OT: Syracuse

Posts : 361 Join date : 2012-02-02

They just lost again, 4 in 5 games. Looking at our strength of schedule and winning the BIG do we bump up to a 2 seed over Wisconsin or Syracuse?

Posts : 3840 Join date : 2012-10-17

The wheels seem to be coming off for 'cuse. Some of their recent wins were shaky or the record would be even worse.

'shoes

Posts : 361 Join date : 2012-02-02

Agree

Subject: Re: OT: Syracuse Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:16 pm

umichfaninpa wrote:: They just lost again, 4 in 5 games. Looking at our strength of schedule and winning the BIG do we bump up to a 2 seed over Wisconsin or Syracuse?

very good point. I think I had UM at a #2 seed anyway. So the recent Cuse implosion just solidifies it.

Posts : 2537 Join date : 2012-12-12

The ACC is just as brutal as the Big Ten. Syracuse only plays 7 guys in their rotation and their legs are starting to get tired.

Posts : 2537 Join date : 2012-12-12

As far as Wisconsin, I think it will come down to who has a better Big Ten tournament. Let's home Nebraska can knock Wisconsin off for us though.

Posts : 1480 Join date : 2013-08-01

What is it about Syracuse that causes them to implode every year? Usually they wait until the tourney but this year it seems to be starting early.

Posts : 2537 Join date : 2012-12-12

To be fair, they did make the Final Four as a 4 seed last year.

Posts : 1801 Join date : 2012-02-03 Location : Buffalo NY

hailtoyourvictor wrote:: Let's home Nebraska can knock Wisconsin off for us though.

I don't look at it that way; comes across as something of a cop-out. We can handle Wisc. ourselves. Who should we fear in the B1G tourney, the way our shooters played last night? Hell, we beat Wisconsin at their place, didn't we? I can't see us having a second straight low-energy, lower-effort outing against them; Beilein wouldn't let our men forget Wiscy's visit to Crisler.

Posts : 1801 Join date : 2012-02-03 Location : Buffalo NY

hailtoyourvictor wrote:: To be fair, they did make the Final Four as a 4 seed last year.

Little play on words there, hail???

(Or is he---their best defender by far---playing like shit for them of late, too?)

Posts : 1480 Join date : 2013-08-01

hailtoyourvictor wrote:: To be fair, they did make the Final Four as a 4 seed last year.

Well I wasn't referring to one year. To your point they did have a good run last year even with losing Fab.

Posts : 2537 Join date : 2012-12-12

michmike wrote:

hailtoyourvictor wrote:: Let's home Nebraska can knock Wisconsin off for us though.

I don't look at it that way; comes across as something of a cop-out. We can handle Wisc. ourselves. Who should we fear in the B1G tourney, the way our shooters played last night? Hell, we beat Wisconsin at their place, didn't we? I can't see us having a second straight low-energy, lower-effort outing against them; Beilein wouldn't let our men forget Wiscy's visit to Crisler.

Well, Wisconsin is pretty on fire themselves right now.

Also, were you upset when Illinois went in and won @East Lansing?

Subject: Re: OT: Syracuse Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:57 pm

Sorry for getting OT of the original OT but I think we can beat UW if we play them again. We've got them figure out, they've got us figured out but we are more talented period. If we play like we did at Ill then nobody can beat us. Nobody.

UW's win over Florida should have an * next to it. Florida wasn't that good when they played and I believe Florida had their best two guys out that game. Since midway through the B1G play UW has definitely stepped it up but that doesn't make them a team UM should be concerned about. If the two teams were to play 10 times I'd have UM at 7-3. Shut down Kaminsky, have two guys have a decent game (GRIII, Nik, Caris, Walton, Zak, Morford) and it's over for UW... against UM that is.

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