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<blockquote data-quote="Fighter of the Nightman" data-source="post: 1513596" data-attributes="member: 590800"><p>So high right now, FINALLY feel vindicated - for the first time since 2011, when I was literally a freshman in college - talking to my Badgers friends like we are their peer. Football and basketball?! Boom! We are 11-5 (3-2), and I will take it! Anyway, folks, not to be too Cloud Nine-ish, but ... look what we have coming up (rankings are current Pomeroy rankings, where we are #29, and we just beat #24 at their place):</p><p></p><p>vs. #34 Rutgers</p><p>vs. #101 Northwestern</p><p>at #20 Purdue</p><p>at #19 Michigan</p><p>vs. #37 Minnesota</p><p>at #22 Iowa</p><p>vs. #7 Maryland</p><p>vs. #3 Michigan State</p><p>at #34 Rutgers</p><p>at #27 Penn State</p><p>vs. #140 Nebraska</p><p>at #101 Northwestern</p><p>vs. #43 Indiana</p><p>at #4 Ohio State</p><p>vs. #22 Iowa</p><p></p><p>Looking at those games, I see the breakdown like this:</p><p></p><p><strong>ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO WIN TO MAKE THE TOURNAMENT</strong></p><p>vs. Northwestern</p><p>vs. Minnesota</p><p>vs. Nebraska</p><p>at Northwestern</p><p>vs. Indiana</p><p></p><p><strong>GAMES WE <em>SHOULD</em> WIN IF WE WANT TO STAY OFF THE BUBBLE</strong></p><p>vs. Rutgers</p><p>vs. Iowa</p><p></p><p><strong>GAMES WE WIN IF WE TRULY HAVE TURNED A CORNER</strong></p><p>at Purdue ... if we can win at UW and dominate PU at home, we can win this</p><p>vs. Maryland ... payback and protect home court</p><p></p><p><strong>GAMES WE SHOULD REASONABLY EXPECT TO LOSE AND WOULDN'T CAUSE ANY PANIC</strong></p><p>at Michigan</p><p>vs. Michigan State</p><p>at Iowa ... just have an amazingly bad feeling about them drilling 3s against us again, lol, plus dropping another "average" road game is expected</p><p>at Rutgers</p><p>at Penn State</p><p>at Ohio State</p><p></p><p>These are just my biased groupings, but even just doing what we "should" do and losing everything else, we would finish 18-13 (10-10). That might not be good enough for a Tournament berth, but it keeps us in the conversation. There is absolutely no reason we can't beat Maryland at home and win at Purdue AND/OR steal one from the last category. This win at Wisconsin was MASSIVE for our season. Let's build on it and possibly get hot and go on a run ... maybe even 2004 style! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fighter of the Nightman, post: 1513596, member: 590800"] So high right now, FINALLY feel vindicated - for the first time since 2011, when I was literally a freshman in college - talking to my Badgers friends like we are their peer. Football and basketball?! Boom! We are 11-5 (3-2), and I will take it! Anyway, folks, not to be too Cloud Nine-ish, but ... look what we have coming up (rankings are current Pomeroy rankings, where we are #29, and we just beat #24 at their place): vs. #34 Rutgers vs. #101 Northwestern at #20 Purdue at #19 Michigan vs. #37 Minnesota at #22 Iowa vs. #7 Maryland vs. #3 Michigan State at #34 Rutgers at #27 Penn State vs. #140 Nebraska at #101 Northwestern vs. #43 Indiana at #4 Ohio State vs. #22 Iowa Looking at those games, I see the breakdown like this: [B]ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO WIN TO MAKE THE TOURNAMENT[/B] vs. Northwestern vs. Minnesota vs. Nebraska at Northwestern vs. Indiana [B]GAMES WE [I]SHOULD[/I] WIN IF WE WANT TO STAY OFF THE BUBBLE[/B] vs. Rutgers vs. Iowa [B]GAMES WE WIN IF WE TRULY HAVE TURNED A CORNER[/B] at Purdue ... if we can win at UW and dominate PU at home, we can win this vs. Maryland ... payback and protect home court [B]GAMES WE SHOULD REASONABLY EXPECT TO LOSE AND WOULDN'T CAUSE ANY PANIC[/B] at Michigan vs. Michigan State at Iowa ... just have an amazingly bad feeling about them drilling 3s against us again, lol, plus dropping another "average" road game is expected at Rutgers at Penn State at Ohio State These are just my biased groupings, but even just doing what we "should" do and losing everything else, we would finish 18-13 (10-10). That might not be good enough for a Tournament berth, but it keeps us in the conversation. There is absolutely no reason we can't beat Maryland at home and win at Purdue AND/OR steal one from the last category. This win at Wisconsin was MASSIVE for our season. Let's build on it and possibly get hot and go on a run ... maybe even 2004 style! :) [/QUOTE]
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