Updated the projection of the Big Ten male basketball tournament (March 7)

THE Michigan State Spartans won the pure and simple Big Ten title with their victory on the road Iowa Thursday evening.

This result eliminates a large part of the drama of the last weekend of the regular season. Now, the scheduled matches will be played with the ranking of the Big Ten tournament at stake, as well as some teams needing some additional victories to do the NCAA tournament field.

The challenges of the last Wisconsin weekend are clear. A victory Penn StateAnd the team won a double-Bye in the Big Ten tournament. He is currently equal to third place in the conference classification with Purdue and Maryland. The victory in February of the team over the drivers of drivers should serve as a break in equality, Maryland retaining place n ° 3. These rankings are all awaiting the results of this weekend games: Wisconsin against Penn State, Maryland against Northwestern and Purdue in Illinois.

Penn State and Washington are already eliminated from the statements of the Big Ten tournament, the field, including 15 of the 18 teams from the conference. Iowa will have a last chance to claim a place to close its season against Nebraska. There is currently equality of five for 11th in the classification. This pack increasing to six teams would create a chaos of equality.

Before the matches were played and the equality breaks are analyzed, here is a snapshot updated from the Big Ten tournament for the last weekend of the season:

Note: Michigan state (16-3 big ten), Michigan (14-5), Maryland (13-6) and Wisconsin (13-6) should receive double n ° 1 at n ° 4. Iowa (6-13), Penn State (5-14) and Washington (4-15) are online to completely miss the ground.

Taking the Big Ten tournament thrown at March 7

First round

• N ° 12 Northwestern vs n ° 13 min

• N ° 11 Rutgers vs n ° 14 USC

• N ° 10 Ohio State vs n ° 15 Nebraska

Second round

• N ° 8 Oregon vs n ° 9 Indiana

• N ° 5 Purdue vs Northwestern / Minnesota Winner

• N ° 7 Winner of Illinois against Ohio State / Nebraska

• N ° 6 UCLA VS Rutgers / USC winner

Quarter -finals

• N ° 1 Michigan State vs Oregon / Indiana

• N ° 4 Wisconsin vs Purdue / Northwestern / Minnesota

• N ° 2 Michigan vs Illinois / Ohio State / Nebraska

• N ° 3 Maryland vs UCLA / RUTGERS / USC

Semi-final

The winner of these two semi-final games will meet in the tournament final on Sunday, March 16. The conclusion of this match leads to the CBS Sunday selection program and to the unveiling of the NCAA tournament support.

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