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That is known as the Quad Cities Mafia style
the only way Fran's seat gets warm is if does not get a solid recruiting class,
W/O Jordan people are just going to sit back and watch the games with no expectation and then in the 20-21 season with Jordan back
which by the way the surgery came off great now its a matter of IF he can be ready to go. at this point the rehab can take anywhere from 5 months to 9 months,
I would shit my pants
Getting lost in a corn field in Iowa. Fvck that.
Unless it’s planted in a circle.
Circle cropping means your land is dog shit and you have to irrigate.
There are no circle crops in Iowa
There are no circle crops in Iowa
My interesting quick look at each team
MSU-1st last year. Lose Nick Ward and add 2 4* and a 3*. Will struggle inside with depth, after Tillman and Goins they have SO Bingham who was less than impressive and 3* FR Julian Marble. But they return a strong backcourt who look to again be the favorites in the B1G
Maryland-Only losing Fernando from a 23-11 team they add 1 4* and 4 3*. Depth may be an issue but they're have a nice solid starting 5 that can compete with anyone in the league despite Mark Turgeon still being head coach.
OSU-Keeping Kaleb Wesson was huge. They lose SR jackson and SR transfer Woods but adding a strong class with 3 top 50 players.
Pur-This is where things get murky. Purdue loses 75% of its 3 pt shooting in Edwards, Cline, and Eifert but return a strong front court in Matt the hair flip Haarms and Trevion Williams from a team that reached the elite 8 for the first time in almost 20 years. They add a strong shooter in Newman who looks to help improve the 33% 3pt shooting thats returning.
PSU-They won 14 games last year, lost one of their starting 5, add a terrible Curtis Jones and a few 3* ranked around 450th in the country. Yet they're 5th in these power rankings.
Wisc-Losing Ethan Happ is huge from a team that only went 23-11. He took almost 40% of the teams 2pt shots. They add nothing of substance.
Ill-from a team that went 12-21 they only beat 1 team in their last 8 games and lost by an avg of 16pts. They return basically everyone from that horrible 12 win team, they did lose the embarrassment of the Jordan family. They do add 4* Cockburn, get your penicillin ready B1G.
Iowa-They lose Cook, Bohanan, to injury pussitus, and Baer from a so so team that went 23-12 but lost 7 of their last 10 games. They add 4* Pat and some 3* PG ranked outside the top 200.
Michigan-They lose their top 2 contributors, Jordan Poole, and head coach but return everyone else from a 30-7 team. Will return 3 players who logged significant minutes and the rest of the team hardly played. They also add two kids ranked outside the top 100.
Indiana-Lost injured Fr romeo langford who shot 27% from 3 and their SR 6'6 starting center to the NBA. They return their top 3 pt shooters from last year add a former near top 100 4* transfer Joey Brunk, Indiana Mr. Basketball top 30 Jackson-Davis who did not pick Iowa, and 3* top 150 sharp shooting Armaan Franklin. They look to bounce back after losing 12 of 13 games when FR stud Langford banged returning SR Devante Green's gf in Green's own bed.
Rutgers-Winning 14 games last year they lost nobody of significance, except for Omyinuririri, return nobody of significance, and add nobody of significance.
Nebraska-Fred Hoiberg era begins since they ran Tim Miles out of town for banging so many hairdressers. He once again hit the transfer market after losing almost the entire team. They add a 4* FR, former 4* transfer and some other guys i've never heard of.
Minnesota-They lose their top two guys in Coffey and Murphy, they return a group of guys that can only be described as avg-below avg. They add a 4* from Germany and a few other guys who didn't even sniff the top 100.
Northwestern-They half of their top 6 rotation, thats 3 for those of you keeping count, but do add a 4* forward in Robbie Beran and 2 other 3*.
My personal power rankings
OSU
MSU
Maryland
Indiana
Michigan
Purdue
Illinois
Wisconsin
PSU
Iowa
Nebraska
Northwestern
Minnesota
Rutgers
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Michigan added Franz Wagner. The recruit guys say he would have been considered a top 40 player if he had played in the US.
He played in Germany ‘S top league against grown men last year with the new 3 point line. He might be more ready to compete than some other freshmen.
Yeah, Gabe Kalscheur and Daniel Oturu are not "avg-below avg." Not even close. Tre Williams was also ranked #129 in the 247 Composite rankings, so I would say that's sniffing the top 100. Learn the name Marcus Carr as well.
OSU gets props for a strong class with #33 DJ Carton, but MSU brings in #38 Rocket Watts. OSU brings in #41 EJ Liddle, MSU brings in #50 Malik Hall.
I'm not sure OSU is better than MSU at any one position, besides Kaleb Wesson who might be slightly better than Xavier Tillman.
PG (Winston), SG (Langford), SF (Henry) are better than the 3 that OSU will play, IMO. Tillman and Wesson may be a wash, and PF for MSU is still a question that will have to be figured out between Kithier, Bingham, Hall, and Marble
My thoughts are OSU will be much more balanced. IMO MSU will struggle against teams with post depth, OSU,Indiana, Purdue. They will be lucky to split against those 3.
Who comprises of Indiana's post depth? Deron Davis and Joey Brunk?
Same for OSU. They have the Wesson bros (one is 6'6") and Kyle Young. Their incoming freshman EJ Liddel is comparable to Malik Hall (and are ranked around the same, but EJ is 6'6 and Malik is 6'8). Their other freshman PF Gaffney could be good, but he's similar to Bingham last year in that he needs to add weight / strength.
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I just don't see IU improving to 4th. Do they have anyone that's a stud returning? I just see a bunch of decent players and a good freshman. To me that looks like a team that could overachieve to 6th place, but will likely finish in the 7-9 range.
You have to give @IUBtown props for spinning the hell out of his IU summary though. Describing Juwan Morgan as just losing your senior 6’6 starting C may be doing just a bit of a disservice to Mr. Morgan.
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why do you use 247? that kid from NY is a 4* grade 81 by ESPN and by NYHoops rates him the #1 pg in the state and the #2 player overall, I will trust the people that watched him all season long.
247 only saw him the summer when he was recovering from a injury. also they were the same ones that rated Jordan a 2*.
Iowa adds 2 former starters that RS'd, the addition of GT CG Evelyn was good for the team. Last season he played with a injury and now is 100%. With or W/O Jordan will be just fine with the addition of that RSSR GT.
Iowa will finish better than 6th.
And TJD. Tillman is better than all 3. All 3 are better than your 2nd guy. When MSU struggles this years its because they get dominated in the post and Tillman has foul trouble. Mark it down.
Wesson is better than Tillman. The rest are a wash at best.
To me everyone else loses more and brings in less. 4-10 can go 5,040 ways.
The numbers are there you just ignored them. Everyone else has lost so much or bring back very little from <.500 teams.
IMO there's only 7 teams in that range the top 3 and bottom 4 are who they are. 7!
I thought you meant from the whole B1G. That number is still off by a lot though.
Well hey, at least he is consistently wrong. He called Gabe Kalscheur and Daniel Oturu average players. jumpingsmile
Problem for IU is that all 3 of those guys play the same position. TJD, Brunk, and Davis are all 5's. Brunk has hit 1 single 3pt in his entire 60 game career, Davis has never even attempted a 3, and TJD is not known as a shooter outside of 15ft.
MSU will likely play more of a 4 guards/wings + Tillman this year. Definitely could cause some problems against teams that play 2 bigs down low, but its also a problem for those teams trying to run with MSU.