If you want to be an optimist, the Big Ten had twice as many teams advance to the Sweet 16 as last year.
You might not find too many people celebrating the Big Ten going from one to two after getting the most bids, again, to March Madness.
Last year the Big Ten got nine NCAA tournament bids and had one team get to the second weekend. This year, the Big Ten got nine bids again. No other conference had more than six. And only Michigan, of all teams after a disappointing regular season, and Purdue are still alive.
If your strategy for bets and brackets in the first weekend was to fade the Big Ten at BetMGM, well done. After a decent 4-4 start against the spread in the first round, the Big Ten went 2-4 against the number in the second round. That’s 6-8 with everyone but Michigan and Purdue going 2-8.
It can be a fallacy to equate tournament success with whether a conference or a team deserved a bid or not. For example it can be true that Notre Dame didn’t deserve to be in the field based…
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