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Way-too-early bracketology: Joe Lunardi has 8 B1G teams reaching NCAA Tournament
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We still have an eight-month wait until the most exciting sports tournament makes its return. But ESPN bracketology expert Joe Lunardi is already making his second round of seeding teams for the 2020 season.
This week, Lunardi updated his brackets for the 2020 season and he believes the B1G will have plenty of representation in the field of 68. According to his latest predictions, the conference will have eight teams making the NCAA Tournament.
The B1G’s eight-team projection is the most of any conference in college basketball. Here’s where Lunardi has those eight teams seeded:
- No. 1 — Michigan State
- No. 3 — Maryland
- No. 4 — Purdue
- No. 5 — Ohio State
- No. 6 — Iowa
- No. 10 — Michigan
- No. 11 — Minnesota
- No. 11 — Penn State
Lunardi also has Indiana as one of the first four out in his latest projection.
There’s still a lot of time until Selection Sunday, so there could be – and almost certainly will be –dramatic changes in the bracketology. Still, it’s fun to see where Lunardi has some of the B1G’s teams slated at the end of the season.
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB