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The NCAA men's basketball tournament has officially begun, but we've got our own March Madness going with our Big Ten players tournament. Today we're tipping off the third of four first-round matchups between Big Ten standouts from the past 15 sea...

We've been having some fun this month with the Big Ten Champions Tournament while dreaming of what a March Madness for college football might look like. Well, a playoff sure seems to be coming, folks, even if it's not the full-fledged one some peo...

We've reached the third game of the first round in our Big Ten Champions Tournament, a fun little way to bring March Madness to the blog by pitting eight of the best Big Ten teams from the last 15 years. The 1997 co-national champion Nebraska Corn...

On Monday, I unveiled the start of our own little March Madness: A Big Ten Champions Tournament. In case you missed it, I selected an eight-team field of champions from the past 15 years. Your votes will determine who wins each matchup. Voting in ...

We may be in the midst of March Madness, but there's still plenty of football to talk about. Proof: I just did so for an hour with you guys on my Monday Big Ten chat. Maybe you were too busy studying your bracketology to notice. If so, here's the ...

It's time to get back to our March Madness style Big East football tournament. Let's check the results of our second game: No. 2 Louisville (2006) vs. No. 7 Cincinnati (2008) Score: Louisville 24, Cincinnati 21 This one is a close call. Both...

On Thursday, I introduced the Big East football version of March Madness featuring the best teams of the past six years. It's time to see what happened in our first game: No. 1 West Virginia (2005) vs No. 8 Pittsburgh (2004) Score: West Virgini...

It's a desert out there for Big East football links -- we're into March Madness, remember? -- but never fear. Spring practice is getting closer. Expect to see some 5-2 alignments on defense and some pistol and Wildcat formations on offense this y...

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett A couple of links for those of you not glued to the first round of March Madness: • Pittsburgh receiver T.J. Porter has been suspended by coach Dave Wannstedt after being arrested for DUI. This is Porter&#3...

At the end of Monday's mailbag, I asked if non-Michigan fans would be rooting for the Wolverines in the NCAA tournament final out of conference pride. The answer, at least according to those who wrote in, was a big fat no: Michael from Saginaw, Mi...

The Monday mailbag is back and here to get you through this long day without any NCAA tournament games: Justin from Chicago writes: As you and Adam have pointed out, there will be one more game a year for each team played within the BIG with the n...

A chaotic opening weekend of the NCAA tournament is in the books, and so too is the first round of our Big Ten players tournament. Our last first-round matchup pitting great players from the past 15 years was a close one, as you'd expect when a No...

If you were looking for ways to kill time before tonight's NCAA tournament title match, you could have done a whole lot worse than spending an hour in my weekly Big Ten Monday chat. If you missed it, don't fret. Here's the entire transcript, along...

Rationality is in short supply in the state of Kentucky this week. The most epic sports duel the state has ever seen arrives on Saturday night, when bitter rivals Kentucky and Louisville meet in the Final Four. Neutrality is not an option.

When Kentucky won the national championship in 1996, Alexander Wolff began his Sports Illustrated cover story this way: "They scarcely celebrate their national championships at Kentucky. They revive them, yes, and cherish them, most certainly. But c...

Things were a bit slow at times during my Monday Big Ten chat -- hey, we're all dealing with some NCAA tournament hangover -- but there were still good questions to be answered. If you missed it, here's the full transcript. And a few highlights: ...