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I said 4-3. Winning all the home games and losing all the road games probably being the most likely outcome. I there’s a chance we could struggle with Indiana’s size or Penn State’s press, or whatever Rutgers is doing now that has them winning some games. I guess we’ll see if Ohio State is...

Had to post in one of the "Cam Christie rules" threads, Eric Bossi has him as the favorite right now for Big Ten freshman of the year over Iowa's Owen Freeman and 5 star Indiana forward Mackenzie Mgbako...

The Washington team that the Gophers beat in the 2012 NIT semi-final were the regular season Pac-12 champs. If the conference stinks, teams that finish toward the top can still get left out of the tournament. Most years the Big Ten is strong enough that that doesn't happen, but that's not the...

Iowa seems like the most attainable. Northwestern has beaten Purdue and Illinois at home already. Nebraska has beaten Purdue and Wisconsin at home. Illinois seems to regularly destroy us home or away going back to the last year or two of Pitino. Purdue is the best team in the Big Ten, and...

It’s worth noting that Christie didn’t give a top 5 or top 3 or have some announcement ceremony where we were all biting our nails to see if we’d get him or not. The staff seemingly recruited him harder than anyone else did and he spontaneously announced his commitment here one day.

I'll say we win 4 more games: Beat Rutgers and Penn State at home Go 2-2 against Northwestern, Michigan State, Ohio State, and Indiana at home, but 3-1 wouldn't be shocking. If I had to guess, we'll be 2-5 point underdogs at home against Northwestern and Michigan State, and favored in the...

How close are Minnesota and Iowa resume-wise? Is Iowa's non-conference win over Seton Hall the difference maker? Iowa certainly played a tougher non-conference schedule, but lost to Oklahoma, Iowa State, and Creighton, and their home loss to Michigan might look uglier as time goes on.

Wisconsin guts out a win, now holds road wins against Michigan State and Ohio State, and I wonder if they're the favorite to win the conference now. Purdue has 2 losses, Illinois only has 1, but not sure if Terrance Shannon is ever coming back, and Wisconsin only plays Illinois once, and it's...

On the other hand, Gophers are tied for first if Ohio State beats Wisconsin.

If you look at their schedule that year, they only had 1 game each against all 4 of the teams that finished ahead of them, and went 1-3 in those games. The Big Ten only put 4 teams in the tournament, so on top of the conference being down, Nebraska had an easy schedule with only having to play...

I’ll also add, and I swear I’m not trying to be a wet blanket, the Big Ten is down this year, and we might be able to rack up some additional wins from that. Michigan and Maryland are fairly perennial tournament teams, but neither of them will be making it this year, though we did beat...

As it pertains to the Gophers, we probably lost Jamison Battle and Dennis Evans to places that they could get paid more. Dennis Evans seemed to struggle early at Louisville, which probably isn’t super surprising for a freshman big man, and Louisville just stinks, but they also just declared him...

There's been some tough losses in there. Jamison Battle's 39 point game in Ben Johnson's first year. Maryland also beat us in the Barn on a buzzer beater in Daniel Oturu's sophomore year after we'd led for most of the game. Maryland has probably just been the better team in most of the games...

Penn State recently took their first lead against Michigan at the Palestra, up 51-49 after being down by about 14 or so at one point in the first half. Penn State hits another 3 to go up 54-49. I feel like we probably want Michigan to win, as much as it matters at this point. I'll also say...

The ball is the program

Indiana has been holding onto the Big Ten’s auto bid by virtue of being 2-0 in conference, but I’m assuming they won’t contend for first place at the end of the season. Are they more of a bubble team if they don’t win the Big Ten tournament?

We've grown accustomed the Big Ten being a pretty strong conference for most of the last 10 or 15 years, where we're putting in 7+ teams every year, and getting to .500 in conference gets you a reasonable to good chance of making the tournament, but that's not a given for every major conference...

Do you feel that Michigan State has righted the ship from their earlier struggles? I remember seeing they lost to Nebraska right after we beat Nebraska, and then there's the home losses to James Madison and Wisconsin as well. Or is Wisconsin a cut above MSU, where a double digit home loss...

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