Hammer and rails can speak for themselves
Michigan is fine in March.
Since 2000, Big Ten teams have made the national title game in 2002 (IU), 2005 (Illinois), 2007 (OSU), 2009 (MSU), 2013 (Michigan), 2015 (Wisconsin), and 2018 (Michigan). I don’t think there’s a rational explanation for the league going 0-7, it’s just a weird thing.
That said, the current crop of league coaches includes a lot of guys with pretty bad March track records.
Titles aside the conference has done well since 2000 in the tourney . Lazy narrative that the media has been pushing for the few years.
“The big ten got 9 teams in but only 1 sweet 16 team!”
Well how far did you think a bunch of teams ranked 20-55 would go? Seems as if most the conference is seeded 7-11 that they’d mostly win 1 game or none…has it had a rougher go than expected in a couple years lately ? Sure, but the strength of the league isn’t at the top, it’s the fact that 80 percent of the league is ranked in the top 60….
Without looking it up, I think every Big Ten team in the national title game has lost to a 1 seed in the final.
I think so - although some of the Big Ten teams were 1 seeds themselves.
I think the years long thing is dumb
I think it’s fair to say that the past two years the league doesn’t have top end talent or teams. I think there are lots of things that has to do with beyond coaches or really anything under their control
Like we can say Purdue was a 1 seed but were they anything close to one of the four most talented teams?