Agreed
I went ahead and made the two changes listed above:
- Tier-1 was eliminated (actually, as @FearlessF pointed out, Tier-5 was eliminated and everybody moved up one except Purdue who stayed in Tier-1)
- Northwestern moved up one
So pending group review and tonight's results, the tentative tiers are now:
- Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Michigan State
- Northwestern, Nebraska, Iowa
- Minnesota, Ohio State, Rutgers
- Indiana, Penn State, Maryland, Michigan
That gets us down to just four total upsets (in 30 games so far) and puts all teams within +/-1. One of the upsets is MSU's home loss to Wisconsin and the other three involve Michigan. As I see it that is just a function of Izzo's typical shaky starts that turn into great teams in March and the fact that Michigan is just a weird wildcard right now.
@boilerbanger ,
@grillrat , and
@ELA all had MSU moving down a tier. I don't believe that is necessary because moving NU up accomplished the same thing, their loss inn Evanston is no longer an upset. They are in Champaign tonight, lets see how they look there and talk about it tomorrow, ok?
All of you also had Indiana moving up a tier. Do you still feel that way? They didn't look very good in Piscataway.
@boilerbanger and
@ELA had tOSU moving up a tier but with their home loss to UW, they need to stay where
@grillrat and I had them.
@boilerbanger and
@grillrat have Iowa moving down a tier. Since it is 2-2 on that one I'd like to wait and see how they look going forward.
There was also a 2-2 split on Maryland with
@grillrat and
@ELA moving them up one. Same as Iowa, since it is a 2-2 split lets just wait and see how they look going forward.
