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Post by beb12345 on Oct 25, 2014 23:10:18 GMT -5
Getting more clear:
Wisconsin
Penn State
Illinois
Purdue
Ohio State
Nebraska
Michigan State
Michigan
Minnesota
Northwestern
Indiana
Iowa
Maryland
Rutgers
3-5 are interchangeable. Nebraska is definitely #6. Michigan's are interchangeable. Minnesota just a little better than Northwestern. WI, PSU, OSU, IL will be seeded hosts. Purdue on bubble to host. Top 8 teams into the tourney. Without injuries,,Wisconsin in national championship match in OKC.
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Post by hoosierman on Oct 25, 2014 23:38:09 GMT -5
IU beat Northwestern tonight, so you can switch them.
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Post by rampageripster on Oct 26, 2014 0:04:23 GMT -5
We..... We could get a SEED!?!?
I'm gonna faint soon, someone fetch my fainting coich
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Post by bluepenquin on Oct 26, 2014 0:43:32 GMT -5
Getting more clear: Wisconsin Penn State Illinois Purdue Ohio State Nebraska Michigan State Michigan Minnesota Northwestern Indiana Iowa Maryland Rutgers 3-5 are interchangeable. Nebraska is definitely #6. Michigan's are interchangeable. Minnesota just a little better than Northwestern. WI, PSU, OSU, IL will be seeded hosts. Purdue on bubble to host. Top 8 teams into the tourney. Without injuries,,Wisconsin in national championship match in OKC. Is this the order of how you rank the teams or where they will fall in the YE standings? Nebraska looks likely to finish at least 5th. They are currently 6-3. Let us assume they lose their next match to Wisconsin and the final two matches of the season at Illinois and Penn State. They will be favored to win the 8 games in-between those matches. Home against Purdue, Indiana, Michigan State, Maryland and Michigan and road matches against Rutgers, Maryland, and Indiana. Say they lose 1 of those matches they would still be 13-7. It is unlikely that 5 teams will win 14 or more matches.
Purdue has virtually no chance of having an RPI that would typically get a seed.
Ohio State is 7-3 and are likely to be favored in just 5 of their remaining 10 matches. They will need to win at least 7 matches to have an RPI that could get them in the conversation of a seed - and still most likely to be outside the top 16 in RPI.
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Post by badgerbreath on Oct 26, 2014 0:47:05 GMT -5
Man, that is a lot of clarity. I need to check my prescription, cuz things aren't this clear to me.
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Post by ay2013 on Oct 26, 2014 1:05:25 GMT -5
Getting more clear: Wisconsin Penn State Illinois Purdue Ohio State Nebraska Michigan State Michigan Minnesota Northwestern Indiana Iowa Maryland Rutgers 3-5 are interchangeable. Nebraska is definitely #6. Michigan's are interchangeable. Minnesota just a little better than Northwestern. WI, PSU, OSU, IL will be seeded hosts. Purdue on bubble to host. Top 8 teams into the tourney. Without injuries,,Wisconsin in national championship match in OKC. Oh lord...Purdue lost what little chance they had of hosting when they lost to PSU and Illinois (losing them NEEDED wins against RPI top 25). Purdue could host, sure, but the committee would have to break almost all historic precedent in doing so because their overall SOS won't bump them into the top 20 range, and they have little more opportunity to get wins over RPI top 25 teams. Also, I'd put money on Minnesota being in the tournament before the Michigans. Michigan might not even QUALIFY for the tournament by virtue of them having a losing record, they are currently 10-10 and I'm not sure if you have seen Michigan's remaining schedule, but it's not easy. 8 of their final 10 matches are coming against PSU, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio State, and Minnesota, good luck with that. Northwestern is falling, and fast...they have lost their last 6 matches, including losses to Iowa and Indiana. Unless they get back to their winning ways, and fast, Northwestern's RPI is dropping to the bad end of the bubble range. MSU's NCAA tournament fate will be determined in the next two weeks, period. They have 4 straight home matches against Illinois, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Wisconsin...Lose all of those and it's game over for the spartans, 1-3 or 2-2 keeps them on the bubble, 3-1 or 4-0 probably gets them in. It's far more likely that Purdue IS NOT getting a seed, OSU is NOT hosing either, and probably 7 teams into the tournament. |
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Post by psumaui on Oct 26, 2014 1:53:33 GMT -5
Huge match coming up tomorrow between Nebraska and Wisconsin. Wisconsin wins and they stay alone at the top. Lose and it will be a four(corrected) way tie for at least a couple of days. Ohio State is looking at that top spot also with back to back matches with Penn State. Next 6 days will be interesting. 10/26 - Nebraska at Wisconsin 10/28 - Ohio State at Penn State 10/29 - Wisconsin at Purdue 10/31 - Penn State at Ohio State 10/31 - Illinois at Michigan State 11/1 - Illinois at Michigan BIG current standings
Overall Conference
Wisconsin 17-2 .895 8-1 .889
Penn State 20-3 .870 8-2 .800
Purdue 18-4 .818 8-2 .800
Illinois 16-5 .762 8-2 .800
Ohio State 16-6 .727 7-3 .700
Nebraska 12-6 .667 6-3 .667
Michigan State 12-9 .571 5-5 .500
Michigan 10-10 .500 5-5 .500
Minnesota 14-7 .667 4-6 .400
Indiana 13-9 .591 4-6 .400
Northwestern 13-8 .619 3-7 .300
Maryland 9-12 .429 2-8 .200
Iowa 9-12 .429 1-9 .100
Rutgers 7-16 .304 0-10 .000
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Post by rampageripster on Oct 26, 2014 9:53:19 GMT -5
That 5 set loss at Minnesota without Sandbothe is KILLING me... Should be tied for 2nd with two loses
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Post by FreeBall on Oct 26, 2014 10:06:06 GMT -5
Huge match coming up tomorrow between Nebraska and Wisconsin. Wisconsin wins and they stay alone at the top. Lose and it will be a three way tie for at least a couple of days. Wouldn't a Wisconsin loss today create a four way tie? |
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Post by baywatcher on Oct 26, 2014 10:50:15 GMT -5
From an "irritating aunt" out west, B1G standings really only count in establishing conference winner. With those extremely unbalanced schedules the Committee better look at who exactly played who, not 2nd place, 3rd place, etc.
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Post by psumaui on Oct 26, 2014 13:17:29 GMT -5
Huge match coming up tomorrow between Nebraska and Wisconsin. Wisconsin wins and they stay alone at the top. Lose and it will be a three way tie for at least a couple of days. Wouldn't a Wisconsin loss today create a four way tie? Yes, you are right. My mistake. |
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Post by Wiswell on Oct 26, 2014 13:25:39 GMT -5
4 teams within a match of each other is clarity, and a couple just 2 back from 1st place? Ok.
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Post by beb12345 on Oct 26, 2014 13:56:14 GMT -5
4 teams within a match of each other is clarity, and a couple just 2 back from 1st place? Ok. IMHO.  |
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