Basketball GAME THREAD: PSU Hoops vs. Rutgers
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35-28 good guys at 12
up by 9 with about 8 to go.
up 53 - 42 under 4
up 56-44 with 3 left
Final 66-49 win over Rutgers. Nice win. Sessoms with 17.
up by 9 with about 8 to go.
up 53 - 42 under 4
up 56-44 with 3 left
Final 66-49 win over Rutgers. Nice win. Sessoms with 17.
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Good solid win! Excellent D. Rutgers is decent, they beat Purdue and Michigan.
Greg Lee is a nice frontcourt piece and will help take some pressure off Harrar. 12 boards was huge in limiting Rutgers to one and dines. Sessoms played very well and Harrar was typical Harrar.
As I said in the last game thread when sessoms gets a bucket or two early he is a completely different player. If he can maintain some consistency in games that he doesn't score early this absolutely can be a tournament team. Lee takes rebounding pressure off of harrar and lundy and can spread the floor with a big lineup. Need to keep knocking off teams at home for sure...
I do not have to stretch to see us 10-10 (maybe 11-9) in conf. 10-10 B10 +1-1 BTT and we should be in.
IF that happens, is Shrews B10 COTY in his first year???
IF that happens, is Shrews B10 COTY in his first year???
How much would the 3 games cancelled due to Covid have helped? Not good for strength of schedule but 3 very likely wins.
I think if we go 11-9 or 10-10 in conference play we are in regardless. 9-11 and we have to win 1-2 games in big ten tourney (probably two). 8-12 and we need to make a run to the conference championship game.
Some of those scenarios definitely won’t get it done…going 16-15 with our schedule and no really good non-conference wins will mean NIT.
It depends on who make up that 10-10 record. Do we knock off some teams at the top? On the road? Or, do we just beat up on the bottom third/half of the conference?
Good read....I will add...#11 from Rutgers wanted nothing to do with Harrar. We should have given him at least 5 more post feeds, he owned the Rutgers guy.
Entirely disagreed, given the circumstances. We didn't get to play our buy games because of covid. That would have put the win total up to 19. We would be on the bubble, probably on the outside looking in, but we would have to be in the bubble. I wonder what our net would be
net is only 80 something if i remember correctly, kenpom is around 65. Those 3 help with the overall look of the record but would be more Quad 2,3,4 wins, dont think it would raise either of those other metrics too much.
Need to knock off a big dog or two in conference, especially on the road. Whether it be OSU this weekend or WIsconsin or MSU in a couple weeks, those are the kind of wins that they need.
I meant the net at the end of the season, not right now. So far we have one quad one win, if we get three or four more quad one wins, 10-10 may do it. If we continue to only load up on quad 3 and quad 2s, then it won't... So, IMO, who the wins come against greatly matters when it comes to how many wins we will need
That would have also involved an extra quad 1 win at VCU, which would have been far and away our best Non-Conference win. With the actual schedule that we played, we’re not even close to the tourney at 16-15.
Keep in mind that we got a favorable schedule this season when it comes to the top of the conference (and the B1G hasn’t had a stellar showing)…we already played our 1 game against Purdue, and only get Illinois once. Also only get Wisconsin once, Michigan once (assuming they get it together when they are healthy), MSU/OSU only once more. There isn’t any scenario you pick where we go 7-8 from here on out and still dance, unless COVID knocks out a dozen+ teams.
Wagner is our best non-conference win…and I can’t even say what our second best one is…we’d need to differentiate ourselves with that hole in our resume, and 16-15 (or even 17-14) doesn’t do that.
I never said anything about finishing 7-8. If we finish 7-7 (10-10) we need to win a couple in the BTT, imo. 11-9 and a BTT win would be extremely interesting. Otherwise, 10-10 with a BTT losses solid NIT
