Week of 3/2 Bracketology
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Miami(OH) down to 89 in kenpom after a 2 point squeaker. Not gonna lie, after the Bruce Pearl and Miami AD back and forth, I would love to see them lose in the conference tourney and it come down to them and Auburn for the final at large. Cue the drama. We all know Pearl deserves the smoke, even though he has a point on this one.
We are solidly on the 2 line with Houston, MSU and Florida/UConn. Nebraska losing so far to UCLA will keep them at the 3 with Purdue and who knows as TecH, BYU and KU all lost tonight. Virginia could move onto the 3 line since teams ahead of them have lost. Beat Maryland this weekend and win the QF game next Friday and a 2 seed is ours.
Fighter of the Nightman
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From my POV, some great results for us tonight so far! Go UCLA!
Since I know we'll have plenty of people asking...
Illini clinch the triple bye in the BTT with either a win on Sunday at Maryland OR Wisky losing one of their last two remaining conference games.
Illini clinch the triple bye in the BTT with either a win on Sunday at Maryland OR Wisky losing one of their last two remaining conference games.
Nuts - OK crushed Miznoz tonight
Nebraska a 2 seed? I needed a good laugh. Since starting 20-0 they are 5-5.
Win at Maryland and win one game in the BTT and it should lock up a 2 seed, especially given the losses by Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa State, Purdue and TT.
Who has the Big Ten tourney seeding tiebreaker if our Illini and Nebraska both end at 15 & 5?
Nebraska almost certainly because of record against Wisconsin the sixth seed.
Problem is Michigan state probably loses to Michigan. That’s a three way tie for second and we own a 1-2 RR record against Nebraska and msu.
I think the only way we get a 3 seed is Nebraska losing to Iowa and us beating Maryland.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I believe Nebraska because this scenario assumes MSU doesn’t lose at home to Rutgers and is thus also 15-5, making it a 3-way tie. And Nebraska beat MSU, while we didn’t, so they jump us and we are the #4 seed.
It would be REALLY great if Iowa upset Nebraska and we could get the #3 seed! Such a better path…
We beat Purdue and they did not. Doesn’t that move us ahead of them?
Nebraska as they beat MSU and we did not.
I actually don’t think there’s a way we jump Nebraska if we end with the same record. MSU record against is actually the first tie breaker regardless of msu winning or losing. They’ve got that.
Yep, good catch
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The Illini peaked way too soon! You never know which team will show up. Last nights game against a poor Oregon team and we shot 39% on 711 shots?? Where was Tomi and Boswell. In sudden death games you can't have a night off. I think they get bounced in the Big by Purdue and in the 2nd game of the NCAA
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Will be a supreme challenge as a 4. Not impossible, just a very tough side of the bracket.
If we get 4 then I want to badgers as the 5 seed
opponent there should be purdue or wisconsin (basically the winner of their game this coming saturday)... also assumes they beat the winner of 12/13 in b1g tourney... if we face usc or minny, hard to call that a supreme challenge... i question if wisconsin would really be that even though they beat us in champaign (we did not have kylan nor andrej in that one)... if its purdue though then that does get closer to supreme challenge territory imo
any chance if let’s say Purdue beats both Wisconsin then us in the big ten tournament, msu loses to Michigan and whoever plays them first round BTT, that we’d still sneak in as a 2 seed? Feels slim but that’s almost worst case scenario for us.
Yes. I'm fully expecting Purdue to beat Wiscy at Mackey Saturday. Would be completely shocked otherwise. Purdue will then be out for revenge against us in the tournament after most likely handling USC or Minny. Stranger things have happened, but not likely.
Illini2010-11
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This is 100% accurate.
Best case scenario for us is to win on Sunday (avoid the dreaded Quad 3 road loss) and have Wisky beating both Maryland and @Purdue, which would assure us at least the 4 seed. Wisconsin is currently ranked #32 NET. If they win both of those games, there is a pretty good chance for that loss a couple weeks ago to sneak in as a Quad 1 loss as compared to the current Quad 2 loss. They only need to gain two spots.
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