Big Ten- Top Conference in the Nation?

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Handsome Pete

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It's getting harder and harder to argue the Big Ten is not #1. Yahoo Sports, for one, is predicting 8 out of 11 Big Ten teams making the tourney. Compare that to 6 out of 17 Big East teams and 6 out of 12 ACC teams.

The second point bears repeating: 8 Big Ten teams may make the tournament. Wow.
 

Probably the league with the most parity top to bottom.
 


Huge key to getting so many teams in is to have two or three horrible teams (Indiana and Iowa) and no dominant teams. If Purdue and Illinois each have two more wins (likely from the middle of the pack) the Big Ten goes down to six pretty quickly.
 

Winnipegopher said:
Huge key to getting so many teams in is to have two or three horrible teams (Indiana and Iowa) and no dominant teams. If Purdue and Illinois each have two more wins (likely from the middle of the pack) the Big Ten goes down to six pretty quickly.
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WinnipegG, you have the correct analysis here. But that said, another reason why the middle BT teams are so highly regarded is that they had pretty good OOC seasons: Minnesota and Ohio State only had 1 loss between them. Also, the middle BT teams were the ones who took out the ACC in the Challenge - our top (MSU, PU, Illl) and bottom (Ind., Iowa) did poorly.
 


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