2021-2022 B1G Basketball thread

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/MichiganStOnBTN/status/1497681721789140997?t=lL9xWsdgLFyvT02ltMWy0w&s=19

[847badgerfan]

Has the top 6 ranked teams losing on the same day ever happened???

[ELA]

Has the top 6 ranked teams losing on the same day ever happened???

Nope.  Neither had 7 of the top 10


https://sports.yahoo.com/chaos-reigns-college-basketball-top-10-teams-upsets-042026837.html

[JWilly86]

Dug out my password for the first time in years just to say thanks Medina for posting your charts with projected results/standings. I like to read the reaction here but after UW pulled it out yesterday the first thing I came to check out was what things look like based on potential results this week. 

I wasn’t real excited with the transition from Bo to Gard and how things have looked with Gard at the helm, but at this point I’ve just come to accept what it is and enjoy the ride and be glad for the wins. 

[FearlessF]

Nope.  Neither had 7 of the top 10


https://sports.yahoo.com/chaos-reigns-college-basketball-top-10-teams-upsets-042026837.html

unfortunately, the Huskers couldn't upset the Hawkeyes the other night

[bayareabadger]

Taken from my own post on another board. 

Wisconsin lost five of eight rotation players, including four of the top five scorers from a disappointing but decent team.
They added no starting quality transfers 
They had to start a freshman
The other 75 percent of the incoming class redshirted or functionally redshirted
The highest-rated recruit on the roster hasn't given them much

And they're almost assuredly going to get the program's sixth conference title since the Truman administration. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Dug out my password for the first time in years just to say thanks Medina for posting your charts with projected results/standings. I like to read the reaction here but after UW pulled it out yesterday the first thing I came to check out was what things look like based on potential results this week.

You are welcome and thank you. 

Right now Purdue needs to beat your team, Ohio State and Illinois need to win their games and root against your team, and everyone else is out.

[bayareabadger]

I was thinking about how OSU-Maryland meant something at some point. Back when everyone was sore about Turgeon. It felt like a while ago, considering Maryland feels like basically a schedule break for most of the contenders. 

And then I pulled stuff up and remembered that Maryland won a share of a conference title all of two years ago, and people saw it as a disappointment because they went 2-3 down the stretch. It wasn't even like that team was loaded with talent. They had six guys, four pretty good CBB players, a small guard and a skinny good big.

That team was seen as a disappointment, and two years later, this. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Ohio State's title hopes are now on life support. 

[MaximumSam]

Ohio State's title hopes are now on life support.

The perils of basketball. OSU has had, by my count, around 100 open three pointers, and made like 3.

[Honestbuckeye]

Even though I have played varsity basketball and a class a school in high school, and plenty of other leagues and intramurals, I really don’t get into college basketball until right about now when the tournament is coming.

Having said that, I have flipped on Ohio State three or four times this year including today for a little while, and every time I wash them they look like they absolutely stink. No Interior Defense horrible shooting, horrible shot selection. But then I keep seeing the sports page and that they won this game or that game. I have obviously turned it off for today 

[Abba]

Got the 50/50 balls against Illinois and nit getting them today.  Also yes many wide open 3s were missed.

[medinabuckeye1]

And Ohio State bows out of the title race.

I'm assuming here that Wisconsin is going to win at home against last place Nebraska next week. With that assumption:

If Wisconsin beats Purdue at home they win the title outright. 

If Purdue beats Wisconsin the Badgers still win at least a share of the title but they share it with:

• Purdue, if they beat Indiana and/or
• Illinois if they win home games over both PSU and Iowa 

[medinabuckeye1]

Yesterday was just a weird day.  All four games in the B1G were upsets relative to what we projected.  Updated projected final standings/BTT seeds heading into the final week:

• 16-4/25-5 Wisconsin
• 15-5/23-8 Illinois
• 14-6/25-6 Purdue (wins tie with tOSU based on H2H, no game in Columbus)
• 14-6/21-8 Ohio State
• 11-9/17-13 Rutgers
• 11-9/17-13 Michigan
• 11-9/20-11 Michigan State
• 11-9/21-10 Iowa
• 10-10/19-11 Indiana
• 7-13/15-16 Maryland
• 7-13/12-16 Penn State
• 7-13/14-15 Northwestern
• 4-16/13-16 Minnesota
• 2-18/8-23 Nebraska

Thus the match-ups at the B1G Tournament in Indianapolis would be:
Wednesday, March 9, 2022:

• #11 Penn State vs #14 Nebraska, 830 BTN
• #12 Northwestern vs #13 Minnesota, 6 BTN

Thursday, March 10, 2022:

• #5 Rutgers vs NU/MN, 230 BTN
• #6 Michigan vs PSU/UNL, 9 BTN
• #7 Michigan State vs #10 Maryland, 630 BTN
• #8 Iowa vs #9 Indiana, noon BTN

Friday, March 11, 2022:

• #1 Wisconsin vs IA/IU, noon BTN
• #2 Illinois vs MSU/UMD, 630 BTN
• #3 Purdue vs M/PSU/UNL, 9 BTN
• #4 Ohio State vs RU/NU/MN, 230 BTN

Saturday, March 12, 2022:

• UW/IA/IU vs tOSU/RU/NU/MN, 1 CBS
• IL/MSU/UMD vs PU/M/PSU/UNL, 330 CBS

Sunday, March 13, 2022:

• UW/IA/IU/tOSU/RU/NU/MN vs IL/MSU/UMD/PU/M/PSU/UNL, 330 CBS

Tiebreaker for the 11-9 teams:  
First is H2H2H2H:

• 1-3 Michigan State (does not host RU or IA)  
• 3-1 Rutgers (does not visit MSU or IA)
• 4-2 Michigan (won at IA)
• 1-3 Iowa (does not visit MSU or host RU, lost to M at home)

Thus Rutgers gets the #5 seed and Michigan gets the #6 seed.  MSU and Iowa do NOT revert to their own two-team H2H but move to the next step:
Second step (for only MSU and Iowa) is record against the best team (UW):

• 1-1 Michigan State split with the Badgers with each team winning on the other team's court.  
• 0-1 Iowa lost their only game with the Badgers, in Madison.  

Thus MSU gets the #7 seed and Iowa gets the #8 seed

Tiebreaker for the 7-13 teams:
First is H2H2H:

• 2-1 Maryland (does not visit PSU)
• 2-1 Penn State (does not host UMD, swept NU)
• 1-3 Northwestern (reverse split with UMD, swept by PSU)

Thus Northwestern gets the #12 seed.  UMD and PSU do NOT revert to their own two-team H2H but move to the next step:
Second step (for only UMD and PSU) is record against the best team(s) in the league, then the next, etc).  Maryland wins this based on their upset of Illinois.  Thus Maryland gets the #10 seed while PSU gets the #11 seed.