15 of the 18 teams will play in the 2025 B1G Tournament. Will Still Have 20 Conf. Games (Play 17 teams ONCE; 3 teams TWICE)
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So the bottom 3 teams don't participate in the tourney is the jist of this?
The 3 worst teams would not qualify.
And, according to Dana O’Neil of The Athletic, here’s how the revised conference tournament will work:
Report: Big Ten will only invite 15 teams to conference tournament next season, sticking with 20 league games
When the Big Ten moves from 14 league members to 18 beginning next season, it will invite only 15 of the 18 teams in the league to the conference tournament.
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Oh. I still prefer only the top seed getting an extra bye, though.The 3 worst teams would not qualify.
And, according to Dana O’Neil of The Athletic, here’s how the revised conference tournament will work:
Report: Big Ten will only invite 15 teams to conference tournament next season, sticking with 20 league games
When the Big Ten moves from 14 league members to 18 beginning next season, it will invite only 15 of the 18 teams in the league to the conference tournament.
Huh? Since 16 is a pretty good starting number for a tourney, why not put 16 teams in and let 'er rip? 15 is just weird.
My guess is they’re trying to give the top teams a break—don’t really mind that if that’s the case. If you sucked all year, you suck. If you were good, you earned a day or two off.
Honestly, I'd make it so only 12 teams are in the conference postseason tourneys, at least among the P5/6. Not only does it remove 'clutter', it makes the conference schedule a lot more important and worth paying attention to.
Any team 13th or lower in a "power" conference is very likely on the very furthest outer reaches of being able to see the bubble anyways, so why litter the fields with cannon fodder?
Teams 5-12 play on Thursday/Wednesday, those winners face off against the Top4 on Friday/Thursday, semis on Saturday/Friday and champ. game on Sunday/Saturday. Bing, bang, boom.
Maybe the teams from all of the super conferences that don't make their conference tournament can get together and have their own little invitational. I would guess the B1G is not going to be the only conference to exclude the bottom teams from their tournament.
Can’t agree with this based on the unbalance schedule we have now. A school could get screwed because they had two games each against teams at the top of the standings vs teams that played say Minnesota twice.
The regular season B1G Champion has always been considered the "champion."
Is this slowly changing where the B1G Tournament Champion will eventually be considered the "champion?"
Is this slowly changing where the B1G Tournament Champion will eventually be considered the "champion?"
The schedules of each team already is a pretty big factor in who wins the regular season crown. That's only going to become more true going forward. Like imagine a scenario this year where a team lucks into getting only Purdue and Wisconsin once each and having them both at home. That has a huge impact on that team's ability to win the conference.
just throwing out ideas but maybe the 20 game regular season should be for B1G Tournament seeding purposes only and only one trophy is handed out (to the B1G Tournament Champions)
One reason why I don’t get to upset about the regular season title drought. Your schedule that year has such a big role in that.
Personally I’d rather at this point just go to playing each team once. Obviously that’s not a realistic option.
Honestly, my dream scenario with the 18 team league is play every team once but you get 1 protected rival that you play twice. USC/UCLA, UW/Oregon, Wisconsin/Minny, Indiana/Purdue, UM/MSU, Iowa/Illinois and then the other 6 teams who don't really have true rivals in the sport can just play a rotating schedule if they don't want to pair up. That to me is the best solution--of course that would also assume that teams are filling those 2 extra non-conference teams with actually fun matchups rather than buy-game junkers too 🤷♂️
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