Big Ten 2002-03 Season Recap by Alan Rubenstein Youth defined the 2002-03 Big Ten season. Alando Tucker contributed 12.0 PPG and 5.9 RPG as he helped lead Wisconsin to its fist outright Big Ten title since 1947. Dee Brown, Deron Williams and James Augustine were key players from the season’s […]
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Big Ten Tournament Notes
Big Ten Tournament Notes by Phil Kasiecki This season, conference tournaments took on added significance for many high-major conferences, and the Big Ten was no different. Whereas in previous seasons, there may have been about a half dozen teams that needed a win in the conference tournament to lock up […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Chris Burke Wednesday night quickly has become the most important night of the Big Ten’s regular season. That’s because, thanks to Illinois and Wisconsin each pulling off huge road victories, the Fighting Illini and Badgers will duel for first place in the conference. A Wisconsin win […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Chris Burke Turns out that, in the Big Ten, the more things change, the more they stay the same. One year after four teams tied for first in the Big Ten regular season conference, there are three schools knotted at the top, and two others still […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Chris Burke Every team in the Big Ten has either hit or is nearing its midway point of the conference season. Up to this point, there have been plenty out-of-whack, unexpected happenings, leaving some of the conference favorites hanging on for dear life with some supposed […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Chris Burke Consider Purdue’s message received. After flying under the national and Big Ten radar for the start of the year, Purdue served notice that it is ready to contend for the Big Ten title and an NCAA tournament berth, hammering nationally-ranked Indiana, 69-47 over the […]
Tommy Amaker
Good Things Happen to Good People by Kevin Reilly Don’t look now, but the Michigan Wolverines have risen from the early season ashes by winning 13 consecutive ballgames. Tommy Amaker’s beleaguered crew lost it’s first six starts and seemed destined for college basketball’s scrap heap. In one of the game’s […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Chris Burke The improbable and incredible turnaround of Michigan continues. The Wolverines, now all-alone in first place in the Big Ten with a 5-0 conference record, have captured 12 straight victories since an 0-6 start and will go for 13 against arch-rival Michigan State on Sunday. […]
LaVell Blanchard
A Humble Wolverine by Michael Ermitage If Lavell Blanchard met you on the street, he’d probably call you sir. He’d call your wife ma’am, and he’d flash a genuine smile at your toddler. Then he’d step onto the floor at Crisler Arena and bang his 6-foot-7, 215-pound frame all over […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Chris Burke Entering the start of Big Ten conference play on Tuesday, 10 of the Big Ten’s 11 teams were above .500 on the season. The one that’s not, Penn State, sits at 5-6. But one of those teams isn’t all that pleased with the way […]
