[NU Sports] What's the magic number?

[hakirsch at aol.com]

20 does not guarantee anything but an NIT bid and there are no gimmees in the BT.  Having said that I feel we have a decent but less than 50/50 shot of making the tourney. It feels like we are hanging by a thread.  Had we lost last night which we easily could have I would have downgraded our chances to a long shot

Harry
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From: Evans Schoeman <eschoeman at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:36:39 
To: <bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com>; <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] What's the magic number?

Iowa, Penn State, and Indiana sure looked like an almost-certain 6 wins a couple of weeks ago, but there are no gimmes in the Big Ten this year.

Winless Penn State should have beaten Wisconsin in Madison today, blowing a 16 point second half lead and losing in OT.  Iowa played Sparty tough in East Lansing earliee\r this week, and Indiana is improving with every game.

A tough road still to go.

I saw some network had the Big Ten rated as the fifth or sixth toughest conference.  Hard to believe.





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From: "bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com" <bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com>
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 3:09:27 PM
Subject: [NU Sports] What's the magic number?

Does 20 wins before the Big Ten tournament mean NU is in? 

If so six more wins are required. Chicago State is one. That's 15. 

A split with Iowa seems reasonable. 16. 

Can we count on sweeps of Indiana and Penn State? I say no. PSU tortures NU, esp. at State College. At best 3 out of 4. 

Beat Michigan. There's 20. 

So any bonus wins like at Minnesota or Bucky Badger just be icing. 

Is it that simple?

Brad Wilson
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