Indiana women control fate to avoid the first day

Bloomington, Ind. -Time is too short in the Big Ten basketball schedule for women. Most teams have two games before the Big Ten tournament begins next Wednesday in the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The Big Ten have a new tournament format with the four western coast schools this season. Fifteen teams do the tournament. Three are completely left out.

Indiana is currently 9-7 in the big ten and in no danger of being left out one of the teams. What the Hoosiers fight is to have to play on the first day of the tournament.

In the previous format you had to play quite bad on the first day. The lower four teams of the conference had to navigate the long way to the championship game – five games in five days.

Now it is in the middle of the pack teams that will be cursed with this long road. Indiana 9-7 may be too joke, but when the season ended today, the Hoosiers would be number 9 in the tournament and the last place that says goodbye to the second day of the tournament.

No team wants to play five games in five days. Apart from the toll that requires it, they are exposed to games that may be of low benefits and maximum damage. A surprise on the first day of the conference tournament could be NCAA tournament pipes or even the difference between the tournament from the tournament.

Indiana cannot make the double bye start the tournament on Friday. The best scenario, if you have predicted stacks for the results in favor of Indiana, is that you receive the number 5 seeds, partly on teams in front of Indiana, which plays each other. Tournament adventure on the second day.

For the purposes of this story, we have determined the results of the other games so that they use the Home team the doubt. If the home team is within 15 jobs of its opponent on the net, it gets the winning nod.

Here are some big ten tournament scenarios for the Hoosiers.

If all predicted results were true

According to the model we use, Indiana would win the rest of his games and end 11: 7 in the big ten. The Hoosiers would be in a three-way difference with Michigan and Michigan State for sixth place in the conference. It would be a high finish to help the Hoosiers avoid the first day of the Big Ten tournament.

Indiana lost both the Spartan and against Wolverines, so that the Hoosiers would be on the bottom of this three-way tie-breaker. The Hoosiers would be the seed no. 8 and would play in the first game on Thursday in the Gainbridge Fieldhouse Nebraska No. 9 Nebraska.

What if Indiana loses all the remaining games?

This is not very likely and Minnesota.

Indiana would lose a three-way tie-breaker with these teams and slide up to a No. 12 seed in the Big Ten tournament. The Hoosiers would have to play against the No. 13 seed Washington on Wednesday against the first day against the first day, with the winner playing on the No. 5 Saatgut Illinois.

There is a scenario in which Indiana can lose and still avoid the first day of the Big Ten tournament. Washington would have to win in Minnesota and Northwestern would have to beat Nebraska in Evanston.

In this case, Indiana with Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota would be in a four-way difference for ninth place. The Hoosiers would be up to date on the basis of a 2-1 record against these teams.

What if Indiana 1-1 works?

The most likely 1-1 scenario is that Indiana would lose at home against Maryland on Thursday and win Purdue on Sunday. The reversal of the results changes very little. If Indiana becomes 1-1, it would take eighth place in the Big Ten 10-8 and in a three-way difference with Nebraska and Oregon.

The Hoosiers would receive this three-way tie-breaker based on the winning percentage against number 3 in the tournament. So this is a weak scenario that can change in the conference on the basis of the results. However, if this had happened, Indiana would be the seed No. 8 and play in the first game on Thursday at the Big Ten tournament Nebraska Nebraska. Oregon would be the loser in this scenario, since they would slide on the number 10 seeds, the highest seed that has to play on the first day.

If Indiana was 1-1, a result would be a bad way if Minnesota was won in the state of Michigan on Saturday. That would bring Minnesota and Michigan State to a tiebreaker with the Hoosiers – teams Indiana lost. In this case, Indiana slides up to a no. 11 seeds, as it would be located on the bottom of a four-way tiebreaker with Nebraska, Minnesota and Michigan State.

Avoid UCLA and USC?

Many of these scenarios have Indiana in game No. 8-9. The winner of this game will play number 1 on Friday. Regardless of whether this is the current Big Ten-Leader USC or second place UCLA is the Trojan and Bruins play on Saturday at 9:00 p.m. ET for Big Ten-es will be a discouraging task, which also the task of the team from 8: 9-game as Bruins and the Trojans are TOP 5 National.

If Indiana was the seed No. 7 or No. 10, it would play number 2 on Friday what the runner-up will be in the Ucla-USC battle.

Indiana would have to rise on a seed No. 6 or fall on a No. 11 or lower to avoid the UCLA or USC in a Friday final.