Big Ten / ACC Challenge Discussion

Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on
With the Clemson - Minnesota game wrapping up here real soon, can we discuss the Big Ten / ACC challenge? Rutgers took a close loss earlier, hopefully Minnesota pulls out a W. I haven't seen much basketball with the games being on AXS and not being able to stream with BTN 2 go or Watch ESPN being available. Can anyone tell me if NC State is any good? Are we going to be able to keep up with them? Is it a close match up? Also would like to see opinions of how you guys expect the challenge to play out.

UofMfanJJ (not verified)

November 30th, 2015 at 10:53 PM ^

I didn't actually say discuss at the end of my thread. I'm just asking everyone their opinions of the challenge so I can get up to date with college basketball with college football season wrapping up. Thanks for your input though?

Muttley

December 1st, 2015 at 4:12 AM ^

Actually, I've paid next to no attention to college basketball other than watching the Michigan games and noting the B1G/Top 25 scores on the crawl space down at the bottom of the TV.

I expected the B1G to be well down Sagarin's ratings, but he's got the B1G at #4 versus the ACC at #2.  Maybe he's still using some initial weightings/carryovers from last year until he gets enough data?

I'm expecting the ACC to win handily based on my limited observation.  B1G NOT GOOD.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/sagarin/2016/conference/

1974

December 1st, 2015 at 5:57 AM ^

Here's how this thing has gone since it started:

ACC

ACC

ACC

ACC

ACC

ACC

ACC

ACC

ACC

ACC 

B1G

B1G

B1G

TIE

TIE

B1G

The ACC hasn't won outright since 2008, which I find amazing given their history as a basketball conference. (I'd expect them to win most years.) This year looks bad for the B1G and it looks like the mid-tier ACC schools are recruiting very well.

Pinoe is my hero

December 1st, 2015 at 8:47 AM ^

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