Loyola (ranked in the Top 20 in the polls; 20 divided by 4 is 5, not 8) plays in the NCAA Tournament and Ohio St. heads home.
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This year the Big Ten paid officials to only ref Big Ten games. Didn’t want anything spread from other conferences that didn’t handle the virus as well.
They’ll be just fine. Looks a lot like Arkansas-Colgate. (And not like OSU-ORU.)
Home-ish crowd.
Tied game, 20 seconds left, UNT with the ball.
Purdue might survive, but this sure isn't the position they want to be in at the end of the game.
Purdue might survive, but this sure isn't the position they want to be in at the end of the game.
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Poor performance (sans Wisconsin; Illinois grades as incomplete), but don’t sleep on Rutgers. I think they will surprise some folks.
That’s not denying the B1G being overrated.
In any case, this is how win and go home goes. In playoff series the story would probably be different. But it’s beautiful this way.
I said I’d root for the B1G teams butwhen The games start it’s pretty damn hard to not root for the underdog
I was just being silly. Terrible day for the B1G.
I was planning on riding Purdue’s home court advantage to the finals...so now I get to root for fun games.
C-USA has won their share of first-round games. In fact, they have won them more often than not in recent years. Take a look.
The top 4 teams in that conference are usually strong, but the bottom teams just kill their computer rankings.
Western Kentucky deserved to make the tourney, IMO. Their victories over Alabama and Memphis are better non-conference wins than some of these Big Ten teams. They lost a close one to UNT in the CUSA Tourney final so they get to go to the NIT. Turns out UNT is kind of tough.
Good chance Western KY has the best player not in the tournament. Debatable but might.
Where are all the Collins apologists that were excusing away his performance because of ‘sTroNGeST sTREngTh oF ScHEduLe EvEr’
And La Tech knocked off top seed Ole Miss in the NIT. CUSA is now undefeated in the post-season. They deserved an at-large bid in the NCAAs over Michigan State.
The NET ranking is a flawed metric that is biased against the mid-majors. Western Kentucky's NET ranking is about 30 spots worse than their RPI.
The NET ranking is a flawed metric that is biased against the mid-majors. Western Kentucky's NET ranking is about 30 spots worse than their RPI.
They made me sweat it out at end, but I expect them to give Houston all they can handle on Sunday.
That’s the thing. All the teams here are good teams. There are very few team in the tourney that can’t win on any given night.
Not the first time I've seen a Matt Painter team underperform in the tourney. I don't know what he does in the way of prep, but he might want to look at some things.
A couple of big black eyes for the league, but the B1G was fun this year. Had a couple of teams upset, but we also had two teams that were 10-10 in the league win against higher seeds.
A couple of big black eyes for the league, but the B1G was fun this year. Had a couple of teams upset, but we also had two teams that were 10-10 in the league win against higher seeds.
Have the champ come from the B1G and the first round losses won’t mean much. As lunker said, every team in the tourney has proven to be a good team.
Illinois did exactly as expected. Michigan and Iowa were the next best teams.
Big Ten is still well positioned to have three of the final eight — just not 5 or 6 of the sweet 16, as many expected.
Thanks. I didn't know that but they will likely go back to non specific conference refs after the virus is gone., right?
Well, you got one right, but that Wisconsin call doesn't look so good...
Absolute obliteration of North Carolina by the Badgers.
Some teams show up, others choke. The Badgers showed up. The Buckeyes choked.
There's no doubt that Loyola got shafted by the committee. Probably deserved a 5 or 6.
But then they gave Wichita State a play-in game after they won their conference over Houston, who got a 2 seed. That is ludicrous on its face.
Kind of a push the first day. Had NTU over Purdue and Oral Robert’s over OSU. Spread. Lost Colgate and Cleveland State with spread.
In your opinion, sure. Based on the available facts, Wichita State was approximately as good as Houston. I'm objecting to one team being a 2 seed and the other getting a play-in game 11 seed.
As stated and re-iterated, that is ludicrous on its face.
If its all subjective opinion, Why bother playing the games?