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Harris and Ferrell make McDonald’s Rosters

Published by Source on February 9th, 2012

Two current B1G commitments have been named to the prestigious McDonald’s All-American game, being held March 28th at the United Center in Chicago. Michigan State-bound shooting guard Gary Harris will play on the East team while point guard and Indiana verbal Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell will play for the West. Ferrell is out of state title contender Park Tudor School in Indianapolis and Harris plays at Hamilton Southeastern High School in nearby Fishers, Indiana.

Despite the game being in Chicago, these are the only two B1G players to participate in the game. Michigan’s top commitment Mitch McGary, a Chesterton, Indiana native, is ineligible for the game because he is a 5th-year prep student. In fact, the only other players from B1G country are North Carolina-bound Marcus Paige (Marion, Iowa) and still undecided Amile Jefferson (Philadelphia, PA).

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Updated 2012 Scout Rankings

Published by Source on January 31st, 2012

Just as ESPN did last week, Scout.com has updated their Top 100 list for the class of 2012. Below is a list of the B1G and local prospects that made the cut:

Indiana:

* Jeremy Hollowell 6’7″ 200 (Indianapolis, IN – Lawrence Central)  

                                                             || #6 SF | 4 stars // Top 100 #26

* Hanner Mosquera-Perea 6’8″ 190 (LaPorte, IN – LaLumiere)          

                                                             || #5 PF | 4 stars // Top 100 #32

* Yogi Ferrell 6’0″ 180 (Indianapolis, IN – Park Tudor)                        

                                                             || #4 PG | 4 stars // Top 100 #33

 

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Updated 2012 ESPNU 100 Rankings

Published by Source on January 26th, 2012

ESPN has updated their ESPNU100 list for the class of 2012. Below is the breakdown of B1G and local Big East schools. ESPN assigns each player with a overall score and a star level. Those can be found at the end of each line. Bolded players have made the Top 100 list and their overall rank is listed.

DePaul:

* DeJuan Marrero 6’6″ 195 (Gary, IN – Bowman Academy)        || #50 SF | 89 | 3 stars

* Jodan Price 6’7″ 170 (Southfield, MI – Detroit Country Day)   || #61 SF | 88 | 2 stars

Illinois:

* Michael Orris 6’3″ 180 (Crete, IL – Crete-Monee)   || #22 PG | 89 | 3 stars

 

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Luke Fischer commits to Indiana

Published by Source on January 1st, 2012

Indiana sent out 2011 in style by upsetting #2 Ohio State Saturday night in Assembly Hall 74-70. The win was the second big time upset in Bloomington this year, as the Hoosiers had already upset then #1 Kentucky back on December 10th.

The upset is already paying recruiting dividends, as the Hoosiers landed a commitment this morning from Luke Fischer (2013, Germantown WI). The big man from Wisconsin becomes the third member of Tom Crean’s 2013 class, which already features Indianapolis prospects Collin Hartman and Devin Davis Jr. We will have a much more in depth profile on Fischer later this evening. Rivals ranks Fischer as the #140 overall prospect in the 2013 class, about the same place they ranked sophomore Hoosiers Victor Oladipo and Will Sheehey in 2010.

With Saturday’s win, the Hoosiers became the first team since 2009-10 to beat a #1 and #2 team in the same season (both Louisville and and Tennessee did it that season). Even more impressive, they became the first team to accomplish that feat in the same month since Kansas did it in the 2008 Final Four.

 

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Conference Opener Results (Tues, Wed, Thurs Games)

Published by Source on December 30th, 2011

Conference play got underway for most of the college basketball world this week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday featured some high quality match-ups in the B1G, Big East, MAC, Horizon and Missouri Valley. Below are the results for the 3 days worth of games, plus some highlighted individual performances.

Note: Bottom team is home, bold italic indicates winner, all ranks are from the AP, any overtimes are indicated above the score.

TUESDAY:

**2OT**

72    Minnesota (12-2, 0-1 B1G) – R Sampson III: 22 pts, 9 reb, 2 blk / J Welch: 15 pts, 3 ast

81    Illinois (12-2, 3-0 B1G) - M Leonard: 20 pts, 11 reb, 5 blk / B Paul: 21 pts, 7 reb, 6 ast

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64    #11 Wisconsin (12-2, 1-0 B1G) - R Evans: 22 pts, 6 reb, 9-11 FG / J Taylor: 15 pts, 5 ast, 3 stl

40    Nebraska (8-4, 0-1 B1G) - T McCray: 16 pts, 9 reb, 2 stl / B Ubel: 8 pts, 9 reb

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59    #22 Pittsburgh (11-3, o-1 Big East) - T Zanna: 13 pts, 12 reb, 5-10 FG / A Gibbs: 12 pts, 5 ast

72    Notre Dame (9-5, 1-0 Big East) - A Dragicevich: 22 pts, 2 reb, 4-7 3pFG / J Cooley: 8 pts, 14 reb, 2 blk

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New look AP and Coaches Polls

Published by Source on December 12th, 2011

It’s Monday afternoon, and that means the latest editions of the AP and ESPN/USA Today Coaches polls have been released. Two B1G teams have made their poll debut this week, while the conference continues to hold strong overall.

Indiana, fresh off of a huge upset of #1 Kentucky Saturday night, enters the polls at #18 (AP) and #20 (Coaches). This marks the Hoosiers’ (9-0) first appearance in the national rankings since March of 2008, and the first week under Tom Crean. Kentucky fell to #3 in each poll after the loss, but still received 4 first-place votes in the AP.

Michigan State (8-2) is ranked for the first time this year, earning #21 from the AP and #23 from the coaches. The Spartans started the season 0-2 with losses to North Carolina and Duke, but have not lost since then and enter the rankings on an 8-game winning streak.

Ohio State (8-1) held on to the #2 ranking in both polls despite losing in Lawrence to the Kansas Jayhawks. The Buckeyes have been without their star All-American candidate Jared Sullinger for two games, and the absence of the big man clearly had an impact on Saturday’s loss to KU.

Wisconsin (8-2) holds in the middle of the pack at #14 AP / #15 Coaches. Illinois extended its undefeated season to 10-0 and stands at #19 in both. Michigan (7-2) makes it 7 ranked teams for the B1G Conference, as they are #20 AP / #18 Coaches.

Regional Big East team Marquette is also undefeated (9-0) and stands at #11 in both polls. Creighton suffered its first loss of the season (7-1) to unranked Saint Joseph’s Saturday but still held onto a #25 AP / #24 Coaches ranking.

After the jump, you can check out the full rankings:

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A signature win for Indiana

Published by Source on December 10th, 2011

The Build-up

Despite being 8-0 and winning each game by more than 10 points, Indiana was not favored to win today at Assembly Hall. In fact, most people outside of Indiana did not even really think twice about Indiana’s chance to win today. The reason? The top-ranked, undefeated and uber-talented rival Kentucky Wildcats were coming to town.

John Calipari’s bunch was fresh off of a win over previously top-ranked North Carolina that vaulted them up to that number 1 spot. In addition to that, Indiana hadn’t beaten UK since 2007. But none of that matter to Tom Crean and the Indiana Hoosiers. Because of that, their program has been changed forever.

Most Hoosier fans will tell you that this year’s IU team has been playing better than the non-ranking given to them by national media. They have been receiving votes in each poll but had yet to crack the Top 25. Indiana’s first 8 wins did not exactly come against top competition, though they had won 2 true road games (Evanston and NC State) and a tough home win over Butler. There was a lot to be excited about in Bloomington and with an entire week to prepare for this game, Hoosier Nation was in heavy anticipation for their date with Number One.

Kentucky came into Saturday’s game with 8 wins of their own, coming against the likes of UNC, Kansas and St. Johns, but had yet to play a true road game. With a young team, a road trip to a wild environment like Assembly Hall is a real challenge.

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B1G Wins Third Straight Challenge over ACC

Published by Source on December 1st, 2011

After losing each of the first ten years of the Big Ten / ACC Challenge, the B1G Conference has turned the table and won it for the third straight year. In the first year of a 12-team conference (and therefore a 12-game challenge), the B1G took 8 of the games and won the annual event 8-4. Below we have the results of all 12 games, as well as some stats for each. The B1G won 4 out of 6 games in each of the two days and entered Wednesday needing 3 wins to clinch. After winning the first 3 games of the day, the conference fans could rest easy and enjoy some solid basketball in the Wednesday late games.

(home team listed on bottom, winning team in bold italic)

TUESDAY GAMES:

63    #4 Duke (7-1, 0-1 away) – A Rivers: 22 pts, 3 ast, 8-18 FG

85    #2 Ohio State (7-0, 7-0 home) - A Craft: 17 pts, 5 reb, 8 ast

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1 Weekend Down!

Published by Source on November 14th, 2011

One weekend down and all 12 B1G teams have officially kicked off their seasons. Also, the local Big East teams Marquette, DePaul and Notre Dame have gotten things going as well, in addition to all the local mid-major programs.

All 12 B1G teams have won a game so far except for Michigan State, who fell to top-ranked North Carolina in the Carrier Classic Friday night, 67-55. The schedule does not get easier yet for the Spartans, who travel to Madison Square Garden to face #6 Duke in the Champions Classic Tuesday night. Also facing off that night are #2 Kentucky and #12 Kansas in the new event that will feature these four teams for the next several seasons as they all get the opportunity to play each other.

Indiana has emerged as the “first place” team after a 2-game weekend with wins over Stony Brook (96-66 on Fri.) and Chattanooga (78-53 on Sun.). All other conference teams besides MSU and IU are 1-0, with the game results as follows:

FRIDAY: #3 Ohio State def. Wright State 73-42; #18 Michigan def. Ferris State 59-33; Purdue def. Northern Illinois 96-34; Minnesota def. Bucknell 70-58; Nebraska def. South Dakota 65-48; Iowa def. Chicago State 96-53; Illinois def. Loyola (IL) 67-59.

SATURDAY: #14 Wisconsin def. Kennesaw State 85-31; Penn State def. Hartford 70-55.

SUNDAY: Northwestern def. Texas-Pan American 60-36.

Other local teams, besides NIU, Loyola and Chicago State mentioned above, were in action and their results follow:

FRIDAY: #21 Marquette def. Mount St. Mary’s 91-37; DePaul def. Texas-Pan American 91-72; E Michigan def. Illinois-Chicago 68-57; Valparaiso def. Georgia Southern 90-81; Indiana State def. Eastern Illinois 79-72; Creighton def. N Carolina A&T 97-65; Fresno State def. Illinois State 55-47.

SATURDAY: Notre Dame def. Miss. Valley State 80-67; Evansville def. Butler 80-77 (OT); Ohio Dominican def. Southern Illinois 64-63.

SUNDAY: #16 Arizona def. Ball State 73-63; Creighton def. Chicago State 95-61; Bradley def. UMKC 68-58.

 

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Final Preseason B1G Predictions!

Published by Source on November 11th, 2011

Happy first day of the college basketball season, B1G fans!

So I made an awesome chart that predicts the outcome of every game played by each of the 12 B1G Conference teams for this coming season. As tonight is the first official night of the season for those teams, it is time for me to release my predictions. Please note, some teams are participating in early season tournaments and I have predicted their later games in those events based on the team I believe they will play, which of course is not set in stone.

After predicting all outcomes, here is my projected B1G Conference finish complete with overall and conference records for each team:

 

1. Ohio State ………………28-3 (16-2)

2. Wisconsin ………………26-5 (14-4)

3. Michigan ………………..24-7 (13-5)

4. Michigan State ………23-8 (13-5)

5. Minnesota ……………..22-9 (10-8)

6. Indiana ………………….20-11 (10-8)

7. Illinois …………………..20-11 (8-10)

8. Purdue …………………..17-14 (8-10)

9. Northwestern ………..16-14 (7-11)

10. Iowa …………………….15-16 (5-13)

11. Nebraska ………………12-17 (3-15)

12. Penn State ……………..7-24 (1-17)

 

Do you think I am wrong? Please tell me! I want to hear from you! That’s what the comments section is for.

It will be fun to see how right (I mean how wrong) I am in terms of outcomes. If it is not too embarrassing, maybe I will release my chart at the end of the season…

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