Incredibly difficult to win on the road. Only one team in that conference had a winning record on the road in conference. Playing a ranked team every other game is tough.

Beating Creighton who won the big east, ranked Iowa, ranked Gonzaga, Rutgers twice (tournament team), Indiana (tournament team), and Michigan State, is a solid list of victories, and I don’t know why beating Michigan State is being downplayed at all.


Losses to ranked Louisville, ranked Oregon in overtime, ranked penn state, @ ranked Mich St, ranked Illinois, ranked Iowa, ranked Wisconsin, ranked Ohio State twice, and ranked Maryland. Most their losses are not bad losses. They are mostly to ranked teams...

Minnesota and Purdue would finish in the top half of the ACC in my opinion this season and they are bottom of the barrel Big 10 teams this season. NCST was the 5th best team (excluding Ga Tech) in the ACC and they’d struggle to beat both those teams and would not be favored in a road game at either Minnesota or Purdue.

We can nitpick every team’s resume this season and you’ll find everybody has flaws and a head scratching loss here or there. The Big 10 was an absolute meat grinder, and while it may not have a truly dominant team ahead of the pack, it was easily the deepest conference in college hoops this year.
[Post edited by HokieHoopz at 03/08/2020 2:37PM]