2023-24 Wisconsin Basketball season thread

[homer]

These refs are a complete joke.

[Samurai Bucky]

What a terrible call.  Trash... Panda...

Grant Hill says, "I haven't seen that before..."  So you didn't see it happen earlier in the game or when reviewing the Wisconsin game against Northwestern.

[young guns]

Wow these refs are killing us.

[Samurai Bucky]

The refs have interjected themselves into the game.  Even Raf and Hill are saying that.

[worm81]

Wow. Two terrible calls.

[brooks_quichenick]

Can't wait for Purdue to not have B1G officials giving Edey every call next weekend.

[stoutdude04]

2 minutes ago, brooks_quichenick said:

Can't wait for Purdue to not have B1G officials giving Edey every call next weekend.

Seriously. This is maddening. 

[young guns]

Nicely done chucky!

[Samurai Bucky]

6 minutes ago, brooks_quichenick said:

Can't wait for Purdue to not have B1G officials giving Edey every call next weekend.

I do not see how Edey is going to be successful in today's NBA.  The closest person I could think of would be Greg Odom, but at least he was more athletic.

Edey cannot generate a dynamic shot.  He will get called for illegal defense every time down.

[young guns]

TAKE THAT REFS!

[homer]

great win!

[RedStickBrew]

[brooks_quichenick]

That one feels so good, incredible team win!

[yourout]

Just now, brooks_quichenick said:

That one feels so good, incredible team win!

And A massive FU to some really awful officiating.

[yourout]

That fifth foul on Tyler Wahl might have been the worst call of the last decade.

[AKCheesehead]

Wow what a win. Beat the refs without Wahl, Winter, Crowl. Just an absolute ballsy win. I am so impressed. 

[homer]

12 minutes ago, yourout said:

That fifth foul on Tyler Wahl might have been the worst call of the last decade.

Up there with this one:

 

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

What's nice about winning this game, is you can b**** about the officiating w/o it sounding like sour grapes. I get that it's hard to officiate with a guy that big. But the two calls in the OT, my goodness.  So you're down three bigs, Carter Gilmore battling like he's throwing 1930s prop planes at King Kong, Chris Hodges having to get quality minutes in the 1st half, and you still---find---a---way. Today, the guy with the straight As & pocket protector got the girl😁.

My star of the game has to be Hepburn. Just pure guts. Gutsy stuff also from Klesmit, Crowl, Gilmore. 

I think you gotta live with Storr & the high volume. Just wish he'd lean a little more towards driving the ball.

Wahl fought his heart out. But you gotta be smarter with the shot selection. PLEASE.

Let's hope they play on Friday. Tomorrow will be their 4th day in a row, Could use every extra day they can get.

[Jim French Stepstool]

43 minutes ago, Samurai Bucky said:

The refs have interjected themselves into the game.  Even Raf and Hill are saying that.

Got a kick at how they were talking to the former ref on air, and he bent over backwards to be diplomatic. Reminded me of when they used to talk to Bruce Froemming during Brewer telecasts.

Edey could tear down the Target Center brick by brick tonite out of frustration, and they'd probably cite the construction company for a building code violation.

[yourout]

Not sure who i want Bucky to face tomorrow.

Nebraska is hot but Illinois has 2 guys better than anyone on buckys roster.

[RedStickBrew]

1 hour ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

My star of the game has to be Hepburn. Just pure guts. Gutsy stuff also from Klesmit, Crowl, Gilmore. 

No doubt. He was the leading scorer but I thought his full court D on Smith was disruptive for them all game and culminated in the big offensive foul call at the end.
 

Props to Gard again for coming up with that defensive wrinkle which Purdue really had no answer for all game

[yourout]

A Nebraska will in double OT would be nice.

I want nothing to do Illinois. To much talent.

 

On edit... Illinois is a F4 team. So much talent.

[RedStickBrew]

19 minutes ago, yourout said:

A Nebraska will in double OT would be nice.

I want nothing to do Illinois. To much talent.

It’s going to be tough either way playing a fourth game in a row. I thought it looked like we tired at the end of todays game- missing jump shots, etc. It will only be worse tomorrow. I think they can hang for a bit with I’ll annoy, not sure about the second half though. Nebraska would be the easier matchup for sure

[yourout]

1 minute ago, RedStickBrew said:

It’s going to be tough either way playing a fourth game in a row. I thought it looked like we tired at the end of todays game- missing jump shots, etc. It will only be worse tomorrow. I think they can hang for a bit with I’ll annoy, not sure about the second half though. Nebraska would be the easier matchup for sure

If the zebras keep rewarding Shannon's suicide drives to the rim Bucky will have a long afternoon.

[Joseph Zarr]

Congrats Badgers fans! That must have been a fun one. Overcoming such FT discrepancies and, well, unfavorable discrepancies in most meaningful categories has to feel like an awesome outlier victory. Any time any Wisconsin team can win in that regard is a fantastic outcome. Good luck in the Finals.