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The guys that voted have their opinions on what constitutes and MVP, as you said. Here are the games where Leal got enough votes to place in the top 3 for those particular games: (remember this is just for Jan + 2 Dec B10 games) NEB Rutgers ILL Iowa Gallo for instance got votes for MD, MN & PU

Guess it depends on your point of view. Leal ALWAYS gives 100% in a game, plus leadership. Even in a loss he'll get votes because of his effort (at least IMO). You have a starter, or 3, that play horrible in a game and Leal comes in and produces while he's in there, even for a couple of minutes, and guys will vote for him. He won't garner the most votes, but he'll get some which gives him 3rd place. I was a little surprised to see where he landed overall, but personally couldn't be happier for the young man. I just wish he'd come back next year, but that's a pipe dream.

Hope the trend continues. Need to bring Wisky back to the pack.

Now multiply that by 100, and you'll be just behind all of the PUke posts....

He's one point behind Gallo on the weighted scale. I track top 3 players receiving votes. Leal has gotten more 3rd place finishes than Gallo. Gallo didn't place in the top 3 for many games. With Leal's win for Iowa, that was 3 points for 1st. 2nd place gets 2 points, 3rd place gets 1. So if you're MVP for a game, you make up a bunch of ground on those guys that don't place in the top 3. Leal has rec'd points in 4 games he's played in, and Gallo only 3. Hope that helps explain it a little.

I audit playing time of the roster. Any player that did not play in the game, the votes are not counted in the tally. So any vote that Leal got when he didn't actually play that game the votes were dismissed and not logged. Which makes his appearance in the top 4-5 players getting votes, even more impressive (to me at least).

Hey IUFLA...how about re-naming this topic "PUke thread"? While I understand that a couple PU guys come here, and one is civil, the other not so much, but they have completely hijacked this thread. Not saying they shouldn't post here, but this is supposed to be a B10 thread, not a PU thread. Can't remember how long it's been since I've seen comments about other B10 schools, or at least more than 1-2. And maybe just for kicks, we should start a "Ref's suck" thread to illustrate all of the horrible calls thru-out the B10. In any case, I guess I'll just ignore this particular thread from now on, because I don't really give a rats ass about PU basketball, and all the debate about Lurch.

He did put the main loudmouth in his place once during the interview.

The January voting results for Jan (all B10 games) also includes the 2 Dec B10 games with MD & MI. Under the "weighted" voting results, Malik & MM are tied for 1st. 1 point behind is Ware, and Gallo is next, several points back. But it might surprise some of you that even with Leal's limited playing time for the month, he's only 1 point behind Gallo. Under the "winner takes all" (no weighting), Reneau & Ware are tied with 2 games each. 6 other players each have 1 winning vote. And for those that want the "total votes received" category, Ware is 1st, Malik a distant 2nd, and Leal a very close 3rd (4 votes down). I'll do another update for the B10 thru Feb at the end of Feb. Post any questions you have and I'll try to answer them.

I think we run them ragged. Attack the press to score, not to break the press, and run the pi$$ out of them.

Anthony Leal is on the HH podcast as of this morning. Interview starts @ 27:40

Anthony Leal is on the HH podcast as of this morning. Interview starts at 27:40

I thought we looked very tentative against Iowa's press. We didn't "attack" it and try to score on it. Can't remember the game last year, but somebody tried to press us, we attacked it and scored immediately, and never saw the press again the rest of the game. If we are tentative against PSU's press, I'm afraid we'll get into that "quicksand" mode where one thing goes wrong, then another, then another....we'll likely have more turnovers than we should.

It does for me, when we're voting for each individual game. We're tracking the voting for each individual game. The player who has the best game (offense, defense, hustle, making others play better, etc) is in the eye of the voter. We all have our opinions on who that is for each indv game. No one's opinion is better than than another persons. That's why we have a voting scoreboard.

FWIW, Leal got the game ball from Woody.

Great team win. Everybody contributed. But when we needed a lift... LEAL !!!! Never been happier to cast an MVP vote to this up and outstanding young man.

Gotta protect the snowflakes...

Grew up on a small hobby farm in NW Indiana. Dad had a Ford 8n. Now that I'm retired, I have 5 acres (of yard) that I mow, and a ½ mile driveway to maintain. Plus I built our house, and did a boat-load of excavation, and finish work with the 2016 tractor (38 hp) that I bought to build and maintain the property (originally 10 acres of yard, but I sold 5 a year or so ago). I've got several PTO implements and just hooking them up, I always get banged up, and start bleeding. Sometimes I look like "death by a 1000 cuts". Most of the time I don't even notice it until I go in the house and the wife says "you're bleeding!!"

I have worked with it about a year ago, but not on a regular basis. Never got cut with it, but if I come within 10' of one of my tractor PTO implements I start bleeding before I even try to hook it up. Thin skinned I guess. But the nippers are great tools for the metal. Especially if you're doing flashing and such. Metal roofing is usually cut to size. (if you engineer the roof correctly...)

Isn't "going under cover" kind of oxi-moronic? He's been "off the grid" ever since he left the army. How much more under cover can you get? I'd rather see Dixon back over Neagley, but I do like the interaction between Reacher and Neagley.