Keegan Murray, the versatile 6-foot-9 sophomore forward from the Iowa Hawkeyes, is leaving school after declaring himself eligible for the 2022 NBA Draft. Murray led the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Big Ten in scoring with 23.5 points per game. He was also the nation’s fourth-best scorer and named to the […]
Despite three-straight losing seasons, the Nebraska Cornhuskers will retain Fred ‘The Mayor’ Hoiberg as their head basketball coach next season, but he will have to take a pay cut. Nebraska slipped to 7-20 on the season and 1-15 in the Big Ten this season after they lost to Northwestern. Out […]
The Ohio State Buckeyes won the Big Ten Championship in each of the past four years, and have made the College Football Playoff in each of the past two seasons. And while they will face challengers, it will take something special for anyone to dethrone the Buckeyes as conference champions […]
After the first two rounds of the 2021 March Madness tournament, it’s safe to say the public vastly overrated the Big Ten, while so-called experts highly underrated the Pac-12. Four out of the five Pac-12 teams that earned bids to March Madness are still alive, whereas only one out of […]
A trio of Big Ten teams are in the AP Poll top 5, but only one team can win the conference tournament. #3 Michigan (16-1) at +225 odds and #4 Ohio State (18-5) at +300 odds are the favorites to win the Big Ten conference. Meanwhile, #5 Illinois (16-5) is […]
The Northwestern Wildcats rewarded head coach Pat Fitzgerald with a 10-year contract extension, meaning the most successful coach in Northwestern football history will remain with the team throughout the next decade. Northwestern has a record of 106-81 since Fitzgerald took over as head coach in 2006. Fitzgerald fielded numerous job […]
Top 10 college basketball programs continue to be affected this week as Penn State men’s team announced all team activities are on pause due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within its program. As a result, Saturday’s home game vs. rival No. 10 Michigan has been cancelled. This is […]
The University of Iowa football program paused all workouts and team meetings late Monday as an undisclosed number of players, and six coaches tested positive for COVID-19. Despite the inability to gather, and the fact that most other bowl-eligible Big Ten programs have shut down, school officials say the No. […]
As notable programs face their most significant COVID-19 spikes of the season, the College Football Playoff committee said Monday it’s willing to postpone New Year’s Six bowl games, including its semifinal round and championship. If Saturday’s decision to move the Rose Bowl Game from Pasadena, CA, to Arlington, TX, after […]
The rescheduled rivalry game between No. 7 Indiana and Purdue was called off for good Tuesday as both programs remain shut down with COVID-19-related issues. The rivalry game started in 1891 and has taken place every season, except in 1903. That year, the game, scheduled on Oct. 31 at Washington […]
The Old Oaken Bucket game is in serious jeopardy, and a second Big Ten football rivalry with a 100-plus-year streak is on the line as the Indiana and Purdue football programs are both on pause due to COVID-19 issues. No. 12 Indiana announced Tuesday that it stopped all team-related activities […]
Duke’s legendary basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski looked sullen from the bench as No. 10 Illinois took his No. 6 Blue Devils to task, 83-68, at Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday night. At the post-game press conference, he questioned why the game is going on at all during the pandemic’s darkest days. […]
For the first time in more than a century, the annual rivalry game between Ohio State and Michigan has been called off due to a continued rise in COVID-19 cases in the Wolverines’ program. The Michigan athletic department, which announced the decision Tuesday morning, said they decided to continue their […]
The Pac-12 football season is one that likely should have never happened. Initially called off in August due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pac-12 commissioners did an about-face a month later and reinstated the season. Since then, it’s been nothing but cancellations and a fast fade from the national spotlight. A […]
Health experts gave the NCAA about a zero-percent chance of running through a full college football season unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and they were right. Even conservative predictions couldn’t have accounted for the coronavirus’s massive spread over the past couple of weeks, especially in the SEC, where the nation’s […]
As the Big Ten readies to kick off its truncated college football season this weekend, host city mayors are concerned that not enough precautions have been taken to protect communities already at “uncontrollable” levels of COVID-19 spread. In an open letter sent Monday to Big Ten conference officials, mayors for […]
On Thursday, five of the Power 5 college basketball conferences opted to cancel their respective conference tournaments in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC suspended all play effective immediately and canceled their conference tournaments. The Big East started a game […]
The Big Ten could send 10 teams to the 2020 March Madness college basketball tournament, but Rutgers and Indiana are both fighting to avoid the dreaded bubble. The Scarlet Knights recently ended an untimely losing streak with an upset victory over #9 Maryland. Rutgers has a shot at their first […]
Even though the Northwestern Wildcats are 1-8 and stuck in last place in the Big Ten West basement, bookmakers released a big point spread when Northwestern opened as a 40-point favorite over the hapless, one-win, University of Massachusetts Minutemen (1-9). UMass is in the discussion for the worst team in […]
In a battle of unbeaten Big Ten teams, the #17 Minnesota Golden Gophers (9-0), led by head football coach PJ Fleck, upset the #4 Penn State Nittany Lions 31-26 in front of a sold-out crowd at TCF Bank Stadium. Minnesota never trailed in this game, and came in as a […]
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