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Yikes. The B1G had one of the worst tournament showings of all time last year, and they follow it up with Richmond knocking out their tournament champ in a 12/5 upset.

Also yikes — the Mountain West had a good regular season, but neither Colorado State or Boise State looked competitive in their losses in the morning session and Wyoming lost in the play-in game. The tourney is a couple of hours old and they’re already down to SDSU.

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On 3/20/2022 at 7:46 PM, glduck said:

A conversation that needs to happen: the committee overvaluing the B1G. Back-to-back dumpster fire Tournaments from our friends from the Midwest.

It feels that way, but the B1G has mostly performed as expected based on seeding.  The only true black eye is Iowa losing to Richmond.  Michigan offsets Wisky, and Illinois lost a 4/5 game to a team that went to the final four last year.  Every other seed has held.

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On 3/20/2022 at 9:37 PM, win2bfree said:

It feels that way, but the B1G has mostly performed as expected based on seeding.  The only true black eye is Iowa losing to Richmond.  Michigan offsets Wisky, and Illinois lost a 4/5 game to a team that went to the final four last year.  Every other seed has held.

No. Tired of people giving the B1G a pass.

They had 9 teams in the tourney, only 2 made it through to the round of 16 with 3 teams losing to lower seeds, 2 of them to much lower seeds. The Pac would be panned for a performance like this, I don't see why people need to try and make excuses for the B1G.

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And when you combined the last 2 seasons, the B1G has had 18 tourney teams and a whopping three made it to the second weekend.

(to put a feather in our cap, the Pac has had 8 tourney teams and 6 have pushed through to the second weekend)

Seems like the B1G of late has morphed into a conference that the committee and the computers love, but their top teams are a step behind when we all come together in March. I’ve noticed this anecdotally the last two tourneys we were in, when we were a 12 and 7, respectively, and ran Wisconsin and Iowa (a 5 and a 2) off the court. A lot of B1G teams seem to play a big, slow brand of basketball that isn’t translating. But again, the computers love them. There was an interesting graphic in yesterday’s Illinois/Houston game: Illinois had 6 Q1 wins to Houston’s 1. When you look at their schedules, Illinois lost to virtually every decent team they played non-con (Arizona, Marquette, Cincinnati), picked up one Q1 win over Notre Dame in the ACC/B1G Challenge, but then racked up 5 Q1 wins in conference play. Boom, 4 seed. Boom, out of the tournament in the second round.

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B1G in basketball is reminding me a lot of the past decade Pac in football. A lot of decent teams that beat up on each other with few to no elite level teams. The Pac gets crucified for this in football, while the B1G is rewarded for it in basketball.

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