Jon Joseph

The Elite 8 is set with Tennessee's 76-62 victory over Iowa State. Setting a Big Ten record, four Big Ten teams have advanced to the Elite 8. 🤑🤑🤑🤑 Saturday - Houston, Texas - Illinois vs Iowa - 6 PM/ 3 PM - TBS - One B1G Final 4 team, at least. San Jose, California - Purdue vs Arizona - 8:30 PM/ 5:30 PM TBS - Tough test for the Boilermakers as Arizona has played the best ball through the Sweet 16. Arizona is the last B12 team still standing. Sunday - Chicago, Illinois - Michigan vs Tennessee - 2 PM/ 11 AM - CBS - The Volunteers represent the SEC's final chance at a title. Michigan opens -8.5. Washington, DC - Duke vs UConn - 5 PM/ 2 PM - CBS - Both schools won close games to advance. Duke is the last ACC school still standing. UConn and Bobby Hurley will be a very tough out. The Final Four will be played in Indianapolis - Hopefully, 3 B1G teams will be playing for it all in Indianapolis. Illinois/Iowa - Michigan - Purdue! Keep On Keepin' It B1G!

Down 21-6, Michigan State fought back before losing to UConn 67-63. UConn plays Duke on Sunday to determine which team moves on to the Final 4. Looks like Michigan might have to defeat a second SEC team to reach the Final 4. Tennessee is up by ten points over Iowa State with nine minutes left in the game.

Michigan moves on to the Elite 8 with a 90 - 77 victory over Alabama. Next up for Michigan will be the winner of the Tennessee-Iowa State game. Duke defeats St. John's and will meet the winner of UConn vs Michigan State. UConn is up early. With Iowa playing Illinois tomorrow, at least one B1G team will be in the Final 4, with Purdue having a shot tomorrow to advance to the Final 4, playing against a very tough opponent in Arizona. GO B1G!

Two Too Many Ducks on this List - (and counting 🤬) On3NCAA Transfer Portal: Top 10 college basketball players c...The NCAA Transfer Portal doesn't open for another two weeks, but players across the country are making their intentions to enter known.

Costing too Dam much Pac-10 money to kick this loser to the curb. I sure hope Barnes' hiring of another football coach with no head coaching experience will work out. 🤪

Using the rankings, here's a hypothetical field for a B1G vs SEC Football Challenge - First, IMO, 11 SEC teams in the Top 25 is Same SEC, Different Day. Again, we see the middle of the SEC ranked higher than the middle of the Big Ten. This has not played out on the field for the last two seasons. This 'stuff' is why a hypothetical second Big Ten loss by Oregon last season could supposedly have kept Oregon out of the Playoff. The Ducks went 2-1, including shutting out the B12 champion in Miami. B1G No. 17 Northwestern would play B1G 18 Purdue. Games involving at least one Top 25 team. 1 Ohio State vs 4 Georgia 2 Oregon vs 6 Texas 5 Indiana vs 9 Texas A&M 13 USC vs 10 LSU 14 Michigan vs 11 Alabama 17 Penn State vs 12 Oklahoma 21 UW vs 15 Tennessee 22 Iowa vs 16 Ole Miss 33 Illinois vs 19 Florida 37 Nebraska vs 20 Missouri 45 Minnesota vs 24 South Carolina Matchups without a Top 25 team: 46 UCLA vs 26 Auburn/ 49 Northwestern vs 31 Vanderbilt/ 55 Maryland vs 47 Arkansas/ 61 Wisconsin vs 52 Mississippi State/ 62 Rutgers vs 53 Kentucky Regardless of my complaints about the rankings, this out-of-conference inventory would be media gold.

Pre-spring practice rankings from Bill Connolly's SP+ computer programming for teams ranked 1 through 138 - ESPN.com2026 college football SP+ rankings for all 138 FBS teamsThe first SP+ rankings, plus strength of schedule and résumé SP+, for the 2026 season. Eight Big Ten teams in the Top 25 - 1 Ohio State/ 2 Oregon/ 5 Indiana/ 13 USC/ 14 Michigan/ 17 Penn State/ 21 UW/ 22 Iowa

Get Your Madness On! https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/1108363/march-madness-2026-the-best-and-worst-from-thursdays-sweet-16

And for Pity's Sake, Take Off those Golden Slippers! Cig's way, or the highway. AP NewsCurt Cignetti had a welcome-to-Indiana message for transf...Curt Cignetti is not about to let the Indiana Hoosiers put flash in front of fundamentals after their first national championship.

What's the Over/Under on Laughs per Minute on the BC Bench? AP NewsBoston College hires UConn assistant Luke Murray, son of...Boston College has hired UConn assistant Luke Murray as coach of a slumping men’s basketball program that has gone 17 years without an NCAA Tournament appearance.

I hope this is a 'Tell' for tonight's basketball game. Yesterday, in the first round of the Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Michigan State defeated UConn 2 to 1. I do expect more 'points' to be scored this evening. 😁

Beware of recency bias and hubris. Leave the It Just Means More stuff to the folks in Dixie. It's B1G coast-to-coast, and the conference has a huge number of living alumni, so the media deal is financially superior to the SEC's deal, barely, when it comes to the bottom line. The SEC's broadcast deal is confined to Disney, ABC, and ESPN, but SEC football games are broadcast at times that encourage fans coast-to-coast to tune in. More folks are watching SEC football games than Big Ten games. Last year, millions of football fans tuned in at noon Eastern and 9 AM Pacific to watch Texas play Ohio State. This year, the game will kick off at 3:30 PM, or more likely 7:30 PM Eastern. There will be millions more fans watching this season's game on ABC than watched last season's game on Fox. No one markets college football like the folks at ESPN. ESPN owns and puts on the college football postseason. ESPN is the reason a 3-loss Alabama team with one of the losses to a crummy FSU team and a bad loss to Georgia in the SEC champ game played in last season's Rose Bowl. The Big Ten is having a banner year in the Men's CBB tournament. The SEC has two teams still standing, and it would be an upset if Tennessee +4.5 defeats Iowa State, and/or Alabama +10.5 defeats Michigan. Last season, with Florida winning it all, the SEC was the best at Men's basketball. Big Ten tournament wins this season over Florida, Vanderbilt, and Texas could have gone the SEC's way. All of the B1G wins have been close-run things. The B1G leads the way in Men's and Women's ice hockey, but schools located in the South and Southwest lead the way in ranked baseball and softball teams. The Big Ten more than holds its own in Track & Field, but the SEC leads the way, or at least provides the top competition. Shame on you, Mr. Reigns, for not including Oregon among the top recruiting teams in the Big Ten. But when it comes to the bottom line, which matters more today than ever, Mr. Reigns nailed it. And come 2030, the B1G's lead in money will get B1Gger. 🤑

Thank you, Charles and Bill. I had no idea the roster was available on the Forum. April Madness! Spring Game on April 25th. 😍

Holy Hickory! What a great post!

Hats off to the 3-seed Fighting Illini that took down the No. 2 seed Houston Cougars in Houston, 65-55, to be the 3rd B1G team to advance to the Elite 8. For the 2nd time in the tournament, it will be B1G on B1G Saturday when the 3-seed Illinois meets the 9-seed Iowa for a trip to the Final 4 in Indianapolis. There will be many fans disguised as empty seats. Purdue on Saturday will have its hands full out West, with an Elite 8 game against an Arizona team that butchered the Arkansas Hogs 109-88. No calamari for you, Calipari. And sorry, B12 commish Brett Yormack, but your awesome B-Ball conference has dribbled its way to two teams left. However, Arizona, the last Pac-12 legacy school standing, could win it all. Calipari can probably find the way back to Arkansas, but will there be anyone to welcome him home? https://www.citizentribune.com/sports/national/top-seeded-arizona-beats-arkansas-109-88-to-reach-the-elite-eight-for-the-1st/article_af267c70-aced-56ae-9695-f8b9c553ccba.html A B1G team was certain to win one Sweet 16 game today, but three Big Ten teams getting ahead of the 8 Ball is as B1G and as good as it can be. 😍