Big ten is deeper than ever
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Against a depleted Indiana team. Overall their resume is not impressive to me (12 in the B1G and outside the NCAA field looks right to me). Win @ Wiscy and then we’ll talk.
He has done an incredible job and is very well liked. Could actually be in the running for coach of the year again. I myself figured losing every starter it would be at least another year b4 we could get back to the tournament. But he has them playing great and now my hopes are up again.
Who am i putting the ahead of
Maryland just beat OSU
Wisky had wins earlier
Nw beat Ill, Indy, Msu
Maybe not. But they are going to be a tough out for us. I can see that you are getting into bracketology mode.
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1. Purdue
2. Michigan State
3. Rutgers
4. Iowa
5. Illinois
6. Wisconsin
7. Ohio State
8. Michigan
9. Maryland
10. Northwestern
11. Penn State
12. Indiana
13. Nebraska
14. Minnesota
1. Purdue
2. Michigan State
3. Rutgers
4. Iowa
5. Illinois
6. Wisconsin
7. Ohio State
8. Michigan
9. Maryland
10. Northwestern
11. Penn State
12. Indiana
13. Nebraska
14. Minnesota
Ohio State is still good despite this stretch. They will likely reel off a bunch of wins at some point. Hopefully after Sunday!!
Cooley has a "contract for life" with PC.
It changes from night to night but at this point its my grouping
I think RU and MSU have done a bit more than that other grouping
Don't look now but Minnesota is playing well. After sucking all season they are waking up just in time to ruin everyone's NET ratings in conf play.
They've been knocking on the door since the start of the year - maybe they've figured things out?
1/03 - 60-63 @Wisconsin
1/07 - 79-81 vs. Nebraska (OT)
1/12 - 70-67 @Ohio State
At this level of sports, a lot of players think they don’t need their A game or lose focus vs an inferior opponent. It’s human nature. You always have to be hunting or else someone will hunt you. It’s so hard for a coaching staff to prevent this mentality. You have to bring 100% focus every night to win in this league. Good for Minnesota.
T-Rank says we have ~82% chance of winning both. This seems reasonable to me
2-7 quarterfinal game in big 10 tourney: us vs buckeyes. I sense we ll meet Ohio state again in the big 10 tourney.
It probably has the most parity, but if you take the top halves of the Big East, ACC, B12, and PAC10, they're all stronger than the top part of the Big10, imo.
Eh, Big XII for sure. Others are pretty debatable. I’m guessing you're looking at the rankings, but ranked teams keep dropping like flies. It’ll look totally different in even two weeks.
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I'm looking forward to when UCLA comes in for hoops to give the conference a bonafide NC contender on the regular and a pretty consistent tourney team in USC. While everyone is fixated on football getting better with USC/UCLA in the conference, both will also make B1G basketball a lot stronger as well.
Watch some other conference games this week then watch a big 10 game
The big 10 teams are built differently than say big east teams
Big 10 teams look more like football teams
I don’t think any team in the big east would be top 4 in the Big playing Big schedule and Big League, couldn’t handle the 20 games of physicality
It will be BIG and everyone else in all sports and tied for football.
I guess the question is the deepest conference the best conference? What’s the criteria?
If you are talking depth, BIG 12 current 7/8/9/10 is
Oklahoma
OSU
WVU
Texas Tech
B1G current 7/8/9/10 is
Northwestern
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
B1G wins that plus you have Ohio State and Maryland behind those four.
That’s a deeper conference.
Another way to look at depth and given that the BIG is bigger is whether there is an “off” night during league play. Doesn’t appear to be any in either.