Big Ten tourney seedings at Gophers' halfway point

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Double Byes
1. Wisconsin (6-1)
2. Maryland (6-2)
3. Michigan (6-3)
4. Purdue (5-3)

Single Byes
5. Indiana (5-3)
6. Ohio State (5-3)
7. Michigan State (4-3)
8. Iowa (4-3)
9. Nebraska (4-4)
10. Illinois (3-5)

The Fab 4 (playing on Wednesday)
11. Rutgers (2-6)
12. Penn State (2-6)
13. GOPHERS (2-7)
14. Northwestern (1-6)

Penn State/Gophers winner would get Indiana on Day 2.
 

Never in my wildest dreams watching the first conference game of the year @Purdue, when we had a double digit lead in the second half....Did I think they were a 4 seed in the B10 tourney and we were a 13.....Ridiculous is the only word that comes to mind.
 

Probably need to go 7-11 to avoid playing Wednesday. Not liking our chances there. Best chance to pass someone currently with single bye is Nebraska. I guess that makes Saturday night a "big" game!
 

Planning on driving down for the Tourney. Leaving on Thursday afternoon. Here is hoping the Gophs are still playing on Friday!
If they are not my car mate (Hogeye fan) will be pretty brutal.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Probably need to go 7-11 to avoid playing Wednesday. Not liking our chances there. Best chance to pass someone currently with single bye is Nebraska. I guess that makes Saturday night a "big" game!
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I like the chances to get to 6-12 at least but 7-11 would require either a road win best chance probably being at Iowa and Indiana or beating Wisconsin at home and I don't know if either is that realistic with how things have been going.
 


If the Gophers lose any of the following remaining games, I don't want to hear a single excuse:

Nebraska at home
Purdue at home
Northwestern at home
Penn State at home

That should get us to 6 wins.

Even with our road suckiness, Gophers have a chance to win in Iowa City because the Hawkeyes are almost as big of an enigma as the Gophers. If the engaged Hawkeyes show up (@ OSU, 1st half of MSU game, 1st half of Gopher game), it's another L. If the disinterested Hawkeyes show up, we can beat 'em.

We have a chance to beat Wisconsin at home simply because even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile. It's the one game left on the home schedule where the fans will be fully engaged and ready to provide the Gophers a lift.

Indiana, Wisconsin, and MSU on the road would expect to be ugly. No last-minute heartbreak, anyways, in Bloomington, Madison, and East Lansing.

So I'd go with a floor of 6-12, and a ceiling of 8-10.
 

B10 Tourney...

Not a big fan of going to Wednesday games, or an extra night in a Chicago hotel, but if we must, so be it. Just, please don't let us be the first 14th seed at the B10 Tourney!
 





howeda7 said:
For ease of watching the games, I hope we can rally and grab the #11 seed. Just like we hoped in November. :cry:
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11 was my number for the Gophers prior to the start of the season. Little did I know the 11 would represent the BTT seed they're likely to get, as opposed to the number of Big Ten wins I thought they could achieve. Yep, not quite working out according to plan.
 

Sadly, the fact that we are even speaking on playing the day one of the tournament is a great contrast to those of us (even me) that thought the gophers were a top 5 B1G team with a chance to make some real damage this year. Now we sit here hoping that we are good enough to beat Penn State at home..... enough said
 

SelectionSunday said:
If the Gophers lose any of the following remaining games, I don't want to hear a single excuse:

Nebraska at home
Purdue at home
Northwestern at home
Penn State at home

That should get us to 6 wins.

Even with our road suckiness, Gophers have a chance to win in Iowa City because the Hawkeyes are almost as big of an enigma as the Gophers. If the engaged Hawkeyes show up (@ OSU, 1st half of MSU game, 1st half of Gopher game), it's another L. If the disinterested Hawkeyes show up, we can beat 'em.

We have a chance to beat Wisconsin at home simply because even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile. It's the one game left on the home schedule where the fans will be fully engaged and ready to provide the Gophers a lift.

Indiana, Wisconsin, and MSU on the road would expect to be ugly. No last-minute heartbreak, anyways, in Bloomington, Madison, and East Lansing.

So I'd go with a floor of 6-12, and a ceiling of 8-10.
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I hear you on the bold, but we have already had some collapses that there aren't excuses for. There is no excuse in my mind that justifies us losing @ Penn State, or blowing a late double digit lead @ Purdue.
 

SelectionSunday said:
If the Gophers lose any of the following remaining games, I don't want to hear a single excuse:

Nebraska at home
Purdue at home
Northwestern at home
Penn State at home

That should get us to 6 wins.

Even with our road suckiness, Gophers have a chance to win in Iowa City because the Hawkeyes are almost as big of an enigma as the Gophers. If the engaged Hawkeyes show up (@ OSU, 1st half of MSU game, 1st half of Gopher game), it's another L. If the disinterested Hawkeyes show up, we can beat 'em.

We have a chance to beat Wisconsin at home simply because even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile. It's the one game left on the home schedule where the fans will be fully engaged and ready to provide the Gophers a lift.

Indiana, Wisconsin, and MSU on the road would expect to be ugly. No last-minute heartbreak, anyways, in Bloomington, Madison, and East Lansing.

So I'd go with a floor of 6-12, and a ceiling of 8-10.
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Nothing would surprise me at this point.
 



Gophers moved up a seed without playing!

Rutgers' loss to Sparty moves the Gophers from the #13 seed to the #12. Movin' on up. ...
 

The Wild just won two consecutive road games coming out of the All-star break, including one against the team they need to catch (Calgary, who currently holds the last wild card in the west), so all of a sudden, they look like they have a chance again if they can get and stay hot behind Dubnyk. Right now I'm watching the Wild and Gopher hoops side by side, wondering whose chances are better: the Wild making the playoffs or the Gophers getting a first round bye. Should be a fun race.
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
The Wild just won two consecutive road games coming out of the All-star break, including one against the team they need to catch (Calgary, who currently holds the last wild card in the west), so all of a sudden, they look like they have a chance again if they can get and stay hot behind Dubnyk. Right now I'm watching the Wild and Gopher hoops side by side, wondering whose chances are better: the Wild making the playoffs or the Gophers getting a first round bye. Should be a fun race.
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I like the Gophers' chances better, but I'll sacrifice a first-round bye if it means the Wild make the playoffs. Tough hill to climb for the Wild, so much congestion to get to the 8th spot.
 

BTT seedings updated (through Jan. 30)

In place of the "road to 22 wins", I'll do this. Will update this thread quite frequently. The goal now is to avoid Big Ten Tournament Wednesday. Can we do it?

Double Byes
1. Wisconsin (6-1)
2. Ohio State (6-3)
3. Maryland (6-3)
4. Michigan (6-3)

Single Byes
5. Purdue (5-3)
6. Michigan State (5-3)
7. Indiana (5-3)
8. Iowa (4-3)
9. Nebraska (4-4)
10. Illinois (3-5)

The Fab 4 (playing on Wednesday)
11. Penn State (2-6)
12. GOPHERS (2-7)
13. Rutgers (2-7)
14. Northwestern (1-6)

GOPHERS/Rutgers winner would get Purdue on Day 2.
 

SelectionSunday said:
If the Gophers lose any of the following remaining games, I don't want to hear a single excuse:

Nebraska at home
Purdue at home
Northwestern at home
Penn State at home

That should get us to 6 wins.

Even with our road suckiness, Gophers have a chance to win in Iowa City because the Hawkeyes are almost as big of an enigma as the Gophers. If the engaged Hawkeyes show up (@ OSU, 1st half of MSU game, 1st half of Gopher game), it's another L. If the disinterested Hawkeyes show up, we can beat 'em.

We have a chance to beat Wisconsin at home simply because even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile. It's the one game left on the home schedule where the fans will be fully engaged and ready to provide the Gophers a lift.

Indiana, Wisconsin, and MSU on the road would expect to be ugly. No last-minute heartbreak, anyways, in Bloomington, Madison, and East Lansing.

So I'd go with a floor of 6-12, and a ceiling of 8-10.
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Agree with your predictions (although I can't see us beating Wisconsin regardless of where the game is played). Iowa probably is the most likely road win because they also have depth issues and Olaseni recently suffered an ankle injury. He'll likely play against us but won't be 100%.

Given your floor and ceiling (which are probably right unless this team simply gives up), we're playing for NIT seeding and we probably need to win one Big Ten tournament game to make that tournament if we finish at the floor.
 

I bought plane tickets back in December to fly down late Wednesday for the BTT thinking that I didn't even have to consider them playing that day. It will be our first big ten tournament and we might not even get to see our boys play! It just makes every game they play and blow at the end that much more of a dagger in the heart! And they keep on twisting it!
 

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