Page 28 - Bart Torvik News Today

THE OVERVIEW There are three Big Ten games today, two of which will have an impact on the teams directly behind Michigan in standings (Iowa just beat Rutgers, Illinois-Purdue at 6) and one with delightfully little relevance to the conference title picture (MSU-Nebraska). No matter how those play out, Michigan can maintain first place in the conference by holding serve at home on Sunday against the surprise of the season thus far, Northwestern, which is in the four-team pack one game behind M in...

Fun With Torvik: Disaster Factory Edition Brian December 29th, 2020 at 1:26 PM The terrifying world of Torvik without preseason projections. You can drop the preseason projections out of Torvik by advancing the start date of your sample one day. You should not do this, the stat persons say. Kenpom once asserted that his projections were more accurate if you left a little bit of preseason expectation in indefinitely, but people were very cross about this and the benefit was small so he didnt bot...

The conference somehow managed to group itself closer together. So much for clarity. Onto the tiers, I guess. Please remember that, despite the size of these tiers, the order within each tier matters less than which tier a team falls into. The distinction between a lot of these teams, at least for the moment, is minimal. [Hit THE JUMP.] I, too, am alarmed and disgusted [Campredon] IOWA. Goodness gracious. Luka Garza leads every player of the year list so far; hes averaging 29.2 points and 9.0 ...