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Big Ten Legends Division Race Heats Up Saturday

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized Big Ten football, Big Ten Legends Division, Big Ten Legends Division race, Big Ten race, college football predictions, college football schedule

The Big Ten Legends Division will see its race kick off in earnest on Saturday. Contenders like Nebraska and Northwestern have played significant conference games, but none within the division. Michigan’s only important tests have come outside the league entirely. Iowa won an opening salvo over Michigan State in overtime last week. But on Saturday there are two head-to-head battles and tough cross-divisional game that will help give early shape to the Legends race.

The Big Ten Middle: Michigan, Wisconsin & Indiana

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized Big Ten basketball bubble, Big Ten basketball contenders, Big Ten race, Bo Ryan, Cody Zeller, John Beilein, Jordan Taylor, NCAA bubble, Tom Crean

In the Big Ten’s race for the NCAA Tournament, three times fall in the Forgotten Middle Class. At the top you have likely conference champ Michigan State and Ohio State, still with an outside shot at a co-championship. On the bubble, you have Purdue and Northwestern, and if you’re feeling generous, Illinois and Minnesota. But […]

Tom Izzo Does It Again: Michigan State Leads Big Ten

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized Big Ten basketball, Big Ten race, Draymond Green, Drew Gordon, Michigan State basketball, Mountain West basketball, Steve Alford, Tom Izzo

The Michigan State Spartans were supposed to be in rebuilding mode when they helped tip off the college basketball season back on the aircraft carrier in San Diego on November 11. A loss that night to North Carolina and four nights later to Duke at Madison Square Garden, were nothing to be ashamed of, but nor was there anything to suggest Tom Izzo’s team would become a Big Ten leader and national title contender—particularly when conference favorite Ohio State smoked Duke by 22 points in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge. But then things changed.