With a week off until our next game, now seems like as good a time as any to look at our remaining schedule. I pulled this off of our profile on
barttorvik:
These numbers will continue to shift as the season progresses, but as you can see we have an upcoming stretch of six pretty winnable games up until we travel to East Lansing on 1/23. After @MSU, we have four I-A games in a row, then three more winnable games, before our regular season wraps up with two more I-A games. If this season plays out like last season, we might need to win @Wisc and/or @OSU to claim a share of the conference title. That's brutal. But such is life in the Big Ten this year. Not a fan of our projected 13-7 conference record? Just a reminder that we finished 13-7 last season, 0.5 a game back from the three way tie at 14-6 for the conference title. And if you think that 17-9 overall looks ugly, don't worry. Even with the current projections, Torvik still thinks we have a 97.4% chance of making the tournament as a 2.7 seed. We had a brutal non-conference schedule and the Big Ten is a meat grinder. We will have every chance to continue assembling an impressive resume before tournament time.
In summary, we need to stack wins before 1/23, because they'll probably be a lot harder to come by in the second half of our conference schedule. On the plus side, there are some really exciting games to look forward to as we slowly but surely work our way into postseason shape.
