Media Predictions Thread

[hskr4life]

This is the first one I’ve seen.  Has us 14th.

 

https://collegehoopstoday.com/index.php/rothstein-files/big-ten-offseason-breakdown-3/

[throwback]

It's always oddly comforting to know we can't do worse than preseason expectations.

[BigTate]

Breakout Player - CJ Wilcher

I hope he can rain 3's at a rapid pace!

[jimmykc]

 And this may be the highest rating we will have in the next few years.

[hhcmatt]

Started from the bottom now we're still here

[Dead Dog Alley]

3 minutes ago, jimmykc said:

 And this may be the highest rating we will have in the next few years.

So in ten years when we’re picked 24th, will everyone look back with fondness at being picked 14th?

[cornfed24-7]

[hskr4life]

23 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

TBF… that guy is in 10th and I’d probably react the same way if we finished there too.  Lol.

[cornfed24-7]

2 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

TBF… that guy is in 10th and I’d probably react the same way if we finished there too.  Lol.

I counted it too and thought the same thing

[NUdiehard]

Well, there's also this one . . .

 

https://saturdaytradition.com/big-ten-football/way-too-early-2022-23-big-ten-basketball-power-rankings/

 

14. Nebraska (10-22, 4-16)

What I like: I liked the fight the Huskers showed the last couple weeks of last season. Nebraska unexpectedly finished with 3 straight wins before falling to Northwestern by 2 at the Big Ten Tourney. And I wondered why we didn’t see it sooner.

What I don’t like: None of the players most responsible for that late surge — Alonzo Verge, Trey McGowens and Bryce McGowens — are back this year. This team is going to stink so badly that it’ll come with clouds, like Pig-Pen from Peanuts.

 

[uneblinstu]

Welp, I guess that's why they play the games. 

[busticket]

Now the article said if Dawson Garcia doesn’t get a hardship waiver, Minnesota will be the worst team!  We have a chance fellas!

[hskr4life]

2 hours ago, NUdiehard said:

Well, there's also this one . . .

 

https://saturdaytradition.com/big-ten-football/way-too-early-2022-23-big-ten-basketball-power-rankings/

 

14. Nebraska (10-22, 4-16)

What I like: I liked the fight the Huskers showed the last couple weeks of last season. Nebraska unexpectedly finished with 3 straight wins before falling to Northwestern by 2 at the Big Ten Tourney. And I wondered why we didn’t see it sooner.

What I don’t like: None of the players most responsible for that late surge — Alonzo Verge, Trey McGowens and Bryce McGowens — are back this year. This team is going to stink so badly that it’ll come with clouds, like Pig-Pen from Peanuts.

 

What’s sad is that 10-22 would match our record under Hoiberg.  So… stink so badly is technically best under our current coach.

[Norm Peterson]

On 8/9/2022 at 7:36 AM, hskr4life said:

This is the first one I’ve seen.  Has us 14th.

 

https://collegehoopstoday.com/index.php/rothstein-files/big-ten-offseason-breakdown-3/

 

Top 15 baby! 

[Handy Johnson]

14h Huh? That’s Bulletin Board material right there Brother! The “Unfinished Business” Tour starts NOW…! 

[busticket]

6 minutes ago, Handy Johnson said:

14h Huh? That’s Bulletin Board material right there Brother! The “Unfinished Business” Tour starts NOW…! 

We are going to shock the world.  I am calling my shot now.  12th!!!

[Chuck Taylor]

Might as well throw Torvik in here. We're number 12!:

2023 T-Rank College Basketball Projections

RK	TEAM	CONF	ADJOE	ADJDE	BARTHAG	PROJ. REC		RET MINS	RPMS	TALENT	EXP.	TRANS.
12	Indiana	B10	111.8 23	91.6 11	.9081	22-8	14-6	78.1%	81.6%	79.8	2.16	0
13	Illinois	B10	112.9 14	93.1 27	.9021	21-9	13-7	16.5%	15.0%	82.8	1.41	181
22	Michigan St.	B10	112.6 17	94.3 44	.8850	21-10	12-8	54.1%	55.2%	73	1.86	0
29	Purdue	B10	113.5 10	95.9 68	.8736	20-11	12-8	39.5%	35.9%	57.4	1.54	36
34	Michigan	B10	112.3 20	95.6 63	.8635	18-12	11-9	27.5%	30.5%	87.9	1.57	99
37	Iowa	B10	113.5 9	96.7 81	.8625	21-10	11-9	54.2%	53.1%	50.8	1.73	0
50	Maryland	B10	109.6 42	95.5 62	.8282	18-13	10-10	46.9%	42.5%	50.7	2.38	154
56	Rutgers	B10	105.5 109	92.6 21	.8165	18-12	10-10	63.5%	59.7%	47.3	2.34	41
61	Ohio St.	B10	111.2 29	98.4 111	.8026	16-13	10-10	23.0%	15.0%	54.7	2.44	185
64	Wisconsin	B10	104.4 127	92.8 23	.7946	16-14	9-11	52.4%	45.2%	48.5	1.64	73
82	Penn St.	B10	105.6 106	95.8 66	.7537	14-14	8-12	56.4%	53.4%	34.5	2.34	138
92	Nebraska	B10	106.9 79	98.5 114	.7195	15-16	7-13	38.3%	28.8%	32.8	2.27	223
95	Northwestern	B10	103.0 150	95.1 54	.7153	14-15	7-13	59.6%	57.2%	48.6	2.2	23
120	Minnesota	B10	105.6 107	100.2 143	.6444	12-17	6-14	20.9%	23.6%	37.2	2.07	208

 

[kldm64]

13 hours ago, busticket said:

We are going to shock the world.  I am calling my shot now.  12th!!!

 

I'll do you one better and call my shot that we finish 9th.  Can't see us much higher than that but think that is doable. 

[Chuck Taylor]

4 hours ago, kldm64 said:

 

I'll do you one better and call my shot that we finish 9th.  Can't see us much higher than that but think that is doable. 

Coach, I'm not seeing it.

[Handy Johnson]

On 8/12/2022 at 1:24 PM, Chuck Taylor said:

Coach, I'm not seeing it.

Never forget, Hickory’s nickname was, wait for it…Huskers! 

[Nighthawk]

On 8/9/2022 at 7:36 AM, hskr4life said:

This is the first one I’ve seen.  Has us 14th.

 

https://collegehoopstoday.com/index.php/rothstein-files/big-ten-offseason-breakdown-3/

well...could be worse...in a couple years we will be picked to finish 16th. 

[throwback]

10 hours ago, Nighthawk said:

well...could be worse...in a couple years we will be picked to finish 16th. 

I was going to be a smart-ass and say that our only hope to avoid the preseason cellar every year is if the B1G expands to like 32 teams and invites Oregon St & Washington St as #31 and #32. Then I was going to say I think we could be picked between those two teams at least half the time.

 

Then I saw Wazzu won 22 games last season. And the Beavs won 20 games the previous season. I may have cried a little.

 

[49r]

12 hours ago, throwback said:

I was going to be a smart-ass and say that our only hope to avoid the preseason cellar every year is if the B1G expands to like 32 teams and invites Oregon St & Washington St as #31 and #32. Then I was going to say I think we could be picked between those two teams at least half the time.

 

Then I saw Wazzu won 22 games last season. And the Beavs won 20 games the previous season. I may have cried a little.

 

 

Consider the conference they play in though.

 

Washington State beat 3 teams in the regular season with a KenPom ranking under 100.  #97 Arizona State, #79 Colorado and #82 Oregon.  They had 10 wins against teams #100 to #199 and 5 wins against teams #200 or higher.  They also lost to #217 Eastern Washington at home.  If they played in the Big Ten I would be fairly confident in saying they would struggle to reach double digit wins.

 

Oregon State went 3-28 in that same league last year.  The wins all came at home against #256 Portland State, #205 Nicholls State and #122 Utah.

[Cazzie22]

6 hours ago, 49r said:

 

Consider the conference they play in though.

 

Washington State beat 3 teams in the regular season with a KenPom ranking under 100.  #97 Arizona State, #79 Colorado and #82 Oregon.  They had 10 wins against teams #100 to #199 and 5 wins against teams #200 or higher.  They also lost to #217 Eastern Washington at home.  If they played in the Big Ten I would be fairly confident in saying they would struggle to reach double digit wins.

 

Oregon State went 3-28 in that same league last year.  The wins all came at home against #256 Portland State, #205 Nicholls State and #122 Utah.

Oregon State was in the Elite 8 only a couple of years ago.

[49r]

1 hour ago, Cazzie22 said:

Oregon State was in the Elite 8 only a couple of years ago.

 

Yeah that was a really crazy deal.  They didn't manage to crack the KenPom top 100 until after the last regular season game of the year.  They finished 6th in the Pac 12 and got the 5 seed in the Pac 12 tournament because Arizona self imposed a post season ban that year, then they went on a crazy run in the conference tournament and the NCAA tournament as a 12 seed.

 

The 2021 Huskers finished that regular season with an almost identical KenPom ranking.  (Huskers #94, OSU #93)