Agreed on those losing as well like Iowa holding serve against Nebby. My point is that we are only playing 7 guys at the moment, not sure when AS will be ready. Regardless, we do not want to play a Thursday game. We neeed to have as much rest as possible. What does winning the regular season bring to us other than a banner? I would rather win the BTT and get to the EE as a minimum.
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Cool. You do not need to willingly piss away our title hopes to make that happen.
Root for OSU against Wiscy today and you'll be golden (see my edited post that you responded to).
For my money you destroyed that talking point lol.
His next ridiculous point would be claim that we lose to USC, UCLA, and Michigan.
If that does someway occur as worst case scenario, then this Purdue-Michigan game is meaningless. Neither team is getting to 6 Ls.
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Fighter of the Nightman
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Good catch and definitely an obvious oversight. Hell, given how long we had spent being bad, how GREAT we looked to close out the regular season and the fact that it occurred against a smaller instate school ... I would argue it's our most disappointing NCAA Tournament loss ever, or at least up there.
To sum up what we need to be rooting for tonight:
1. Purdue beats Michigan
2. OSU beats Wiscy
1 gives us a shot at the conf title
2 gives us an EXTREMELY likely path to a triple bye as long as we don't lose more than 2 of our final 5 games.
Of course Iowa beating Nebby would also be sweet.
1. Purdue beats Michigan
2. OSU beats Wiscy
1 gives us a shot at the conf title
2 gives us an EXTREMELY likely path to a triple bye as long as we don't lose more than 2 of our final 5 games.
Of course Iowa beating Nebby would also be sweet.
Illinicpa14
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You point it out but the takeaway is that the blue bloods (or 4-6 historic programs) win the majority of the titles. Beyond that it is one off great seasons from good programs.
The big tens issue is that it’s been 45 years since it had a true blue blood (IU bob knight) so we don’t go into any given year with a guaranteed top 5 talent team. MSU has been the closest to this the past 25 years and most of those have been good talent with a great coach/program.
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It also completely alters public perception of Brad's quality as a coach.
That was a tough one because it was an in state school. They were obviously grossly under seeded, so from that perspective....it stinks, but it happens.
Austin Peay
East Tennessee St
Western Kentucky
Dayton
Cleveland State
There have been some bad ones.
Okay, back to drawing boards because Purdont getting WAXED!!
I do not have ridiculous posts. We are getting closer to having the triple bye. With only a 8 man rotation, we need to save our legs as we saw in 22 what a fatigued team looks like. The only chance we win the regular season at this point is to run the table and have Michigan lose at home to MSU. I doubt MSU can beat them. Let’s just get the triple bye and win the BTT.
Purdue is broken. There was no way they were going to beat Michigan.
Going forward, out of the 6 teams vying for the triple bye, Nebraska has the easiest schedule followed by us, Michigan, and the mixture of Wisconsin, MSU and Purdue. At this point, I would say that our only realistic chance of winning the conference is for us to run the table and Michigan lose to either at Iowa or home against MSU. If the same refs call the Iowa Michigan game like they did last night, there is a chance. For us, it’s simple to win out to secure no worse than the 2 seed in the BTT. If we go 4-1, we most likely will be tied with Nebraska who has the tie breaker so we would most likely be the 3 seed. Purdue and Wisconsin still play each other and I believe MSU has @Michigan, @IU and @ Purdue. They could lose 2 from that and Wisconsin has Iowa, @ Washington and @ Purdue. Hopefully they lose 1 out of that. Purdue has @ OSU, IU, MSU and Wisconsin. One loss takes them to 15-5. We should be no worse than a 3 seed in the BTT and 2 wins. There should secure no worse than a 2 seed on Selection Sunday.
Miami (OH) is about to complete the first undefeated season in a long time and probably isn't going to get more than a 4- or 5-seed.
So last night probably ended the shot at big ten title. However, a sweep this week puts us in a great spot for the triple bye BTT and a #2 tourney seed in the big dance. Nebraska and Purdue will be behind us on the S curve.
Why would Nebraska have the tie breaker? What comes after head to head?
Illini2010-11
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If we go 4-1, I highly doubt that Nebraska will be tied with us in standings. Nebraska has to do the same LA trip that we are doing this week. They then close with Iowa who just beat them. I do not think Nebraska is going 5-0 in that closing stretch. I think the odds of them going 5-0 are close to the same as going 3-2.
1. The tied teams will be compared based on head-to-head matchups during the regular season.
2. The tied teams will be compared based on record against all common conference opponents.
3. The tied teams will be compared based on record against common opponents with the best conference record and proceeding through the common conference opponents based on their order of finish within the conference standings.
4. The tied teams will be compared based on the best cumulative conference winning percentage of all conference opponents.
5. The representative will be chosen based on the highest ranking by SportSource Analytics (team Rating Score metric) following the regular season.
6. The representative will be chosen by random draw among the tied teams conducted by the Commissioner or designee.
Nebraska is 1-0 vs MSU, we are 0-1 vs MSU
Nebraska is 0-1 vs Purdue, we are 1-0 vs Purdue
Nebraska is 0-1 vs Iowa, we are 1-0 vs Iowa
Both 1-0 vs OSU
Both 1-0 vs Indiana
Both 2-0 vs NW
Both 1-0 vs Washington
Both 1-0 vs Minnesota
Both 1-0 vs Rutgers
We now have the tie breaker due to their loss vs Iowa last night
Illinicpa14
- Chicago
Last night really made the path simple for a 2 seed in St. Louis…it also made a better path that someone like Florida or Kansas get up to the 2 line so we can get someone like Gonzaga instead in 2/3
I don’t think so, not yet Atleast. But it did appear to be the most obvious loss on the calendar for Michigan outside of us. there’s still some landmines there though.
I DO however think, it took away any margin for error from anyone else though.
I’ll never forget Nebraska winning at Wisconsin the final day
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
And then handling business right after that against Iowa. SFC was rocking that evening.
A 10 see would be generous IMO. Playing a steady stream of bottom feeders, many of their wins are by 5pts or less. Most are single digits. They are not good. They are determined.
If I was on the committee, they only make the tourney if they win their conference. Then I'd give them an 11 seed play in game. I expect them to lose by double digits.
They'll be lucky to get a 10. Zero chance at a 4/5 seed.
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