and Michigan wins!!!!!

[hungry]

Wooohoooo!!! Victory on Senior night

the 2nd of 2 road games in a row curse strikes Purdue

I was really down on this team and this coach earlier in the year, but they've come around

Go blue!!

 

[biggunsbob]

Ncaa lock now.

 

[hungry]

Was there ever any doubt?

LOL

 

[hungry]

Michigan still would do well to avoid any dumb losses. I guess the only chance for this would be first round of the Big 10 tournament, depending on who the opponent turns out to be.

Would really hate to go 0-3 to end the season and sit there on selection Sunday wondering.

They really need to win that first game of the BTT, unless they win 1 of the next 2. Then I guess it wouldn't really matter.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Northwestern's record is very similar to Michigan's, and it's a tough B1G road game.

Nebraska is sub par, but B1G road game, nevertheless.

How many teams get first round byes, four?

Looks like Michigan should get a not very good team in the first round.

 

[biggunsbob]

Hockey finally wins again !!!!! 1-0 at o$u !!!!

 

[hungry]

Northwestern's record is very similar to Michigan's, and it's a tough B1G road game.

Nebraska is sub par, but B1G road game, nevertheless.

How many teams get first round byes, four?

Looks like Michigan should get a not very good team in the first round.

Well, a lot depends on other teams now and, of course, what Michigan does these last 2 games

Do they get a bye? If they play a good team in their first BTT game, then it'd be OK to lose. You just don't want to lose to a bad team there and I would rather not see them finish 0-3. Did I mention that?

 

[biggunsbob]

Was there ever any doubt?

LOL

Yes after losing to shitty o$u at home I thought we were really done.

 

[hungry]

Yes after losing to shitty o$u at home I thought we were really done.

Oh! I know. I felt the same way. I was about to the point of never watching this team until next fall...

 

[tinselwolverine]

Well, a lot depends on other teams now and, of course, what Michigan does these last 2 games

Do they get a bye? If they play a good team in their first BTT game, then it'd be OK to lose. You just don't want to lose to a bad team there and I would rather not see them finish 0-3. Did I mention that?

Right.

I guess I don't know how first round byes work in the new 14 team format, even though it's been around for a few years now.

But I know enough to figure that if Michigan doesn't get a first round bye, they'll be among the higher seeded team in the first round of the tournament - the good teams will have byes, and the better teams that don't have byes will also be higher seeded in the first round.

I don't even know if Michigan can mathematically even get a bye; if they don't, they probably won't get that good of a team.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I just found the brackets on Wikipedia; four teams will get a first round bye and also a second round bye.

The bottom four seeds will play what looks like sort of a play in round to the second round.

I guess Michigan will get a first round bye and probably not a second round bye.

So Michigan if Michigan can manage to get a five or six seed, they'll get one of those four bottom seeds in the second round; if not, one of the other 7-10 seeds.

Anyway, at least I found the bracket now and I understand how it works.

 

[hungry]

It is still mathematically possible for Michigan to finish 4th in conference. I do not think they will, but they can.

Still, if they face a bad team in that first BTT game that they play in, whenever that is, they better win that.

Of course, I'd like them to win their next 10 games or so....

 

[biggunsbob]

BTW
Maryland is getting crushed at home again by Iowa . Minnesota I can see crushing them but they are getting schooled by iowa . Back to back home losses.

 

[tinselwolverine]

It is still mathematically possible for Michigan to finish 4th in conference. I do not think they will, but they can.

Still, if they face a bad team in that first BTT game that they play in, whenever that is, they better win that.

Of course, I'd like them to win their next 10 games or so....

Me too.

Michigan should beat Nebraska on the road - they better not lose that one.

Beating Northwestern on the road would really sweet.

They're not going to get a very good team in their first B1G Tournament round, round 2, because the best teams will have double byes. They'll get a crappy team if they get to #5 or #6 seed; they'll get kind of about a relatively equal, pretty good team if they finish seed 7 - 10.

Right now, in the B1G standings, they look like they're about the #7 seed, but the day and the season isn't over.

 

[tinselwolverine]

BTW
Maryland is getting crushed at home again by Iowa . Minnesota I can see crushing them but they are getting schooled by iowa . Back to back home losses.

Wow.

Really tightens things up.

 

[hungry]

Me too.

Michigan should beat Nebraska on the road - they better not lose that one.

Beating Northwestern on the road would really sweet.

They're not going to get a very good team in their first B1G Tournament round, round 2, because the best teams will have double byes. They'll get a crappy team if they get to #5 or #6 seed; they'll get kind of about a relatively equal, pretty good team if they finish seed 7 - 10.

Right now, in the B1G standings, they look like they're about the #7 seed, but the day and the season isn't over.

i wouldn't expect a good game in the @Nebraska game. Michigan will get hit by the 2nd road game in a row bug. This is real. Some do not want to see it, but it is definitely real. MSU came to Crisler as the 2nd rd game in row and we all know what happened. Then PU came to Crisler on the 2nd rd game in a row. Michigan at Rutgers was another 2nd rd game in a row and Michigan barely survived. Michigan's best chance at a win is @Northwestern.

I'm not even going to address the BTT.

 

[tinselwolverine]

i wouldn't expect a good game in the @Nebraska game. Michigan will get hit by the 2nd road game in a row bug. This is real. Some do not want to see it, but it is definitely real. MSU came to Crisler as the 2nd rd game in row and we all know what happened. Then PU came to Crisler on the 2nd rd game in a row. Michigan at Rutgers was another 2nd rd game in a row and Michigan barely survived. Michigan's best chance at a win is @Northwestern.

I'm not even going to address the BTT.

Well, yeah, but Michigan did survive at Piscataway, and was tied on the road with probably a little better team than Northwestern on the road at the end of regulation on the road the game before.

But you're right; the Northwestern game looks tough but winnable; and since it's the only next game on the schedule it's really the only next game I'm thinking about.

Northwestern looks to be having its way with Indiana on the road right now.

 

[hungry]

https://www.facebook.com/wolverines.mlive/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

post game celebration

 

[hungry]

Well, yeah, but Michigan did survive at Piscataway, and was tied on the road with probably a little better team than Northwestern on the road at the end of regulation on the road the game before.

But you're right; the Northwestern game looks tough but winnable; and since it's the only next game on the schedule it's really the only next game I'm thinking about.

Northwestern looks to be having its way with Indiana on the road right now.

Indiana is not Michigan

Fire Cream!!

Northwestern will have more trouble with Michigan than it will with Indiana

 

[hungry]

LOL

Well, IU has flipped it on NW and is now beating them

NW is in trouble...