AyoDos11
- Southern Illinois
If Indiana wins, we're a 7 no matter what
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What seed for the BTT are we looking at with our lose and MD and Iowa losing
Who would we play if Michigan and NW win and who would we play if Michigan and Rutgers win?
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Thank you for those who broke it down. Looks like I'll be rooting for Indiana, but if Michigan wins I'll root for Northwestern over Rutgers.
Although I would not look forward to Penn State, at this point I don't care much about BTT results so I'm more intrigued to see if we would play better than the previous two matchups. Although PSU would still be looking for another win to move off the bubble.
How many wins if any would the team need to get to the 7 line and avoid an 8-9? I imagine a win over Indiana would be more valuable for that than one over Penn State. Rutgers is obviously the most favorable matchup if we are talking about just trying to get to Friday.
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Thank you for those who broke it down. Looks like I'll be rooting for Indiana, but if Michigan wins I'll root for Northwestern over Rutgers.
Although I would not look forward to Penn State, at this point I don't care much about BTT results so I'm more intrigued to see if we would play better than the previous two matchups. Although PSU would still be looking for another win to move off the bubble.
How many wins if any would the team need to get to the 7 line and avoid an 8-9? I imagine a win over Indiana would be more valuable for that than one over Penn State. Rutgers is obviously the most favorable matchup if we are talking about just trying to get to Friday.
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Ignatius Shang
5th year PhD, school of Information Sciences
- Champaign, IL
Yes. But the NW/Rutgers game determines who the 2nd is.
If Indiana beats Michigan, Illinois is the 7 seed I believe against PSU.
Seeing as though 80% of the league is going to have 8 or 9 losses...the difference between 2 and 9 isn't much. All of those teams are in the same boat from a NCAAT standpoint.
AyoDos11
- Southern Illinois
Oh my bad, I didn't read your post close enough.
No way they'll do that. They want it at one location and it is tough to play more than 4 games in a day. Also, then your champ and runner up must have played 4 games. One of the original cases for having the tourney at all was to prepare teams for the NCAA tourney (and obviously because it makes money). I'm not sure wearing your best teams out with 4 games in 4 days is good prep for the tourney.
So we're stuck with facing Pickett again or the dreaded 11 AM start.
I really don't think that's the dream bracket.... Seems like facing a very depleted Rutgers followed by a Purdue rematch would be a much better path to me rather than facing a tough PSU matchup followed by a Northwestern team that plays solid defense and a senior backcourt who thrives on turning you over, or an Indiana team who in my opinion is our toughest matchup in the B10. I'm more confident we can beat Purdue than I am we can beat PSU for what it's worth.
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Not to mention with expansion, there is no possible way of having an equal bracket, unless spread over multiple stadiums. IMO, the byes are the best thing for the conference, as it makes the regular season records more important; and as you mention, allow the best teams to not get over taxed for the NCAA Tournament.
I think having top seeds playing in quarterfinals are completely justified, unlike the WCC, where the top 2 seeds automatically receive byes into semifinals of conference tourney.
You are probably too young then to know about the University slush fund scandal that brought down football and basketball in 1966. Illini sports were scorched earth for along time (multiple decades) and some claim maybe even through today.
Tough to beat a team 3 times in one season. I would like our chances in that game.
I know we want the clown pants deviants to win, but I feel ill rooting for them. Other than the fact they are playing scUM. Always root against scUM.
sacraig
- The desert
So root like hell for Mich and NW. Rutgers is reeling right now. I could even live with facing IU again. Just keep us away from the bad man Jalen Pickett is all I ask lol.
Did you forget we lost to them at State Farm Center with a favorable crowd?
We were a completely different team then. Hard to beat any team three times.
We are a completely different team from half to half....I don't want Penn State. Pickett is too smart and talented
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