So random thought I had about the tournament. We've bitched plenty about the whole week early thing, but an even worse part of it I hadn't thought of til today.
Most of those early tourneys are 1 bid leagues, so even with the layoff, the tourney teams coming out of there played 3-4 games that weekend, so the rest isn't the worst thing in the world.
What are the changes Purdue, OSU, MSU and UM (if it's them) ALL win their Friday game? I'd say pretty slim. So for probably at least 1 of those teams, you are playing a Saturday game, then 6 days off, playing a Friday game, then potentially 2 more weeks off before your first tourney game. That's 1 game in like 19ish days leading up to the tourney. It's potentially a lot worse than just the extended lay off. Typically I don't mind MSU going like 2 and out in the event and getting ready for the NCAAs, but this year I think I want MSU to get as much run in as possible, if for no other reason than just getting to Sunday cuts that downtime by 2 days.
