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• Big Ten All-Conference teams

  Sorry I didn't get to this yesterday or ealier today, but I've been busy eating clementines, watching football (Ok, fine. Soccer.) and, um, studying. In case you haven't seen, the Big Ten announced it's all-conference teams yesterday.... Posted Mar 11 2009, 12:42 AM by Ben Voelkel With | With 1 comment(s) Filed under: UW basketball, Big Ten basketball, purdue, jajuan johnson, all-conference

• Big Ten Tournament picture (and an apology to Talor Battle)

  When Talor Battle lifted Penn State to a win over Illinois Thursday night with his driving layup, I gave him a colorful middle name. That basket, coupled with Wisconsin's loss to Minnesota the night before, set up a scenario where the Badgers would... Posted Mar 07 2009, 04:23 PM by Ben Voelkel With | With no comments Filed under: UW basketball, Big Ten basketball, talor battle

• Looking back at preseason predictions

  One of the great things about the Internet, aside from LOLCatz, is its permanence. Whatever you put up there, it's up there for good. Sure, this has it's drawbacks on occasion (bottom photo), but it also makes it really easy to call people's... Posted Mar 06 2009, 01:37 PM by Ben Voelkel With | With no comments Filed under: predictions, Big Ten basketball

• Jan. 28 picks

  One of these days I'll go back through the archives and figure out what I'm batting on the year, but today's not that day. Instead, we've got a couple picks. Michigan at Ohio State (-4.5) Straight up: Ohio State ATS: Ohio State Indiana... Posted Jan 28 2009, 03:50 PM by Ben Voelkel With | With no comments Filed under: predictions, Big Ten basketball

• Big Ten power poll (Jan. 26 edition)

  Benjamin Worgull, the publisher over at Badgernation.com and a friend of mine, decided to put together a weekly Big Ten power poll this season and asked me to contribute. It's an aggregate of several writers own rankings, and he'll publish it... Posted Jan 26 2009, 11:24 AM by Ben Voelkel With | With no comments Filed under: Big Ten basketball, power ranks