2025 B1G Tournament

Handy that we don't play until Friday and Oregon has to play Thursday then turn around and play us the next day.

 
Mavric said:
I'm sure more games and more TV revenue is part of it.  But it's also tough to know where to draw the line if it were fewer teams.  This year, five teams would have been a clean break.  But that doesn't make for much of a tournament, unless you do a round robin, which doesn't identify a championship game.  After that, the next six teams are all between 16-14 and 14-16.  Pretty hard to really say which teams are more deserving.

What format would you suggest?
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Either a single elimination tournament with top _ (4?) getting byes or keep it what it was before.

 
Mavric said:
Handy that we don't play until Friday and Oregon has to play Thursday then turn around and play us the next day.
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oregon has to play on thursday...but they don't have to win.    they have to win on friday to advance.  they could sit all of their starters on thursday if they wanted to make sure they don't get hurt or wear out any pitching arms.

 
I'm so confused on this format.  Don't even know if this comment is correct.  But....it's so confusing that I can't tell.


Designing a tournament shouldn't be this difficult.

 
BigRedBuster said:
I'm so confused on this format.  Don't even know if this comment is correct.  But....it's so confusing that I can't tell.


Designing a tournament shouldn't be this difficult.
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"Meaningless" is an exaggeration.  And I actually don't think the result of the Washington/Penn State game changes anything along those lines.  The higher seed always just had to win one game.  All the higher seeds play tomorrow.  So those games absolutely matter to USC and Oregon.  If they win those games, they don't care if they win or lose on Friday.  I don't know why they wouldn't want to try to win their first game rather than just take the game off and leave all their eggs in one basket on Friday.  Only the UCLA game tomorrow now doesn't matter because they won this morning so they are through to the next round.

The mentioned during the Husker game the other night that the ACC (I think) used the same format for a few years.  So it's been done before.  Not that that makes it a great idea but you have to make tradeoffs.  Either you invite fewer teams, play more games or do something like this that is kind of in the middle, even if it's odd.

 
Mavric said:
"Meaningless" is an exaggeration.  And I actually don't think the result of the Washington/Penn State game changes anything along those lines.  The higher seed always just had to win one game.  All the higher seeds play tomorrow.  So those games absolutely matter to USC and Oregon.  If they win those games, they don't care if they win or lose on Friday.  I don't know why they wouldn't want to try to win their first game rather than just take the game off and leave all their eggs in one basket on Friday.  Only the UCLA game tomorrow now doesn't matter because they won this morning so they are through to the next round.

The mentioned during the Husker game the other night that the ACC (I think) used the same format for a few years.  So it's been done before.  Not that that makes it a great idea but you have to make tradeoffs.  Either you invite fewer teams, play more games or do something like this that is kind of in the middle, even if it's odd.
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oregon has to beat nebraska to win our pool whether they win or lose today.    if they win today and lose to nebraska tomorrow,  nebraska will win the pool with a 2-0 record.

 
3 teams have made the Semi's for Saturday.  UCLA, Iowa, Penn State

Winner of Nebraska/Oregon will play Saturday.

Semi's Saturday:

Iowa vs UCLA

Penn State vs Neb/Oregon

 
Do we have to win the conference tourney to get a bid?  
 

I’m sure it’s been asked- forgive me, we just won a freakin state championship! What a ride to end a high school career for my caboose. 

 
krc1995 said:
Do we have to win the conference tourney to get a bid?  
 

I’m sure it’s been asked- forgive me, we just won a freakin state championship! What a ride to end a high school career for my caboose. 
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Nebraska, Iowa, and PSU will most likely need to win to get an invite.

 
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