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The Shootyhoops Slowdown: Big Ten Basketball 2017-18
Your preseason preview for all things Big Ten basketball—with an irreverent and still-somehow-football-focused twist.
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March 20, 2018
A Very Incomplete Preview of Penn State-Marquette in the NIT
The Nittany Lions head to Milwaukee to take on MY Marquette Golden Eagles in the quarterfinals of the NIT, and Aaron Yorke and I thought we’d half-ass a preview of the game.
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March 16, 2018
NCAA Tournament, Day 2: Open Thread
The class of the Big Ten should roll through Friday’s games...but are there more upsets out there?
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March 15, 2018
IT’S HERE! NCAA Tournament, Day 1: Open Thread
The Ohio State Buckeyes take on South Dakota State and the Michigan Wolverines tackle the Montana Grizzlies, but we’re here for all the action. Come talk March Madness with us!
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March 15, 2018
NCAA Tournament Profile: Michigan State Spartans
The moment the entire season has been about is here. No pressure.
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March 11, 2018
NIT Bracket: What in the actual hell?
It’s just Nebraska and Penn State in the nation’s premier consolation tournament, and even then...what the hell?
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March 9, 2018
Big Ten Bracketology Update: Um...the NIT, too!
One less mine lurking for Ohio State with Southern Mississippi’s upset of Middle Tennessee.
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March 6, 2018
Big Ten Bracketology: It’s Four Teams, but Where?
We’ve got all your NCAA Tournament and NIT bracketology round-up here: Come see where Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Maryland, Penn State, and...Indiana?!..are headed.
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March 1, 2018
2018 Big Ten Tournament Day 2 Command Center
By Now We’ve Surely Won Over The New York Market
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February 28, 2018
2018 Big Ten Tournament Day 1 Command Center
Your One-Stop Shop For BTT Action (such as it is on Day 1)
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February 25, 2018
Big Ten Tournament Seeds, Schedule Set
The conference of the Midwest heads to Madison Square Garden to play bad basketball in a place where it should not be going to play bad basketball. We’ve got your times, TV schedule, and some prognostication going forward.
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February 21, 2018
Holding a Pair of Twos: Big Ten NCAA Tournament Bracketology Update
BAH GAWD THAT’S PENN STATE’S MUSIC
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February 19, 2018
There’s basketball happening this week! (Most of it will not be pretty. Talk about it here.)
Previewing the week to come in Big Ten basketball.
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February 14, 2018
Gopher Basketball: A Kinda Really Not Good Season.
Remember when we were a top-15 team? It seems like so long ago...
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February 11, 2018
Three Big Ten teams included in first NCAA Tournament “Top 16” projection
Purdue clings to a 1-seed even after their loss...but geography won’t be kind to them.
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February 9, 2018
Big Ten Basketball Weekend Thread: #3 Purdue heads to #4 Michigan State! Finally, good basketball!
There are other games too, such as Northwestern heading to Maryland and Michigan trying to right the ship at wisconsin. Watch and discuss basketball with us!
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February 7, 2018
Big Ten Bracketology: Dance Floor Getting Crowded?
Michigan State keeps the dream of a one-seed alive, Ohio State creeps farther north, and Northwestern makes a push to join Maryland and Nebraska.
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February 3, 2018
Purdue will beat rutger by 30: A Big Ten Basketball Weekend Preview and Open Thread
We’ve got high-scoring, low-scoring, and one-team-scoring action galore this weekend! Will one of those games be entertaining? Maybe!
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February 2, 2018
Big Ten Basketball Week Recap: So, about those five NCAA Tournament bids.
Is Nebraska one of them? The conference, uh, might be stuck hoping so.
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January 31, 2018
Big Ten Bracketology Update: Purdue near-consensus #1, who knows with Michigan State
Also, we take a peek around to see if people still believe in the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and if anyone’s even thinking about Maryland.
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January 19, 2018
B1G Basketball Open Thread: New York ruins everything, Nebrasketball is going Dancing
Pinnacle Bank Arena is a damn fortress and Nebrasketball can’t lose there. Also we ask just how bad Minnesota and Northwestern are, whether Illinois could actually win 6 games in the Big Ten, and if rutger won’t actually play on Wednesday in the BTT.
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January 12, 2018
Midweek Basketball Recaps: Purdue and MSU survive, Iowa’s not the worst (at basketball)!
Plus we see just how down Minnesota is without Amir Coffey, just how bad Illinois is, and just how under the radar Nebraska can fly.
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January 9, 2018
B1G Hoops Open Thread: Purdue-Michigan, Maryland-Ohio State headline kind-of exciting week?
Previewing the week in Big Ten basketball.