Deshaun Thomas will forgo his senior season of eligibility at Ohio State to enter the NBA Draft. He finishes his career No. 9 in all-time scoring at Ohio State with 1,630 points, and he led the Big Ten in scoring this seasonr with 19.8 points per game. His total of 733 points last season is third most […]
When the dust settled on the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, the Big Ten had four teams standing in the Sweet Sixteen. Here are some scattered thoughts on the action, bullet-point style: Wisconsin lost exactly the way I said it would-by going cold from long range. This is a perimeter-oriented team that does not […]
Indiana won the Big Ten championship outright by about half a Newton, as Jordan Morgan?s tip-in attempt was a hair too strong, allowing Indiana to complete a road comeback and dulling the festivities of the rest of the weekend. After a sluggish first half that ended with Michigan leading 33-30 (33 possessions), the two teams […]
Any sober look at Iowa in the preseason would have put the team somewhere in the vicinity of the bubble. The team was coming off an 8-10 Big Ten campaign that, albeit one blessed with good fortune, portended good things to come with most of the roster returning this season. And that?s exactly what?s happened. […]
On Saturday night's "The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2013," we put the spotlight on Ohio State's Deshaun Thomas, Purdue's Johnson brothers and Wisconsin's new point guards. In this clip, you get a taste for all three of the latest episode's storylines. Best of all: We have family video of Terone and Ronnie Johnson as youngsters, […]
Last week "The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2013" took you inside the Iowa Hawkeyes moving remembrance of former player Chris Street (watch the moment in this post). This week, the show explores how Ohio State?s Deshaun Thomas, the Big Ten's leading scorer, has matured on and off the court. The show debuts Saturday at 9 p.m. ET after […]