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Originally Posted by crazybuckfan40
Udoh is a pretty good player and will probably be the defensive player of the year in the league, so if he can improve his offense to be the third scorer, I would think that would be a big thing for you guys...
Where would you project you guys to finish in the big ten and are you guys thinking field of 64 or NIT next year?
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Well, I'm sure the team itself is thinking field of 64
but if they get there it'll be like as an 11 or 12 seed. NIT is more likely. I think they should be able to leapfrog most of these second-tier Big Ten teams like Penn State and Minnesota but it will take some work to move into the upper echelon. Probably another year. Good news is they should definitely be the most improved team in the conference, and really, there were fewer games separating them and #6 Minnesota than Minny and #4 MSU. So they're poised for a jump. I don't think they're quite ready to play with the big kids yet though.
I don't know what the OOC schedule looks like next year, but it can't be rougher than this year's. 5 tourney teams and 7 non-tourney ones is rough. And the tourney teams were no Coppin State slouches: Butler, UCLA, Georgetown, Duke, WKU. All of them advanced to the second round. I can't remember such a tough schedule. That combined with not losing to Harvard any more should be a bit of a boost in the win column too.