2025-26 Season Notes

Ok, so, we are 9-0 at the start of conference play.

We have 20 conference games ahead of us. What do you think our conference record will be? Could we go 15-5? That’s undefeated at home and splitting road. I’m assuming we will win our last two non con games. That would put us at 26-5 for the year. We won 23 and 21 games the last two years.
 
BigRedBuster said:
Ok, so, we are 9-0 at the start of conference play.

We have 20 conference games ahead of us. What do you think our conference record will be? Could we go 15-5? That’s undefeated at home and splitting road. I’m assuming we will win our last two non con games. That would put us at 26-5 for the year. We won 23 and 21 games the last two years.
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We have 2 more non-con games against cupcakes. Should run us to 11-0 in the non-con.

We have no chance of going 15-5 in conference IMO. That would be a top 3 finish in the B1G and a 3 seed nationally.

Going 10-10 should get us into the dance as around an 8/9/10 seed.

We are going to hit a rough patch (because we always hit a rough patch). Just hope we can limit it to a 2 or 3 game slide, not 4 or 5 games. We do get a break in not playing Purdue, Mich St, or Michigan twice. If I had to guess I would say somewhere between 12-8 to 9-11 in conference.

This site hasn't been updated through yesterday yet, but remaining opponents:

Quad 1 Home - 3
Quad 1 Away - 8
Quad 2 Home - 3
Quad 2 Away - 1
Quad 3 Home - 2
Quad 3 Away - 1
Quad 4 Home - 4
 
BigRedBuster said:
Ok, so, we are 9-0 at the start of conference play.

We have 20 conference games ahead of us. What do you think our conference record will be? Could we go 15-5? That’s undefeated at home and splitting road. I’m assuming we will win our last two non con games. That would put us at 26-5 for the year. We won 23 and 21 games the last two years.
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Preseason I projected that we would go 11-0 in the noncon & 13-7 in conference and end up with a 24-7 record. 13-7 would probably put us in somewhere between 4th & 7th in the conference. 24-7 before the B1G tournament would probably project to a 4-6 seed in the NCAA's.

Bart Torvik (T-Rank) is projecting a 10-10 conference record and a 9 seed.
 
Red Five said:
We have 2 more non-con games against cupcakes. Should run us to 11-0 in the non-con.

We have no chance of going 15-5 in conference IMO. That would be a top 3 finish in the B1G and a 3 seed nationally.

Going 10-10 should get us into the dance as around an 8/9/10 seed.

We are going to hit a rough patch (because we always hit a rough patch). Just hope we can limit it to a 2 or 3 game slide, not 4 or 5 games. We do get a break in not playing Purdue, Mich St, or Michigan twice. If I had to guess I would say somewhere between 12-8 to 9-11 in conference.

This site hasn't been updated through yesterday yet, but remaining opponents:

Quad 1 Home - 3
Quad 1 Away - 8
Quad 2 Home - 3
Quad 2 Away - 1
Quad 3 Home - 2
Quad 3 Away - 1
Quad 4 Home - 4
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So, you’re saying 20-23 wins. So, no better than the last two years.
 
ECisGod said:
Preseason I projected that we would go 11-0 in the noncon & 13-7 in conference and end up with a 24-7 record. 13-7 would probably put us in somewhere between 4th & 7th in the conference. 24-7 before the B1G tournament would probably project to a 4-6 seed in the NCAA's.

Bart Torvik (T-Rank) is projecting a 10-10 conference record and a 9 seed.
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So, about what we were in the 23-24 season. I could see that.
 
BigRedBuster said:
So, you’re saying 20-23 wins. So, no better than the last two years.
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It's not just about number of wins, its about quality of wins. Without checking, I want to say we played a tougher non-con schedule than either of the last 2 years. With that said, Creighton, KSU, and Oklahoma (and even New Mexico) need to pull their weight and stay as Quad 2 wins (and one sneaking to Quad 1 wouldn't hurt).

Also, 2 years ago the B1G was terribly weak. This year it seems to be much better. Going 12-8 in conference this year would be a much bigger feat than going 12-8 in conference 2 years ago.
 
Red Five said:
It's not just about number of wins, its about quality of wins. Without checking, I want to say we played a tougher non-con schedule than either of the last 2 years. With that said, Creighton, KSU, and Oklahoma (and even New Mexico) need to pull their weight and stay as Quad 2 wins (and one sneaking to Quad 1 wouldn't hurt).

Also, 2 years ago the B1G was terribly weak. This year it seems to be much better. Going 12-8 in conference this year would be a much bigger feat than going 12-8 in conference 2 years ago.
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The bold is why I was surprised with a prediction similar to the two years. But, your second paragraph possibly would be a reason why.

The question is then, are we better than two years ago enough to not just get the same record in conference, but actually improve on that?

Time will tell, but I think it's going to be a fun season.
 
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