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Another grinder for sure. Status update at Maryland: Max Klesmit will be OUT tonight for Wisconsin upper body injury.
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Reese,from Maryland, with his 2nd foul in about a minute. He shoved Wahl and then put a forearm into Crowl's throat area.
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Terps drive to the hoop with ease. Bucky settles for missed threes and contested shots under the hoop.
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Again, Terps drive hard to the hoop. Wisconsin playing like a defeated team.
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73-55 Terps win. Bucky has a lot of work to do. Illinois up next. Bucky has lost 5 of their last 6 games.
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68-51 Terps with 3:48 left. No way Bucky overcomes this deficit. Not with their slow play, anyway.
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The game starts at 6:00pm CST, on the Big Ten Network. Wisconsin is 12-6, 4-4, while the Terps are 12-7, 3-5. Hopefully Bucky's shooting is better, tonight, especially on the FT line, than it was at NW. BTN announcers are looking for Hepburn to lead the Badgers, tonight. Sounds good, to me.
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Terps playing full court press, early. Forcing Bucky to speed up their game. Well see how they adjust.
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Essegian misses the 1st FT of the game, but makes the 2nd. 17-18 Terps. 11:40 left in the half. Into a media time out.
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In other B10 news, Coach for Indiana won't coach at Minnesota, tonight due to Covid.
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Essegian has trouble when pressured. He tends to turn it over.
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Full court pressure on D, by the Terps is having an effect on Bucky. Terps making easy baskets, doesn't help, either.
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E3 making some big plays as a freshman. bucky getting outplayed hard
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Shaka Smart was one of the guys I wanted to see in Madison. You look what he’s done in basically 36 months at Marquette taking a undermanned team last year to the tournament, and this year they are 16-5 with all 5 losses coming either in OT or by less than 5 points. There is certainly a talent issue in Madison but it’s almost like teams figure out and adjust to Gard by mid season and they just aren’t good enough.
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This team just doesn't have the horses and I don't see it improving. The program might have to make a major change like the football program did. I always wanted Tony Bennett or Shaka Smart to become the Badger's coach. They had ties to the state/program and have shown they can recruit nationally. I would not be surprised to see something happen at the end of the season if this continues.
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this team was playing great defense earlier in the season. not anymore. and the offense isn’t good enough to overcome the poor defense
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Lol ammo Gard is mediocre and always has been. You know this. Yes they will sneak up on some teams early in the year but once teams have time to learn and adjust they will. This Badgers offense is fucking pathetic. There’s only so many try hard guys you can recruit. If Marquette played them today Kam Jones goes for 30 and the Warriors win easily.
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Listening to WI Sports talk radio yesterday this was a main topic. The Badgers are suffering from a lack of frontline talent and depth. Jordan Davis is not a starter on a D 1 level. On most D 1 schools he is on the end of the bench. He shoots too many 3s and does not do it very good. Essegian is going to be a very good to great player, but he is a freshman still learning the college game. He will struggle at times. Hepburn is already very good, but he can't carry the whole load. Wahl and...
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The NIL must be pretty good for Badger BB. Hepburn was quoted on one radio show saying he bought a Beamer for Christmas. Doesn't make him a bad guy, just that he got some $$$$ from somebody.
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Last season after the first of the year those teams who had time to learn and adjust had a 13 and 4 record against Bucky. I don’t care one way or another about Gard, he ain’t John Wooden and he’s not John Powless. But to say he’s not a good coach is wrong, to me he’s not a good enough recruiter. Unfortunately for him that is the number one requirement for the job, get real good players to coach
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Exactly right. Gard can coach but his recruiting footprint is very limited. When he used the transfer portal this year who did he bring in? Just a couple in state guys they probably didn't offer when they were HS players. It was almost a step backwards. Is Shaka Smart a better coach? I doubt it. But when it comes to recruiting Smart appears to have an advantage. Tony Bennett might be both a better recruiter and HC. Let's not forget a few years ago when Gard lost control of his team with the...
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If you switched rosters this year, I would guess Greg Gard beats Shaka Smart 80 times out of 100. Maybe more. If you want someone to develop 2-star guys into significant contributors on bette- than-average teams or an occassional All-Big 10 level player, there might be no better coach in America than Greg Gard. Greg Gard was Bo Ryan's main guy and he's been doing this as an assistant or head coach for over a decade. As everyone is saying, the ceilings of the guys he gets are very limited.
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If the BB programs slips very much it could be very difficult to get back. I think that's what McIntosh saw happening to the FB program. The underlying factor to recruiting now is the NIL that the players are looking for. With UCLA and USC coming into the league falling into the lower half of the standings does not make the UW very appealing. The Badgers are just at a disadvantage not having enough in state talent to the point where they have to go into competitor's backyards to get talent.
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I'm sure the NIL is good for all players, it's like found money. Something they didn't have a couple years ago. But it is being used as a recruiting tool and it's not a level playing field. Couple that with the transfer portal and you basically have a free agency system in college with many players chasing the money or playing time to get the exposure. That's why I look at the Badgers QB depth chart and see a couple guys bailing out after next season. Probably Burkett and Lacrue.
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Hepburn, Crowl, Wahl and C3 deserve minutes on about any B10 team. Crowl's development has been noteworthy. Klessmit is a nice player who would compliment a second unit. That is it, there is your talent. I think Gard is a helluva coach, and would probably take down a bunch of big ten teams coaching North Dakota State, but this team needs some talent evaluators and closers in the recruiting dept
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Bo Ryan had a presence and a ton of charisma and credibility within basketball circles. He could lure in some higher ranked guys and obviously had a very successful track record and cache. Not unlike Dick Bennett. That’s not Gard. He’s more Brad Soderberg. What’s telling is over the last 6-8 years there have been some decent HS prospects in this state and most have chosen to go elsewhere. I think it’s less about style of play than Gard is just a guy. There’s another angle to consider as...
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Except for a very very few there are only 2 kinds of coaches: Those that have been fired and those that will be fired. So to predict Gard will be fired is really going out on a limb there.
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Auggh, do we have to go through this every other year. Thanks for informing us Tschmack, that Gard is not Bo Ryan, he of the best big ten win percentage of any coach. No, Gard isn't quite that good, but he's still a damn good coach. Two years ago we went through this, and last year we were forced to suffer through another regular season big ten title, where Gard was named conference coach of the year for the second time in three years. But hey, he sucks. Even this year, they were looking...
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Please don't confuse tschmack with the facts. His personal opinion is what really counts. That is all!
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In this day and age past success means nothing. It's like buying a stock. Ask Paul Chryst. Nobody is questioning Gard's ability to coach. But opponents have good coaches to. The missing ingredient is that guy that can get his own shot, the go to guy. Davis came out of nowhere last season to become a lottery pick. Nobody saw that coming. That type of player doesn't exist on the current roster. Essegian could become that guy but not yet. Gard is simply not a great recruiter. I'm curious if all...
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And if Gard is fired how many current Badgers enter the transfer portal? Lots of difference building a team that has 80+ players vs a team with 15 players.
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Ask Paul Chryst those questions. That's just my opinion. You have yours, I have mine.
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Chryst was on his third straight subpar year. Start asking those questions in two more years.
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Nobody would have thought Gard was in trouble prior to the Chryst firing. Now it's evident that the bar is higher. I think there's a very real chance that this team doesn't make the tournament and that could be it for Gard. I see a lot a parallels to the FB program except Gard will get to finish the season no matter how bad it gets. Recruiting ability is huge now that there is HS recruiting and the portal. Tschmack mentioned losing instate recruits. That's not only true but losing out on the...
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So if all of these other teams have good coaches too, why aren't they winning big ten titles like Gard is, if he sucks so bad? Oh, and who recruited Johnny Davis?
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Like I said, the past means nothing. Do you think things will get better?
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Are you honestly saying that past performance isn't important? WTF? Fine, let me put it a different way. How would you feel if they fired Gard, and they told you that the new coach coming in had the 6th best winning percentage in the Big Ten over the last 40 years, was named the conference coach of the year the last two years, while leading his team to two big ten titles in that time? I think you'd be pretty happy. Good god, they're struggling this year. The man has earned the benefit of the...