Can anyone explain this?

[huskerbaseball13]

"Even though Nebraska is only 2.5 games out of first, it is already mathematically eliminated from winning the Big Ten. Ohio State would win a tiebreaker against Nebraska, and the only way either of those teams can surpass IU and Minnesota is if they both pull off sweeps"

Or is this typical low level journalism from a student newspaper?

http://www.idsnews.com/article/2016/05/iu-baseball-with-a-chance-to-win-big-ten-this-weekend

 

[RobsterMobster]

The Big Ten Regular Season Championship would be shared if winning percentages are equal at the #1 spot, now they are correct in that OSU would get the #1 seed in the tourney.

This is the time of year when you look back at the few plays that decided a loss and say what if? haha

 

[bigredrl]

The Big Ten Regular Season Championship would be shared if winning percentages are equal at the #1 spot, now they are correct in that OSU would get the #1 seed in the tourney.

This is the time of year when you look back at the few plays that decided a loss and say what if? haha

I want to be wrong about this, but I have feeling we are going to be saying that same exact thing when post season teams are announced as well.

 

[Truehuskerfan]

I want to be wrong about this, but I have feeling we are going to be saying that same exact thing when post season teams are announced as well.

I'm not concerned about that right now because there is still two more weeks of baseball where we can play ourselves into a position where we don't have to wonder about our postseason fate.

 

[gunNrun]

So that line from the B1G website....
'Big Ten Baseball Tournament Central'
"The Big Ten Champion is the team or teams that finish atop the regular season standings."
From there it mentions tie-breakers for tournament seedings.
So.....
???

 

[k9_r]

So that line from the B1G website....
'Big Ten Baseball Tournament Central'
"The Big Ten Champion is the team or teams that finish atop the regular season standings."
From there it mentions tie-breakers for tournament seedings.
So.....
???

Big Ten rules make the regular season champ the official Big Ten Champion. Tie breaker is used to determine tournament seeding. So...., yes and yes.

Now, having said that, I have no idea how it works in practice because, since 1995, there has been just one tie at the top of the regular season standings.

In 2011, MSU and Illinois tied at 15-9. In the standings for that year, MSU is listed first. Obviously, this is not alphabetical. So why is MSU listed first? It certainly isn't by tiebreaker because Illinois won that series 2-1.So why is MSU listed first?

Found this 2011 news item from the Illinois website...

The Illini finish the Big Ten season 15-9 and share the title with Michigan State after the Spartans dropped a 6-5 decision to Northwestern on Sunday, but Illinois will be the No. 1 seed in next week's Big Ten Tournament because of its series victory over MSU earlier in the season.

And this 2011 item from the MSU website...

Although the Michigan State baseball team fell to Northwestern in the regular-season finale, 6-5, Saturday afternoon at McLane Baseball Stadium, the Spartans (34-19, 15-9) still claimed a share of the Big Ten Championship and will be a No. 2 seed in next week's Big Ten Tournament.

It seems that MSU claims a share of the title and that Illinois concedes that share.

The only reason I can think of as to why the Big Ten record book lists MSU first is that... no one cares? Donno.

 

[scarletred]

I'm willing to bet anyone that Bucknuts doesn't sweep the Gophers so we wouldn't have to worry about all this.

I'm hoping we finish 2nd behind the Gophers so we can play at 1:00 pm.

 

[k9_r]

I'm willing to bet anyone that Bucknuts doesn't sweep the Gophers so we wouldn't have to worry about all this.

I'm hoping we finish 2nd behind the Gophers so we can play at 1:00 pm.

I'm all good with 2nd place b/c that means we swept Indiana.