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Understaffed Boilermakers Need Moore
Riding a three game shooting slump, Illinois (19-5, 7-4) regained its footing this weekend with a combination of defense and blue collar effort in a 66-48 beating of Purdue (17-6, 6-4) in Champaign. For its part, Matt Painter’s Boilermakers ended a rough week that saw it...
Random Big Ten Thoughts
Who’s Hot? Ohio State and Michigan State have put together a couple of good
Spartans
Michigan State is playing well even though Raymar Morgan continues to battle the viral infection. The Spartans have such a deep bench that playing without Morgan is not as big a negative as it ...
Understaffed Boilermakers
Riding a three game shooting slump, Illinois (19-5, 7-4) regained its footing this weekend with a combination of defense and blue collar effort in a 66-48 beating of Purdue (17-6, 6-4) in Champaign.
Loose Balls: February 6
In a conference as competitive as the Big Ten is this February, the passion for the game oozes from coaches and players alike off their chins thick as tobacco juice.
A Great Big Ten Game: Live from Evanston
Last week, we wrote Northwestern’s penchant for delivering a tantalizing upset each season was insufficient to placate hungry Wildcats fans in 2009. Now is the time for Bill Carmody and his Northwestern players to sustain the level of competitiveness they showed against...
Loose Balls: February 3
The Big Ten Network has been running a generally well conceived commercial touting the stellar and deep tradition of the Conference. Images of Kevin McHale, Hoosier National Championship banners, and Magic Johnson grace the screen. Then we see Ohio State’s David Lighty...
The Buckeye Season
The train you hear rolling down the track is the biggest week in Ohio State’s (15-5, 5-4) season. On Tuesday night, Purdue (17-4, 6-2), winner of six straight steams into Value City Arena and on Saturday night the Buckeyes travel to the North Country to play Minnesota (18-3, 6-3) in the ...
A Great Big Ten Game: Live from Evanston
Last week, we wrote Northwestern?s penchant for delivering a tantalizing upset each season was insufficient to placate hungry Wildcats fans in 2009.? Now is the time for Bill Carmody and his Northwestern players to sustain the level of competitiveness they showed against Michigan State ...
Anthony Crater Arrested
It never made complete sense: 10 games into the basketball season, a freshman transfers because he’s not starting. Now, we learn, former Ohio State point guard Anthony Crater, who quit the team one month ago and transferred to South Florida, was arrested along with Mike...
Loose Balls: January 30
Don’t look now, but look where Bo Ryan is looking: ahead. In the midst of a five game swoon that could become six should the Badgers lose to Northwestern in Welsh-Ryan on Saturday, Ryan has integrated freshman Jordan Taylor in a rotation that increasingly has come to rely...
Go To The Daily Gopher
If you’ve got a tv and a computer, turn them on. Now get ready to watch the Illinois Minnesota game. I suspect you won’t regret the decision. Now, if you’re anything but an impassioned Illini fan, head straight for The Daily Gopher. They&rsquo...
Anthony Crater Arrested
It never made complete sense: 10 games into the basketball season, a freshman transfers because he
Time Out of Time in Madison
Three blocks from a frozen Lake Mendota and an empty Union Terrace, Matt Painter and his Boilermakers will try to bury Wisconsin.
Anatomy of a Stinker: Buckeye Style
We?ve watched for the better part of five seasons as Thad Matta recalibrated Ohio State?s play.? With spacing on offense often reminiscent of Duke and a defense evoking shades of North Carolina, Matta has stockpiled a string of 20+ win seasons.? But deep into his tenure, the Buckeyes still lack ...
Illini Flying Under Radar
At 15-2, Illinois is set to play Michigan State, the heir apparent to the Conference title in the Breslin Center on Saturday.? It?s a tall order for any team but expect Illinois to show up and make it a game.? With the series split with Michigan and a huge road win against Purdue in their [...]
Gophers and Wildcats Need Wins
Two teams sit at the precipice.? After losses by Minnesota and Northwestern in their Conference openers, both teams can give substantial credence to the promise of their successful non-conference seasons with wins over Ohio State and Michigan State respectively.? Losses by the Gophers or the ...
Loose Balls: Jan 1
Happy New Year from Hoopraker.? I feel remarkably well for a guy who stayed up well past my bedtime only to find no mercy from a son who came calling, toys in hand, at 6:00 am.? A big day in the Big Ten, from Williams Arena, to Ann Arbor and a few observations as the [...]
The Big Ten’s Best Backcourt
With the conclusion of the non-conference slate of games comes a moment of solitude where we acknowledge the blossoming of last season?s promise into this season?s reality.? Outside the shadow of Mount Nittany, it may come as a mild surprise that Conference?s best backcourt come from...
Loose Balls: December 16
One Z-Pack, two refills of penicillin, one bottle of Advil (maybe more) and a room scattered with Kleenex.
Wildcats Win Big
The Northwestern Wildcats helped even out the split of games in the ACC/Big10 matchups by beating the Florida State Seminoles 73 to 59 last night in Evanston before 3537 fans.A For a long time fan and watcher of Wildcat basketball there were some reasons to gain some optimism that things may be ...
Not Basketball for Dummies
They've been such an easy mark for the better part of fifty years.A But, with an influx of talent and size combined the maturation of several key players, Northwestern, yes Northwestern, is poised to become more than an also ran of Big Ten basketball this season.A Customarily overlooked and ...
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