Digging deeper and deeper into this Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament, there seems to be only one plausible outcome: a Northwestern Wildcats run through the bracket and into the Big Dance.
Yes, I know it sounds crazy, but I've laid out below how it could happen using, for the most part, actual basketball analysis. Let's start with Northwestern's first game against 8th-seeded Michigan:
SECOND ROUND — NO. 9 NORTHWESTERN VS. NO. 8 MICHIGAN
The Numbers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Big Ten Record | KenPom Rank | Head-To-Head | |
| Northwestern | 20-11 | 8-10 | 76 | Michigan 72, Northwestern 63 Feb. |