Michigan dismisses Lucas-Perry

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SelectionSunday said:
One of the few guys they had coming back with some experience.

If we lose to Michigan this season, we're not very good. I think the Wolverines have a chance to finish last in the Big Ten.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/ncaa/06/30/michigan.lucas-perry.ap/index.html
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The bottom of the Big Ten will be incredibly bad with Michigan, Penn State and Iowa all decimated. If we play all three 2 times that should be 6 wins to start. Makes getting to 12-6 or so a lot more achievable.
 

Penn State

Despite last season's pratfall, I expect Penn State to be much better this season. They lost a lot of tough games last season, but they'll have a solid core of 4 seniors (Battle, Brooks, Jackson & Jones) who have logged a ton of Big Ten minutes. Not ready to count the Nitts as automatic Ws for our Golden Rodents, but I agree that Iowa and Michigan should be 4 Ws.

In terms of Big Ten schedule "ease", the Gophers get a break. Again we only play Illinois and Wisconsin once, which is a good thing in terms of the standings but a bad thing in terms of opportunities for quality wins within the conference. With the Gophers' history of landing on the bubble, I'd rather we play all the good teams (read: upper division) twice.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Despite last season's pratfall, I expect Penn State to be much better this season. They lost a lot of tough games last season, but they'll have a solid core of 4 seniors (Battle, Brooks, Jackson & Jones) who have logged a ton of Big Ten minutes. Not ready to count the Nitts as automatic Ws for our Golden Rodents, but I agree that Iowa and Michigan should be 4 Ws.

In terms of Big Ten schedule "ease", the Gophers get a break. Again we only play Illinois and Wisconsin once, which is a good thing in terms of the standings but a bad thing in terms of opportunities for quality wins within the conference. With the Gophers' history of landing on the bubble, I'd rather we play all the good teams (read: upper division) twice.
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How much better do you expect Indiana to be? It really does look like the Big 10 will be incredibly top and bottom heavy with not many teams joining the Gophers in the middle.
 

bga1 said:
The bottom of the Big Ten will be incredibly bad with Michigan, Penn State and Iowa all decimated. If we play all three 2 times that should be 6 wins to start. Makes getting to 12-6 or so a lot more achievable.
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I think it would be a gigantic mistake to assume six wins against those teams. No doubt, the Gophers are much better than Penn State, Iowa and Michigan on paper, but Minnesota simply cannot show up and win, regardless of the opposition's talent, or lack there of.
 


BigGopherFan said:
I think it would be a gigantic mistake to assume six wins against those teams. No doubt, the Gophers are much better than Penn State, Iowa and Michigan on paper, but Minnesota simply cannot show up and win, regardless of the opposition's talent, or lack there of.
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I can assume it and it won't affect anything. But the players had better show up and play hard - yes.
 

bga1 said:
I can assume it and it won't affect anything. But the players had better show up and play hard - yes.
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I guess, but let's remember, Iowa, Penn State and Michigan are also circling home games against the Gophers as plausible upsets. I think the Gophers have the ability to beat anyone in the league next season, but also have the ability to lose anyone on the road as well. We'll see...
 


BigGopherFan said:
I think the Gophers have the ability to beat anyone in the league next season, but also have the ability to lose anyone on the road as well.
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That's not unique. It has ALWAYS been that way in the Big Ten for every team. It is possible to lose to anyone on the road. MSU lost to Iowa in Iowa City two years ago. Purdue lost at Northwestern this past year.

The bottom line is that Iowa, Penn State, Michigan, and Indiana are not going to be very good with a good chance that two of those teams are going to be downright awful. Minnesota should have a great opportunity to record 6-8 wins out of that grouping of teams alone. Those bottom four could really stack up the losses this year.
 



SS, I think you can say more than Michigan "has a chance" at finishing last - I think the proper phrase at this time is "they should" finish last. UM looks to me like a poor man's version of Iowa. If everything breaks in Iowa's favor, they look like they have just enough players to be competitive, so winning there isn't a given unless they have some key personnel losses for whatever reason.

If you look at UM on paper with the realization that their top scorers are now gone, the first thing you wonder is 'how will they score enough points to be competitive'? Then if you've seen the likes of Douglass, Novak and Vogrich play enough, you'd wonder 'how will this team be able to defend well enough to be competitive'? Being short and/or slow is not a good combination on either end of the court. Beilein will really have to rely on the newcomers pretty heavily.
 

OSUfan said:
SS, I think you can say more than Michigan "has a chance" at finishing last - I think the proper phrase at this time is "they should" finish last. UM looks to me like a poor man's version of Iowa. If everything breaks in Iowa's favor, they look like they have just enough players to be competitive, so winning there isn't a given unless they have some key personnel losses for whatever reason.

If you look at UM on paper with the realization that their top scorers are now gone, the first thing you wonder is 'how will they score enough points to be competitive'? Then if you've seen the likes of Douglass, Novak and Vogrich play enough, you'd wonder 'how will this team be able to defend well enough to be competitive'? Being short and/or slow is not a good combination on either end of the court. Beilein will really have to rely on the newcomers pretty heavily.
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Michigan's incoming class doesn't appear to be all that sparkling either. The Wolverines appear to be loaded with decent role players and a bunch of underclassmen. Could be a long year in Ann Arbor...
 

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