royalfan Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 Monday 2-18 Illinois at Wisconsin -9 7pm FS1 We want Illinois. Played them twice and Wisconsin not quite in with big slump. Southern -1@ Mississippi Valley St. 7:30 We want Miss. Valley. Lord help me! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-OjScVdKvzsv-u5HCjapw Kansas St -6 1/2 @ West Virginia 8 ESPN We want West Virginia on off chance K St loses out(20th in bracket matrix) TCU-3 @ Ok. St 8 ESPNU We want Ok St as we played them and TCU is 32 in bracket matrix now Mr. Red and hhcmatt 2 Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 11 minutes ago, royalfan said: Games of Interest Alright, I'm in @royalfan. bobcat402, GBR1197, royalfan and 5 others 8 Quote
hskr4life Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 (edited) Well damn... I was hoping we wouldn't have to do this again. Here we are. I must say though that this is better than not having this thread at all for the wrong reasons. Edited February 18, 2019 by hskr4life Quote
hhcmatt Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 The good part though is us winning or losing games is going to matter a lot more than any of this tcp, thrasher31, basketballjones and 4 others 2 5 Quote
Mr. Red Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 bobcat402, NUtball, tcp and 2 others 1 4 Quote
ladyhusker Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 Question: Do we think it's better for Illinois to win (and keep their current lead over us in the Big Ten standings) or Wisconsin, who is already pretty much locked in ahead of us unless they absolutely tank the whole rest of the season? I know the committee CAN leapfrog teams in the conference standings (i.e. take the 5th place team but not the 4th...) but personally I think I'd feel a little better seeing Illinois dropping below us in conference W-L record. Wisconsin may be slumping but they're ranked nationally; Illinois still has a losing record overall and I'd rather put them in our rearview mirror in the standings. But maybe I'm wrong? Quote
tcp Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 I'll pay attention to other games if we hit 17 wins with at least 3 left to play. Short of that, it's academic. Quote
royalfan Posted February 18, 2019 Author Report Posted February 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, ladyhusker said: Question: Do we think it's better for Illinois to win (and keep their current lead over us in the Big Ten standings) or Wisconsin, who is already pretty much locked in ahead of us unless they absolutely tank the whole rest of the season? I know the committee CAN leapfrog teams in the conference standings (i.e. take the 5th place team but not the 4th...) but personally I think I'd feel a little better seeing Illinois dropping below us in conference W-L record. Wisconsin may be slumping but they're ranked nationally; Illinois still has a losing record overall and I'd rather put them in our rearview mirror in the standings. But maybe I'm wrong? I think what matters the most here is that we played Illinois twice and Wisconsin once, so our computer stuff should be impacted more favorably if Illinois won. Quote
throwback Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 (edited) We need Illinois more - it would help a lot if they got into the Top 75 of NET, and they're 80th now. The NCAA committee pays no attention to conference finish, record. It's all about quads, strength of schedule. Edited February 18, 2019 by throwback Handy Johnson 1 Quote
hhcmatt Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 9 minutes ago, ladyhusker said: Question: Do we think it's better for Illinois to win (and keep their current lead over us in the Big Ten standings) or Wisconsin, who is already pretty much locked in ahead of us unless they absolutely tank the whole rest of the season? I know the committee CAN leapfrog teams in the conference standings (i.e. take the 5th place team but not the 4th...) but personally I think I'd feel a little better seeing Illinois dropping below us in conference W-L record. Wisconsin may be slumping but they're ranked nationally; Illinois still has a losing record overall and I'd rather put them in our rearview mirror in the standings. But maybe I'm wrong? My vote is for whatever scenario keeps us out of the B1G tourney bunny bracket as winning that game just to get a win probably does nothing for us. We get a 2nd round game against the 7th or 8th team in the conference which should be a combination of impactful and winnable Shawn Eichorst's Toupee, ladyhusker, Brick and 1 other 2 2 Quote
ladyhusker Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 11 minutes ago, hhcmatt said: My vote is for whatever scenario keeps us out of the B1G tourney bunny bracket as winning that game just to get a win probably does nothing for us. We get a 2nd round game against the 7th or 8th team in the conference which should be a combination of impactful and winnable Playing around on the bracket generator...if we win two the rest of the way, we stay out of the bunny bracket (and there are scenarios that aren't too insane to keep us out of that bracket even with one more win). If we win 2 or 3 (or even 4), we're most likely looking at a rematch with either Illinois or Ohio State, with either Michigan or Michigan State on deck. So I guess I'm not counting on too many wins in the BTT. I know they say they don't pay attention to conference standings, but these guys don't live in a bubble either...I guess I'd just feel more comfortable with them dropping back to nothingness, although maybe it solidifies the "parity in the amazing Big Ten" argument this year too. Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 6 minutes ago, ladyhusker said: Playing around on the bracket generator Good call. I'll post it here FWIW: http://bball.notnothing.net/big10.php?sport=mbb My thoughts are that it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to get that sad-lonely-bottom-bracket game in the BTT as long as we win it. If we can keep our NET below 40/45, then any extra win can't hurt. But I can see it both ways. Quote
hhcmatt Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 1 minute ago, ladyhusker said: Playing around on the bracket generator...if we win two the rest of the way, we stay out of the bunny bracket (and there are scenarios that aren't too insane to keep us out of that bracket even with one more win). If we win 2 or 3 (or even 4), we're most likely looking at a rematch with either Illinois or Ohio State, with either Michigan or Michigan State on deck. So I guess I'm not counting on too many wins in the BTT. I know they say they don't pay attention to conference standings, but these guys don't live in a bubble either...I guess I'd just feel more comfortable with them dropping back to nothingness, although maybe it solidifies the "parity in the amazing Big Ten" argument this year too. If we're on the edge a game against Ohio St is a great opportunity against a NCAA team that isn't firing on all cylinders; A game against Illinois in Chicago is a knife fight where winning does nothing and then you get to play one of the Michigans. May the odds be in our favor. NUtball and ladyhusker 1 1 Quote
hskr4life Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, ladyhusker said: Playing around on the bracket generator...if we win two the rest of the way, we stay out of the bunny bracket (and there are scenarios that aren't too insane to keep us out of that bracket even with one more win). If we win 2 or 3 (or even 4), we're most likely looking at a rematch with either Illinois or Ohio State, with either Michigan or Michigan State on deck. So I guess I'm not counting on too many wins in the BTT. I know they say they don't pay attention to conference standings, but these guys don't live in a bubble either...I guess I'd just feel more comfortable with them dropping back to nothingness, although maybe it solidifies the "parity in the amazing Big Ten" argument this year too. I think that the fact that the Big 10 basically cannibalized itself this year is why you might see us get the nod over Illinois if we beat them. Shoot, they are just now 5 rankings short of that becoming another Q2 win for us. I mean if the committee truly recognizes the entire "body of work" and after last year, I am sure that they probably do, then we might be on the right side looking out right now with 5 to play. Either way you put it though, we are going to have to do one thing. Find a way to win 3 more games minimum and most likely four games. So if we can do that and the Illini remain ahead of us, we should be good to go. Quote
The Polish Rifle Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 Can we assign someone to watch all of the Mississippi Valley St games........NOT IT. Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 8 minutes ago, The Polish Rifle said: Can we assign someone to watch all of the Mississippi Valley St games........NOT IT. royalfan and NUtball 1 1 Quote
ladyhusker Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 1 hour ago, hhcmatt said: If we're on the edge a game against Ohio St is a great opportunity against a NCAA team that isn't firing on all cylinders; A game against Illinois in Chicago is a knife fight where winning does nothing and then you get to play one of the Michigans. May the odds be in our favor. This is true. So I started playing with Illinois scenarios and, sadly, we need them to pull out some decent wins the rest of the way to wind up as the 7 seed. Short of winning out, we're in 8-9-10 seed land, and if we want to avoid an 8-9 matchup with them (with Michigan on deck, yikes) I guess they need to win a bunch in a hurry. Ugh, this is miserable. Quote
brfrad Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 I got us a 10 seed playing OSU, followed by Michigan State. The best I could get us is a 6 seed. If we get to a 6 seed, we are in so it won't matter (we have to win all our games) ladyhusker 1 Quote
royalfan Posted February 19, 2019 Author Report Posted February 19, 2019 Doubleheader going on for Miss. Valley st if want to catch the 2nd half of the womens ballgame as a primer fellas. The Polish Rifle and HuskerFever 2 Quote
tcp Posted February 19, 2019 Report Posted February 19, 2019 I'm not the best person in the world, but I've done nothing to merit that sort of punishment, royal. ladyhusker 1 Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 19, 2019 Report Posted February 19, 2019 20 minutes ago, royalfan said: Doubleheader going on for Miss. Valley st if want to catch the 2nd half of the womens ballgame as a primer fellas. Good news. The women's squad is 326 of 351. Much better than the men's 350 of 353 performance. Quote
hskr4life Posted February 19, 2019 Report Posted February 19, 2019 15 minutes ago, royalfan said: Doubleheader going on for Miss. Valley st if want to catch the 2nd half of the womens ballgame as a primer fellas. My goodness. If it wasn't bad enough I had to start watching these guys again... I have to watch the women too!?!? Quote
royalfan Posted February 19, 2019 Author Report Posted February 19, 2019 looks like about 17 minutes until tip Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 19, 2019 Report Posted February 19, 2019 Nice little 7-0 run for the Delta Devils. Quote
throwback Posted February 19, 2019 Report Posted February 19, 2019 I'm going to assume that's their biggest scoring run of the season. Mr. Red 1 Quote
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