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*****Official B1G In Season Thread*****

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White enough for 1st place. Iowa not so much.
Facts.....Itds craxy, jward....I'm old enough to remember when Wisconsin was everyone's homecoming---invluding Northwesterns...

Crazy how shit has chaged. BUT, when you get an AD who cares, makes the right hire----Bingo.

I dunno if Woody is the RIGHT, long time hire----but I do feel he is the right dude, right now. Jury is out. We will see what he does when he gets his dudes----He really wants players, all 5, that can drive, shoot.....Then have that one "big" to anchor the middle. He's got some dudes coming in, so we will see.

If only TJD could hit a 6 footer.....JFC, dude would be a fukin Top 5 pick. Serious. IF TJD had Trevion's shot? Good luck.
 
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Facts.....Itds craxy, jward....I'm old enough to remember when Wisconsin was everyone's homecoming---invluding Northwesterns...

Crazy how shit has chaged. BUT, when you get an AD who cares, makes the right hire----Bingo.

I dunno if Woody is the RIGHT, long time hire----but I do feel he is the right dude, right now. Jury is out. We will see what he does when he gets his dudes----He really wants players, all 5, that can drive, shoot.....Then have that one "big" to anchor the middle. He's got some dudes coming in, so we will see.

If only TJD could hit a 6 footer.....JFC, dude would be a fukin Top 5 pick. Serious. IF TJD had Trevion's shot? Good luck.
If your aunt had balls she’d be your uncle. ;)
 
@jwardelt hope you’re ready for tonight.

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It’s been really interesting to see each Big Ten team CLEARLY play better and worse vs. specific teams, lol. We really bring out the 1-seed in Purdue.
It’s all about matchups. It’s what makes the ncaa tournament so fun. Some teams are just perfect fits to beat better teams.

And this isn’t me saying that Illinois is better than Purdue. I think the opposite.
 
Welp, good luck tonight @jwardelt. If you guys sweep us, you deserve the title for sure. Not sure what to expect from this team tonight. Not sure if they care enough.
Good luck to you guys. Facebook reminded me we clinched the title on this day 7 years ago. Hoping for a bit of history repeating itself. I would just like it if our entire front court didn’t foul out this time.
Only good thing is we have two chances this week but we’ve gone this far might as well win it outright.
 
Good luck to you guys. Facebook reminded me we clinched the title on this day 7 years ago. Hoping for a bit of history repeating itself. I would just like it if our entire front court didn’t foul out this time.
Only good thing is we have two chances this week but we’ve gone this far might as well win it outright.
That’s how I’d be thinking too. Would be an impressive accomplishment for Gard, for how much shit I’ve given him.
 
Good luck to you guys. Facebook reminded me we clinched the title on this day 7 years ago. Hoping for a bit of history repeating itself. I would just like it if our entire front court didn’t foul out this time.
Only good thing is we have two chances this week but we’ve gone this far might as well win it outright.
Spread the love, dude! Plenty of time left to beat Nebraska. :)
 
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Pulled this from the homeboard. Given how many close games they've played in, Wisconsin's free throw defense has been absolutely pivotal to their success. Of course, we all know the reason their free throw defense is so good. You'd miss more free throws too if Brad Davison was waiting to punch you in the nuts while boxing you out.

Big Ten free throw defense:

Wiscy Percent 67.9 National Rank 27
Minny 68.9 56
MSU 70.6 173
Iowa 70.8 141
Rutgers 71.0 152
Purdue 71.4 173
Nebraska 71.6 178
NW 72.3 211
PSU 72.4 220
OSU 72.6 231
MD 73.2 250
MI 73.3 259
Illinois 73.4 266
IU 76.7 349

The national average is 71.6 so for every 100 FT's Wiscy is gaining 3.7 points.
 
Pulled this from the homeboard. Given how many close games they've played in, Wisconsin's free throw defense has been absolutely pivotal to their success. Of course, we all know the reason their free throw defense is so good. You'd miss more free throws too if Brad Davison was waiting to punch you in the nuts while boxing you out.

Big Ten free throw defense:

Wiscy Percent 67.9 National Rank 27
Minny 68.9 56
MSU 70.6 173
Iowa 70.8 141
Rutgers 71.0 152
Purdue 71.4 173
Nebraska 71.6 178
NW 72.3 211
PSU 72.4 220
OSU 72.6 231
MD 73.2 250
MI 73.3 259
Illinois 73.4 266
IU 76.7 349

The national average is 71.6 so for every 100 FT's Wiscy is gaining 3.7 points.
As good as IU is defensively, they just can’t seem to defend the free throw line… 5.1 points every 100 free throws lost…
 
Pretty crazy. How many more wins would you have if you were just average?
I'm sure there are games we won because of the opposing team shooting below 71.6, but just looking at our losses.

@Syracuse - lost by 2 giving up 79% from the line. If they shoot 71.6%, we win by 1.
@Wisconsin - We lose by 3 instead of 5
@PSU - They only shot 50% from the line...
@Iowa - We lose by 6 instead of 9
Michigan - Lose by 17 instead of 18... LOL
Illinois - They only shot 69%
@Northwestern - Lose by 7 instead of 8
@MSU - Lose by 10 instead of 15
Wisconsin - Lose by 4 instead of 5
@OSU - Lose by 9 instead of 11 (although this game went into OT, so may have won in regulation)
 
Pulled this from the homeboard. Given how many close games they've played in, Wisconsin's free throw defense has been absolutely pivotal to their success. Of course, we all know the reason their free throw defense is so good. You'd miss more free throws too if Brad Davison was waiting to punch you in the nuts while boxing you out.

Big Ten free throw defense:

Wiscy Percent 67.9 National Rank 27
Minny 68.9 56
MSU 70.6 173
Iowa 70.8 141
Rutgers 71.0 152
Purdue 71.4 173
Nebraska 71.6 178
NW 72.3 211
PSU 72.4 220
OSU 72.6 231
MD 73.2 250
MI 73.3 259
Illinois 73.4 266
IU 76.7 349

The national average is 71.6 so for every 100 FT's Wiscy is gaining 3.7 points.
Such an underrated part of the game … Illinois isn’t even kind of sweating at Michigan on Sunday if they hit a halfway respectable percent of their FTs, especially front ends of one-and-ones.
 
Pulled this from the homeboard. Given how many close games they've played in, Wisconsin's free throw defense has been absolutely pivotal to their success. Of course, we all know the reason their free throw defense is so good. You'd miss more free throws too if Brad Davison was waiting to punch you in the nuts while boxing you out.

Big Ten free throw defense:

Wiscy Percent 67.9 National Rank 27
Minny 68.9 56
MSU 70.6 173
Iowa 70.8 141
Rutgers 71.0 152
Purdue 71.4 173
Nebraska 71.6 178
NW 72.3 211
PSU 72.4 220
OSU 72.6 231
MD 73.2 250
MI 73.3 259
Illinois 73.4 266
IU 76.7 349

The national average is 71.6 so for every 100 FT's Wiscy is gaining 3.7 points.
Recipe for disaster in the tourney. One of the Maryland Melo Trimble teams was like this.
 
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