Updated Big Ten Ranks
Non-conference Opponents overall D1 win %
1. Penn St 63.8%
2. Illinois 62.9%
3. Purdue 61.1%
4. wisconsin 54.6%
5. Maryland 51.5%
5. Ohio St 51.5%
7. Michigan St 51.1%
8. Indiana 50.5%
9. Rutgers 49.4%
10. Nebraska 48.2%
11. Michigan 46.9%
12. Iowa 44.1%
13. Northwestern 43.7%
14. GOPHERS 38.7%
Average Non-conference Opponent NET ranking
1. Illinois 115.27
2. Purdue 117.64
3. Penn St 124.18
4. wisconsin 132.82
5. Michigan St 149.36
6. Indiana 167.09
7. Ohio St 167.27
8. Nebraska 173.30
9. Maryland 174.09
10. Northwestern 181.55
11. GOPHERS 191.36
12. Iowa 194.00
13. Rutgers 200.20
14. Michigan 200.82
Average Non-conference Quad Game
1. wisconsin 2.36
2. Illinois 2.45
2. Purdue 2.45
4. Indiana 2.64
4. Penn St 2.64
6. Michigan St 2.73
7. Nebraska 2.90
8. Ohio St 2.91
9. Northwestern 3.09
10. GOPHERS 3.18
11. Rutgers 3.20
12. Iowa 3.27
12. Maryland 3.27
12. Michigan 3.27
What does Quad Game mean?
At the risk of me butchering this, I think that the tournament committee gets a sheet that groups your games into four "quadrants" based on quality of opponent and home/neutral/road. The average on that list is the average quadrant of our non-conference games, such that a 1.00 would be the highest quality non-conference schedule possible, and 4.00 would be the softest.
They go 10-10 in conference and they are a LOCK as long as they don't lose to any of these cupcakes the next few games here.
I assume the averages were done without any weighting? I go back and forth on this but for me better high end wins matter more than average overall numbers. To each their own though.
What does Quad Game mean?
This OOC schedule is why simply saying "we played 5 P5 teams" doesn't really mean much. Those P5 teams are garbage outside of UW, who will be lucky to even make the tournament. Give me teams like Belmont, Murray State, Buffalo, South Dakota State and Lipscomb over these garbage P5 teams.
This OOC schedule is why simply saying "we played 5 P5 teams" doesn't really mean much. Those P5 teams are garbage outside of UW, who will be lucky to even make the tournament. Give me teams like Belmont, Murray State, Buffalo, South Dakota State and Lipscomb over these garbage P5 teams.