#IUBASE - 2017 B1G Tournament

[Hoosierfan2017 21,467]

35 minutes ago, Aaron said:

That speaks volumes to how far the program has come in a good way. Not that you were watching but that a restaurant was aware enough to even have the game on. Unless you were at a sports bar BTN is not exactly a go to channel for a normal restaurant,

I was at the Crazy Horse here in Bloomington. There were a decent number of people that seemed to be paying attention to the game

[Aaron 4,293]

9 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I was at the Crazy Horse here in Bloomington. There were a decent number of people that seemed to be paying attention to the game

That's my point. Not exactly a sports bar and the fact people were watching and paying attention is such a step forward for program compared to 5-10 years ago its unbelievable. Now lets win at a high enough level to keep it that way.

[Aaron 4,293]

Prediction: We get the 3 seed in either Louisville or Lexington with Missouri State or Vandy our 2 given geography being only RPI teams that high near those regionals. 

[Brass Cannon 24,814]

1 hour ago, Aaron said:

That's my point. Not exactly a sports bar and the fact people were watching and paying attention is such a step forward for program compared to 5-10 years ago its unbelievable. Now lets win at a high enough level to keep it that way.

Be more significant if not in Btown 

[Aaron 4,293]

1 hour ago, Brass Cannon said:

Be more significant if not in Btown 

I was in Malibu Grill in Btown during Big Ten Tourney in 08 (I moved to Indy in 2010 from Bloomington) and no one even paid attention besides me and I had to ask just to turn it on so its definitely progress.

[Aaron 4,293]

Well looks like Big Ten will get a 5th team with Iowa and Northwestern in championship. Hope Iowa wins. Nothing I hate more than a mediocre barely .500 team like Northwestern having a bad year than winning a conference tourney for undeserved NCAA bid.

[Aaron 4,293]

Iowa is gonna win so while they are not great far less embarrassing for the conference than Northwestern getting in (basically the equivalent of when we thieved a bid in 09 with a slow start and a strong finish winning conf tourney).

Big Ten as 7th ranked conference should have no problem justifying putting 5 teams in and if they can't, we are in better shape than Maryland with a head to head series win, a 9 spot better RPI and one more top 50 win (I still think all 5 get in without a problem but if someone gets left out by Iowa getting in it will be Maryland and not us).

I only found 67 remotely deserving teams in all of College Baseball (and that included every possible bid thief and auto bid) and a lot more than 3 have worse resumes than any of the 5 Big Ten teams (besides Iowa who has auto bid) who should get in.