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You could see the lack of a third scorer in this game, Shelstad had one of his games where he just doesn't show any desire to score at all and was very passive, partially due to Bittle being a such a beast and UW did a good job limiting his easy looks. Classic trap game, I wasn't surprised to see the Ducks struggle in this one, it's survive and advance at this point, nothing else matters now.

Yeah, I think they have as good a chance as anyone else but I don't think they are a big favorite, certainly a wide open race in the B1G this upcoming year. PSU just has more certainty, but I don't think Aller is going to take much of a step further, Moore and Sayin probably both have higher ceiling this upcoming year. PSU also doesn't have the receiving talent to really expect them to dominate. Certainly have a good QB and two very good RBs, but I just don't see the receiving talent to blow teams away.

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought as I read that, just come on! I get it if we were someone like Minnesota, but we were the number 1 team in the nation last year, you would expect someone there to know that Boettcher is coming back. Everything else is just standard fluff, nothing interesting at all really, only thing that might be informative is some stuff on the mid level teams. All the site do it, and they all pretty much read the same, but that's me who will most likely skim these types of articles, so they're still getting clicks from me!

I still think the upside to this team is a sweet sixteen or if they get a favorable matchup an elite eight. I don't think they have the shooting to win against the best teams. At some point they'll have to have a game where they are just on fire and I don't know if they have the firepower to match up against some of the teams in the top 12 or so. Don't get me wrong, I've been impressed that they have been finding ways to win, but at some point they have to be more efficient on offense and not rely on Shelstad shooting some desperation 3 late in the game to win. Shelstad has been awesome in those spots, but it's playing with fire just expecting him to constantly hitting 28 footers late in the shot clock.

I personally don't think Bittle will be an NBA player, in today's NBA you need to be able to guard out to the perimeter, I just don't think he has the foot speed to keep up. He would have to become a 40% plus 3 point shooter (which he might be able to do). He's a classic very good college player who has a long career over in Europe. In today's NIL world it will be interesting to see if it's to his benefit to just stay another year. I would like to see him try to become that type of shooter by next year. That is what I think he'll need to work on along with just improving his pick and roll defense.

Yeah, after the Wiscy game I said I really thought he has completely turned his season around, his shooting hasn't come back, but he plays so damn hard that you have to keep him in the game even if he isn't a threat at all from the outside. Feels like he is the soul of this team. Guys have found their role. You see Evans really finding his niche, even guys like Moss have found a way to help the team even if they aren't a threat on offense, it's cool to see.

Good game, important game since Indiana was a dangerous team desperate for a win. Now finish up with a strong game against UW and you will be looking at a possible 4 seed which is important since it would mean Oregon would be closer to home. Nice turn around they've had. Altman does it again I guess. Really does come down to defense and effort. Might sound simple, but this team isn't an offensive juggernaut, they score a bit, but it will defense that will get them wins. They don't have the consistent shooting to just win a shootout.

Blazers are in a very very weird place. They have some interesting pieces in Avidja, Camara, Sharpe, Scoot, and I think eventually Clingen. None of those players though are a superstar, I think you could get one all star out that group, Scoot has had a very good developing year after looking awful last year. Billiups is an awful coach who has stifled the development of the young players. They're too good to get a high draft pick, not good enough to do anything in the playoffs (if they get there, which would be a miracle). They also can't get rid of Simons or Grant since those two have no value. They'll have to settle for a very meager package for either one, but it's the right thing to do in order to put the young guys as the featured players. It's a mess, a GM who won't pull the trigger on anything, a bad coach who is coaching to win instead of coaching to develop, and finally an owner who has no interest in this team but for whatever reason won't sell the team either! In the end I actually like a lot of the players they have, I even like Ayton this year! But it's not a team that is in a position to actually become a contender due to not committing to a full rebuild which is the worst thing to do as a franchise!!!

Ducks have 3 very winnable games to end the year, they could then win one tourney game, and could possibly get up to a 4 seed even, amazing considering where they were just a week ago. They could also lose all three, get bounced in the first game in the conference tourney and end up a 9 or 10 seed. So who knows with this team.

God I love those uniforms! cream whites are the GOAT when it comes to baseball uniforms (Cardinals and Phillies come to mind), even better with the classic green and yellow. Certainly seems like a very very good class that has come in this year.

Charles while I would love to think that the B1G will care about baseball, they don't seem to have ever really cared in the past since the conference has been horrible in baseball forever. I honestly think they might care more about Wrestling and Hockey (nothing wrong with those sports btw). Baseball and Softball are the only things that I'm kind of bummed out about when it comes to moving to this conference. The Pac-12 wasn't as good as it used to be in Baseball but it was still fun when a good Stanford, Zona, or ASU came to play. I just don't get excited about Ohio St or Minnesota baseball. I'm guessing we'll be pretty dominant in Baseball and T&F.

I have a lot of thoughts I only just watched the game. I had stuff to do on this Saturday, was able to watch the first half until we got down by around 10 or 12. After I got down with my errands I checked the score thinking we probably lost by around 18 or so based on what I had saw so far. Pleasantly surprised of course. After watching the game we got a bit lucky, Wiscy missed some open 3s, not a huge amount, but enough that I thought a normal shooting night by them probably dooms us. What we did do well was play active defense, and it really showed why Angel needs to see his minutes reduced to around 10 a game. Bench him, he give us nothing unless he's hitting some shots. This team needs Evans and Cook getting the majority of the minutes at the 4, they don't give us much in shot making, but the defense is so much better! I will take Evans giving effort and energy, he'll get some hustle buckets and the defense is immensely better, the rebounding is better, everything is better other than the shooting. Cook as well needs to be averaging at least 12-15 minutes a game, he hustles, he can switch on defense, and he'll also give us something in the transition game. We need to go small from here on out. We just can't matchup on defense when we play Angel and Bittle/Cook. I might try Angel at the 5, but I don't think that will go well at all. Bamba really bums me out. If he just had an average shooting season compared to his first 4 years he would be a fan favorite, he has never gotten down on himself, he takes pride in his defense and he seems to be a team first guy, I know that his shooting woes have probably upset himself more than anyone else. He's broken in that regard, but he is still finding ways to help the team. Shelstad is simply clutch, nothing more to be said. Bittle battled, he's trying to lead the team, came up big in the second half and the overtime. He needs help from his teammates on the pick and roll action, but he's working down low. In the end this could be a turning point, it really frustrates me that it took this long to finally bench Angel for significant portions of a game. He's a good player, but he doesn't work in this system as a 4, and I don't see the complementary players that could allow him to play as a 5. I don't think you completely forget about him, but if he's not shooting he needs a tight leash on his minutes.

You honestly probably know more about the 4 former Pac12 members than they do. It's funny, I actually really liked Hummell as a player, great stretch 4, kind of reminded me of Maarty Leunen. It's going to take about 4 more years for everyone to get used to us, and for us to get used to them. Even at the end Colorado and Utah still felt like outsiders. Heck my parents talked for quite a few years about how they remember when the Arizona schools were the newcomers.

I'll have to admit I don't go to the spring, barely watch any of it at all, so I don't really care at all about the spring game, I'm focused on baseball at that point.

Hummell played at Purdue, but basically the same thing, these guys don't really know much about Pac-12 teams. I