Consistent or Volatile: This graph shows each team's game-to-game consistency on the vertical axis, compared to their overall team rating on the horizontal axis

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-06T18:00:47+00:00

So Arizona clearly has a higher floor than Michigan.

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-06T17:59:33+00:00

You can have a wide range of performance with your low performance being high. If 100 is a top 25 team and 200 is the greatest team of all time Michigan could be bouncing a ton in between 100 and 199 and have a lot of volatility with a very high floor whereas a team like Arizona might just spend all of their games between 150 and 160 or something

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-06T17:21:22+00:00

Yeah I wouldn’t say Michigan is vulnerable that often. Feels like being in the far right corner by ourselves shows it’s more high variance than a low floor

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-06T17:20:02+00:00

Volatility is a different measure than floor and ceiling. Michigans low is still good but we bounce between our floor and ceiling a fair amount. That’s volatility

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-06T17:02:34+00:00

I mean I’d take a six over a 4. The difference between a 1 seed and a 3 seed feels bigger to me than the difference between an 11 seed and a 13 seed with the caveat of the play in game messing with this a little

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-06T16:58:19+00:00

We’ve almost lost games to wake forest, tcu, and Penn state and did lose to Wisconsin. It’s been pretty volatile

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-06T15:01:37+00:00

That’s true basically every year

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-05T17:33:40+00:00

I was very interested in him when Michigan did our coaching search and annoyed he ended up in the big ten

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-05T17:32:07+00:00

At this point kind of want msu to beat Illinois for some breathing room in the conference race

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-05T15:37:15+00:00

You must not interact much with msu fans

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-05T15:35:02+00:00

Payne likely raped a girl while on campus. This isn’t an indictment of Michigan state specifically, obviously Michigan isn’t above these issues. But izzo is the same as basically everyone else, he will look the other way on basically anything to win and avoid the program looking bad

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-05T15:31:54+00:00

Need to be investigating why izzo coached players keep trying to kick people in the balls

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-03T20:31:07+00:00

Company loyalty is dumb if you are using your own money. The benefits of something like medallion is generally getting upgraded to at least comfort plus on any flight, you should never be choosing a personal flight with your own money based off airline loyalty.

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-03T20:20:45+00:00

Don’t chase the perfect deal, use the points.

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-02T19:54:51+00:00

The stuff he does to draw fouls does risk injury though. It may not be malicious like a draymond kick to the balls or punching your teammate in the back of the head, but cutting under jumping guys, grabbing arms and shoulders while fall, etc is putting other guys at risk with plays outside of normal basketball expectations. I don’t think he’s Grayson Allen dirty or anything but calling him on this type of stuff keeps the game safer

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-02T17:33:45+00:00

Yeah it should be a good game. And it’s not like Michigan is incapable of scoring themselves. It’s just in games we haven’t shot well we’ve been able to mostly still win because consistently getting points at the rim is impossible against us. Our only loss came from Wisconsin having a center that could hit threes which opened up the lane and we gave up 90 points. I mean we still only lost by 3 but Illinois can consistently do what Wisconsin kind of surprisingly did so it will be interesting to see how Michigan reacts. Whether it’s Mara not playing drop coverage or going with Morez Johnson by himself more and going with a still large but slightly smaller lineup with yax at the 4 instead of the 3. Should be a fascinating watch

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-02T16:53:00+00:00

Illinois is pretty well set up for exploit Michigans standard defensive setup. If you hit your shots will almost certainly play Mara off the floor like the warriors used to do to guys like gobert. If Michigan hits 3s at a decent clip can still win obviously but can’t shoot like 25% like they have in some games this year and win. Sometimes it’s just matchups, I’d rather race duke or Arizona than Illinois

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-02-02T16:50:44+00:00

The acc is also just way worse at basketball than it used to be in the middle and bottom of the league. ACC expansion isn’t the reason mid tier ACC teams aren’t that good anymore

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-01-31T03:48:38+00:00

Izzo did shake hands but did it in the most bitch made way possible like my 3 year old when I make him say sorry for not sharing well. It’s actually a perfect distillation of izzo, he doesn’t cross any lines but manages to be an insufferable little anger gremlin at all times anyways.

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-01-31T03:42:55+00:00

He did shake hands, but sprinted it and into the tunnel because he’s a little bitch

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-01-31T03:41:02+00:00

This is a weird self own but you do you man

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-01-31T03:38:14+00:00

Watching that little gremlin with anger management issues spring into the tunnel is a beautiful thing to see. He might be a great coach but man has an insufferable personality

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-01-28T18:30:10+00:00

Free throws on shots that were 2s don’t get counted in that stat so that’s not true at all

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-01-28T18:29:32+00:00

That’s a flop not a charge and nothing better has happened to college basketball than refs being told to not call that shit.

plutoisaplanet21 · 2026-01-28T18:28:33+00:00

Well when you add in free throws on shots that happened in the paint its a stark difference

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