While Florida is valuable, I don’t see any of the Florida schools as good fits.. I guess FSU would be the first choice. At this point we might as well go to 24 and basically operate as two divisions in football that meet in the championship.
How about something like this
Michigan USC
Ohio State Notre Dame
Penn State Florida State
Wisconsin Washington
Iowa Nebraska
Michigan State UCLA
Minnesota Stanford
Purdue Virginia
Northwestern Georgia Tech
Illinois North Carolina
Indiana Maryland
Rutgers Duke?
We’d be back to basically the original big ten They could also a pod system for scheduling if they want… Imagine that basketball league. That would be simple, just play everyone once and altrenate home and away each year. You could swap out some of these for Oregon or Colorado? I put the schools roughly in order of power and it seems pretty balanced.
Michigan winning numerous Big Ten titles in Olympic sports every year is about to get extremely difficult to continue in a lot of them. Even just with USC and UCLA. I can’t think of one of our Olympic sports that is traditionally dominant that just these schools won’t have something to say about. Wrestling, field hockey, and Hockey are the only ones that come to mind. UCLA-Michigan softball will be a hot ticket.
Any team in the field beating Oklahoma twice in a super regional would an epic upset. The Sooners are currently amidst a ridiculous run basically in dynasty mode. It will be very interesting to see how they fare when they move to the SEC and are challenged every week. They will definitely hold their own, but I am interested to see if they fall back to earth at all.
The NCAA doesn’t seed the softball tournament in a true 1-64 fashion like it does for basketball. They only seed 1-16 based on resume, and then they fill in the 2/3 seeds and then the 4 seeds almost entirely based on geography so that the highest amount of teams can bus within 400 miles. The only top 16 school within driving distance for Michigan is Northwestern, and they do not pair teams from the same conference in the regional round. So, Michigan (and probably Wisconsin and Minnesota) was going to have to fly wherever they were put. This means that Michigan got placed somewhere that had an opening after the geographically close teams were filled in. OSU, Illinois, and Nebraska got who they got (Tennessee, Missouri, ok st) because they were within 400 miles, not because of seeding.UM, Minny, and Wisky didn’t have anyone close and therefore got filled in mostly randomly to schools in Florida and Oklahoma which had openings after geographically close schools were filled in across the board.At this point I’m sure they look to make somewhat fair and interesting matchups, but it is definitely not their initial priority.
Beyond the top 16 seeds, the NCAA leans almost exclusively on location/travel distance for the 2/3 seeds, and then they do the same with the mostly small conference autobid 4 seeds. They try to maximize the amount of teams that can travel by bus within 400 miles. So, this really didn’t change anything for Michigan. I was expecting them to be sent to Notre Dame if they sneak in as a 16, but I think they choked early in the ACC tourney. After that, I don’t believe any top 16 seeds are within the 400 mile radius, so we could be sent anywhere as a team that will have to fly. We will be slotted in the 2/3 game after they fill in the other spots in regions that are close between other schools.
Michigan is having a stellar season. Do we realize football made the playoff, hockey is the overall 1 seed, and both basketball programs are in the sweet 16? Too many of the non revenue sports meet this list to even mention, as well. It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine.
As an east coaster, I always attended the games Michigan played in Brooklyn or New York City .. I really loved when they scheduled that for us alums out here. It’s literally a home game for Michigan, more so than some games I’ve been to crisler
Commute from New Jersey is rough, but I do check the schedule whenever I plan to be in the Ann Arbor area and try to plan either hockey or basketball in the winter
+1 … you could compare Maryland to Michigan softball, sadly. Feasting on what has been a weak conference, and competing very well nationally, but needing a real break through here and there to make a real impact for a national title run.
There is sort of a new guard in women’s bball over the past five years or so. UConn, Tennessee (more so), and even (borderline) Notre Dame have taken a small-medium step back. Tennessee and Notre Dame are dealing with replacing legendary coaches, and I really don’t know what is going on at UConn. My guess is much more competition across the country than they had during their insane run or maybe being relegated to the American Conference for that period of time was less appealing for recruits?
The dominant programs at the moment are (loosely) South Carolina, Stanford, NC State, and Baylor. You could also make an argument for Maryland to be in this group, and with Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa surging, the Terps will likely not hang a banner this year in a sport they have dominated since they joined the big ten.
Agree, that was a head scratcher. Louisville is the one team to thoroughly dominated us this season, and as far as I know, they haven’t lost recently. We are getting credit for beating two ranked teams in a row, I assume, and I’m not sure how strong the ACC is outside of NC state and Louisville (I guess ga tech is good?). anyway, I’ll take it!
Maryland has had a stranglehold on the big ten ever since they joined, but already have 3 conference losses (one a blowout to Michigan in college park). If there was ever a year for Michigan to break through and win its first big ten title in women's basketball, this is it. The team has it all going right now.
She made me chuckle by saying you could see his foot go down because of the pebbles flying up on the field… that’s a first.. I think we should all call the turf field pellets “pebbles” from now on.
Huge signature win not just for the season, but for the program. Womens basketball historically has probably been the worst program in Michigan athletics, never accomplishing anything … this matters and shows how great coach KBA is
Am I the only one who sees the refs calling fouls every time there isn’t one and then letting them bulldoze and not call anything on other possessions ? And it’s both ways not just one team .. this seems ridiculous
Don’t forget #9 women’s soccer advanced to the second round of the NCAA tourney with a 3-0 win over Bowling Green and will host the winner of Harvard-Wake Forest next weekend.
Both men and womens cross country finished third in their respective regionals today. They will hope for an at large birth to the ncaa championship now. Oddly enough, the top five finish in both men and women was identical:
Two things about this sport that are ridiculous to me…… being bent over for so long while running, and the fact that that is a hard ass ball flying at you and they are barely protected
This field hockey outcome will have a lot to do with the ncaa seedlings… Michigan has been ranked 1 or 2 all season, but Rutgers is the rpi #1 … with Iowa in the mix too
Michigan women's soccer will also be playing for the big ten tournament title tomorrow on BTN. Coincidentally, also against Rutgers.
Noon BTN: #3 Rutgers vs #2 Michigan - field hockey
2pm BTN: #4 Rutgers vs #13 Michigan - women's soccer
[edit: i originally had the game times swapped, now fixed]
Rutgers regular season title in womens soccer was their first ever Big Ten title (in any sport), and they have a chance to add tomorrow.
Rutgers is also hosting both games. Field hockey was predetermined before the season, and they are hosting soccer due to being the #1 seed.
Big Ten field hockey has been insane this season. They collectively dominated the non conference season, including MANY matchups against the ACC powers including UNC, Louisville, Wake, BC, etc, who have dominated the sport forever.
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While Florida is valuable, I don’t see any of the Florida schools as good fits.. I guess FSU would be the first choice. At this point we might as well go to 24 and basically operate as two divisions in football that meet in the championship.
How about something like this
Michigan USC
Ohio State Notre Dame
Penn State Florida State
Wisconsin Washington
Iowa Nebraska
Michigan State UCLA
Minnesota Stanford
Purdue Virginia
Northwestern Georgia Tech
Illinois North Carolina
Indiana Maryland
Rutgers Duke?
We’d be back to basically the original big ten They could also a pod system for scheduling if they want… Imagine that basketball league. That would be simple, just play everyone once and altrenate home and away each year. You could swap out some of these for Oregon or Colorado? I put the schools roughly in order of power and it seems pretty balanced.
Michigan winning numerous Big Ten titles in Olympic sports every year is about to get extremely difficult to continue in a lot of them. Even just with USC and UCLA. I can’t think of one of our Olympic sports that is traditionally dominant that just these schools won’t have something to say about. Wrestling, field hockey, and Hockey are the only ones that come to mind. UCLA-Michigan softball will be a hot ticket.
Any team in the field beating Oklahoma twice in a super regional would an epic upset. The Sooners are currently amidst a ridiculous run basically in dynasty mode. It will be very interesting to see how they fare when they move to the SEC and are challenged every week. They will definitely hold their own, but I am interested to see if they fall back to earth at all.
The NCAA doesn’t seed the softball tournament in a true 1-64 fashion like it does for basketball. They only seed 1-16 based on resume, and then they fill in the 2/3 seeds and then the 4 seeds almost entirely based on geography so that the highest amount of teams can bus within 400 miles. The only top 16 school within driving distance for Michigan is Northwestern, and they do not pair teams from the same conference in the regional round. So, Michigan (and probably Wisconsin and Minnesota) was going to have to fly wherever they were put. This means that Michigan got placed somewhere that had an opening after the geographically close teams were filled in. OSU, Illinois, and Nebraska got who they got (Tennessee, Missouri, ok st) because they were within 400 miles, not because of seeding.UM, Minny, and Wisky didn’t have anyone close and therefore got filled in mostly randomly to schools in Florida and Oklahoma which had openings after geographically close schools were filled in across the board.At this point I’m sure they look to make somewhat fair and interesting matchups, but it is definitely not their initial priority.
We’ve faced our quarterfinal opponent #4 Buckeyes three times already this season:
Non-conference W 4-0
B1G Reg. Season L 1-4
B1G Tournament W 4-2
Beyond the top 16 seeds, the NCAA leans almost exclusively on location/travel distance for the 2/3 seeds, and then they do the same with the mostly small conference autobid 4 seeds. They try to maximize the amount of teams that can travel by bus within 400 miles. So, this really didn’t change anything for Michigan. I was expecting them to be sent to Notre Dame if they sneak in as a 16, but I think they choked early in the ACC tourney. After that, I don’t believe any top 16 seeds are within the 400 mile radius, so we could be sent anywhere as a team that will have to fly. We will be slotted in the 2/3 game after they fill in the other spots in regions that are close between other schools.
in other news, mens tennis is tied 2-2 with Texas, and the three remaining matches are all in the third set.
http://www.sidearmstats.com/umichigan/tennis/live-scoring-dual-m-20220514.html
0-0 top 5th. Michigan gets lead off runner on first via walk.
Up 2-0 after 1
Still recovering from the lady wolverines making the elite 8…. Just tuned in ..
go blue !,
Michigan is having a stellar season. Do we realize football made the playoff, hockey is the overall 1 seed, and both basketball programs are in the sweet 16? Too many of the non revenue sports meet this list to even mention, as well. It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine.
I’m so distracted worrying about that guy getting in without his vaxx card and mask
Is this a makeup call for molly ?
I use peacock but never for a sporting event,,, is it still “your event will start shortly?”
Edit: my bad, now I see it’s 730, not 7 ,,
As an east coaster, I always attended the games Michigan played in Brooklyn or New York City .. I really loved when they scheduled that for us alums out here. It’s literally a home game for Michigan, more so than some games I’ve been to crisler
Commute from New Jersey is rough, but I do check the schedule whenever I plan to be in the Ann Arbor area and try to plan either hockey or basketball in the winter
What channel ? I’m searching I assume the nbc app ?
edut: got it, nbc Olympic app
+1 … you could compare Maryland to Michigan softball, sadly. Feasting on what has been a weak conference, and competing very well nationally, but needing a real break through here and there to make a real impact for a national title run.
There is sort of a new guard in women’s bball over the past five years or so. UConn, Tennessee (more so), and even (borderline) Notre Dame have taken a small-medium step back. Tennessee and Notre Dame are dealing with replacing legendary coaches, and I really don’t know what is going on at UConn. My guess is much more competition across the country than they had during their insane run or maybe being relegated to the American Conference for that period of time was less appealing for recruits?
The dominant programs at the moment are (loosely) South Carolina, Stanford, NC State, and Baylor. You could also make an argument for Maryland to be in this group, and with Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa surging, the Terps will likely not hang a banner this year in a sport they have dominated since they joined the big ten.
Agree, that was a head scratcher. Louisville is the one team to thoroughly dominated us this season, and as far as I know, they haven’t lost recently. We are getting credit for beating two ranked teams in a row, I assume, and I’m not sure how strong the ACC is outside of NC state and Louisville (I guess ga tech is good?). anyway, I’ll take it!
Michigan up to #3 in ESPN power rankings:
1. South Carolina
2. Stanford
3. Michigan
4. Louisville
5. Arizona
6. NC State
7. Georgia Tech
8, Maryland
9. UConn
10. Baylor
Nice to see we have two wins over current top ten teams.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33234989/women-college-basketball-power-rankings-tennessee-panic-tumbles-top-10
Michigan has women’s lacrosse.
Doesn’t get much better than that start
Didn’t Stanford drop a few sports recently? I could be wrong, but that would give them less of a pool to earn points
Just noticed #1 womens gymnastics follows this on BTN, vs Minnesota
Pretty hot start for both teams. Naz Hillmon ..errrr.. Michigan up 19-16 after 1 quarter.
Naz with 15 points.
Maryland has had a stranglehold on the big ten ever since they joined, but already have 3 conference losses (one a blowout to Michigan in college park). If there was ever a year for Michigan to break through and win its first big ten title in women's basketball, this is it. The team has it all going right now.
Up 6-5 early
Let’s go blue !
For what it’s worth, it does say a lot about the sec strength of schedule…… three of their losses were to non power five teams
She made me chuckle by saying you could see his foot go down because of the pebbles flying up on the field… that’s a first.. I think we should all call the turf field pellets “pebbles” from now on.
Huge signature win not just for the season, but for the program. Womens basketball historically has probably been the worst program in Michigan athletics, never accomplishing anything … this matters and shows how great coach KBA is
Am I the only one who sees the refs calling fouls every time there isn’t one and then letting them bulldoze and not call anything on other possessions ? And it’s both ways not just one team .. this seems ridiculous
These refs are atrocious …
Brian Kelly’s accent is suddenly gone in this interview.
When is the last time the acc had one ranked team and no one else really close in receiving votes?
Is that elbel field? Big ten network will also be there, I saw they are set up at pioneer. Where is fox at ?
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0-0 at half… weird game
Michigan with 1 shot and 1 corner, Harvard with 0 everything
0-0 after 1 q
Oops, accidentally clicked go.
#3 Michigan Field Hockey vs Harvard about to kick off in elite 8.
free stream: https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/playerpage/1065494
all three of the other national seeds have been knocked out, and the final four is hosted by Michigan next weekend.
Maryland, Northwestern, and Liberty have advanced so far.
Don’t forget #9 women’s soccer advanced to the second round of the NCAA tourney with a 3-0 win over Bowling Green and will host the winner of Harvard-Wake Forest next weekend.
Wow, big ten sends 5 teams to the quarterfinals
michigan vs harvard
rutgers vs liberty
iowa vs northwestern
Maryland vs syracuse
with northwestern knocking out three time defending champ North Carolina, we will finally have a new champion
Both men and womens cross country finished third in their respective regionals today. They will hope for an at large birth to the ncaa championship now. Oddly enough, the top five finish in both men and women was identical:
1. Notre dame
2. wisconsin
3. Michigan
4. msu
5. butler
Two things about this sport that are ridiculous to me…… being bent over for so long while running, and the fact that that is a hard ass ball flying at you and they are barely protected
This field hockey outcome will have a lot to do with the ncaa seedlings… Michigan has been ranked 1 or 2 all season, but Rutgers is the rpi #1 … with Iowa in the mix too
I believe Louisville. Who Michigan beat earlier this season.
Michigan women's soccer will also be playing for the big ten tournament title tomorrow on BTN. Coincidentally, also against Rutgers.
Noon BTN: #3 Rutgers vs #2 Michigan - field hockey
2pm BTN: #4 Rutgers vs #13 Michigan - women's soccer
[edit: i originally had the game times swapped, now fixed]
Rutgers regular season title in womens soccer was their first ever Big Ten title (in any sport), and they have a chance to add tomorrow.
Rutgers is also hosting both games. Field hockey was predetermined before the season, and they are hosting soccer due to being the #1 seed.
Big Ten field hockey has been insane this season. They collectively dominated the non conference season, including MANY matchups against the ACC powers including UNC, Louisville, Wake, BC, etc, who have dominated the sport forever.
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#14 in AP poll also
https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
Is this true? I thought our refs for the Washington game were big 12
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