B1G 14 Feb- 19 Feb

[obmtl]

Games this week

Tuesday  - Ohio St@Minnesota
Wednesday - Purdue@Illinois, NW@Indiana
Thursday - Wisconsin@Mich St, Iowa@Penn St

Saturday - Illinois@Nebraska, Ohio St@Michigan, Minnesota@NW
Sunday - Indiana@Iowa, Mich St@Purdue, Penn St@Wisconsin

2 must wins for Illinois. It's win or go home time. But the teams we are battling for the 6th or 7th NCAA slots from the B1G have tough games also. 

I'll take OSU over Minny, IU over both NW and Iowa, and Mich St over Purdue. That would mean that the Minny-NW game could be an elimination game for the loser, who would drop to 5-9. Iowa is not a sure bet to win @Penn St and could also drop to 5-9. An Illini sweep is likely to bump us up to 6th place alone at 7-7, with Purdue, the NW-Minny winner and possibly Iowa in a 3-way tie for 7th at 6-8.

[Big Phil]

good analysis obmtl, I agree

two wins and we can salvage the year. Gotta get 8 wins, that goes for everyone, to be considered. 9 to be a lock

[chief321]

I could see us 2-0 1-1 or 0-2....
I don't see us winning the two games by more than 5 points which blows chunks but if we can win both, I'll take them any way we can get them.
I think it's safe to say we go 1-1...the way we are playing, it would be a stretch to see us take both of these.

[obmtl]

A Purdue win Wednesday almost guarantees them at least 9-9 since they have home games with Nebraska and Penn St left. Don't like their chances with Mich St or @Michigan and @Indiana. Wednesday could be the difference between 9-9 and 8-10 for them.

[Big Phil]

Huge game for Minny, we really have to pull for OSU to win this game

[me4871]

OSU is treating Minny like a step child.  What a ass whooping

[me4871]

Hightower would not know what a good call was if it hit him in the head.  He missed an obvious GT against OSU.  I wish the B1G would ask our opinion on the ref's, we could set Delaney straight.

[obmtl]

Minny goes down. Good result for us, although it won't matter unless we win.

[Drama]

Minny goes down. Good result for us, although it won't matter unless we win.

You would think the top 6 teams would get in.  It's key that NW and Minny continue to lose so we can slide in the backdoor again this season.  If Wisky and IU lose a few not to NW or Minny we look even better in this brutal league. 

[Big Phil]

Minny goes down. Good result for us, although it won't matter unless we win.

You would think the top 6 teams would get in.  It's key that NW and Minny continue to lose so we can slide in the backdoor again this season.  If Wisky and IU lose a few not to NW or Minny we look even better in this brutal league.

Minnesota has a horrible Out of league profile they need 9 wins in league. Northwestern has that one win over SHU which looks weaker every day. We easily have the best profile of those teams if we get it together