[NU Sports] In need of a basketball expert

[Arthur Miller]

I'm certainly no basketball expert, but 20-10 (10-8) should be sufficient,
assuming we pick up a signature win or two along the way.  Our home games
against Illinois, MSU, and Michigan would seem to be particularly important
in building an NCAA resume.  If we drop both Baylor and Creighton or any
one of the above three, we'll probably need to steal a win against Purdue
or (gulp) OSU.

Ken Pomeroy currrently ranks us #35 overall and projects us to finish the
OOC slate at 10-1 (losing only @ Creighton), then go 9-9 in conference
during which his model predicts that we go 7-2 at home (losses to Purdue
and Ohio State) and 2-7 on the road (wins at Iowa and Penn State).

FWIW, one year ago we stood at 5-0.  Pomeroy ranked us #52 overall, and
projected at that time that we would finish the regular season 17-11
(7-11).  Our actual finish was 17-12 (7-11).




On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Charles Herron <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

> Sirs,
>
> I am greatly in need of a basketball expert.  We are currently 6-0, with 6
> more non-conference games to go.  Is it safe to assume 4-2 (losses to
> Baylor and Creighton), or 10-2 heading in to Big Ten play ?
>
> We then have 18 Big Ten games.  We miss Wisconsin and Indiana in Evanston,
> and we miss Nebraska and Michigan State on the road.
>
> What is our minimum conference mark to go with 10-2 in order to make the
> NCAA tournament ?  Is that conference mark even likely/possible ?
>
> I.e. is 10-8 conference after 10-2 n-c, meaning 20-10, even sufficient ?
>  Can we do 10-8 ?
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment.
>
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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