Games of interest - February 11

[BeKnighted]

Maybe not the best night for teams that were surprises on the NCAA top 20 list


Big Ten

Minnesota 93 Wisconsin 82 - Kelley with 33 and 14 for the Golden Gophers
Northwestern 73 Purdue 65 OT - I kind of like the Wildcats for the NCAAs
Indiana 85 Illinois 58 - there's something I like about this score
Michigan State 74 Penn State 67 - Spartans get out of the cellar


Other RU opponents

Rhode Island 63 St. Joseph's 61 OT - Hawks came back from down 8 at the half, but couldn't finish
Colgate 67 Boston University 54 - BU is pretty lousy


Other ranked teams

#3 Baylor 89 Oklahoma 66 - Sooners get one more game against the Lady Bears, lucky them
St. Louis 79 #20 George Washington 61 - this is a really bad loss for the Colonials


Also - Big 12 night plus one

Texas Tech 71 Iowa State 58 - something of an upset
Kansas State 93 Texas Christian 79 - something of an upset
Oklahoma State 66 Texas 60 - 4 losses in a row, 6 of last 7, 8 of last 10, so maybe not an upset
Dayton 79 Richmond 41 - Dayton was the highest RPI team not on the NCAA's top 20 list

Current B12 standings (with RPIs from Warren Nolan):

1. Baylor 12-0/23-1 (RPI 1)
2. Oklahoma 9-3/15-8 (22)
3t. Iowa State 6-6/15-8 (49)
3t. TCU 6-6/14-9 (74)
5t. Oklahoma State 5-7/15-8 (64)
5t. Kansas State 5-7/15-8 (52)
5t. West Virginia 5-7/15-9 (63)
8t. Texas 4-8/15-8 (31)
8t. Texas Tech 4-8/14-10 (111)
8t. Kansas 4-8/13-12 (77)

After Oklahoma and Baylor, the conference looks like a hot mess. 5 teams are outside the usual RPI range for getting into the tournament, Texas is sitting 4 games under .500 in conference (and I don't recall a team getting a bid with that kind of conference record), and Iowa State and K State are questionable.

Today:

Other RU opponents 0-1

Year to date:

Big Ten 115-40
Other RU opponents 107-122


There has been one palindromic scores in 50 games today. That makes 30 palindromic scores in 4,150 games this year.

 

[Ewecon]

Ya know, there can be no argument that the AAC is one of the worst conferences, but I gotta say that the B12 doesn't register very high on the degree of difficulty scale, either. 9 of the 10 teams have 8 or more losses. Not surprising Baylor is 23-1.

 

[BeKnighted]

Originally posted by Ewecon:
Ya know, there can be no argument that the AAC is one of the worst conferences, but I gotta say that the B12 doesn't register very high on the degree of difficulty scale, either. 9 of the 10 teams have 8 or more losses. Not surprising Baylor is 23-1.

No disagreement from this corner. There's a reasonable argument that the B12 doesn't deserve any more bids than the AAC.

 

[bac2therac]

They'll get bids...the sec used to get bids with sub 500 league marks...however the aac is atrocious you cannot say with a straight face that they deserve the same amount of bids

 

[BeKnighted]

Originally posted by bac2therac:
They'll get bids...the sec used to get bids with sub 500 league marks...however the aac is atrocious you cannot say with a straight face that they deserve the same amount of bids

I think the B12 has had the most bids for teams with sub-.500 league records, actually, but in most of those years the teams had great RPIs. This year, well, nobody is in the safe range except Baylor and Oklahoma. I suppose the good news for most of them is that if they go on a run, they can move up pretty easily.