2022-23 IUBB Schedule

[Stuhoo 80,808]

5 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Being favored in all your single plays is very favorable. Switch those single plays home for aways and 4-2 would be the projection. As is it’s 6-0 almost certainly 

No -- playing the best teams more often is not the recipe for a better record in conference. Playing MSU, UM, Illinois, Iowa, and Rutgers twice is pretty rough.

As Hovadipo said, I'm glad we got a single against OSU; they're gonna be really good. Three excellent transfers and a top 10 incoming class.

[Brass Cannon 24,801]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

No -- playing the best teams more often is not the recipe for a better record in conference. Playing MSU, UM, Illinois, Iowa, and Rutgers twice is pretty rough.

As Hovadipo said, I'm glad we got a single against OSU; they're gonna be really good. Three excellent transfers and a top 10 incoming class.

I get that. I am saying that the home and away is favorable because we will be favored in all 6 compared to a switching which would be 4-2.  
 

We had the most favorable double plays last year possible.  We weren’t ever going to be that fortunate again. 
 

My guess is metrics have us favored in 15 games next year. We are damn lucky in that considering the cakewalk we had last year 

[IUFAN1976 3,135]

The B10 announced the home, away and home/away opponents today. I don’t think the B10 really wants IU to win it because, IMO, they play the toughest home/away opponents of any potential contending team.
 

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,375]

15 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

The B10 announced the home, away and home/away opponents today. I don’t think the B10 really wants IU to win it because, IMO, they play the toughest home/away opponents of any potential contending team.
 

Woodson's gonna have to start politicking the B1G office if these Shenanigans keep up.  Bright side.... Strength of Schedule Boost!

Edited June 16, 2022 by WayneFleekHoosier

[Brass Cannon 24,801]

I’m still not convinced we didn’t get a decent bunch of home and away. I know Torvik is high on Purdue but they don’t have a PG that’s not insignificant. Especially in their system. 
 

And Rutgers isn’t going to be that good. 
 

All I know is I want to play at Illinois in December to hand them a loss before they have any time to gel 

[TheWatShot 14,000]

I hope this doesn't cause our staff and AD to start scouting out the bottom 50 of Kenpom like Crean used to do. 

[Brass Cannon 24,801]

Just now, TheWatShot said:

I hope this doesn't cause our staff and AD to start scouting out the bottom 50 of Kenpom like Crean used to do. 

They know our schedule will always be tough.  
 

Judging by the fact Woodson was still trying to get University 6 to play a game he’s pretty focused on having a quality SoS

[HoosierFan1994 4,746]

8 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

That's a really tough conference schedule. 

Two bright spots:

1. The three single play 'home only' games are vs a tough OSU team, avoid a miserable and exhausting place to get to in the winter: Nebraska, and avoid the misery of a Kohl road game at Wisconsin.
2. Except for Ohio State, the whole upper half of the conference gets to have their @$$ kicked by us twice.

2013 Big Ten season was as tough as ever. You had IU, Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, and Wisconsin all legit. I think IU played OSU, Michigan, and Michigan State on the road as well as home. They won all the road games and lost to only OSU at home. Ended up winning the Big Ten outright. Point is if this team is as good as we think, they're going to do just fine. 

100% agree too..so glad to avoid Madison. 

[Brass Cannon 24,801]

Ran Some numbers, based on the Torvik rankings Ohio State has the toughest schedule.  Average ranking is higher and their away schedule is just brutal.  With 6 of their 10 opponents in the Top 50 of Torvik.  Illinois only has 6 total with half of those at home.  

So just a straight up numbers game in order of toughness least to most

Illinois, the steak I had last night, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana and then Ohio State.  

Michigan and Michigan state I think we have enough extra talent to beat them.  Plus we control our own destiny against them a bit more with playing them twice.  If Illinois gels and their talent performs to the level they hope definitely going to be tough to beat them in the standings.  

	Indiana		Michigan		Michigan State		Illinois		Ohio State
	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away
Mean	49.8	53.1	61.8	54.9	57.9	47.1	62.6	63.6	56.5	43.4
Median	47.5	45	63	52.5	52.5	47.5	63	63	52.5	35.5
Top 50	5	5	3	4	4	5	3	3	4	6
	Nebraska	Maryland	Nebraska	Illinois	Maryland	Illinois	Michigan	Iowa	Minnesota	Nebraska
	Ohio State	Minnesota	Ohio State	Iowa	Minnesota	Penn State	Michigan State	Maryland	Penn State	Indiana
	Wisconsin	Penn State	Purdue	Rutgers	Northwestern	Wisconsin	Rutgers	Purdue	Wisconsin	MIchigan
	Iowa	Iowa	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Illinois	Illinois
	Illinois	Illinois	Maryland	Maryland	Iowa	Iowa	Minnesota	Minnesota	Northwestern	Northwestern
	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan	Nebraska	Nebraska	Michigan State	Michigan State
	Michigan	Michigan	Minnesota	Minnesota	Nebraska	Nebraska	Northwestern	Northwestern	Purdue	Purdue
	Northwestern	Northwestern	Northwestern	Northwestern	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Maryland	Maryland
	Rutgers	Rutgers	Penn State	Penn State	Purdue	Purdue	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Rutgers	Rutgers
	Purdue	Purdue	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Rutgers	Rutgers	Penn State	Penn State	Iowa	Iowa

[Brass Cannon 24,801]

Interestingly enough I switched Purdue and Ohio State.  The situation where Ohio State is good and Purdue isn't then the schedules balance a bit more.  

Hopefully this board is right and Ohio State will be good and Purdue will SUCK

	Indiana		Michigan		Michigan State		Illinois		Ohio State
	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away
Mean	49.8	56.4	61.8	54.9	57.9	47.1	59.3	63.6	59.8	46.7
Median	47.5	52.5	63	52.5	52.5	47.5	60	63	58	45
Top 50	5	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	3	5
	Nebraska	Maryland	Nebraska	Illinois	Maryland	Illinois	Michigan	Iowa	Minnesota	Nebraska
	Ohio State	Minnesota	Ohio State	Iowa	Minnesota	Penn State	Michigan State	Maryland	Penn State	Indiana
	Wisconsin	Penn State	Purdue	Rutgers	Northwestern	Wisconsin	Rutgers	Purdue	Wisconsin	MIchigan
	Iowa	Iowa	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Indiana	Illinois	Illinois
	Illinois	Illinois	Maryland	Maryland	Iowa	Iowa	MInnesota	MInnesota	Northwestern	Northwestern
	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan State	Michigan	Michigan	Nebraska	Nebraska	Michigan State	Michigan State
	Michigan	Michigan	Minnesota	Minnesota	Nebraska	Nebraska	Northwestern	Northwestern	Purdue	Purdue
	Northwestern	Northwestern	Northwestern	Northwestern	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Maryland	Maryland
	Rutgers	Rutgers	Penn State	Penn State	Purdue	Purdue	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Rutgers	Rutgers
	Purdue	Purdue	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Rutgers	Rutgers	Penn State	Penn State	Iowa	Iowa

[Brass Cannon 24,801]

So looks like the Gavitt matchups were announced June 24th last year.  And the ACC challenge matchups were June 28th. Hopefully we don’t have to wait much longer to know the meat and potatoes of of our schedule 

Personally I want Villanova and Virginia 

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,182]

I don't see anything "out of the ordinary" difficult. Personally, I don't think we have any idea who the top teams will be.. UM, MSU, Iowa? None of those teams are scary. 

Our 6 single opponent games should all be Ws. Heckuva draw in that regard. 

[vemmeistars 202]

Rumor from retired columnist that Illini will host unc. Will be disappointed if iu has to host someone like uva or miami. 

 

[mbredenk101 525]

Rumor from retired columnist that Illini will host unc. Will be disappointed if iu has to host someone like uva or miami. 
 

Would love to see us host Duke again. Seems like we host them the most of any other ACC team.

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[vemmeistars 202]

Haven’t hosted unc since 2016. Ideally iu would be the top program in big and play duke/unc every other year.

[Josh 12,640]

I kinda hope we play at Florida State every year

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,674]

Man not having UNC or Duke come to Bloomington would be such a slap to the face. 

[Brass Cannon 24,801]

7 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Man not having UNC or Duke come to Bloomington would be such a slap to the face. 

It amazes me how little respect Virginia the most recent ACC team to win a title gets.  
 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,674]

5 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

It amazes me how little respect Virginia the most recent ACC team to win a title gets.  
 

Virginia just ain't gonna be on that level next season. They'll be a tourney team I think, but the ACC is Duke and UNC and then everyone else. Maybe Miami. We are projected to win the Big Ten. We should play one of the two best teams from the ACC. Same for the Big East. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,674]

I did tweet out about the IU-UNC game if anyone wants to look me up and share. Maybe we can make someone's post somewhere about it and make it go viral and convince the leagues to do it. (@XavierHarkness)