Next year with Davison and Crowl graduating and Johnny Davis leaving they are likely to start
Wahl, Hepburn, Jordan Davis, Neath, and Carlson. No impact recruits coming in.
Maybe they'll get a transfer, but that group will struggle to win 8 games total.
Crowl graduating?
This just means the end of the sports season until football starts.
Crowl is not a senior
@MichiganPacker posted:Next year with Davison and Crowl graduating and Johnny Davis leaving they are likely to start
Wahl, Hepburn, Jordan Davis, Neath, and Carlson. No impact recruits coming in.
Maybe they'll get a transfer, but that group will struggle to win 8 games total.
I’ll take the over
Couldn’t run the offense without Chucky in the court, but his defense was really missed too. With no back up on the roster depth kills Bucky tonight.
Vogt is, not Crowl.
@EC Pack posted:Vogt is, not Crowl.
Thanks for the correction.
@Pikes Peak posted:I’ll take the over
Maybe some guys will take some leaps, but there is no one outside of Hepburn that will generate any offense on the perimeter.
Yeah, better get 2 shooters and a PG in the portal.
Maybe Davison can come back. 
For a 9th year?
I’m saying it’s all the woman announcers fault……I don’t like her. 🤬 🤬 🤬
Sure. It seemed like Kansas always had a guard that was there for the better part of a decade back in the day.
@Goldie posted:I’m saying it’s all the woman announcers fault……I don’t like her. 🤬 🤬 🤬
That’s sexist.
Difficult to win with seventeen turnovers and 2-22 from three.
@Pikes Peak posted:Unless they won it all he was going out on a loss
True. But to lose like this where it seemed he was the only Badger that showed up? His teammates owed him a better showing. Bucky had Iowa St in foul trouble and wouldn't drive to the hoop to create contact and a chance for FTs. A lot better doing that than throwing up bricks from 3.
just an ugly game and depressing way to end the season. hope chucky is okay. not convinced johnny is ready for the nba
This is why I’m not sold on Gard
It was the same issue in the Colgate game you need to work the ball inside out and not let your bigs bomb away from 3 early in the shot clock
Well if the players don't do what you tell, what you gonna do, bench them? They had no bench and the starters knew that. And they knew that for about 30 games. When ISU was forcing turnovers inside at a rate the Badgers had not seen all year, I think they thought it was a better option to bomb away.
This was the best Xs and Os coaching job Gard has done. He got a lot out of very little talent outside of Johnny Davis as it might be the weakest group of recruits at Wisconsin in 20 years (especially when you consider Davison was playing an extra year).
Compared to the Big 10 title teams Gard and Ryan had in the past, there were 3 guys that would have even seen the court for the past teams. And only Johnny Davis would have started.
They won a Big 10 title with having 1 guy who would even be in the top 20 players of who they've had the last 10 years and maybe only 2 that would have set foot on the court for the Kaminsky teams.
In the last 10 years, they've had 19 other guys that might have been the 2nd best player on this current team (and I'd take the first three over Johnny Davis) - Kaminsky, Dekker, Koenig, Hayes, Brust, Gasser, T. Jackson, Dukan, Iverson, Happ, Aleem Ford, Pritzl, Trice, Showalter, Vitto Brown, Traveon Jackson, Ryan Evans, Berggren, and Jordan Taylor.
Davison slots into this group somewhere, but in the bottom third.
Charlie Thomas, Reuvers, and Micah Potter would have been at least the 4th best players on this team.
Chucky Hepburn was great for a freshman, but he's redshirting on most of the Badgers teams from 2002-2018.
When you look at the stats, you really wonder how they won 25 games. They shot 30.6% from the floor for the year and they were missing their best guy (Bowman) for half the year. Gard felt he had to leave Crowl (31% from three) on the floor to stretch the defense against Iowa State because the other guys were abysmal all year from there- Jordan Davis (28%), Neath (22%), Wahl (16%), Carlson (5%), and Vogt (0 for 1 for the year).
Outside of Bowman (40%), even their best 3-point shooters would have been among their worst shooters on the previous Big 10 title teams - Davison and Hepburn were both just below 35% and Johnny Davis was 30.6.
Well, maybe the Big Ten just isn’t that good?
Davis is a really, really good college player. Davison is a nice running mate. Hepburn is an elite defender. That alone will win them some games.
And yes, if you were a coach with any balls or had the respect of your players you would bench them for playing stupid. The Badgers game plan against Colgate and Iowa State was horrendous.
They are a terrible 3 pt shooting team yet you allow your bigs to take multiple 3s early in the shot clock despite having a size advantage (Colgate) or foul advantage (Iowa State)? That’s dumb basketball.
Sure. And then we get to read your bitch about why is Gard playing Jordan Davis, Bowman, Higgenbottom and Ilver and Gilmor.
It's also not like posting up Wahl, Crowl, and Vogt is some sure thing on offense either. Wahl has worked hard to make himself a major contributor on a Big 10 title team, but it's not like jacking up 3s from poor shooters is taking touches away in the post from an Ethan Happ or Kaminsky.
I think we can all agree that they need better players.
Can’t we?
Classic
Arkansas taking it to Gonzaga. Refs are really letting them bang around.
Zags….regular season champs again
Michigan gets beat. Just Purdue left from the Big Ten. Refs just gave a pair of boxing gloves to Howard....
St. Petes hanging tough but I fear Purdon't says enough is enough.
Found on Al Gores internet…
Little 10!!!!!!
Purdue loses to St Peter's! No more Big Ten teams left in the tournament!
Saint Peter's goes 19 for 21 from the line. 6 for 6 in the last 41 seconds.
Purdont don't
Tough guys on St Pete’s, Houston and Arkansas.
🦚 🦚 🦚 🦚 🦚 🦚 🦚 🦚
Lol the Big Ten just sucks
til your PG goes down and there is no back up
7 of the 8 Elite Eight teams rank 297th or worse in bench minutes.
— Blazer Ball (@UAB_Hoops) March 26, 2022
Depth is overrated.
