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Wisconsin and Michigan State Can Crush You

hoopraker posted 3/20/2008 from hoopraker.com

You can ignore it but you can't deny it: Wisconsin plays some of the best basketball in the country and Michigan State is supremely talented, well-coached and can flat out beat anyone. In a year where there is no true dominant national team, neglecting to appreciate the Badgers and the Spartans would be a grave mistake.

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Big Ten Plants Bullseye on Carolina, Duke

hoopraker posted 3/20/2008 from hoopraker.com

The March road trips of the Indiana Hoosiers and Purdue Boilermakers, if they are to be of the long and winding variety, depend on rising above distractions, NCAA inexperience, and the best of the vaunted ACC, North Carolina and Duke. They can do it.

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A Perfect Offense - Wisconsin's Swing

hoopraker posted 3/2/2008 from hoopraker.com

It's a perfect offense. In a season that finds the Bo Ryan's Wisconsin Badgers once again atop the Big Ten heap after securing their fifth consecutive victory with a 57-42 win over Michigan State (22-6, 10-5), the Badgers demonstrated the efficiency and power of team basketball.

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Loose Balls: February 26

hoopraker posted 2/26/2008 from hoopraker.com

No team in the Big Ten needed a win more than Ohio State (17-10, 8-6). Not Northwestern to redeem a portion of a season’s embarrassment; not Indiana to exorcise the bile of Kelvin Sampson’s opiate addiction to his mobile phone. Ohio State, one week removed from a loss at Michigan, was entering the most challenging and critical stretch of its season. Regrettably for Thad Matta and Ohio State, ...

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The Sky is Falling...Again

hoopraker posted 2/25/2008 from hoopraker.com

Looking at RPIs, won-loss records, individual games, and the ACC-Big Ten challenge in isolation is a trap that fails to account for the season as a five-month growing medium. The best coaches, of which the Big Ten has a deep roster, can take roster shake-ups, Wofford losses, and 36-point offensive nights and turn them, via months of good teaching, into basketball gold.

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A Moment in Ann Arbor

hoopraker posted 2/22/2008 from hoopraker.com

John Beilein has turned a corner with his Michigan Wolverines' upset of Ohio State. Will Beilein and Minnesota's Tubby Smith continue to make the right moves as the season enters the stretch run? Hoopraker takes a look.

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Purdue - Indiana CXCI

hoopraker posted 2/19/2008 from hoopraker.com

An august rivalry once dictated by two coaching mastodons, Bob Knight & Gene Keady, is now steered by a rapidly rising acolyte in West Lafayette, Matt Painter, and a lame duck scofflaw in Bloomington. As if the clash for Indiana bragging rights needed more amplitude, Tuesday’s game is a smorgasboard of both backstory and the significance of the now.

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The First Fundamental: Michigan State & Indiana

hoopraker posted 2/18/2008 from hoopraker.com

Over the course of two seasons, the Michigan State Spartans have developed an inexplicable aversion to taking care of the basketball. On Saturday night, the Spartans' turnovers did them in against the Hoosiers and the unstoppable Eric Gordon. Will the Spartans get it straight before the season passes them by?

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