports entirely at the end of the school year.



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B1G report card: Final grades for each Big Ten basketball team in 2023

With the 2022-23 season complete, Saturday Tradition columnist Alex Hickey grades each Big Ten basketball team.
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Ben has never been around successful collegiate basketball.
 


Overall a pretty good job assigning grades. Think a “B” for Indiana is way too generous, though. Should be a C or C-. Preseason favorites but were never really a threat despite the great season by TJD. And a pathetic, uninspired performance vs. Miami in the NCAA.

Unless they have a great spring/summer in free agency, Hoosiers roster looks like bottom half of Big Ten in 2023-24.
 



SelectionSunday said:
Overall a pretty good job assigning grades. Think a “B” for Indiana is way too generous, though. Should be a C or C-. Preseason favorites but were never really a threat despite the great season by TJD. And a pathetic, uninspired performance vs. Miami in the NCAA.

Unless they have a great spring/summer in free agency, Hoosiers roster looks like bottom half of Big Ten in 2023-24.
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I was told players get better as they progress as they age…
 

The BIG's record in the NCAA has been an embarrassment for years and the days of giving BIG teams so many teams in the tournament should be over.
 

nitramnaed said:
Can't argue with this grade.

Via Saturday Tradition

Alex Hickey
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/sha...des-for-each-big-ten-basketball-team-in-2023/

However bad you thought the ending to the 2022-23 Big Ten men’s basketball season was, it was actually worse.
Most fans zoned out after Michigan State’s 98-93 overtime loss to Kansas State in the Sweet 16. The Spartans were the last B1G team left standing in the NCAA Tournament.
But they were not the last Big Ten team standing in March. That was Wisconsin, which made its way to the NIT semifinals.
And it was the Badgers who provided this Big Ten basketball season with the final, ignominious ending it so richly deserved.
After scoring 41 points in the first half against North Texas — Wisconsin! scoring 41 points in a half! — the Badgers managed just 13 in the second half of their 56-54 loss. North Texas held Wisconsin scoreless for the final 9:01 of the game.
That, as they say, is the chef’s kiss.
But not everything about this Big Ten season was bad.
Indeed, this is as deep as the league has ever been. With the exception of Minnesota, everybody was competitive. A record 12 teams finished .500 or better. As recently as 2018, only 7 teams had winning records and only 4 made the NCAA Tournament. Now those were dark days.
Here, we will look at the whole picture of every team’s season. It is graded on a curve based on historical and preseason expectations. And like final exams, how you finished weighs heavily on the final grade.

Minnesota: F​

Minnesota finished dead-last nationally in free throw shooting at 61.9%. The Gophers didn’t do anything well. That’s just what they did the worst.

Minnesota is ranked 216th nationally by Ken Pomeroy, making this year’s Gophers the worst Big Ten basketball team to suit up since Rutgers in 2016.

Nothing better sums up Minnesota’s season than the following: 1 of the 9 teams the Gophers did beat, St. Francis Brooklyn, is dropping sports entirely at the end of the school year.



saturdaytradition.com

B1G report card: Final grades for each Big Ten basketball team in 2023

With the 2022-23 season complete, Saturday Tradition columnist Alex Hickey grades each Big Ten basketball team.
saturdaytradition.com saturdaytradition.com
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With NIL all this gender equity going on they won't be the last team to drop all sports !!!
 

Plato said:
The BIG's record in the NCAA has been an embarrassment for years and the days of giving BIG teams so many teams in the tournament should be over.
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I kind of wonder about this too. I know the committee says 'We treat each year independently.'...blah blah blah, and they cycle in new members, but they are still human at the end of the day and I wonder if the glaring lack of tourney success is going to catch up to them in future selections or seedings.
 



Plato said:
The BIG's record in the NCAA has been an embarrassment for years and the days of giving BIG teams so many teams in the tournament should be over.
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But who goes in their place? Wisconsin had the best P6 finish of the NIT. Maybe you seed them lower, but they are still tournament worthy at 68 teams. Once the COVID Super Seniors are all gone and NIL has a track record we can see where the power lies.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
But who goes in their place? Wisconsin had the best P6 finish of the NIT. Maybe you seed them lower, but they are still tournament worthy at 68 teams. Once the COVID Super Seniors are all gone and NIL has a track record we can see where the power lies.
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The indices the NCAA uses to admit and seed the teams favor the power five teams.
I admit that I do not have a solution but it is clear over the last number of years the BIG has done very poorly.
 

Plato said:
The indices the NCAA uses to admit and seed the teams favor the power five teams.
I admit that I do not have a solution but it is clear over the last number of years the BIG has done very poorly.
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It's the only reason to expand the field and allow for it to be played out on the court more with more mid-major teams. However, only 13 teams lower than a 5 seed have made the final four since 2000, the last B1G champion. That's 7%. So who get in after the top 20 is mostly meaningless other than the cute story 7% of the time.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
It's the only reason to expand the field and allow for it to be played out on the court more with more mid-major teams. However, only 13 teams lower than a 5 seed have made the final four since 2000, the last B1G champion. That's 7%. So who get in after the top 20 is mostly meaningless other than the cute story 7% of the time.
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13/23 means a lower-than-5 seed team made the final four a bit more than half of the time.
 

Plato said:
13/23 means a lower-than-5 seed team made the final four a bit more than half of the time.
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My bad on the math.

23X4=92, meaning they have filled 14% of the spots available.
 

Where is MNVCGUY to disagree with this evaluation? RAH!
 

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