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ACC – Big Ten Challenge Games on TV
The ACC/Big Ten Challenge kicks into high gear tonight with five games on the slate. After a ten-year drought The Big Ten won the Challenge last year and is looking to make it two in a row. Here is where you can watch tonight’s games. Ohio State @ Florida State, 6:30 pm CST, ESPN. The [...]
TweetEarly Test for Big 10 Point Guards
Upperclassmen lend the experience and leadership that are important to a team’s success in college basketball. It is especially significant at the point guard position. Look at the sweet sixteen each year and you will find teams with senior floor generals, and whenever a mid-major makes a run, it typically is lead by upperclassmen in [...]
TweetGophers Tip-Off ACC/Big 10 Challenge
The No. 17 Minnesota Golden Gophers will host the Virginia Cavaliers at “The Barn” tonight in the first game of the 12th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge. After breaking into the top-25 rankings this week, Minnesota may play without two starters as Al Nolen (9.2 pts/4.2 assts) and Rodney Williams (6.7 pts) have leg injuries. Nolen [...]
TweetFri. 11/26 Basketball Result Recaps
Purdue remembers how to score.
Syracuse holds off pesky Michigan.
Wisconsin actually goes on a scoring binge.
Best College Hoops Announcers List
The Big10Rant College Basketball Announcers All-Star Team was put together like a basketball team, announcers who fill roles, have some diversity and yet compliment each other so we have a well rounded club. We have the best play-by-play point guard, a couple of veteran Hall of Fame analysts in the paint and two promising newcomers [...]
TweetMichigan State Beats Washington 76-71
Second-ranked Michigan State got back on track with a grinding 76-71 win over the Washington Huskies in the third place game at the EA Maui Invitational in Hawaii. Kalin Lucas scored a career-high 29 points, but it was a pair of clutch three’s by Durrell Summers in the final minutes that propelled Sparty over the [...]
TweetBig10Rant Hoops Power Rankings
Most of the media pundits are proclaiming the Big 10 as the best basketball conference in the land this year. Our first Big10Rant Power Rankings of the season have the Spartans of Michigan State on top. But Ohio State is close behind, especially after their impressive road performance against the Florida Gators.
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