The Big Ten basketball season is approaching the midway point and the conference picture is beginning to take form. Michigan (5-0) and Michigan State (7-0) are the only remaining unbeaten teams in the Big Ten, while Iowa is close behind at 4-1 and climbing up the national rankings. So, we ask, who is the best […]
Toughness. It?s needed in any sport to be successful. And there are many definitions of toughness, which is displayed in various ways. Show me a successful team-and I?ll show you a tough team. Knowing that, I asked some writers who cover Big Ten hoops teams who they felt is the ?toughest? player in the conference. […]
If you're on Twitter, you can vote in our ongoing series of Big Ten Twitter polls for our weekday TV show #BTNLive weekdays at 6 p.m. ET. On tonight's #BTNLive show, our experts discuss this question: Who is the mid-season Big Ten Men's Basketball MVP? Our candidates for this poll: Keith Appling (#BTNAppling), Sam Dekker (#BTNDekker), […]
BTN contributor Mike DeCourcy and Sporting News coworker Ryan Fagan recently teamed up to create their midseason All-American Teams. Two Big Ten stars, both point guards, earned recognition, as Michigan State's Keith Appling landed on the second team and Ohio State's Aaron Craft found a spot on the third team. See what they say about […]
Assembly Hall will host two of the best point guards in the Big Ten Saturday, as Keith Appling leads his fourth-ranked Michigan State Spartans (12-1, 1-0) into Bloomington against Yogi Ferrell and the Indiana Hoosiers (10-4, 0-1). [ MORE: Week in review: Who's up and down in the Big Ten? ] This marks the third […]
Michigan survived a tough test against Florida State, a team whom not many thought much of coming into the season. This was, after all, a bad team last year that was losing its best player in Michael Snaer. But sometimes, weird things happen. In the Seminoles? case, the player wearing the #30 jersey is clearly […]