CheddarDavis

I really don't understand the terrible attendance this year. I'm a current senior in the basketball pep band, so I've never missed a single home game in the past 4 years. And I can say, without a doubt, that attendance this years has been far worse than the past 3 years. Even last year, when we were rather disappointing, people showed up. But this year, outside of the Maryland game, AH hasn't been packed like it usually is. Even the "bigger" games like SMU, Pitt, Michigan, etc were not completely full. I get that the schedule is not as food as it has been in past years, but games are still fun to be at even when we're winning by 25 against Mississippi Valley State. I've also noticed a lot more fans leaving games early this year. That frustrates me to no end.

I do agree with you with Ohio State is better than Michigan State. But OSU's remaining schdduke seems a little harder in my opinion and I see them losing more games.

So, I got bored tonight and decided to look through each team in the conference's remaining schedule and try to predict their results, and therefore the final conference standings. I tried to do it without any bias (pro-IU, anti-Purdue, or otherwise). PS, these rankings include tiebreakers per B1G tourney guidelines, so this would represent conference tourney seeding as well. Tiebreakers are in parentheses. Here's what I came up with: 1) Wisconsin 15-3 2) Maryland 14-4 3) IU 13-5 (2-1 vs MSU/Iowa, 0-1 vs Wisconsin, 1-1 vs Maryland) 4) MSU 13-5 (2-1 vs IU/Iowa, 0-1 vs Wisconsin, 0-2 vs Maryland 5) Iowa 13-5 (1-2 vs MSU/IU) 6) OSU 12-6 7) Purdue 11-7 (1-0 vs Michigan) 8) Michigan 11-7 (0-1 vs Purdue) 9) Illinois 9-9 10) Nebraska 6-12 (1-1 vs Minnesota, 0 wins vs top 3, 1-0 vs MSU) 11) Minnesota 6-12 (1-1 vs Nebraska, 0 wins vs top 3, 0-1 vs MSU) 12) Penn State 5-13 13) Northwestern 3-15 14) Rutgers 2-16 I would love for us to be seeded 3rd. That means we wouldn't meet Wisconsin until the finals of the B1G tourney (if, of course, we even made it that far). If we were 4 or 5, we'd meet them in the semis. We'd meet the 6 seed (OSU) in the quarterfinals, however, which is a tough 6 seed matchup. This is all assuming we win out at home, lose @Wisky and @Maryland, but win @Rutgers and @Northwestern. Any number of things could change there Thoughts?