2023-24 Big Ten basketball opponents released.
- Thread starter Travis Miller
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The B10?
Who likely will be worse than the pathetic conference they were last year? Not buying a tough road, other than going through the low quality officiating which is frustrating more than anything.
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you had the easy schedule last year, would have to figure not going to get lucky 2 years in a row. watch for Nebraska to finish in the top 5 next year.
It's not that bad, play Mich State (who should be really good)just once at home is a break. Purdue should not lose at home. Not playing Maryland twice is good, probably lose there. Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Rutgers are weaker than last year. Wisconsin, Nebraska and Ohio State should be good games. Purdue should be 15-5 or better, Michigan State and Maryland(If they can win a road game) should challenge!
Maryland should be a good team again. Michigan State will be good too, but I think you are underestimating Rutgers. Rutgers returns everyone except McConnell. They did add Rivals 5* SF Gavin Griffiths and PG (Noah Fernandez) in the transfer portal.
I'm not sold on Nebraska or Wisconsin. Too much turnover every year for NU, and by the time they figure it out, the season is almost over. Wisconsin will be tough as usual, but they have not improved enough to challenge the upper half of the B1G. Illinois will fall hard. Indiana will take a step back, but how big depends.
if only playing Maryland and Mich st once each, Purdue has about as good as a schedule as you could hope for once again.
It's hard to say which teams are going to be good and which schedules are toughest right now. I do agree MSU will be among the favorites. I think Purdue will be a contender with or without Zach (my gut says with).
Who can really say, though? Indiana was the clear favorite going into last year but struggled with inconsistency for much of the season. OSU went from the top-25 to 13th place in the B1G in about a month. Who predicted Northwestern would finish in 2nd place?
Who can really say, though? Indiana was the clear favorite going into last year but struggled with inconsistency for much of the season. OSU went from the top-25 to 13th place in the B1G in about a month. Who predicted Northwestern would finish in 2nd place?
True, but if Zach returns, Purdue will pretty much be returning a roster that easily won the Big Ten Championship last season. IU, in comparison, returned a lot of talent this past season, but wasn’t coming off a particularly good season the year before.
That all being said, I expect MSU to be a top 10 and possibly top 5 team next season, making a 3 game spread in the conference standings again highly unlikely.
Last year at this time Purdue had a tough schedule. Then OSU sucks, IU didn't meet expectations, NW is good and all of a sudden they had a cakewalk to the regular season title.
A lot can and will change...
True, but I'm not sure how much we can extrapolate from last year. Almost half of Purdue's B1G games were against teams that finished in the bottom 5 in the league. Purdue went 11-0 against teams that finished 10th-14th but just 7-5 against teams that finished 2nd-9th (counting B1G tourney).
I expect Purdue to compete again next year, but they'll have to be better against the upper-echelon of the B1G.
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