Updated KenPom B1G standings projection

[boilerzz]

1 MSU, Purdue 15-5
3 Michigan, Illinois 14-6
5 Oregon 13-7
6 Wisconsin 12-8
7 Maryland 11-9
8 OSU, UCLA 10-10
10 Iowa, Nebraska, PSU 9-11
13 USC, IU, NW 8-12
16 Rutgers 6-14
17 Washington 5-15
18 Minnesota 4-16

 

[Chi-Boiler]

Hard to imagine it doesn't come down to the final Friday night in Champaign.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

Hard to imagine it doesn't come down to the final Friday night in Champaign.

Back part of the conference schedule is really interesting, not just for Purdue, which has to be all-hands-on-deck mentality.

Similarly to 2019, Michigan and Michigan State play twice toward the end. Michigan State plays Michigan twice, @ Illinois and hosts Purdue among its last seven games. Oregon looks to have the most favorable (on paper).....you never know for sure, but there definitely are some potential really good match-ups down the stretch.

Long, long way to go before that, and other teams could fight their way into the mix.

Last 7 games:

Purdue - @ Michigan, Wisconsin, @ Michigan State, @ Indiana, UCLA, Rutgers, @ Illinois (pack your hard hat)

Illinois - @ Minnesota, UCLA, Michigan State, @ Wisconsin, Iowa, @ Michigan, Purdue

Michigan State - @ Illinois, Purdue, @ Michigan, @ Maryland, Wisconsin, @ Iowa, Michigan

Michigan - @ Ohio State, Michigan State, @ Nebraska, Rutgers, Illinois, Maryland, @ Michigan State

Oregon - Northwestern, Rutgers, @ Iowa, @ Wisconsin, USC, Indiana, @ Washington

 

[Boiler Buck]

Back part of the conference schedule is really interesting, not just for Purdue, which has to be all-hands-on-deck mentality.

Similarly to 2019, Michigan and Michigan State play twice toward the end. Michigan State plays Michigan twice, @ Illinois and hosts Purdue among its last seven games. Oregon looks to have the most favorable (on paper).....you never know for sure, but there definitely are some potential really good match-ups down the stretch.

Long, long way to go before that, and other teams could fight their way into the mix.

Last 7 games:

Purdue - @ Michigan, Wisconsin, @ Michigan State, @ Indiana, UCLA, Rutgers, @ Illinois (pack your hard hat)

Illinois - @ Minnesota, UCLA, Michigan State, @ Wisconsin, Iowa, @ Michigan, Purdue

Michigan State - @ Illinois, Purdue, @ Michigan, @ Maryland, Wisconsin, @ Iowa, Michigan

Michigan - @ Ohio State, Michigan State, @ Nebraska, Rutgers, Illinois, Maryland, @ Michigan State

Oregon - Northwestern, Rutgers, @ Iowa, @ Wisconsin, USC, Indiana, @ Washington

Purdue road looks tough with those 4 tough away games. Not to mention Oregon.
Comparitaviley, Oregon, Mich and Illinois looks like they caught a break.

Unbalanced schedules hard to figure, but certainly leave some with higher probabilities.

 

[Boiler8285]

Purdue road looks tough with those 4 tough away games. Not to mention Oregon today.
Comparitaviley, Oregon, Mich and Illinois looks like they caught a break.

Unbalanced schedules hard to figure, but certainly leave some with higher probabilities.

Hate the unbalanced schedules. Mega conferences are really messing up the regular season to the point of being meaningless other than for tourney seeds.

 

[pboiler18]

Hate the unbalanced schedules. Mega conferences are really messing up the regular season to the point of being meaningless other than for tourney seeds.

Agree a bit here. End up in a tie at like 16-4 with MSU and they beat you but it was at their place by 2…

What do you do there? I think both get trophies but obviously MSU gets the 1 seed by virtue of simply playing us at their place. Hate that.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

Agree a bit here. End up in a tie at like 16-4 with MSU and they beat you but it was at their place by 2…

What do you do there? I think both get trophies but obviously MSU gets the 1 seed by virtue of simply playing us at their place. Hate that.

All teams that are tied for first after the regular season are considered co-champs for Big Ten regular season championship - then it's the tie-breakers applied for BTT seeds, and if they only played once, it's going to be the single-game winner getting the top seed. The other seeding can get quite tangled with the unbalanced schedules and records of common games among/between tied teams.

There have been several two-way and three-way ties over the years. Purdue has been involved in two 3-way ties in the NCAA tournament era, IIRC - '79 (with Michigan State and Iowa) and '10 (with Michigan State and Ohio State).

There is also the infamous footnoted four-way tie in '02 with Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio State @ 11-5, which is now in the books as a 3-way tie after Ohio State had to vacate games.

 

[tjreese]

Purdue road looks tough with those 4 tough away games. Not to mention Oregon today.
Comparitaviley, Oregon, Mich and Illinois looks like they caught a break.

Unbalanced schedules hard to figure, but certainly leave some with higher probabilities.

Oregon tomorrow I believe, not today

 

[boilerzz]

Speaking of KenPom:

 

[BoilerDaddy]

Speaking of KenPom:

I’m pleasantly surprised to see TKR in the top 10!

 

[DrEss]

Purdue just needs to have a 3 game lead going in to the @ Illinois game. It’s been done.

 

[qazplm]

Purdue just needs to have a 3 game lead going in to the @ Illinois game. It’s been done.

That is the benefit of this pretty easy start to the conference SOS wise. Build up a cushion.