Only A Single B1G Team In Top 25....

[Hall-O-Daze]

Purdue, as a thoroughly unimpressive and uninspired #1, is the only representative of the B1G in the Top 25. While I realize there are about half a dozen members of the conference just outside the rankings, this is kinda uncharted territory for the B1G, isn't it? If you had told someone that, halfway through the season, only one B1G team would be ranked, you would get laughed at.

Are voters finally discovering the truth about the B1G???

 

[TheHall87]

It's no secret that most believed the Big 10 was down this year. Purdue is the closest thing to dominant in the league and the standings back that up.

Every team but Purdue has at least three league losses and only Purdue, Michigan State and Nebraska have played as many as nine league games. There are a lot of evenly matched teams and they're all beating each other -- much like we've seen in the Big East over the years.

This makes it harder for poll voters to rank them because many of them rely on win-loss record more than the other metrics available. Take out Purdue and only two other teams have a .700 winning percentage -- Wisconsin and Northwestern at 12-5.

Purdue is two-and-a-half games ahead of RU and Michigan who are tied for second in the standings. Nebraska is two-and-a-half games behind RU and Michigan in the standings and they are 13th.

 

[JoePeppitone2012]

Yet most of their league will get bids like every year

 

[shu09]

Yet most of their league will get bids like every year

Who would you give the bids to if not the Big Ten? There are 36 at-large bids. Have to find them somewhere - certainly in one of the nation's better conferences.

 

[TrueBlue1989]

B10 is always overrated at the beginning of the season. Recall the prognostications from our friends down south that the BE would be a midmajor in a few years post the split. We have 4 in the top 25 😂

 

[Hall91]

i don’t think Purdue only has 1 loss if they played in Big East.

 

[Halldan1]

Yet most of their league will get bids like every year

Kenpom

1	Big 12 Conference	+18.26
2	Big Ten Conference	+15.09
3	Big East Conference	+13.73
4	Southeastern Conference	+13.60
5	Pac 12 Conference	+11.45

 

[hbkmyr]

This will be the year the Big Ten performs well in the tournament.

 

[radecicco]

Who’d a thunk it. Must be a voting conspiracy.