Washington @ #15 Oregon (Tue 8 PM, BTN)

[Merganzer]

You never know what's going to happen. Last night, at Illinois, Maryland had a 38-35 lead at halftime, went on to blow out the Illini,91-70. After blitzing Oregon at MKA, Illinois was heading for a No.1 seed, now they're 5-4 in conference, same as Maryland, and 13-6 overall.

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The commentary crew said that UW is better their record shows as the Big Ten gave them a tough schedule with Maryland, Illinois, Michigan State, Michigan, Purdue and Oregon all right in a row.

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[UOducksTK1]

Oregon is 4-3 in conference, 13 games left. A quick, objective look at the remaining 13 games had me thinking 13-7 is a reasonable goal. Not sure if that would have them in the top 4.

I like the optimism..

Here's a break down on how we could pull that off:

vs Washington
@ Minnesota
@ UCLA
vs Nebraska
3-1, Would love to go 3-1 here.

@ Michigan
@ Michigan state
0-2. Would be pumped with 1-1 split, but 0-2 is looking likely. The Michigan schools are 19-0 at home this year.

vs NW
vs Rutgers
2-0. They're both solid teams, but I'm hoping we get a home winning streak going after losing 3 at home.

@ Iowa
@ Wisconsin
1-1. I hope.

vs USC
vs Indiana
@ Washington
3-0. I hope.

I think losses to @ Minnesota and vs Nebraska were surprises. But the win at Wisconsin was also a surprise.

Beat the Huskies and I'd say it was a pretty solid showing in Big Ten play.