[NU Sports] New Palm projections

[Alan Abrahamson]

Oh, for sure we can count on Luka to deliver the fouls :)

Rooting big-time for the Cats. I am a lifer. Both parents are NU
grads. I *only* have 36 years of direct personal involvement in
no-Tourney basketball -- started as a Medill freshman in 1976.

Bring on the big, bad Buckeyes!

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On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Aaron Ament <aaronsament at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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