Final regular season B1G EM:
What we know:
- Purdue is #1
- Illinois is #2
- Rutgers is #13
- Michigan is #14
- Indiana, despite rolling at the end of the season, is bad.
- Minnesota cratered the last two weeks
- Ohio State rising, above Iowa going into their Thursday matchup
- Maryland should be better than they are, is that all on coaching? Or effort?
- 4 of the 6 teams above level are on Purdue's side of the bracket. Illinois has no excuses.
- Illinois has only ever won 1 Friday game under Underwood (the Ayo-Kofi year they won the whole B1G tournament in the bubble), and have lost in the first round every other year.