Looking like a nice win for a sub .500 BIG team against the ACC.
Minny getting it started for the BIG
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Yep, speaks to the overall strength of the Big Ten from top to bottom. Couple of super teams at the top doesn't put the ACC in the Big Ten's class.
Didn't the B1g already win the B1G-ACC challenge? Didn't the 14th place B1G beat the 10th place ACC team?
'Nuff said.
Yes, sir. A couple/three teams do not an entire conference make. Night in and night out, throughout the conference, the Big Ten was the toughest conference in the country, as it fairly typically is. Great games, tough matchups up and down the standings. Not many nights off in the Big Ten.
I actually thought that the two added BIG games would wear our teams down. Not appearing to be the case so far, looks like a clean sweep today...
Would love to see it, but other than Minnesota, none of those results were really surprises. Now, if we can pull off a 3-0 sweep today . . . THAT would be something.
Iowa about to make it 6-0.
The two toughest games so far ended up being Maryland over Belmont of the OVC and Sparty over 9-9 Bradley of the MVC (1 point game with 5:00 left; MSU hitting 25-26 FT’s made the difference).
The two toughest games so far ended up being Maryland over Belmont of the OVC and Sparty over 9-9 Bradley of the MVC (1 point game with 5:00 left; MSU hitting 25-26 FT’s made the difference).
That may well be; I don't have the stats in front of me. Doesn't change the narrative, IMO. The Challenge, in any given season, represents an inconclusively small (and potentially misleading) sample size.
did anyone ever see the rational for the 2nd round B1G match-up MINN/MSU
while not official - i thought they avoid same conference match-ups in the first 2 rounds
while not official - i thought they avoid same conference match-ups in the first 2 rounds
Well, I'm sure winning the B1G championship and winding up in the same bracket with the top-seeded team in the tournament didn't help his mood. Meanwhile, North Cheatolina, 17-point losers to Michigan earlier this season, get a No. 1 seed.
They only played once this year so it was allowed.
It more affected their records. That sub 500 conference teams made it to the dance indicated how strong they felt the BIG was
Still pretty crappy. Never happened before. In the past they tried to keep teams in the same conference from playing each other till the Elite 8. While that is no longer really possible because of getting 8 bids, it then should not be until at least the Sweet 16
Please... in this era of college basketball, the little things Huggins did over 20 years ago is child's play.
Brian Bohannon leads the nation in points scored in the last two minutes of regulation and OT...
Yeah. They used to have that rule until the conferences and teams started merging (growing beyond 12 teams) then with so many teams in certain conferences they ditched it. It just got too hard to manage I think. I generally agree with you though. With how they do the pods and geographical preference, it can create conference overlap and they generally should try to avoid. Challenge is that the B1G had 7 of their 8 teams in the 2/3/6/7/10/11 portion of the brackets so it got tough. I suppose the NCAA wanted to create a Lville Minny matchup more than they wanted to avoid putting 3 B1G teams in that corner of the bracket (MSU Minn Md). And so they used geography as an excuse.
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I would think Louisville versus Minnesota is the exact matchup the NCAA wouldn’t want to promote.
They want to promote matchups which draw more television viewers. But yeah I take your point....
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