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Link to streaming audio of NWestern/Minnesota

By Yinka Double Dare — March 12th, 2009 at 12:43 PM — 2 comments
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In case anyone wants to listen to the radio broadcast of Minny/Northwestern, here's a link:

http://player.streamtheworld.com/liveplayer.php?callsign=WGNAM#Main

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State of the Big Ten

By bigmc6000 — March 7th, 2009 at 5:52 PM — 2 comments
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With Penn State losing to Iowa at Iowa, the Big Ten is now cramped when it comes selection day. For the sake of argument let's assume OSU beats NW tomorrow (if not that makes things even more crazy!)

You've got Wisc, PSU, and OSU all 10-8 and Minn and us at 9-9. What's the seeding look like?

My best guess is UW - 8, PSU - 10, OSU - 8, Minn - 11 or 12 and UM - 10 or 11 (10 if we win our first round BTT and 11 if we lose).

Personally I'd rather be an 11 seed because then you have a real shot of making to the sweet 16, as a 10 you'd have to beat a 7 seed and then a 2 seed. I think an 8 or 9 seed is easily the worst at large bid you can possibly get.

What are your thoughts?

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McDonald's Arena

By Michigan Arrogance — March 7th, 2009 at 4:13 PM — 0 comments
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http://mvictors.com/?p=2908

srsly, the University of McDonald's? i've noticed the stairs at UMcDs for 3-4 years. i hope we can all stop complaining about ads at M.

also, if NW beats osu, could the B10 get 9 teams in?

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Big Ten B-Ball Craziness

By BlueNote — March 5th, 2009 at 12:00 AM — 6 comments
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So with recent wins by Northwestern and Minnesota, there is the possibility that FIVE teams in the Big Ten will finish 9-9 in the conference. Each of these five teams has one game left in regular conference play. This will happen if:

- Michigan beats Minnesota
- Northwestern beats OSU
- Indiana beats Wisconsin

Obviously, the last one (Indiana over Wisconsin) is really unlikely to happen. But still, we could easily have Michigan, Minnesota, OSU and Northwestern all at 9-9. I know this affects seedings for the Big Ten Tournament, but can anyone hazard a guess at what the implications are for the NCAA tourney?

The good thing is that, if this scenario (four teams at 9-9) occurs, Michigan will have a head-to-head advantage over Northwestern and Minnesota (but not OSU). The bad thing is that, even if this happens, Michigan will still place 7th in the conference, not counting the Big Ten Tournament of course.

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First win over Minnesota in the Beilein Era and what it means for Michigan in the Big Ten

By dankbrogoblue — February 20th, 2009 at 3:52 AM — 6 comments
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Not sure why it hasn't been posted yet, but here's the official "WE WON!" thread, which I've now turned into a diary due to the length of what I wrote. Of course UMHoops has all the analysis of the actual game, so go there to read a professional's (or quality amateur's) take on our play. I'm going to examine what this victory means in terms of our competition in the Big Ten standings and our tournament chances based on those standings.
Big win for us. Minnesota is a team with a resume very comparable to ours. They went 12-0 in non-conference play with their only OOC marquee victory coming against a then and now top 10 Louisville team. They have experienced the same difficulties we have in conference play, and now our conference records are even, and with our marquee victories and respectable loses in non-conference play*, our resumes are nearly even. Even though their record is better than ours, the fact that they've won only 3 of their last 9 games might give Michigan the edge.
*That depends on how you view the Maryland loss, FWIW their home record is good. Plus, besides Louisville, Minnesota took on a bunch of cupcakes
There are still games to play though and Minnesota has a favorable remaining schedule of NU, @Ill, Wiscy, and us. (Michigan's is, as we all know, @Iowa, PU, @Wisc, @Minn.) Minnesota has the ability to win 3 of these last 4 games, heck they certainly have the ability them to win all of them if you look at the fact that they beat Illinois by 26 at home (that is a tough road game though) and beat Wisconsin in Madison. But, given their recent struggles it's hard to make a prediction.
Michigan, of course, also has PSU, OSU and Wisconsin to work against in the Big10 standings (the only teams we could potentially pass or tie, at least).
Indiana couldn't pull off the upset tonight against Wisconsin (not that we could expect them to), and Wisconsin could easily go 2-2 in their last remaining regular season games assuming they lose at State, get a win either against us or at Minnesota, and beat Indiana. So, assuming they go 2-2, with a 10-8 conference record, we'd be hard pressed to pass or even tie them.
Ohio State has some tough games coming up against Illinois and Penn State at home, then at Purdue. Their season ends with some games they should win: at Iowa and home against NU, but an away game in the Big Ten is always losable, and they lost at NU last night, FWIW.
I think that no matter who they're playing we root against Ohio State (and not just because they're Ohio State), because Joe Lunardi has Ohio State as a 5 seed right now, and if we were able to pass them in the Big Ten standings that would be HUGE (we're only a half game back). Even if we ended up with the same record, I think our resume might have a slight edge, despite their two victories over us.
Penn State has two toss ups (@OSU and Illinois) and two likely victories left (Indiana and @Iowa), so I don't really know what to say about them. We'll know better in a couple of games who we'll be rooting for in the final two games.
There are obviously many other factors that determine whether we get in the tournament and we're not just fighting Big Ten teams for a spot (see jamiemac's diary for a well-written scoop on all that jazz). I chose to focus on Big Ten teams because A)Being 8th in the Big Ten does not look good on our resume, B)Though a team above us could get passed due to our good Ws, a better position in these rankings is the biggest step towards a bid, and C)A better placement in the rankings gives us a better seed in the Big Ten tournament, which winning at least one of these games is VERY important and a good seed (while we will have extreme difficulty getting a bye) obviously puts us in a better position to go deep there, which could all but secure us a spot in the dance.

It's well known what our team has to look forward to. While we all know that Minnesota can have a tendency to make us look good (see: football at Minn 2008), there is no reason we can't be optimistic after this game. Despite a quiet night for Manny (he did only play 22 minutes), we found weapons everywhere, and our 3-PFG% was much improved over its usually meh number--usually in the 20s, it was a respectable 46.4% tonight. We should all be only cautiously optimistic, though, as we've seen these types of games from our team before and still found a way to struggle afterwards, but this is the first game in recent memory that I (and maybe I'm alone here) feel came from purely outplaying our opponent and not us being more or less handed the victory. Minnesota did struggle from beyond the arc, but both teams' overall FG%s are similar. It came down to us taking advantage of nearly every opportunity they gave us and, as I said, 3 point rain making. It also seems Beilein is getting a good grasp on when and where different players are effective, and that might be the big key to winning more games.
A 2 win streak is good momentum going into Iowa where we will be favored, but where we will have to work to win. Then, of course, is the home game against Purdue where a W, if we win at Iowa, could be the final win on our resume that gets us to the tournament, since that would secure a .500 Big 10 record and add to our list of quality victories.

Well, I've wasted too much time on this, and I have a paper to finish for tomorrow (hopefully I can find inspiration to write as much there). I'll be leaving for Florida tomorrow where internet is sparse (the place I'll be staying, at least) so I may not be around here much, if at all, for the next week. So even if you won't miss me, I'll miss you guys.

Thanks for reading my novel if you made it all the way here.

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Michigan wrestling over 8th ranked Minnesota!

By tricks574 — February 6th, 2009 at 11:13 PM — 6 comments
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Michigan just upset the #8 ranked Minnesota wrestling team, 17-16. Not entirely sure how the match played out as the best coverage I could get was a friend on the team texting me the score from Ann Arbor while people who were there texted him the score, but it probably went like this.

125: Zach Sander (Min. 8th) dec. Mike Watts (Mich. 17th)
133: Jayson Ness (Min. 5th) maj. dec. Zac Stevens (Mich.)
141: Kellen Russel (Mich. 5th) dec. Mike Thorn (Minn. 9th)
149: Mark Beaudry (Mich.) dec. Brian Peterson (Minn.)
157: ??? (Minn.) dec. Aaron Hynes (Mich)
165: ??? (Minn.) dec. Justin Zeerip (Mich)
175: Steve Luke (Mich. 1st) maj. dec. ??? (Minn.)
184: Anthony Biondo (Mich. 13th) dec. ??? (Minn.)
197: Tyrell Todd (Mich. 6th) maj. dec. ??? (Minn.)
285: Berhow (Minn.) dec. Eddie Phillips (Mich.)

Great dual meet win for a team that hasn't performed great in dual meets up to now. I honestly didn't think they could win, but Minnesota matches up very poorly against Michigan. Sorry about the ??? but I only know the ranked Minnesota kids, the 49 pounder who was on my high school team, and their HWY's last name...

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