Thursday, February 24, 2011

More Women's Big Ten Tournament Talk

I am editing this since I didn't realize the Big Ten tiebreakers were so convoluded.  Here is what you should root for this Sunday:

Iowa to win
Ohio State to beat Wisconsin (we will not get a first round bye if the Badgers win)
Illinois to beat Michigan (a win by the Illini keeps us in the talk even if we lose and garauntees Michigan is on the other side of the bracket)
The rest of the games cannot affect our tournament seeding unless I have again misunderstood the incredibly idiotic tie breaking procedure.

This is what the bracket will look like if iowa, Ohio State and Michigan win Sunday (Wisconsin will almost certainly lose and if Michigan loses theybecome the six seed and Wisconsin is the fifth)

Seeds
1. Michigan State
2. Penn State
3. Michigan
4. Ohio State
5. Iowa
6. Wisconsin
7. Purdue
8. Northwestern
9. Minnesota
10. Indiana
11. Illinois

This is a worst case scenario (which is also very likely sadly) since Ohio State will be coming in on a six or seven game win streak and even if Iowa beats them there is the matter of facing Michigan State in the second round.  Root for Wisconsin or Illinois Sunday (if both  win we are in pretty much the same boat we are now). We could really use another crazy weekend.

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