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Message: [QUOTE="Travelman6, post: 3911585, member: 7597"] B10 is 7-8 which is appallingly bad when you realize they had two 1 seeds, two 2 seeds, a 4 seed, and 9 total seeds. That the S16 is not even done yet and they only have 1 team left is legendary in how bad this conference performance is. In a normal year maybe there would be [I]somewhat[/I] of an excuse, but this year they were given credit for beating up on each other and nothing more. Credit to the point where Oh St STILL got a 2 seed despite 4 straight losses to other, equally inflated B10 teams. Again, maybe that...COULD fly in a normal year with a very solid and undefeated OOC but it was very strange to see them as a 2 and Oral Roberts kind of proved that they were overseeded. 7 wins. 4 wins for the two 1 and 2 seeds SHOULD/"is" a given and they couldn't even pick up those 4, but still, 3 wins that are basically penciled in, you could almost sleepwalk through a game with a 15 and 16 and still win by 10. Ironically 2 of 3 lowest-seeded teams, Maryland and Rutgers probably have the most to be happy about, or are the least miserable of all B10 teams, as they basically helped the B10 avoid completely falling off a cliff. Now Michigan, with its 2 wins, is really the only team left to carry the conference banner, and anything short of a FF will end in utter disaster for the conference, and making the FF will simply mean the B10 was NOT a complete disaster but not much more. All of that to say, all of the above really makes it all the harder that UConn lost to such an average B10 team in what seems to be an overrated p5 conference. Ouch. At the very VERY least they should have had 2 teams in the elite 8 and now Michigan needs to beat FSU to keep the B10 alive into the E8. [/QUOTE]

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