Do we really wanna play Michigan again ?

[bowlgoal]

Everyone in this league is tough. We have no pressure now so I think we go in to the game very loose. And that doesn’t mean unprepared or not caring if we advance. It just means we can go out and have fun and that usually translates into great performances. I think we beat them this time.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

What do you wanna do? Hide? Forfeit?We play who we play.

 

[ruman]

Didn’t realize I could effect this

 

[rufeelinit]

Certainly has not been a great match up but it gives a shot at further redemption. Maybe Liver's playing will be the difference. I know that sounds a bit bizarre but who knows. Their size has bothered us in both games and we will need strong play from Miles and Shaq. We will need to continue hitting a decent # of 3's since I don't see this as a really low scoring affair.

 

[Jtung230]

They were lucky to beat us at MSG. We kill them on the boards. With the way we are playing and the confidence, we sent them home early.

 

[wheezer]

They were lucky to beat us at MSG. We kill them on the boards. With the way we are playing and the confidence, we sent them home early.

The garden game was there for the taking. We just blew layups and easy shots all day

We took a crazy number of shot attempts
We rebounded like crazy

They did not beat us as much as we did not finish.

 

[RUinPAC10land]

It is kind of a win win scenario. We win and we get a better seed and maybe make a run at the title. We lose and at least we get more rest for the NCAA after a long grueling B1G season

Yes because they're probably thinking the same thing. Beat them and get rid of this stupid consecutive victories thing. (BTW, these kids weren't born when they beat Rutgers in the final four and were babies when the Waters team lost to them in the NIT.)

 

[hoquat63]

BTN is now showing if BTT started today we are 7 playing Purdue.

 

[T2Kplus10]

BTN is now showing if BTT started today we are 7 playing Purdue.

Some weird tie breakers are happening. Not sure were we end up.

 

[RUSCFORMERLYRULOU]

1. We are locked into Michigan;
2. You don’t think that after losing to Michigan twice, that we will be extra motivated and that Pike will employ a new game plan?

 

[ScarletDave]

I think the guys go silly and take the wolves to the shed behind a raucous Indy crowd rooting for RU

 

[czxqa]

Meant more in terms of I gotta figure out how to watch at work lol

Take the day off.

 

[wheezer]

The only hesitation I have has nothing to do with our team which I think is better than them , it is their lifetime 13-0 hex over us including both games this year , our Final Four game and the NIT championship . They have given us the most disappointing moments in our history and I witnessed all 4 of the games in person. I think it is time for big time revenge. Let’s go Knights.

we undid the Maryland jinx..... we can do it again here

 

[Eagleton95.99]

Both UM games were very bad shooting nights for us. It happens. And it wasn’t good D, it was just off nights for RU. If we have even an average night we win one of those two. If we shoot like we have the last two games, we beat them at the BTT

 

[djrc89]

I’m very interested to see how we play with the pressure off. My own sense has always been that this team has to kill it every single night. We win because of tenacity and hunger. How will they play with house money?

 

[Vlife]

Watched the BTN documentary again yesterday about the '76 RU Final Four team. While watching Michigan end our undefeated run it made me think how it really is time we finally beat that school. If I could pick which team we get to play in the BTT I'd pick Michigan. Time for revenge!

 

[YoucancallmeRay]

Heck yeah. We can play with anyone. No reason we can't win the B10 tourney, especially if we shoot threes like the last two games (how did that happen, lol?).

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Just for fun...if were to win the B1G tourney...what seed would we be? 4? 3?

 

[Degaz-RU]

Just for fun...if were to win the B1G tourney...what seed would we be? 4? 3?

No, still no higher than a 6 seed IMO. MAYBE a 5 seed. Big runs in conference tournaments don’t elevate teams from a 10 seed to a 4 seed.

 

[Scarlet Blind_rivals]

We win 4, 24-11, maybe low 20s, 4 more Q1 wins would take us to Q1 8-9 maybe 9-9 if PSU, Illinois or Purdue gets to 30 with a Q2 have 4-1 or 3-1 wins if SF Austin can get to 75, 5-1 or 4-1

Q1 8-9 with 4-1 or 5-1 or
Q1 9-9 with 3-1 or 4-1
So maybe Q1-2 12-10 or 13-10

Probably 5 or 6.

 

[RUChoppin]

We beat 9 of the 13 other B1G teams this year, and missed the mark a bit on Iowa (5 pts on road), Ohio St (6 pts on road), Michigan (6 pts neutral, 8 pts home), and MSU (12 pts on road). We're getting another swing at Michigan, and if we can beat them we may get another swing at Michigan State on a neutral court.

 

[brookdale-soda]

We missed so many layups in the loss at the RAC. corrected it against maryland and we did ok against purdue. We can beat them by at least making the shots were supposed to and hitting a few 3s. We have to rely on strong play early on and convert the easy baskets, especially in transition.

We were able to get alot of transition opportunities the last game and we need to convert them.