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Illinois Leading Export: Basketball Players
Based on this interactive map, here’s a look at how many NCAA tournament players each of the Big Ten states produced – and what percentage of those players play on home state teams: State Number Home %...
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Shaka Watch 2012
Illini fans have been in a breathless frenzy since VCU’s loss to Indiana in the second round (now the idiotically named third round) in the NCAA Tournament. Following the firing of Bruce Weber, it’s...
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Shaka Passes On Champaign
Shaka Smart ops to stay in the commonwealth of Virginia: Illinois struck out on landing the coaching candidate that many in the basketball world called a “home run” option when Virginia Commonwealth...
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John Groce Named Illinois Men’s Basketball Coach
For Illini fans, the long national nightmare is over. After being spurned by Shaka Smart and Brad Stevens, enduring reported meddling by the Board of Trustees, and a twitter campaign launched by the...
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Big Ten Power Rankings
The Big Ten is deeper and stronger than ever: Three unbeatens. Six teams in the Top 25. A handful of the best players in the country. But which team is best so far? We take a look below at where...
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Big Ten Poll Watch: Week 6
It’s the return of Big Ten Poll Watch – our weekly look at which voters voted for which Big Ten teams in the AP Top 25. There’s nothing too egregious in this week’s watch, other than the New Haven...
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Big Ten Poll Watch: Week 7
The big question for this week’s poll was: “How far will Indiana fall?” We guessed No. 7 or 8. We were wrong. The secondary question was: “Will Michigan get any of Indiana’s No. 1 votes?” We guessed...
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Daily Big Ten Podcast: Talking Hoops
The good people at Crimson Cast welcomed us on to their new Big Ten Special podcast this week to talk smart about Indiana hoops, the coming Big Ten season, Northwestern’s Big Dance hopes and the...
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Tom Crean: Big Ten Twitter King
Tom Crean is the undisputed Twitter king of Big Ten coaches. The frenetic Hoosier coach has more Twitter followers and has Tweeted more than the rest of the Big Ten coaches combined: Coach Followers...
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Big Ten Road Wins Hard To Come By
There have been eight Big Ten games in the 2012-13 basketball season and the home team has won six of them, including: Purdue beating No. 11 Illinois 68-61 in West Lafayette, followed by the Illini...
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