ESPN reports Big Ten divisions
We know the Big Ten is formally announcing the division splits tonight but ESPN is reporting those divisions this afternoon. According to their sources, the teams will be divided as follows:
1 - OSU, PSU, Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Wisconsin
2 - Michigan, MSU, NW, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska
So it's basically an east/west split with the two Michigan schools switching sides with Wisconsin and Illinois. ESPN also says they will use those division for basketball as well, and play a 16-game schedule with each team playing two games within their division and one game across divisions. There is no word on whether or not OSU-MIchigan will remain at the end of the season.
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What do you mean by that? Are you talking about moving OSU-Michigan from the last game of the season — because that’s not necessarily going to happen just because they’re in opposite divisions — or do you have other problems with these divisions?
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I am assuming that the placementThe Game will be moved, which may be premature, but appears likely at this point.
Putting OSU and That School Up North in separate divisions
Assures they are moving The Game up in the schedule. No one wants to see The Game played on consecutive weeks.
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It may indicate that, but in the past twenty years, only 6 times would there have been a rematch (06, 03, 01, 98, 97, and 92.) That’s still a meaningful amount of rematches, but with the addition of Nebraska to the conference, the league probably expects that number to go down over a similar period of time.
If they keep The Game at the end of the year, I have no problem with these divisions. I would love to see back-to-back OSU vs TSUN games. The only real problem I have is what are we going to name the divisions? Im all for Woody Division vs Bo Division….I guess thats a little bias though
So this changes….nothing? We still play Michigan, and I don’t see how/why that game wouldn’t be the last regular season game. The big change will be the addition of a championship game.
The divisions seem pretty even. I guess there’s 3 habitual cupcakes (unless you want to count Illinois), and we ended up with just 1 in our division, but no big deal.
Competitively I do think these divisions are nice, but it does seem as if they may move The Game up a bit (which I don’t like) or have the possibility of the teams meeting in back to back weeks (which I don’t like either).
Unfortunately from my point of view any scenario that split up OSU and Mich was bound to be a failure.
http://twitter.com/deryNBA/status/22725671003
It’s a rumor, but has some legits to it.
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by Ian_InsideTheShoe on Sep 1, 2010 5:39 PM EDT reply actions
It’s been said elsewhere, but this is a terrible alignment for hoops. As such I’m inclined to believe that this is a football only set-up (which has also been said/suggested/rumored elsewhere).
And if Karsch’s info is correct (what Ian linked), then this is better than what I expected them to do. I’d still have preferred OSU and UM in the same division (particularly if PSU’s protected cross-divisional rival ends up being Nebraska), but it’s the best of a bad situation.
It doesn't really matter as much for basketball.
because there is a conference tournament, and playing a tougher schedule isn’t necessarily as bad because that is taken into consideration into RPI.
However, it matters in basketball for two reasons: 1) conference tournament seeding and 2) playing two games against in-division foes will affect strength of schedule and therefore RPI.
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I guess it depends on how they do the seeding
the SEC way of doing it is terrible. I think the Big 12 does seeding irrespective of divisions.
As for the RPI, it will make a difference, but those get taken into consideration if you are vying for an at large. In football, if you are stuck in a brutal division, it still only takes a loss to seriously damage title hopes. Thats why I said it doesn’t matter as much for basketball
Certainly right now, the division with Ohio State, Illinois, Wisconsin and Purdue is a whole lot tougher basketball than the other division. That’s going to be reflected in conference record. Sure looks like Michigan State pretty much has a cakewalk in the other division. The only fair way of seeding the conference tourney is across divisions like the SEC does it.
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by woodsmeister on Sep 3, 2010 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions
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