[NU Sports] New Palm projections

[Mike Nolan]

> This whole focus of RPI does also explain why the BT pretty reliably
> sends 7 teams to the dance.  If you assume that the BT is going to
> produce at least four top twenty-five teams (there are five this year),
> that means that everyone else in the conference plays those teams twice.
> So automatically, every team in the conference is going to have at least
> 4 road games and more importantly 4 home games against top 25 teams.

Not necessarily, the Big Ten doesn't play a double RR schedule, so
some teams might only have one game against a ranked team, not
necessarily home/home games.  
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Mike Nolan