stephenrjking

May 6th, 2016 at 10:45 PM ^

I'm not always able to mentally engage in baseball or softball, especially with how busy I am when they are playing, but I appreciate the score headline threads even when I just scan them for a result. Same for sports like lacrosse. Keep them coming, people who post them, they are appreciated even when we don't comment or log in to upvote.

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Wolverine Devotee

May 6th, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^

We're a game and a half out of first due to losing one game to cancellation. 

It's gonna be tough and a tight race to the finish.

Harrison Wenson hit a grand slam tonight, Michigan's first since 2013. Rutgers took a 1-0 lead and that's about all they'd do. They just got run over.

Dominic Jamett has emerged. He was perfect the other night against EMU and had a great game tonight. Hope we can continue to play like this. 

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Alton

May 6th, 2016 at 11:15 PM ^

1. Indiana (12-4)
2. Minnesota (11-4)
3t. Michigan State (10-5)
3t. Michigan (10-5)
5t. Maryland (9-6)
5t. Nebraska (9-6)
7. Ohio State (9-7)
8. Penn State (10-8)
9. Illinois (7-8)
10. Iowa (7-9)
11. Rutgers (6-10)
12. Northwestern (3-16)
13. Purdue (2-17)

It's really a 4-way race to the title.  Minnesota and Indiana have 2 more games; it will be good for Michigan if they split those two. 

Indiana & Michigan State have the advantage of a 24-game schedule; Michigan & Minnesota will only play 23 at most this season.  Minnesota has the advantage of a tiebreaker over Michigan as well, so to get the #1 seed in Omaha for the Big Ten tournament, Michigan will have to finish ahead of everybody else in the loss column.

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Wolverine Devotee

May 7th, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^

Their men's lax team has come out of nowhere this year and been pretty good. They're in the B1G Tournament final today and will probably lose to Maryland, but not bad for a team that went winless last year in the league to finish in 2nd. 

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M Go Dead

May 7th, 2016 at 1:57 AM ^

As someone who doesn't closely follow college baseball and doesn't wholly understand the college world series/playoff what does winning the Big Ten give us? Other than a higher seed, I assume, and being the Big Ten champ.

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JonnyHintz

May 7th, 2016 at 12:12 PM ^

It isn't intended that way. But with a rain out and such a compacted schedule, there really isn't a way to make up a game. So a 20-4 team will get the nod over a 20-5 team. That's really the only way it means anything. There's no real way around that. In this case, it'd be more like a 20-4 team beating out a 19-4 team. Higher winning percentage. But the issue is the same. No way around it. But it's the regular season title that's at stake and that really doesn't mean a whole lot in the grand scheme of things.

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