Remaining Basketball Schedule. What are your thoughts?

I just saw Ken Pom has us in his top 20 on both O and D. I look at our remaining schedule and think it's a fricken gauntlet. Wow. The Big ten is so damn good this year. Here's what we have left:

Northwestern W
@ Wisconsin W
PSU W
@ Michigan W
@ Illinois L
Maryland W
@ Nebraska W
Iowa W
@Maryland L
@PSU L
OSU W

I got us finishing 8-3 total of 15-5. I'm probably being generous. Maybe a turd somewhere in there too. Plus Iowa at home will be very tough. I think maybe 5 or 6 losses can win this thing this year.

Illinois has the following

Minnesota W
@ Iowa L
Maryland W
MSU W
@ Rutgers L
@PSU L
Nebraska W
@ Northwestern W
Indiana W
@ OSU W
Iowa W

8-3

Rutgers

Purdue W
@ Michigan W
@Maryland L
Northwestern W
@ OSU W
Illinois W
Michigan W
@ Wisconsin W
@ PSU L
Maryland W
@ PSU L

8-3

Maryland

Iowa W
Rutgers W
@ Illinois L
Nebraska W
@ MSU L
Northwestern W
@ OSU W
@ Minnesota W
MSU W
@ Rutgers L
Michigan W

8-3

Iowa

Wisconsin W
@ Maryland L
Illinois W
@ Purdue L
Nebraska W
@ Indiana W
@ Minnesota W
OSU W
@MSU L
PSU W
Purdue W
@ Illinois L

8-4

There is no room for a turd game or slip up. I love this league. Should be fun.

Wisconsin just gave a 12 pint lead up to Iowa. 10-0 run. 4 left Wisconsin lead down to 2.

I.B. Fine wrote:

DWags wrote:Wisconsin just gave a 12 pint lead up to Iowa.  10-0 run. 4 left Wisconsin lead down to 2.

12 Pints?  One per player or did the point guard down them all? that little bitch...

On a serious note the refs are gonna let Garza beat the shit out of us at Iowa.

Garza on the line to tie it. 2:19 to go

aualum06 wrote:

DWags wrote:



On a serious note the refs are gonna let Garza beat the shit out of us at Iowa.

Garza on the line to tie it. 2:19 to go

Did you check your schedule? I'm pretty sure no at Iowa game

Nice.

tGreenWay wrote:My thoughts on these last games is the same as when the season began: What does a player or coach do if they have to poop and it’s early in the game, or it’s after halftime? That’s a long time to pucker up, and might become a problem on a fast break or dunk.

So my sophomore year I got brought up to the varsity in basketball. Wasn’t thrilled about it because back then sometimes you got brought up and the coach didn’t play you. Which was asinine in my mind. Better to give guys game playing experience on JV rather than just practice experience and five minutes per half on varsity. Our coach was known for doing that but my parents made me do what the varsity coach wanted. (When I became an athletic director later my rule was you don’t bring a kid up from freshman or JV ball unless he could start for you). Anyway, first game I was on the bench drinking a water bottle the whole first half. Close game vs Ludington. I wasn’t getting in I figured. Kept drinking. 4th quarter coach yells for me to go in. I had to pee so bad I could taste it. I could feel some drip out. Only thing I could think to do was either ask to be taken out, pretend I was hurt or throw the ball away a couple times and he’d take me out. Lucky it was only a couple trips up and down the court. He put the senior point guard back in. You know how you usually slap the guys hand when they come in for you, give the number of the guy you’re guarding and sit on the bench? I ran straight to the locker room and pissed. I could hear some people laugh in the stands. When I came back out and sat down there was a bit more laughter. Later at my house my mom dad and girlfriend told me they knew I had to go by watching. I imagine only they were just watching me. The other people were watching the ball and game. I swore I’d never drink on the bench again. But truth be told same thing basically happened in the districts. Wasn’t as bad and I didn’t drip any out. But went into the locker room and peed when I came out.