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1997-98 Women's Big Ten Conference Season Summary

Record: 183-148, .553 W-L% (5th of 32) (Records do not reflect forfeits and vacated games)

Regular Season Champion: Iowa

Player of the Year: Tangela Smith

Coach of the Year: Sue Guevara, Theresa Grentz

Conference Tournament Champion: Purdue

NCAA Tournament: 5 teams (Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Purdue and Wisconsin)

Ranked in Preseason AP Poll: 3 teams (Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin)

Ranked in Final AP Poll: 3 teams (Illinois, Iowa and Purdue)

Standings

Standings Table
		Conference			Overall			PTS/G		SRS
Rk	School	W	L	W-L%	W	L	W-L%	Own	Opp	SRS	SOS	Notes
1	Iowa	13	3	.813	18	11	.621	68.5				NCAA Tournament; Reg. Season Champion
2	Illinois	12	4	.750	20	10	.667	88.0				NCAA Tournament
3	Purdue	10	6	.625	23	10	.697	72.6				NCAA Tournament; Conf. Tournament Champion
3	Michigan	10	6	.625	19	10	.655	74.0				NCAA Tournament
3	Indiana	10	6	.625	21	12	.636	71.0
6	Wisconsin	9	7	.563	21	10	.677	75.4				NCAA Tournament
7	Penn State	8	8	.500	21	13	.618	70.2
8	Ohio State	7	9	.438	15	12	.556	69.3
9	Michigan State	5	11	.313	11	16	.407	69.6
10	Northwestern	3	13	.188	10	21	.323	71.2
11	Minnesota	1	15	.063	4	23	.148	60.6

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	11/17	11/24	12/1	12/8	12/15	12/22	12/29	1/5	1/12	1/19	1/26	2/2	2/9	2/16	2/23	3/2	Final
Indiana	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Penn State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Northwestern	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Michigan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Iowa	12	11	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	24	23
Purdue	-	-	25	-	-	-	22	24	23	24	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	21
Ohio State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wisconsin	25	-	23	19	17	9	8	11	15	14	17	20	16	19	23	24	-	-
Minnesota	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Michigan State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Illinois	7	7	8	6	5	13	13	13	11	8	6	8	12	9	9	13	17	16

School Stats Table
		Overall				Conf.		Home		Away		Ratings			Per Game																			Advanced
Rk	School	G	W	L	W%	W	L	W	L	W	L	ORtg	DRtg	NRtg	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	PTS	SRS	SOS	Pace
1	Iowa	29	18	11	.621	13	3								26.5	57.3	.463	2.2	7.6	.285	.482	13.3	19.2	.692		37.5	16.0	6.8	4.4	16.8	18.0	68.5
2	Illinois	30	20	10	.667	12	4								28.9	64.4	.449	4.2	13.5	.311	.482	16.9	24.9	.678		43.1	16.4	8.3	4.1		21.1	88.0
3	Indiana	33	21	12	.636	10	6								24.4	54.4	.448	6.2	17.9	.345	.504	16.1	21.5	.745		36.5	15.3	7.7	3.2	19.4	17.3	71.0
4	Michigan	29	19	10	.655	10	6								27.4	58.6	.467	4.4	11.6	.380	.505	14.9	23.1	.642		38.4	13.9	8.8	1.8	18.2	16.3	74.0
5	Purdue	33	23	10	.697	10	6								26.2	55.9	.468	3.4	10.0	.340	.498	16.8	23.8	.708		35.8	14.6	9.9	3.1	17.5	18.4	72.6
6	Wisconsin	31	21	10	.677	9	7								27.2	60.7	.448	3.9	10.9	.355	.480	17.1	23.8	.716		40.4	13.5	8.3	2.7	17.8	17.8	75.4
7	Penn State	34	21	13	.618	8	8								25.4	60.2	.421	3.5	10.8	.322	.450	16.0	24.1	.663		37.5	15.1	10.3	2.1	18.3	17.6	70.2
8	Ohio State	27	15	12	.556	7	9								24.8	54.6	.454	2.9	9.0	.316	.480	16.9	25.5	.661		32.1	14.3	9.4	1.6	20.9	21.7	69.3
9	Michigan State	27	11	16	.407	5	11								25.4	58.7	.433	4.9	11.4	.425	.474	15.0	20.3	.740		34.0	14.4	8.5	3.0	18.4	17.2	69.6
10	Northwestern	31	10	21	.323	3	13								25.7	60.9	.422	5.3	15.0	.355	.465	14.5	20.8	.699		37.5	15.9	7.0	2.1	15.9	17.8	71.2
11	Minnesota	27	4	23	.148	1	15								22.2	56.1	.396	3.5	12.2	.285	.427	12.7	20.3	.627		36.2	13.1	8.0	1.1	21.5	21.9	60.6