The Fran fade
- Thread starter CyTwins
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I was just pointing out that Bolton shoots under 40% from the floor. Maybe Jackson should take some of his minutes next year.
I don't understand how any Big10 fan can sit there and say "their schedule has been brutal" or "Big 10 is a grind, its the best conference" blah blah when you don't even play every team twice. What a joke
That's how a ton of conferences work though.. Top to bottom the Big 10 is the toughest conference, but there looks to be a bunch of good teams and not any great teams.
You think they should play 26 conference games? Then you'd ***** when 16 win teams get in the tournament ahead of 20 win teams with schedules loaded with cupcakes.
Well put. The playing every team twice argument is just dumb. Arguing about conference size is also dumb. Just on quantity of teams in the tournament the BIG 10 might have 1 or two teams make a decent run in the tourney but we really don't have any threats at the title. Possible but I'd be surprised if any get past Elite 8 territory.
I love playing every team twice in basketball and every team in football. But obviously that isn't an option in bigger conferences so it is what it is.
It's an ideal setup currently. I love the once in FB, twice in Bball.
How the Big 12 is currently set up combined with the usual strength of almost all of the teams leads to an incredibly tough conference schedule. This year that's not the case with the conference being down. Using that as an argument to say a conference isn't tough is not fair though considering we're one of the only P5 conferences that does it that way.
And yeah I'd venture to say there are 5 teams that I'd say could make the Sweet 16. I think maybe 1-2 could get by that round. I don't know if there is going to be a Final 4 team though. But, it doesn't matter what I think because madness is going to happen. Teams that I think can make the Sweet 16 might get knocked out first round and a team like Illinois or Rutgers could make it to the Elite 8. It's beautiful chaos.
I bet Iowa +8 @ Sparty.. I was screaming when Garza fouled Cassius at the end for no reason other than frustration. Thought there was no way he was going to miss his 3rd FT of the night there.
