Right on Chuck, good luck to the Dawgs.
Back to the Wisconsin top 5 toughness of schedule. I googled it and came up with several results. Not 1 has them as a top 5 let alone in the top 40. I am not understanding the way they rank the strength of schedule. Can anybody enlighten me here ???
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/polls?poll=5http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2013/soshttp://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/ranking/strength-of-schedule-by-teamhttp://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology/soshttp://kenpom.com/Here is Illinois Big Ten schedule:
DATE OPPONENT RESULT/TIME
Nov 11 vsSELA W87-47
Nov 14 @#10 FLA L74-56............Loss to #10 ranked
Nov 18 vsCOR W73-40
Nov 20 vsPRE W88-43
Nov 23 vs#14 CREI* L84-74..........Loss to #14 ranked
Nov 24 vsARK* W77-70
Nov 28 vsUVA L60-54................Loss to 11-4 Virginia
Dec 2 vsCAL W81-56
Dec 4 vsNEOM W86-40
Dec 8 @MARQ L60-50................Loss to 12-3 Marquette
Dec 12 vsGB W65-54
Dec 22 vsMILW W74-53
Dec 29 vsSAM W87-51
Jan 3 vsPSU W60-51
Jan 6 @NEB W47-41
Jan 12 vs#12 ILL W74-51.............Beat #12 ranked
DATE OPPONENT RESULT/TIME
Jan 15 @#2 IND W64-59..............Beat #2 ranked
Jan 19 @IOWA 8:00 PM ET
Jan 22 vs#18 MSU 7:00 PM ET........#18
Jan 26 vs#9 MINN 2:00 PM ET........#9
Jan 29 @#11 OSU 7:00 PM ET........#11
Feb 3 @#23 ILL 3:30 PM ET..........#23
Feb 6 vsIOWA 9:00 PM ET
Feb 9 vs#5 MICH 12:00 PM ET.......#5
Feb 14 @#9 MINN 7:00 PM ET.......#9
Feb 17 vs#11 OSU 1:00 PM ET......#11
Feb 20 @NW 9:00 PM ET
Feb 26 vsNEB 9:00 PM ET
Mar 2 vsPUR TBD
Mar 7 @#18 MSU 9:00 PM ET........#18
Mar 10 @PSU 12:00 PM ET