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KU beats #17 Tennessee so they should be ranked for our game next week.
Texas up 10 over #23 NC St at HT. Hopefully they hang on.
 
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Huskyforlife said:
Gotta see it first. Michigan is putting the evidence out there with this tournament.
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Went toe to toe with the # 3 team down 2 starters one being our best player. I’ve seen enough. But then again I’m a homer
 
KingAG said:
For now. Until we get healthy.
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Very tough matchup against that front line. As strong as Tarris is, going up against a car lot float of a 7'3" big wouldn't be easy. Any three we throw out there would get eaten alive by Yaxel. Their 2G is bigger than Solo. Morez could just bully AK, more athletic and bigger. Our only advantage might be at PG, at least physically.

They are making a Zags front line that has been dominating, look pedestrian.

We would not match up well at all against UM. I'm big on matchups, where we outmatched everyone in 2024 and I don't see many gaps in UM. Their games against Purdue this year are going to be must watch.
 
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RuffRuff said:
Very tough matchup against that front line. As strong as Tarris is, going up against a car lot float of a 7'3" big wouldn't be easy. Any three we throw out there would get eaten alive by Yaxel. Their 2G is bigger than Solo. Morez could just bully AK, more athletic and bigger. Our only advantage might be at PG, at least physically.

They are making a Zags front line that has been dominating, look pedestrian.

We would not match up well at all against UM. I'm big on matchups, where we outmatched everyone in 2024 and I don't see many gaps in UM. Their games against Purdue this year are going to be must watch.
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I had the same concern this week in 2021 when we went up against #2 Auburn but sanogo and whaley outplayed Walker Kessler and Jabari Smith. And they were both better than anyone on UM.
 
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Ditch the Gonzaga-Michigan game-it's blowout city. NC State-Texas in Maui is more fun to watch.
 
Kansas beating Tennessee without Tennessee tells me that what I posted earlier was accurate, the rest of the team without Peterson is better than some people think. Tiller in particular is very good.

This Michigan beat down of Gonzaga is shocking. This is really impressive. I didn’t realize that Michigan was this good. Stunning level of dominance over a ranked team that looked really good all week. Up 43!
 
RuffRuff said:
Very tough matchup against that front line. As strong as Tarris is, going up against a car lot float of a 7'3" big wouldn't be easy. Any three we throw out there would get eaten alive by Yaxel. Their 2G is bigger than Solo. Morez could just bully AK, more athletic and bigger. Our only advantage might be at PG, at least physically.

They are making a Zags front line that has been dominating, look pedestrian.

We would not match up well at all against UM. I'm big on matchups, where we outmatched everyone in 2024 and I don't see many gaps in UM. Their games against Purdue this year are going to be must watch.
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I disagree. Size doesn’t mean better. Idc how big he is, Taris is better. Alex is better than Morez Johnson. And Gonzaga doesn’t have a Taris either. AZ had the same size advantage against us without Reed. And we should have won

Itd be a good game. I think we win at full health.
 
Fun facts from Torvik about the Cincinnati loss to Eastern Michigan.

-It dropped their ranking from 40th to 62nd
-Torvik assigns a game score for each result, and this one got a value of 4 out of 100. He explains how it's calculated here, but all you need to know is that it means that it was a performance so bad that even Mississippi Valley St would be projected to do better, and they are the current lowest ranked team.
-It lowered their expected margin of victory for their next game against Tarleton St. from 20.1 to 17.6
 
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SwingDog said:
Really? Most of the pundits lately have been saying it's Arizona.
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You realize this can change as teams play? What Michigan just did is the most impressive basketball of the year, and it’s not close.
KingAG said:
I disagree. Size doesn’t mean better. Idc how big he is, Taris is better. Alex is better than Morez Johnson. And Gonzaga doesn’t have a Taris either. AZ had the same size advantage against us without Reed. And we should have won

Itd be a good game. I think we win at full health.
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Definitely a little homerism in this. Tarris would have a hard time finding easy baskets around a nimble 7’3” guy who blocks shots.

Morez is a much better inside player than AK, who is not a great inside player. We’d have to space them out and run out stuff. Pound for pound they are more talented.
 
Its Michigan and everyone else right now. Lots of ball to be played until March. Have they peaked too soon ? Can they keep it up?
 
Marat said:
Its Michigan and everyone else right now. Lots of ball to be played until March. Have they peaked too soon ? Can they keep it up?
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I don’t see it as much about peaking as it is about the talent on their roster. They are huge and a matchup nightmare. Dusty pulled together a very good team.
 
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RuffRuff said:
Pound for pound they are more talented.
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Disagree. Reed would do to Mara what Blair did to Thabeet. Yaxel is talented sure but there’s no one else I’d want to swap any of our starters for. don’t think a team with Elliot Cadeau as starting PG is cutting the nets down.
 
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bendm said:
Disagree. Reed would do to Mara what Blair did to Thabeet. Yaxel is talented sure but there’s no one else I’d want to swap any of our starters for. don’t think a team with Elliot Cadeau as starting PG is cutting the nets down.
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Let’s disagree then. They have more talent. Let’s not act as though Cadeua, who was a McD AA that couldn’t develop under Hubie, isn’t a solid Pg. With the talent around him he just needs to distribute. They have another McD AA frosh coming off the bench. Kid was composite 3 spots behind Mullins.

They are more talented. Hurley may be able to do some things from a coaching perspective that could give us an edge. You must take the blinders off.
 
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RuffRuff said:
They are more talented
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Ok Let’s go through the matchups you’re so big on:
Reed>Mara (indisputable)
AK=Morez
Stew<Yaxel (indisputable)
Ball>Burnett (assuming Ball gets his 3 back)
Silas>Cadeau (indisputable)

Smith>Cason
Mullins=McKenney
Ross<Gayle
Reibe>Tschetter

Edit: Hurley>May
Edit: UConn +4
 
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There are a lot of good teams out there. Michigan stands out right now, but they are from the Big10 so there's that

25 years and counting. And they merged with the Pac 12, the only major conference that's waited over 25 years
 
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