Big Ten Tournament
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That is not true.
If Rutgers and Nebraska win (49.6% chance), we will be the 13th seed facing Nebraska with a matchup against Wisconsin if we win.
If Minnesota and Nebraska win (23.4% chance), we will be the 14th seed facing Minnesota with a matchup against Purdue if we win.
If Rutgers and Iowa win (18.4% chance), we will be the 13th seed facing Minnesota with a matchup against Wisconsin if we win.
If Minnesota and Iowa win (8.6% chance), we will be the 15th seed facing Ohio State with a matchup against Illinois if we win.
I want that 13th seed matchup whether it's Nebraska or Minnesota, so go Rutgers!
No, USC is in regardless. If Iowa loses they will be 6-14 with everyone else being 7-13 or better. If Nebraska loses, they are out because they lost to Rutgers, Minnesota, Iowa and USC, so they don't have the tiebreaker over any of them.
You might have been looking at the line in that thread where NU beats Maryland.
If Iowa and Minnesota win today, NU gets the 15th seed like Cappy said above.
Ah oops! My eye jumped between two lines and i misread. Thanks for the correction!
I don’t know
Minnesota Wisconsin is not horrible. Wisconsin has lost a lot of games lately, think our chances versus them might be as good or better than Illinois.
From what I see we are #13 facing #12 Minnesota in the 1st Round. If we win then it is on against #5 Wisconsin in the 2nd Round. If we win a second time, then it is on to #4 UCLA in the quarterfinals. Win again, then "Most Likely" would be facing Michigan State in the seminfinals. The first game seems winnable as NU already beat Minnesota on the road. NU can play with anybody in the Big Ten, but the top of the conference going up to the #7 or #8 seed is going to be a challenge regardless. For now, I'm happy to be in the tournament. Hoping for a miracle run to the conference championship title and auto-bid to the Big Dance, but mostly likely is NIT bid.
This was best case scenario to my mind. Not easy but I think our guys look at that bracket and see a path.
Minnesota is much easier opponent than Ohio state.
Wisconsin and Illinois are both tough, but keep in mind Wisconsin is 5 hrs from Indy and Champaign is 2 hrs. Would imagine you’d see more fans there for Illini than you would if we play badgers . Let’s get that first one.
Am very happy the cats made the tournament at all and I like the matchup with Minn, although I believe we do very poorly against them in the tournament historically.
I just don’t know how significant past tournament performances years ago are in terms of predicting this years game result. I would imagine not really that relevant.
Just curious, have we ever made a run in this thing? I recall 2017 we made it to Saturday but can’t recall any other successes.
I recall almost beating msu maybe with eschmeyer I think, but losing at buzzer or in OT…..
Making the semis (final four) counts as a run in my eyes, so we've had... one. That's it.
I was at that one, we were ahead by 4 late and gave up the last 6 to lose by 2. Had 2 looks at the end to tie and missed both. MSU won the BTT and made the Final Four.
More and more, streaming services are using live sports to try and add customers. WElcome to the brave new world of pay per view TV.
I wonder if college sports will eventually be in trouble. I don't know what the trends are among different age groups. I imagine the old folks like me are so hooked on it, that we put up with all the changes despite being unhappy about it. But will the next generation?
When I was a student, it was great fun to root for the team in part because I had classes with several players and got to know some of them - not as buddies, just as classmates, but over a couple of years it made the games better for me. I'd be a lot less interested in a world where the players were temporary commodities coming and going every year.
But my attitude is probably in the minority. I know several kids who chose their schools based on the sports teams they already rooted for.
But my attitude is probably in the minority. I know several kids who chose their schools based on the sports teams they already rooted for.
I think the B10 made a huge mistake with this Peacock broadcasts. Every night on YouTube Tv, I and others can watch SEC and B12 basketball. The same goes for football. Those conferences become more visible brands. I think that will be a great selling point to recruits. It certainly is to viewers. Today, I will watch those conferences. I live in B10 country, but eff them. I am sure I am not alone.
I don't know how many young people pay for cable tv anymore.
They like streaming - and they'll subscribe to Netflix or others.
But I don't know that they'll subscribe to YouTube TV (8 million subscribers).
Apple TV (25 million)
Peacock (35 million)
Hulu (51 million)
Paramount (71 million)
I don't know which of those have sports, but Xfinity/Comcast includes Peacock with its internet service.
Amazon Prime is included in the Prime subscription for "free" delivery.