Let’s go!
Pregame: Illinois vs Iowa, Sunday, March 6th, 6:30pm CT, FS1
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Lets bring home a B1G title and that #1 seed in the BTT!!! I'd rather be on that side of the bracket!
We want a banner, we want a banner!
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Question for the assembled: Why is Iowa OK with the behavior of its basketball coach?
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Mailbox: Why are Illinois, Michigan OK with the behavior of their basketball coaches?
Mailbox: Readers wonder why college basketball coaches Brad Underwood and Juwan Howard get away with bad behavior.
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Let’s go win a championship boys. We deserved it last year and got robbed. Now you have no excuses, it’s in your hands again! What an opportunity. Senior night. Unbelievable. Let’s get it done!!
Updated for Nebraska doing the unthinkable going into Kohl without their best playerand winning 5 on 8!!! Illinois will now officially be the 1 or 3 seed. Beat Iowa and the Big Ten Championship is yours!!! Check out that 50 percentage point swing. On the flip side, Nebrasaka's win puts them a Minnesota loss away from the 13 seed. Go figure.
Current projections for the BTT considering kenpom win probabilities. So far the 6th seed and seeds 9 thru 12 have been clinched.
To summarize:
1: Wisconsin or Illinois
2: Pur, or Wisc
3: Pur or ILL
4-5: Iowa/Rut
6: OSU
7-8: MSU/Mich
9: Indiana
10: Maryland
11: Penn State
12: Northwestern
13-14: Minn/Neb
Our Illini are either a 1 or 3 seed. A win over Iowa cements the 1. Purdue owns tiebreakers over all teams close to them so they are locked in as a 2 or 3 seed.
As for Matchups, it will be:
1 seed vs Winner of Mich/MSU v Ind
2 seed vs Winner of Mich/MSU v Maryland
3 seed vs Winner of OSU v (Winner of PSU v Minn/Neb)
4 seed vs Winner of Iowa/Rut v (Winner of NW v Minn/Neb)
A win against Iowa and we're the 1 seed. A loss to Iowa and Iowa gets the 4 seed with us dropping to the 3. In the scenario we fall to a 3 seed the likely opponent will be OSU. I think we likely want to avoid that, so let's just go out and win that Big Ten title!
Current projections for the BTT considering kenpom win probabilities. So far the 6th seed and seeds 9 thru 12 have been clinched.
To summarize:
1: Wisconsin or Illinois
2: Pur, or Wisc
3: Pur or ILL
4-5: Iowa/Rut
6: OSU
7-8: MSU/Mich
9: Indiana
10: Maryland
11: Penn State
12: Northwestern
13-14: Minn/Neb
Our Illini are either a 1 or 3 seed. A win over Iowa cements the 1. Purdue owns tiebreakers over all teams close to them so they are locked in as a 2 or 3 seed.
As for Matchups, it will be:
1 seed vs Winner of Mich/MSU v Ind
2 seed vs Winner of Mich/MSU v Maryland
3 seed vs Winner of OSU v (Winner of PSU v Minn/Neb)
4 seed vs Winner of Iowa/Rut v (Winner of NW v Minn/Neb)
A win against Iowa and we're the 1 seed. A loss to Iowa and Iowa gets the 4 seed with us dropping to the 3. In the scenario we fall to a 3 seed the likely opponent will be OSU. I think we likely want to avoid that, so let's just go out and win that Big Ten title!
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
At the risk of being called greedy, I wouldn’t mind seeing this team crank out three banners!We want a banner, we want a banner!
Sorry if I missed it, is Melendez available?
and rings all around.We want a banner, we want a banner!
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