[NU Sports] New Palm projections

[Aaron Ament]

That is an interesting breakdown and one not discussed much.  I agree with that overall premise.  

On another note, is there any update on whether Luka will play at least a few minutes in the Big Ten tourney?  We could use a few extra minutes and fouls down low...

On Feb 28, 2012, at 2:53 PM, "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com> wrote:

> You're right.  With 5 ranked teams, though it did pretty much work out
> that all of the unranked teams except NU and UNL had eight games against
> ranked teams.  
> 
> Illinois - 4 home 4 road
> Purdue - 4 home 4 road
> Iowa - 4 home 4 road
> Minny - 4 home 4 road
> Nebraska - 4 home 3 road
> NU - 3 home 4 road
> PSU - 3 home 5 road
> 
> This still remains a little bit simplistic because the rankings do
> change through the year, but I think that the overall premise holds.  As
> long as the BT continues to produce good teams that are nationally
> ranked at the top of the conference, that means that those teams in the
> middle of the conference are going to end up with RPI's strong enough to
> get them invited to the dance every year.  
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Nolan [mailto:nolan at tssi.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:22 PM
> To: Beamsley, Jeff
> Cc: Weinbaum Willie; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] New Palm projections
> 
>> 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.  
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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