One thing is for certain -- these next 4 games are HUGELY important. At Indiana is a winnable game, and then we have 3 straight home games. After that, we play 4 straight games away from the RAC -- 3 away games (Nebraska, PSU, and NW) plus the "home" game against MSU at the Garden.
That's 8 games in January, 5 of which are outside of the RAC. We certainly need to stack all 3 wins at home, win at MSG, and hope to go 2-2 in the away games. 6-2 in those games gets us to 14-7 and puts us back in the bubble "conversation."
It is a MUST to load up on wins in the first half of the conference season, as I'm still looking at the brutal stretch of 5 out of 7 games on the road from mid-Feb to early-March as a potential back breaker. Those away games are at Maryland, at Oregon, at Washington, at Michigan, and at Purdue. We could lose all of them. Heck, we might need to go 3-1 in the January away games in order to build up a buffer for this brutal 5 out of 7 away game stretch.
