Mr. Tibbs
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pretty much agree. I would probably put getting to an E8 appearance higher than the B1G Tourney, but otherwise Im in agreementDisagree. There was just a discussion here this week about Calipari and his lack of SEC titles vs. Self and his Big 12 titles. And I don't think anyone thinks much of historical sweet sixteen appearances either.
Some smarter mathematician than me can do the formulas, but there is an expected return / likelihood of achievement thing for me. Of course national championships are the best, but we are zero for 55 in my lifetime. Doesn't mean you stop striving for those, but to me conference championships matter. My rough and open-to-debate order is something like this:
National championship
Final Four
Big Ten regular season champ
Big Ten tournament champ
Elite 8 / Sweet 16 / second weekend
Winning the B1G reqular season is a sure sign you had a great year from mid Dec - March and means you had a lot of games on national TV.
Winning the B1G tourney is nice, and allows you to hang a banner, but it just means you were really good (and maybe lucky) for 3-4 days in mid March