Let's Talk Big Ten

Not sure if anybody has noticed but the Big Ten is back! Check out Bracketology and CBS Sportsline. They currently have 6 Big 10 teams in the tournament and 2 or 3 more on the radar. In fact, the only team with no chance at this point is the Unfrozen Caveman led Indiana Hoosiers. Now, let’s see a show of hands of all of those who are buying into the Big Ten hype this year. Yeah, me neither. Look, most of the Big Ten teams have great records. If you remove Northwestern and Indiana the worst record is Purdue (ranked 22 by the way) at 11-4. The difference between this year and the past 2 or 3 years is the Big 10 teams are actually beating North Dakota State and College of Charleston. They are still only 8-10 against non Big 10 top 25 teams as of this writing. Who do you think is better? Arizona State or Michigan? Wake Forest or Minnesota? Michigan State or Oklahoma? Yeah, they’ll probably get 6 teams in the tournament this year but how many are you picking to make the sweet 16? I’m guessing 1 and it’ll probably be Wisconsin.