if we beat Miss State and Princeton on neutral and won at Wake our resume would be significantly better...true the latter 2 were not tourney teams but close to tourney teams...i mean that would put us at 18-13.....we have a win over SHU as well.....if we flipped two more conference games (Maryland and Penn State) at home to finish 9-11 in league our 20-11 record would have us right near the cut line heading into the Big 10 tourney.
Q1: 4-9, Q2: 5-3, Q3: 4-0......now likely with the bid stealers we wouldnt go but we would have no bad losses, 9-12 Q1/2 , 13-12 Q1/2/3 puts us right there but I think in this case its lacking that one big conference win at home or on the road...we would have needed to be Illinois at home or Wisky/Nebby on road to finish 10-10 in league 21-10 overall.....Q1 5-8 that would put us 10-11 Q1/2 and 14-11 Q1/2...thats how you get in with how we scheduled this year which was okay but not great..you need 20 plus wins
unless you schedule like msu, you are not getting in with 18-19 win from this league