Serious Depth of Big 10

[RU-ROCS]

The Big 10 has lacked a dominant great team destined to win it all for quite some time. Maybe IL is that team This year. Maybe Michigan would have been that team too, if Livers hadn’t gotten hurt. who knows? But in the last two days the 6th, 7th and 8th placed teams in the Big 10, Wisconsin, RU and MD, all upset higher seeds. The most recent is MD’s coast to coast win over the 3rd place team in the Big East. It still remains to be seen whether the Big 10 has the best team. But the hype about the depth of the conference rings true.

 

[rucoe89]

The other surprise is the PAC 12. They took a lot of flack but they may go 5-0, though Oregon gets their by forfeit. The Big 12 has looked good too. ACC and Big East are on the other end of the spectrum.

 

[BillyC80]

Would love to see the B1G get 4 in the Sweet 16.

 

[RUfanSinceAnderson]

Would love to see the B1G get 6 in the Sweet 16.

FIFY

 

[RU-ROCS]

The other surprise is the PAC 12. They took a lot of flack but they may go 5-0, though Oregon gets their by forfeit. The Big 12 has looked good too. ACC and Big East are on the other end of the spectrum.

Agreed. But, MSU got a lot of **** for losing in OT to UCLA in the play-in game, but UCLA finished 4th in the PAC 12 and MSU finished 9th in the Big 10, which further proves my point about depth.

 

[garyrc70]

UCLA is very good and very athletic. BYU looked slow and couldn't get clean looks. RU beats BYU but loses to UCLA...

 

[BigRnj]

Interesting that all 3 Big 10 losses were in OT

 

[Scangg]

Agreed. But, MSU got a lot of **** for losing in OT to UCLA in the play-in game, but UCLA finished 4th in the PAC 12 and MSU finished 9th in the Big 10, which further proves my point about depth.

Didn't think of it that way but if you do it does make B1G look tough.

Interesting that all 3 Big 10 losses were in OT

Tough outs

 

[RU-ROCS]

Interesting that all 3 Big 10 losses were in OT

And with Abilene Christian’s upset of Texas right now that’s 8 double-digit seeds advancing to the 2nd round. That’s got to be some kind of record. Wonder if this crazy pandemic year was a factor.

 

[rob kight]

And with Abilene Christian’s upset of Texas right now that’s 8 double-digit seeds advancing to the 2nd round. That’s got to be some kind of record. Wonder if this crazy pandemic year was a factor.

Let’s make it another Texas upset Sunday night!

 

[scarletrat]

Creighton luckily won, should have had another 12 seed in the round of 32...

 

[jordkap]

Creighton luckily won, should have had another 12 seed in the round of 32...

Lot of teams struggled beyond that. Arkansas, Florida, Nova, and Kansas had their hands full with double digit seeds

 

[bac2therac]

yeah the Pac 12 really is the surprise...really soft in league and not many wins OOC they came to play in the tourney

 

[RU848789]

yeah the Pac 12 really is the surprise...really soft in league and not many wins OOC they came to play in the tourney

Yep, you are what your record says you are...

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

And with Abilene Christian’s upset of Texas right now that’s 8 double-digit seeds advancing to the 2nd round. That’s got to be some kind of record. Wonder if this crazy pandemic year was a factor.

i think team’s playing mostly within their own conferences has evened the playing field a little. Teams have prepared for only playing teams they know. It’s also helped skew the rankings which I believe has resulted in less accurate tournament seedings.

I also think the power conference teams were used to playing in front of packed arenas in prior years, so it historically gave them an advantage in tournament, when the crowds were large.

 

[newell138]

I saw an article Saturday morning declaring the BIG was over rated. A little premature obviously and most likely written by a Syracuse grad

 

[rucoe89]

I saw an article Saturday morning declaring the BIG was over rated. A little premature obviously and most likely written by a Syracuse grad

The brackets are showing author is not wrong. Our top teams underwhelmed.