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    Robbie Beran enters the transfer portal

    Adding to this, I don’t think a lot of people appreciate quite how low the hit rate is even for recruits of Robbie’s caliber. Below are the first 15 prospects outside of the top 100 for the class of 2019. Robbie is right in the middle of this group, rankings-wise. He might not be the best of...
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    +/- for the Mangling at Maryland

    I appreciate the work that goes into compiling these numbers every game. Have you ever looked at the correlation between your player adjustments and the raw +/- over a longer timeframe? I don't know if you store the data in a way that would enable that easily.
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    CCC for Coach of the Year

    Chris Lowery has obviously had an important impact this season – the broadcasters tonight talked about how much Collins mentioned it to them. But it also wasn't a John Beilein hiring Luke Yaklich situation. This team is currently ranked third-best in KenPom defense in Collins’ tenure. They...
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    Chase

    I really don’t think it’s warranted to defend Chase in the context of putting other guys on this list down. Especially after that win – it wasn’t his best offensive game, but he’s still scored in double digits every game but 3 this season. You get *something* out of him, and tonight that...
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    Collins’ Future

    Collins is already graded on a curve for Northwestern being different, though – it’s year 10 of his tenure, and they’ve been to one (very glorious) NCAA tournament. That doesn’t fly at basically any other power conference program. Sure, it can technically get worse. But it’s not unreasonable to...
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    This board is teeming with excitement for our matchup with Liberty!

    Fighting?! I thought Falwell watched from the corner, like the 5th man in a Chris Collins offense
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    Fitz must go

    This is the funniest thing I have ever read on this site.
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    Game Thread for NIU vs. NU

    I'm enjoying the Matt Nicholson Experience more than I expected to, and much more than I enjoy the Matt Nicholson Discourse. Maybe you can only give him 15-18 minutes per game before he fouls out, but man he's fun!
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    Impressions so far

    My biggest positive takeaway: after 32 minutes, Beran is already almost halfway to his made free throw total for all of last season! Quality of competition, I know, but they played plenty of crummy teams last year, too. If this team is going to be sneaky competitive, they need Robbie to double...
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    Women Crushed

    That game suggests the worst-case scenario for the season is very much in play. It's a tough opener for a team losing its best player by far on both ends. But even though Coach Joe might have as much potential depth as he's had since he got to Evanston, there's no clear difference-maker on...
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    NU Hoops (the last 10 years)

    Here are some numbers to support this. Since the 2017-2018 season, the frequency of finishing 300th or lower in the KenPom Luck rating: 0 times: 159 teams 1 time: 136 teams 2 times: 52 teams 3 times: 9 teams 4 times: 0 teams 5 times: 2 teams Who's the other unluckiest team? None other...
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    How would 2020 have gone if not for COVID?

    The final record certainly would've been worse in a non-COVID year, because the non-conference games wouldn't have been canceled! But seriously, I don't understand the willingness of fans to write the season off as a fluke. That was a top 5-10 defense in the country. The B1G championship...
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    "Secret scrimmage" vs. Iowa State

    I think you need to reground your expectations. By my count, there were 3 players in the top 6 conferences last season that averaged 15 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game (another ~20 players in smaller conferences, almost all of whom would've been a 3 star or below). Similarly, 13...
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    NU Hoops (the last 10 years)

    Fair enough. But even coaches without academic restrictions or historical limitations don't bring in every player they want. Carmody's teams weren't this extreme. The ratings just don't strike me as completely, or mostly, random.
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    NU Hoops (the last 10 years)

    To be fair, Northwestern has NEVER been a good close-and-late team under Collins. Even the tourney year was merely fine...won as many two-possession games as they lost. Defending 5 straight seasons ranked in the 300s because the 4 seasons before that were in the 100s isn't super persuasive...
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