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Which scenario would you choose?

A. Gopher defeat #1 Indiana and let the chips fall where they may in the last 3 games.

B. Gophers lose to Indiana but the last three games are guaranteed wins.
 

#1 without a doubt.

Beating the number one ranked team on national TV is a fantastic reward for the fans, team, coaches, etc. And I'm confident we'd win at least one of the last 3, so the chips should fall where they need to under the scenario.

Memories can be made tomorrow night.

Go Gophers!!
 

It's "A" by a mile for me. The confidence boost alone would be worth the risk. Plus, they've beaten only one likely tourney team since they lost to Indiana the first time. Knocking off the team who's playing as well as anyone right now would be a nice feather in the cap.
 


Scenario A without a doubt as well.

If it would have been, "beat Indiana but go 0-3 the rest of the way" I'd probably choose scenario B, because losing to Penn State at home would be an epic-disaster-level fail.
 


B1GSportsGuy said:
Isn't every B1G game on national TV?
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Well, NU and Iowa wasn't, but that was due to a makeup date being scheduled. I assumed that ESPN would be in a lot more households than BTN, but a quick search said that they both reach 100 million homes. I need to dig more, I don't think that can be right.
 


A is the choice that I am leaning towards.
 

I'm surprised that everyone chose A. It's B without a moment's hesitation for me. Getting into the tournament is what's important. A hypothetical "beat Indiana, lose the last 3 games" scenario puts the Gophers at 7-11 and sweating bullets on Selection Sunday. Winning the last 3 puts us at 9-9 and a lock for selection, probably a 7-8 seed at worst.
 



I choose A. I want to rush the court and beat #1. That would be a better experience for me than another one and done performance.
 

dpodoll68 said:
I'm surprised that everyone chose A. It's B without a moment's hesitation for me. Getting into the tournament is what's important. A hypothetical "beat Indiana, lose the last 3 games" scenario puts the Gophers at 7-11 and sweating bullets on Selection Sunday. Winning the last 3 puts us at 9-9 and a lock for selection, probably a 7-8 seed at worst.
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I guess I don't forsee a scenario that includes losing to PSU at home either way. I think 8-10 gets us in no matter what, if one of those two remaining wins comes against the #1 team in the country, I feel like that'll solidify quite a few things for us.

I get what you're saying though, obviously B looks better in that we're .500 in conference for sure and plus, we'd be going into tourney time on a 3 game win streak, which isn't small potatoes considering what we've seen of late.
 

I would pick scenario A and feel comfortable with the final 3 games.


Breakin' The Plane said:
Well, NU and Iowa wasn't, but that was due to a makeup date being scheduled. I assumed that ESPN would be in a lot more households than BTN, but a quick search said that they both reach 100 million homes. I need to dig more, I don't think that can be right.
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I know my cable company provides ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPNU, ESPN news, and ESPN classic, but they don't even have an option to pay extra for BTN.
 

afurry91 said:
I choose A. I want to rush the court and beat #1. That would be a better experience for me than another one and done performance.
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I would agree if one and done was a 100% certainty but it isn't.
 



You beat IU and Penn State and lose too Nebraska and Purdue leaves you 8-10 My guess is 1 win in the BTN gets you in because of the RPI rating.
 

dpodoll68 said:
I'm surprised that everyone chose A. It's B without a moment's hesitation for me. Getting into the tournament is what's important. A hypothetical "beat Indiana, lose the last 3 games" scenario puts the Gophers at 7-11 and sweating bullets on Selection Sunday. Winning the last 3 puts us at 9-9 and a lock for selection, probably a 7-8 seed at worst.
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+66

The only real scenario is to win at least 3 more games.
 

It's awfully hard to imagine beating IU and losing to PSU 4 days later. Then again, this is the Gophers we're talking about. If they beat Indiana and PSU, the last two are for seeding, IMO.
 

dpodoll68 said:
I'm surprised that everyone chose A. It's B without a moment's hesitation for me. Getting into the tournament is what's important. A hypothetical "beat Indiana, lose the last 3 games" scenario puts the Gophers at 7-11 and sweating bullets on Selection Sunday. Winning the last 3 puts us at 9-9 and a lock for selection, probably a 7-8 seed at worst.
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The difference for me is that B forced me to accept a loss. Option A was not "lose the last 3 games", it was we play the last 3 games not knowing the outcome. I think it comes down to if we can get a big win, can we trust our boys to go out their and win some games they should be able to win. If we can't beat PSU and Nebraska (which would get us to 9-9 under option A if we got those two wins), then I don't know how much fun round one would be in the tourney.
 

A - Because it's the only game left this season I have tickets for!
 

A - and it's not even close for me. I may forget details from a short post-season, but will always remember knocking off #1! We'd be talking about it for years. Beating IU and 1 of the last 3 punches our ticket for sure.
 


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