Big Ten Scores and Standings (3/29)

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March 29
Michigan 6, Michigan State 3
Northwestern 1, San Jose State 0
Ohio State 5, Rutgers 3 (11 inn)
Iowa 8, #25 Illinois 4
Purdue 1, Penn State 0
Minnesota 5, Nebraska 2 (10 inn)
Maryland 2, Indiana 0

Standings
1. Minnesota (10-13, 4-0)
1. Maryland (13-11, 1-0)
1. Michigan (18-7, 1-0)
1. Ohio State (15-11, 1-0)
5. Nebraska (12-8, 3-1)
5. Indiana (15-10, 3-1)
5. Purdue (9-16, 3-1)
8. Northwestern (8-13, 1-2)
9. Iowa (13-10, 1-3)
10. Illinois (17-6, 0-1)
10. Rutgers (6-16, 0-1)
10. Michigan State (4-19, 0-4)
10. Penn State (14-7, 0-4)

Games for Saturday, March 30
Ohio State at Rutgers
Michigan State at Michigan
San Jose State at Northwestern
Nebraska at Minnesota (1:00 p.m. - BTN Plus)
Penn State at Purdue
Indiana at Maryland
#25 Illinois at Iowa

 

[gunNrun]

Hoosiers at Terps
Illini at Hawkeyes
Huskers at Gophers
3 road teams needing Wins

Purdue sneaking up the conference standings.

 

[Lincoln gopher]

What surprised me are the Maryland/Indiana results and Iowa doubling up Illinois. Purdue may be at 3-1 but are playing their second bottom dweller of B1G. To me PSU, Northwestern, Rutgers, Michigan State and Purdue are not very good baseball teams.

 

[saluno22]

What surprised me are the Maryland/Indiana results and Iowa doubling up Illinois. Purdue may be at 3-1 but are playing their second bottom dweller of B1G. To me PSU, Northwestern, Rutgers, Michigan State and Purdue are not very good baseball teams.

And Nebraska gets to play 4 of those 5 teams (exception being Rutgers).

Minnesota gets just Penn State and Northwestern out of that group.

Gets discussed every year, but there is a real scheduling issue in the mega-conference era. Do you think the Big Ten would consider going back to a division scheduling format like in the 80s? Obviously it would be difficult with an odd number of teams (Wisconsin needs to get it together... but only as long as we can keep poaching the best players from their backyard ).

 

[Lincoln gopher]

And Nebraska gets to play 4 of those 5 teams (exception being Rutgers).

Minnesota gets just Penn State and Northwestern out of that group.

Gets discussed every year, but there is a real scheduling issue in the mega-conference era. Do you think the Big Ten would consider going back to a division scheduling format like in the 80s? Obviously it would be difficult with an odd number of teams (Wisconsin needs to get it together... but only as long as we can keep poaching the best players from their backyard ).

No doubt it is a big issue and worse it seems to pendulum from one extreme to the other from year to year. Long haul it works out, but in a particular year it can suck. As you say need an even amount of teams for the division thing to work.

 

[coolonetoo]

Do you think the Big Ten would consider going back to a division scheduling format like in the 80s? Obviously it would be difficult with an odd number of teams (Wisconsin needs to get it together... but only as long as we can keep poaching the best players from their backyard ).

I would prefer to see Rutgers or Penn State just drop baseball.

 

[HuskerFan31]

I would prefer to see Rutgers or Penn State just drop baseball.

That would be a waste of Penn State's nice ballpark.

 

[k9_r]

That would be a waste of Penn State's nice ballpark.

Very nice park..

Mount Nittany in the batter's eye.

 

[RobsterMobster]

This is why the season champ is somewhat pointless year to year. Any team that finishes in the top 4 could have probably won it with another teams schedule at some point. Exceptions of course being the Indiana Scwarber years.

Get to the post season and win. That’s all that matters in baseball. The goal should always be to host a regional. After that just get to a regional. Ultimately you have to win in the post season for the season to matter anyway.

You think the SEC cares if they finish 6th? Nope, probably hosting a regional anyway. That’s how I feel about regular season titles and why I’ve never worried about them as much as others. GBR