[NU Sports] Section 30, Rule IV.A.2

[John Labbe]

What?  How will it help us to lose to Ohio State?  I keep hearing  
people on ESPN say that if we beat Ohio State, we have shot at making  
the tournament, but I think it's pretty clear that if we lose to OSU,  
we're out of the running (unless we can win the Big Ten tourney).   
Stephen did raise that problem that there's probably a limit on how  
many Big Ten teams can make it, but I still don't see how losing to  
OSU will help.

Also, we all seem to be reading the tie breaker rule for the Big Ten  
seeding the same way, and I've done the math.  If we beat OSU, we'll  
get the 7th seed.  We'd be tied with Michigan, OSU, and Minnesota for  
6th place in the Big Ten.  Michigan has the best record against those  
teams, and then we'd be tied with the second best record, but we're  
the only one of those teams to have beaten Michigan State.  With the  
7th seed, we get Iowa in the first round.

If we lose to OSU, we'll be stuck in the 9th seed, probably playing  
Minnesota in the first round.



On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

>
> Anyone else think it odd that the second tiebreaker is "record  
> against conference champion (or lower) RATHER than overall DI record?
>
> I suspect with Michigan's win today, it is in NU's best interest ...  
> to lose v. Ohio State.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> GO 'CATS!
>
> Christopher Bailey
> christopher_bailey at yahoo.com
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