Lunardi’s seeding of the Gophers is really head scratching, especially when you consider that he has Iowa and Michigan (teams the Gophers have split with) both as 1 seeds. He also has Illinois and Wisconsin each 1-2 seeds higher than Palm, thus making the Gophers’ losses to them more understandable. Maybe he is putting a lot of weight in road/neutral records, but his seeding of the Gophers does not make sense for a team with wins over a 1, 1, 4, 8, and 11 seed and its only losses to a 1, 1, 3, and 5 seed.I try not to get too invested with bracketology middle of the season, even though it's really fun to follow, but I just don't understand how Lunardi can give Ohio State two seeds higher than the Gophers.
4 Best Wins for Ohio State - UCLA, Rutgers (2), and Illinois
4 Best Wins for Minnesota - Iowa, Michigan, Ohio State, and Saint Louis
With the struggles recently of Illinois and Rutgers, it's a no-brainer for Minnesota. If you want to give Ohio State the benefit of getting some road wins, that's fine, but you also have to take into effect that Minnesota beat them by 17 points head to head, we've had a MUCH tougher Big Ten schedule to date, and all of our losses have been road losses to top 25 teams. Remember the NET is just one metric for seeding purposes. The committee is supposed to look at the whole picture. Anyway, I digress...
Likely the result of zero wins on the road.
All the more reason this Nebraska postponed game sucks. It wouldn't have been a quality road win but it would have been a road win regardless.
It probably would have lowered our net. We're better off!
Which is fair, because the committee definitely values road/neutral wins quite heavily.