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2025-26 Season Notes

Cobra Kai said:
As long as it’s not a 2 way tie with Purdue we have the 4 seed locked down at worse…if Purdue and Wisconsin win out and we lose out it’s a 3 way tie and we have the better overall record so we are the 4.

Idk maybe I don’t know the weird tiebreaker rules but head to head only matters with a 2 way tie. So…yeah I think we are a lock for a triple bye regardless
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We have to win one more for the lock. Analysts on big ten network broke it down earlier today.
 
1) Two-Team Tie

If exactly two teams are tied:

a. Head-to-Head Result
  • Compare the head-to-head record between the tied teams in regular-season play.
  • The team that won more of those results gets the higher seed.
b. Record vs. Higher Ranked Teams
  • Compare each team’s record against the highest-placed team in the standings (not including the tied teams), then the next highest, and so on.
  • You keep moving down the standings until one team has the better record.
    • If at any point the teams being compared are themselves tied for a place, group them and compare record against the group rather than individually.
    • c. Winning Percentage vs. All Division I Opponents

  • If still tied, compare overall winning percentage vs. all Division I teams (Big Ten and non-conference).
d. NET Ranking
  • If it’s still even, the team with the better NET (NCAA Evaluation Tool) ranking gets the higher seed.
e. Coin Flip
  • If every metric above fails to separate them, a coin flip by the Commissioner’s office decides.
2) Multi-Team Ties (3 or More Teams)

If three or more teams are tied:

a. Head-to-Head Within the Group
  • Compare each tied team’s record against the other tied teams.
  • Rank them by winning percentage among the group.
  • If this ranks some but not all teams, separate those teams that can be seeded and then reapply the tiebreak rules for any teams still tied.
b. Record vs. Higher Ranked Teams
  • If still tied after head-to-head, compare records against higher-placed teams in the standings in the same way as the two-team tie.
c. Winning Percentage vs. All Division I Opponents
  • Next compare Division I winning percentages.
d. Coin Flip
  • Final resolution is a coin flip if still unresolved.
If it’s a 3 team tie we are the 4 seed worse case.

2 team tie with Purdue we lose head to head.

Thanks ChatGPT!
 
Its funny how we started the year in wanting a NCCA tourney win & now the sky is falling because we lost to UCLA in CA who was favored. We are still ranked in the top 10.
 
SouthLincoln Husker said:
Its funny how we started the year in wanting a NCCA tourney win & now the sky is falling because we lost to UCLA in CA who was favored. We are still ranked in the top 10.
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I don't feel like anyone is saying that the sky is falling. I think most of us are disappointed in how we are finishing our best season in history. It's ok to be a little down that we have gone 5-5 over our last 10 games after starting 20-0. We haven't looked as good as we did earlier in the year and that causes disappointment because that first tournament win doesn't feel nearly as guaranteed as it once did.

I'll also say that it isn't that we lost as an underdog to UCLA, it's how we lost. Only Rutgers played them worse out of all the conference opponents they faced at home. We looked like a bottom dweller in that game.
 
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