[NU Sports] Standings and BT tourney seedings

[Roy Lamberton]

The as high as 5th came from Dave Eanet on WGN on sports talk last night
about an hour after the game was over.

He didn't think it was right either, but he was repeating what someone
(probably in the SID office) had said right after the broadcast was over.

I also thought it was hard to make that big a jump, but I hadn't heard that
NU could get that high.

Apparently everyone above us has to lose, difficult when you are in 9th
place.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of John Labbe
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:28 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Standings and BT tourney seedings

I don't see how we can possibly move up to the top 5 in the Big Ten and get
a bye in the first round of the BT tournament.  If someone can figure out
that scenario, let us know.

But if we can beat Ohio State on Sunday, we have a great shot of moving into
the 7th seed, which would mean we would play Iowa in the first round and
then Illinois in the quarter-finals, instead of playing either Michigan or
Ohio State in the first round and Michigan State in the second round.

Someone posted similar analysis over the weekend, but I think Minnesota's
win over Wisconsin last night slightly changed the analysis.  Now we want
Minnesota to beat Michigan (at Minny) on Saturday (to avoid a 3-way tie with
Minny and UM at 6th, which I think we lose and end up 8th).  Then we just
have to beat Ohio State, and I think we end up with the 7th seed.

In theory, I think we could also move as high as 6th, but that would require
Indiana to beat Wisconsin at Wisconsin.

Thoughts?

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