[NU Sports] Go Gophers! (was: Standings and BT tourney seedings)

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> If you're trying to figure out which teams to pull for
> in the Indiana/Wisconsin and Michigan/Minnesota games, you

I doubt IU will beat Bucky, but we should definitely be pulling for Minnesota today against Michigan.

For one thing, it makes it simple that we're #7 if we beat OSU. No real tiebreaker questions as it would just be OSU and NU at 9-9 and we'd have beaten them twice.

Secondly, as good and deep as the league is this year, I doubt we're getting 9 teams into the Dance. Michigan and OSU are probably our biggest competition (should we win out - as I don't see Wisconsin choking against IU or in the tourney).

Winning out would have us 2-0 vs. OSU, so we control that ... but the Wolverines beat us and have a better SOS/RPI, so we gotta have them lose and go to 8-10 in league play. Real tough to get in the Dance if you can't get to .500 in your league.

So go Goldie today and GO CATS tomorrow!

GO CATS!!!
-SjT


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