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SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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May 29, 2001
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I have been following this closely for several weeks now, and Martinelli's lead is razor thin (see below). I knew he needed 18 last night to stay on top and he got those two free throws in the last minute to get to exactly 18. Here are the leaders:

NameSchoolGPtsAvg
MartinelliNorthwestern2753319.74
GarciaMinnesota2651319.73
TonjeWisconsin2651019.62
Kaufman-RennPurdue2752919.59
WilliamsNebraska2752319.37
HarperRutgers2446019.17
BaileyRutgers2546518.60

Garcia and Tonje play tomorrow, in case you want to keep track yourself.
 
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GatoLouco

GatoLouco

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Nov 13, 2019
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Can you post just B1G games? It's probably just as close but I think Kaufman Renn has been quite on the upswing
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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May 29, 2001
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I can probably put together the numbers for those games as well. I think TKR and Tonje have been the best, but that's based on a guess.
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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May 29, 2001
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OverallConferenceNon-Conference
Martinelli19.7419.7519.73
Garcia19.7320.6018.55
Tonje19.6219.5319.73
Kaufman-Renn19.5920.4418.36
Williams19.3719.8118.73
Harper19.1716.0022.91
Bailey18.6018.8818.11
 
GatoLouco

GatoLouco

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Nov 13, 2019
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Our man is one consistent dude at a 0.02 difference conference vs non conference.

Kudos to Garcia and TKR for actually (significantly as others also did) raising their scoring against tougher competition. Though Purdue did play a pretty hard non conference schedule.
 
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Hungry Jack

All-Conference
Nov 17, 2008
37,234
2,715
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All very good players.

It seems that Martinelli and K-R are the only ones in that group who will be back next year, assuming the Rutgers kids declare for the NBA draft.
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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May 29, 2001
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Hungry Jack said:
All very good players.

It seems that Martinelli and K-R are the only ones in that group who will be back next year, assuming the Rutgers kids declare for the NBA draft.
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I think it's possible TKR will declare too, though he's not a slam dunk draft pick.
 
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Hungry Jack

All-Conference
Nov 17, 2008
37,234
2,715
67
I have always been a Brice Williams fan. Great player, IMO. Nebby is going to miss him greatly.
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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May 29, 2001
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Here's an update through the weekend. Martinelli is ahead by ONE point.

NameSchoolGPtsAvg
MartinelliNorthwestern2753319.74
TonjeWisconsin2753219.70
GarciaMinnesota2752419.41
HarperRutgers2548519.40
WilliamsNebraska2752319.37
Kaufman-RennPurdue2853819.21
BaileyRutgers2647918.42

The only player above with a scheduled game Monday is Brice Williams at home against Michigan,
 
TheC

TheC

All-Conference
May 29, 2001
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SmellyCat said:
Here's an update through the weekend. Martinelli is ahead by ONE point.

NameSchoolGPtsAvg
MartinelliNorthwestern2753319.74
TonjeWisconsin2753219.70
GarciaMinnesota2752419.41
HarperRutgers2548519.40
WilliamsNebraska2752319.37
Kaufman-RennPurdue2853819.21
BaileyRutgers2647918.42

The only player above with a scheduled game Monday is Brice Williams at home against Michigan,
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Williams may pull ahead. He already has 18 points in the first half.
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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May 29, 2001
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Martinelli needed eight points to maintain his lead last night and though it took him until the second half to get them, he has a slim lead:

NameTeamGPtsAvg
MartinelliNorthwestern2957819.93
GarciaMinnesota2855019.64
WilliamsNebraska2854919.61
Kaufman-RennPurdue2956719.55
TonjeWisconsin2854519.46
HarperRutgers2650219.31

Minnesota and Nebraska play today. Root for Garcia to get under 28 and Williams to get under 29.

I honestly don't know how official the "Big Ten Scoring Crown" is and if it counts the BTT and any other post-season play, but here are the remaining games for the players above:

March 1 - Minnesota at Nebraska
March 2 - Wisconsin at Michigan State
March 3 - UCLA at Northwestern
March 4 - Nebraska at Ohio State, Rutgers at Purdue
March 5 - Wisconsin at Minnesota
March 6 - None
March 7 - Purdue at Illinois
March 8 - Northwestern at Maryland, Penn State at Wisconsin
March 9 - Minnesota at Rutgers, Iowa at Nebraska
 
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SouthportCat

Sophomore
Mar 8, 2006
335
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Love how Mart found a way when baskets weren’t quite coming as easily. Iowa’s gameplan was pretty much to double (and a few times triple) as soon as he got the ball. Mart resisted the temptation to fire contested threes, which was good to see. Felt like he had more confidence in other guys to make baskets.

If officiating was balanced he would shoot twice as many FTs as he currently does. CCC needs to be relentless in his nice-guy sarcasm assault on the B1G all throughout the offseason to make sure Mart is getting 10+ foul attempts per game next year befitting the league’s best inside scorer.
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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May 29, 2001
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Martinelli's chances of winning the crown in the regular season took a huge blow last night when Brice Williams exploded for 43 points, 15 in the two overtimes of Nebraska's loss.

Martinelli now needs to outscore Williams by 15 points in their respective finales to earn a share of the title.

I also couldn't help but see when Williams was driving late in regulation and Nebraska down, he drew the foul that Martinelli could NOT draw. Looked similar to me.
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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With 28 points for Martinelli today, it comes down to this for Brice Williams tomorrow:

13 points for Williams is a tie at the end of the regular season. If the postseason counts, then I guess this thing keeps going a few more weeks.
 
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PurpleWhiteBoy

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Feb 25, 2021
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SmellyCat said:
With 28 points for Martinelli today, it comes down to this for Brice Williams tomorrow:

13 points for Williams is a tie at the end of the regular season. If the postseason counts, then I guess this thing keeps going a few more weeks.
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The way I look at it, using Big Ten regular season games...
Kaufman-Renn has 410 points and Nick has 409.
They're finished with the regular season.

Brice Williams has 407 with one game to play.

Big Ten awards should be based on conference play, where everybody gets 20 games.
 
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Davidgolds5

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Dec 2, 2024
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Martinelli on precipice of a scoring title. Williams needs 7 points in remaining 12 minutes of the Nebraska game, but Iowa is doubling him every time he touches the ball. Let’s go Nick!
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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PurpleWhiteBoy said:
Big Ten awards should be based on conference play, where everybody gets 20 games.
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I'm ok with counting everything. If you lead the NL in batting average it counts games you played against the AL in your stats. I hate that there's interleague at all, but if you're going to do it that way in baseball I see no reason why you wouldn't in college basketball. Especially as it may benefit a Wildcat!
 
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Davidgolds5

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SmellyCat said:
I'm ok with counting everything. If you lead the NL in batting average it counts games you played against the AL in your stats. I hate that there's interleague at all, but if you're going to do it that way in baseball I see no reason why you wouldn't in college basketball. Especially as it may benefit a Wildcat!
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Would the big ten tournament count in that though?
 
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jensberg

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Jul 28, 2006
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Davidgolds5 said:
Martinelli on precipice of a scoring title. Williams needs 7 points in remaining 12 minutes of the Nebraska game, but Iowa is doubling him every time he touches the ball. Let’s go Nick!
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Williams only scored 7 points in the entire game
 
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hdhntr1

All-Conference
Sep 5, 2006
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SmellyCat said:
With 28 points for Martinelli today, it comes down to this for Brice Williams tomorrow:

13 points for Williams is a tie at the end of the regular season. If the postseason counts, then I guess this thing keeps going a few more weeks.
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So why would the post season count since not all teams even get into BTT, let alone other tourneys? I don't think Williams is in BTT though might get to Crown
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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I want to hear "last year's leading scorer" in every game next year and want to see it as much as possible in press materials and the like. Anything that gets NU and Martinelli some kind of advantage/respect with the refs. He shot 11 free throws against Maryland, which is an outstanding step in the right direction. I'd love for him to have so much respect that it will be normal for him to draw that many shooting fouls.
 
mickbula

mickbula

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SmellyCat said:
I want to hear "last year's leading scorer" in every game next year and want to see it as much as possible in press materials and the like. Anything that gets NU and Martinelli some kind of advantage/respect with the refs. He shot 11 free throws against Maryland, which is an outstanding step in the right direction. I'd love for him to have so much respect that it will be normal for him to draw that many shooting fouls.
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Ideally the same or similar to purdue's 7 4" all everything scoring leader the past 2 years- all the calls that he thrived off of to get easy points on way to nba
 
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Davidgolds5

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Not sure how many he averaged per game, but the way he plays, seems he should be shooting 10 FT a game.
 
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olsh

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Oct 6, 2001
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hdhntr1 said:
So why would the post season count since not all teams even get into BTT, let alone other tourneys? I don't think Williams is in BTT though might get to Crown
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Actually, Nebraska will get the Big Ten's invite to the NIT IF Ohio State gets into the NCAA.
Nebraska has the highest "computer scores" that are used to determine the Big Ten automatic.
Northwestern is second.

Although if OSU slides off the bubble, they'll be quite a bit ahead of Nebraska.
 
SmellyCat

SmellyCat

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Davidgolds5 said:
Not sure how many he averaged per game, but the way he plays, seems he should be shooting 10 FT a game.
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He averaged 5.6 per game, ninth in the B10. Many of the other top stars ahead of him so he’s in good company. Still should be higher.
 
TheC

TheC

All-Conference
May 29, 2001
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He led the BIG in scoring without really being much of a three-point shooting threat or a big man who goes to the free throw line 20 times a game. Just such an interesting and creative scorer.
 
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hdhntr1

All-Conference
Sep 5, 2006
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TheC said:
He led the BIG in scoring without really being much of a three-point shooting threat or a big man who goes to the free throw line 20 times a game. Just such an interesting and creative scorer.
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We do well with tweeners
 
DaCat

DaCat

All-Conference
May 29, 2001
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1,906
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Another win for Northwestern is ESPN listing Martinelli as NU, and Williams as NEB. :cool:
 
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Smolmania

Sophomore
Nov 4, 2008
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The level of improvement for young Nick between his sophomore and junior years was off the charts. I'm hoping that this summer he adds consistency from the three point arc to his game. That would move him from 1st team all B1G to a Wooden POY candidate
 
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