The Wisconsin win gave me a sense of finality as it relates to the regular season. We aren’t going to win the conference and I’m pretty sure we aren’t getting to a 3 seed, but we accomplished my main goal for any regular season - we stacked another season of being nationally relevant, being ranked for most of the season, and finishing near the top of the Big Ten with a high tournament seed.
This makes 3 of 4 seasons where we were one of the 2 best teams in the Big Ten and will get a top 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. It was really important that we re-established that after the disappointing year last season. I’ve got a weird “mission accomplished” type calmness about the regular season portion of this season, now I just kind of want to fast forward to March 21st.
Instead of my normal unhealthy way of watching these games, I feel like I’m just ready to calmly enjoy a fun matchup tonight. The narrator is surely waiting to chime in on that comment though.
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Cup worthy is that we win today, Wisconsin beats Purdue, and we lose to Iowa.
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My cup is firmly in place
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Latest Matrix has us as the 2nd 4 seed.
Neither game last night went our way. Things get much more straightforward after tonight. Lose and a 3 seed is out of the picture. Win and I think it’s going to be really hard to slip below the 4 line.