UW Badgers release 2017-2018 Schedule

Started by TomM, August 23, 2017, 01:59:59 PM

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TomM

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billymurphy

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That is incredible.
The Badgers avoided Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State and Ohio State.

The Big Ten Championships is going to be a rude awakening after having
a great regular season.  At least that is what it looks like on paper.

bigG

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

dad 2 5

Quote from: billymurphy on August 28, 2017, 01:08:27 PM
That is incredible.
The Badgers avoided Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State and Ohio State.

The Big Ten Championships is going to be a rude awaking after having
a great regular season.  At least that is what it looks like on paper.

You would hope they could accumulate a big win total individually and have some excellent seeding which might get them in go position in the B1G

bigG

Gonna be some sore tail feathers when they wake up. :)
If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

npope

Quote from: dad 2 5 on August 28, 2017, 06:41:14 PM
Quote from: billymurphy on August 28, 2017, 01:08:27 PM
That is incredible.
The Badgers avoided Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State and Ohio State.

The Big Ten Championships is going to be a rude awaking after having
a great regular season.  At least that is what it looks like on paper.

You would hope they could accumulate a big win total individually and have some excellent seeding which might get them in go position in the B1G

You know, the Big Ten is sooo tough from top to bottom (it is almost like a mini-NCAA meet with most of the best teams invited), a faux-seed doesn't really help out a guy who simply managed to avoid the toughest guys in his weight because 1) the toughest guy in a given weight might come from a team outside of the "power four" teams and 2) there are so many tough guys in all of the weights that a middling seed is going to face-off with another middling seed - one whose record likely included guys from the power four teams. The point is, a faux-seed isn't much good when everybody in the tournament is tough. And even if a guy manages to slip through the first round due to a weak schedule - who is he likely to get in the second round? Ouch!!

Merely having an opinion doesn't necessarily make it a good one

Nat Pope