Richard Pitino named Big Ten Coach of the Year

“I’m going to make sure we pack with the idea that we’re going to stay there and try to win a Big Ten championship”. Chicago and Indianapolis have held the postseason gathering every year since its inception in 1998. Charles was among four freshmen Frese used in the first quarter, showing her trust in a heralded group that features three McDonald’s all-Americans.

In the regular season IL and MI split the two games they played against each other.

Maryland, Rutgers and Penn State (which joined in 1990) will have the luxury of traveling to the tournament by bus. It essentially means they are middle-of-the-pack Big Ten teams with little chance of advancing far.

IL (18-13, 8-10 Big Ten) after their win against Michigan State last week had won four of their last five games and appeared to be trending upward, so much so that some “experts” put them in the dance, or on the bubble at the worst.

The Buckeyes next competition will come at the NCAA National Championships tournament March 16-18 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.

It is a curious lot. Those are numbers that can beat just about any team in the nation. The Purdue Boilermakers, a fifth seed team, fought their way into the championship after taking down the number one seed, Ohio State. The Badgers began the 2016-’17 season with a 21-3 record and climbed to as high as seven in the AP poll. Others, like Northwestern, have popped in and out of the rankings.

“The way we played over the course of the last month, I’m really proud of our guys”, Groce said. “It is wide open”. The Gophers and Huskers both own wins against Purdue, while Penn State played the Boilers within four points in late Februrary. His year-over-year surges has been significant. He’s on the ballot for the Wooden Award, which goes to the best college player in the land. If both favorites win, a semifinal matchup against the Terrapins would be looming.

Though Wisconsin has proven on numerous occasions that it is capable of shooting itself in the foot against any conference opponent, playing the Hoosiers is in the Badgers’ best interest. We were so big past year, but we were also rigid.

Jones, who had a major role in all three title runs, certainly did her thing. “We have three or four [middle-tier] teams that are just phenomenal right now in Iowa, Michigan Minnesota and IL”.

A run featuring Jones coming out of halftime enabled the Terrapins to build a 51-38 lead with 5:07 to play in the third quarter.

Purdue returned to the conference lead after Wisconsin’s late collapse, earning the top overall seed.

Game 11: Game 7 victor vs. Maryland point guard Melo Trimble was just 4-for-15 from the field that day.

Walker-Kimbrough’s 3-pointer provided Maryland with an 18-10 lead, but the Spartans rallied behind layups from Allen and Taya Reimer and Victoria Gaines’s 3-pointer.

Facing a one-point deficit midway through the second quarter, Maryland scored 11 in a row on the way to a 39-35 advantage at halftime. Eron (Harris) can’t play anymore games. “It’s a long season and we played a lot down the stretch… and we’ve been going hard in practice”, Turgeon said.

This afternoon, Beilein went out of his way to say he wants to win it all.

MINNEAPOLIS (GopherSports.com) – Big Ten scoring leader Tyler Sheehy has been named the Big Ten Second Star of the Week following a four-point weekend in Ann Arbor for the No. 5 Gopher Hockey program.

That’s an issue on the NCAA Tournament resume. That means they’ve won once away from home in 2017. No worries. Richard Pitino still has a deadly team that is more than capable of winning the school’s first ever Big Ten tourney title or at least reaching the title game for the second time (2010). Maryland, the No. 3 seed, will play Rutgers, Northwestern or Ohio State on Friday.