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Marquette is a good team

It’s interesting because this might be their best team in a while even without the Hauser brothers or Markus Howard.  Villanova rules the roost in the Big East but this is a sneaky good Warriors squad positioned to make some noise in that conference

Badgers will be fine.  Each team won and lost the game like 3 times in the last few minutes

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I don’t think any one expected an undefeated season.  Marquette is a better than a OK team, they have a couple young guys who look to be big timers.  They are better without Howard IMO.

Bucky will be just fine,  probably a 6 or 8 loss team who, with their experience will do well in both tournaments.  They also have a few youngsters who are getting a lot of time and will be well seasoned by March.

2020-21 has pretty much been the opposite of 2019-20. With low/no expectations a year ago, they surprised everyone by rolling to the top of the B1G standings.

This year, with “the greatest recruiting class in program history” added to a roster that generally was the same one that surprised everyone last year, they’re a near .500 team in the conference.

Their last win over a ranked opponent was NYE over Minnesota (21), who is now 6-12 in the conference and at 13-12 overall will not play in any Tournament.  The high point of their season was the previous week: on Christmas Day over MSU who at the time was ranked #13, and a week earlier they pounded a ranked Louisville team by 37. At that point, the Badgers were 8-1 with what appeared to be 2 signature wins.  Since then, they’re 8-8 with 2 bad losses (Penn State and Maryland) and are 0-6 against the power teams in the conference (Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio State). Neither team they beat that week is ranked, and both are on the Tournament bubble. This means essentially that the Badgers don’t have a signature win this season. Their last 2 games this week are their only shot left- both are against teams ahead of them in the conference standings (Purdue and Iowa), and both road games.

Really hard not to see this team as a strong one-and-done type team. They’ve played themselves out of a top 4 seed, looking more like a 7-8 seed at this point. Is the Big Ten just this tough this year, or are the Badgers just not very good? Could be both...

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@Cheezers posted:

Is this team really a lock for the tournament?  After they lose at Iowa they will be a .500 team in the Big 10 and 16-11 overall.

I would still think they are easily in as of now. They'll be a lock if they win at least one game in the Big 10 tournament and end up something like 17-12. If they someone get blown out by a middle seed in the first game of the Big 10 tourney and end up 16-12, then they'll start to sweat a little bit.

With an expected loss at Iowa, they'll be 16-11. 7 of the 11 losses are to teams currently ranked in the top 7 in the country. That strength of schedule will figure highy in the ranking indexes. Of the other losses, the only one that is truly bad is to Penn State on the road (a tough place to play with the travel). Losses to Maryland (another tourney team), Purdue (top 25 in the country), and on the road at Marquette don't hurt that much.

They'll probably end up at like a 7 or 8 seed, squeak by the first team in the tourney and get beat by double digits in the second round. It's probably better than being a 5 seed and having the entire country pick the 12 seed to upset you in the first round.

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