Comments on: Wednesday Notes & Links

By: rlc

rlc — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:54:09 +0000

Oh, they’d be 5,6,7,8 seeds in that scenario…

By: rlc

rlc — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:52:45 +0000

OK, one more possibility:

Four way tie
Wisconsin 9-9 4-2
Michigan 9-9 3-3 (1-1 v UI)
Minnesota 9-9 3-3
Penn St. 9-9 2-4

By: Giddings

Giddings — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:53:06 +0000

Lunardi says Michigan has moved into the field for now: http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3954548&name=ncbexperts

Katz makes the case for Northwestern (6 Top 50 wins!): http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3953853&name=katz_andy

By: Giddings

Giddings — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:34:47 +0000

UMQuasi, the default “tiebreaker” for those sites is Overall Win/Loss Percentage, which NW edges us slightly on at 17-11 instead of 18-12 (by less than 1%). It has nothing to do with seeding for the BTT.

By: UMQuasi

UMQuasi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:04:46 +0000

I’m confused now, both ESPN and the Big Ten Network shows Northwestern above us in the standings. According to all of these posts, we have the tiebreaker over them

By: gpsimms

gpsimms — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:28:22 +0000

read through the comments, ryan. your question has been answered/linked in exhaustive detail.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:23:56 +0000

how do those tie breakers work? I know for a two way tie it is head to head matchups but what is it after that?

By: JimC

JimC — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:52:18 +0000

Man I hope all these predictions are not in vain. I’m still pretty worried about Saturday, still thinking if we lose that we’re out. MN is solid, and rested or not, the barn is one of the hardest places to play.
Prove me wrong M!

By: rlc

rlc — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:07:25 +0000

Oh, that’s right. Here are those:

Three way tie
6 Michigan 9-9 2-2 (1-1 v PU)
7 Wisconsin 9-9 2-2 (2-0 v PSU 1-0 v OSU)
8 Minnesota 9-9 2-2 (1-1 v PSU 1-1 v OSU)

Five way tie
5 Wisconsin 9-9 4-3
6 Northwestern 9-9 4-4 (1-1 v MSU)
7 Michigan 9-9 4-4 (1-1 v PU)
8 Minnesota 9-9 4-4
9 Ohio St. 9-9 3-4

By: Redwings8831

Redwings8831 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:46:10 +0000

I’ve thought about a couple more, but don’t feel like going through them now. Like a 3 or 5 way tie which would include Wisconsin instead of Penn State. There might be a couple more.