Big Ten Baseball Scores and Standings (5/19)

[Alum-Ni]

Purdue 5, Minnesota 2
Purdue 11, Minnesota 1
Minnesota 9, Purdue 2
Northwestern 4, Rutgers 0
Northwestern 5, Rutgers 4
Illinois 12, Iowa 8
Iowa 8, Illinois 3
#16 Michigan 11, Michigan State 6
#23 Nebraska 3, Penn State 1
Indiana 8, Ohio State 4
High Point 7, Maryland 6

Standings
1. Nebraska (33-18-1, 15-7-1)
2. Michigan (41-13, 15-8)
2. Minnesota (33-19, 15-8)
4. Iowa (34-19, 15-9)
4. Maryland (33-19, 15-9)
6. Indiana (31-20-2, 13-9-1)
7. Northwestern (24-28, 13-11)
8. Purdue (29-25, 12-12)
9. Michigan State (29-22, 10-13)
10. Illinois (23-28, 9-15)
11. Ohio State (21-33-1, 8-15)
12. Rutgers (19-34, 7-16)
13. Penn State (18-36, 4-19)

Games for Saturday, May 20
#23 Nebraska at Penn State (10:00 a.m. - GoPSUNow.com
#16 Michigan at Michigan State
Maryland at High Point
Indiana at Ohio State

 

[saluno22]

Michigan State is eliminated with their loss to Michigan tonight. The field is set, just a matter of seeding now.

Purdue (12-12) will be the 8 seed and Northwestern (13-11) the 7 seed as their seasons are complete.

Indiana (13-9-1) will be the 6 seed regardless of the result of their game tomorrow.

Maryland and Iowa will both finish at 15-9. Not sure how that tie will be broken, they didn't play each other. Maryland has the tiebreaker over Michigan should Michigan lose to MSU tomorrow.

Nebraska will be anywhere from #1 to #3.
Win tomorrow: #1
Lose tomorrow, Michigan loss: #2
Lose tomorrow, Michigan win: #3

Minnesota will be anywhere from #1 to #3.
Nebraska loss, Michigan loss: #1
Nebraska loss, Michigan win: #2
Nebraska win, Michigan loss: #2
Nebraska win, Michigan win: #3

Michigan will be anywhere from #1 to #3 or #4 (?).
Win plus Nebraska loss: #1
Win plus Nebraska win: #2
Loss: 3-way tie with Maryland and Iowa at 15-9 for the 3-seed, with tiebreaker over Maryland. I think that would make them the 3-seed as they would have the highest winning percentage among the tied teams, then some other tiebreaker for Iowa and Maryland for the 4/5 seeds.

In summation:
1. Michigan/Minnesota/Nebraska
2. Michigan/Minnesota/Nebraska
3. Michigan/Minnesota/Nebraska
4. Maryland/Iowa
5. Maryland/Iowa
6. Indiana
7. Northwestern
8. Purdue

Next Wednesday's games in Bloomington:
9am: 3v6
1pm: 2v7
5pm: 1v8
9pm: 4v5

 

[Alum-Ni]

Waiting on Maryland v. High Point game to finish, but it's irrelevant to the B1G standings

 

[Alum-Ni]

High Point wins 7-6

 

[saluno22]

I'm guessing the tiebreaker for teams that don't play each other is winning percentage against common opponents, in which case Maryland will be the 4 seed, Iowa the 5 seed...

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
MARYLAND
2-1 Michigan
3-0 Rutgers
1-2 Nebraska
3-0 Penn State
3-0 Michigan State
1-2 Indiana
1-2 Illinois
1-2 Northwestern

IOWA
2-1 Purdue
1-2 Northwestern
2-1 Nebraska
1-2 Rutgers
3-0 Penn State
2-1 Michigan State
2-1 Ohio State
2-1 Illinois

COMMON OPPONENTS
MARYLAND
3-0 Rutgers
1-2 Nebraska
3-0 Penn State
3-0 Michigan State
1-2 Illinois
1-2 Northwestern
12-6 TOTAL

IOWA
1-2 Rutgers
2-1 Nebraska
3-0 Penn State
2-1 Michigan State
2-1 Illinois
1-2 Northwestern
11-7 TOTAL

 

[saluno22]

Just looked at previous years, thiswill be the second season in a row where Minnesota only plays 23 conference games. Last year, Minnesota (16-7) finished a half game ahead of Nebraska (16-8). The teams did not play each other in the regular season on 2016.

 

[saluno22]

Northwestern qualifies for the conference tournament for the first time since 2010 (went 0-2, outscored a combined 16-1).

Purdue qualifies for the first time since winning the tournament in 2012.

 

[RobsterMobster]

Maryland is working at playing themselves out of a Regional right now. To go from Regional host to needing to go deep in the Big Ten Tourney in about 3 weeks has to be messing with their heads.

 

[Lincoln gopher]

Just looked at previous years, thiswill be the second season in a row where Minnesota only plays 23 conference games. Last year, Minnesota (16-7) finished a half game ahead of Nebraska (16-8). The teams did not play each other in the regular season on 2016.

Last year the Gophers played all of the top teams in the conference except Nebraska and won the conference.

 

[RobsterMobster]

Last year the Gophers played all of the top teams in the conference except Nebraska and won the conference.

How do you see the pitching situation going forward? Is it recruiting? Inexperience? Coaching? That seemed to be the main thing holding back Minnesota this year.

 

[Alum-Ni]

Updated RPI, Huskers actually drop one spot after today's win

29. Indiana
32. Michigan
38. Maryland
44. Nebraska
74. Michigan State
79. Minnesota
95. Iowa
113. Purdue
129. Rutgers
142. Illinois
148. Ohio State
191. Northwestern
193. Penn State

 

[Lincoln gopher]

How do you see the pitching situation going forward? Is it recruiting? Inexperience? Coaching? That seemed to be the main thing holding back Minnesota this year.

I would say inexperience. Gophers had two or three pitchers drafted last year. Friday starter is a junior, Saturday starter is a true freshman, Sunday starter is redshirt sophomore. Mid week starter is a true freshman, now injured. Maybe the biggest reason for the pitching staff's struggles is the loss of their long time pitching coach, Todd Oakes to cancer last year. He was a very good coach.