The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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MICHIGAN BASKETBALL land, Texas and Purdue, which are three top-25 teams, but those are also their only three top-100 wins." There has been only one team to get an at-large bid with fewer than four top-100 wins since the RPI for- mula changed in 2005, Palm noted. "That was when the committee made the mistake of taking Middle Tennessee State in 2013, which had a gaudy record but only one top-100 win," he wrote. "The highest seed for a [automati- cally qualified] team with only three top-100 wins is a No. 9 seed, which was given to Bucknell in 2006. Even for a team with four top-100 wins, only two teams have been seeded in the top half of the bracket." The Wolverines, of course, have time to rectify that in the last five games. They were slated to play Ohio State (No. 84 RPI), at Maryland (No. 6), Northwestern (No. 108), at Wisconsin (No. 46) and Iowa (No. 10) to close the year. Head coach John Beilein wasn't ready to speculate on the Wolverines' chances with five games — and the Big Ten Tournament — to play. "Top-100 wins, you have to have them, but I don't know where other people are," said the coach. "It de- pends on other people. "I know you usually have to have four or five really good wins, be able to win on the road, have a strong strength of schedule. You probably have to be somewhere in the up- per part of your conference, too. We have work to do to establish all those things." MICHIGAN BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 2015-16 Date Opponent Time/Result Nov. 6 Le Moyne% W, 74-52 Nov. 13 Northern Michigan W, 70-44 Nov. 16 Elon! W, 88-68 Nov. 20 Xavier@ L, 86-70 Nov. 25 vs. UConn# L, 74-60 Nov. 26 vs. Charlotte# W, 102-47 Nov. 27 vs. Texas# W, 78-72 Dec. 1 at North Carolina State^ W, 66-59 Dec. 5 Houston Baptist W, 82-57 Dec. 8 at SMU L, 82-58 Dec. 12 Delaware State W, 80-33 Dec. 15 Northern Kentucky W, 77-62 Dec. 19 Youngstown State W, 105-46 Dec. 23 Bryant W, 96-60 Dec. 30 at Illinois* W, 78-68 Jan. 2 Penn State* W, 79-56 Jan. 7 at Purdue* L, 87-70 Jan. 12 Maryland* W, 70-67 Jan. 17 at Iowa* L, 82-71 Jan. 20 Minnesota* W, 74-69 Jan. 23 at Nebraska* W, 81-68 Jan. 27 Rutgers* W, 68-57 Jan. 30 Penn State* W, 79-72 Feb. 2 Indiana* L, 80-67 Feb. 6 Michigan State* L, 89-73 Feb. 10 at Minnesota* W, 82-74 Feb. 13 Purdue* W, 61-56 Feb. 16 at Ohio State* 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at Maryland* 1 p.m. Feb. 24 Northwestern* 7 p.m. Feb. 28 at Wisconsin* 6 p.m. March 5 Iowa * 8 p.m. March 9-13 Big Ten Tournament$ March 15-April 4 NCAA Tournament % Exhibition; ! Battle 4 Atlantis, Mainland Game; @ Gavitt Games; # Battle 4 Atlantis at Paradise Island, Bahamas; ^ ACC/Big Ten Challenge; *Big Ten game; $ Big Ten Tournament at Indianapolis