February 30th? Sounds like a wild night for a game.
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Not only is 2023 a leap year, it’s one of those rare double leap years (apparently 
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Dagummit!!!
I’m sure their fanbase will have a measured reaction to that.
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Here for “measured” as a word choice
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Is Illinois ducking Minnesota? 
I thought they were okay playing against teams that have Covid
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It would be really nice to end our losing streak against them this year. If they have extra saltiness due to Covid postponements, even better!
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So since Illinois isn’t playing a full big ten schedule they shouldn’t be allowed to win the Big Ten ever again right? At least that’s what I was told when Michigan had something similar happen. I guess since Illinois has run the Big Ten for the greater part of two centuries they should get an exception
(Edit): we should honestly just give them the banner now for this season since they beat us last year
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To be fair to Bart
The coaches we trash the most on this board for being morons won at least a share of the past two regular seasons, the one guy in the league who won a natty, and the defending champion of the conference tournament.
So partisanship does something
Not sure who this is referring to but I would point out there’s a difference between thinking someone is a moron and someone is a jerk (or choose your adjective).
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I think 2/3 are both, and 1/3 is just one. can you solve my riddle
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Because I’m a big nerd and no one else outside of this forum would appreciate this completely meaningless look at Big Ten tournament seedings a full month before the event, here is the current seeding for the tourney if the season ended today:
1 - Purdue (11-2)
2 - Rutgers (8-4)
3 - Iowa (7-5) (Win tiebreak w/5-0 record vs. other 7-5 teams)
4 - Michigan (7-5) (3-2 v. 7-5 teams, tiebreak over MD due to 0-0 record vs RUT vs. 0-1 for MD)
5 - Maryland (7-5) (3-2 record vs. other 7-5 teams)
6 - Northwestern (7-5) (2-3 record vs. other 7-5 teams)
7 - Indiana (7-5) (1-3 record vs. other 7-5 teams)
8 - Illinois (7-5) (0-4 record vs. other 7-5 teams)
9 - Michigan State (6-6)
10- Wisconsin (5-7) (win tiebreak with H2H win over Penn State)
11- Penn State (5-7)
12- Nebraska (4-9)
13- Ohio State (3-9)
14- Minnesota (1-11)
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I feel like it would be better for our chances of making the ncaa tournament to not get a double bye this year in the big 10 tourney. Just better chances at adding much needed quad 1 and 2 wins to the resume.
Although, if we do end up getting a double bye you could argue that our resume would already be better off, but I still bet we will end up wanting more chances at wins.
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I’ll take a 6-seed with a 11) Wisconsin → 3) Iowa → 2) Rutgers path to the title please and thank you
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I would agree…perfect example is Nebraska in 2018. Had a 13-5 Big Ten record but really crappy metrics, got the double bye by winning the H2H tiebreak over Michigan, then got blown out by Michigan and missed the tourney. Could have really used another quality win. Could definitely see Michigan being in the same boat if they are ~12-8 and lose in the QFs
That said, finishing in the 5 seed is not going to help much. Beating Nebraska really doesn’t help your resume, but losing can burst your bubble. It would be better to be in that 7-10 range if we’re looking to boost our resume.
Depending on our position on the bubble, being in a situation where you get a Q1 win on Thursday and then match up against Purdue in a ‘nothing to lose, everything to gain’ game on Friday might be ideal. But that’s only if we feel we’re 1 quality win short heading into the tournament.
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Ideal for a tourney run but the absolute worst time slots!
Opening game tips at the BTT are lifechanging.
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Boooooooo so close
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I’m assuming this would be a Penn St. home game.
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