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The Champions Classic, a two-game, one-night November event conjured up two years ago, was pretty much always guaranteed to be a success. Indeed, it was just what the sport needed -- a big, marquee event featuring four of the game's best programs and...

Sometimes we get too excited about experience. We assume players and thus teams get better with age, and that experience automatically leads to improvement. And it often does! But every year, it seems, a team whose main quality is "everyone is back" ...

Michigan State will be good again next season. How do I know? It's not exactly a bold prediction; Michigan State is good pretty much every year. But I also know for more concrete reasons, specifically Thursday's announcement from East Lansing that sh...

The Internet is amazing in many ways, but its glory often requires sacrifices. When a college athlete has a horrifying injury on national television, Twitter can provide a window to a world full of supportive, considerate people. But that directness ...

What are the odds that we'll see an all-Big Ten Final Four in Atlanta? Eamonn Brennan looks at the matchups in store this weekend for Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana and Ohio State.

The Big Ten was the nation's best conference in the regular season. But that doesn't matter. Fair or not, the conference's legacy will be judged by how well -- or poorly -- its teams do in the NCAA tournament.

It is officially the time of year when my friends and family ask me for bracket advice. And why not? They know someone who follows this stuff year-round, and could possibly give them an advantage in the office pool, and I am happy to provide whatever...

The Big Ten has been home to some of the best basketball we've seen all season. With several Final Four contenders and teams still on the NCAA tournament bubble, the league tournament in Chicago should provide more of the same.

A few quick thoughts on No. 1 Indiana's 72-68 win at No. 4 Michigan State on Tuesday night at the Breslin Center, which snapped IU's 17-game losing streak at MSU and gave the Hoosiers first place alone in the Big Ten... Overview: It was the first-...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of tonight's best basketball action. It tried really hard to wedge a "Manhattan" reference in the headline, but it was a little too corny for its taste. No. 13 Michigan State at Wisconsin, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN: Such...

With the conference season set to get under way, Eamonn Brennan takes a look at what's in store for the Big Ten.

This is the final time I will construct a Big Ten power rankings post out of nothing more than nonconference games; Big Ten play begins Monday. That is good news for power rankings purposes, sure -- it is easier to rank teams when you have some he...

New week, new Big Ten power rankings, new No. 1. Let's dig right in: 1. Michigan: Indiana's loss to Butler Saturday -- and the fashion in which it came -- prompted some legitimate near-term questions for the Hoosiers. But it's not like Michigan on...

When you are as good at basketball as Jabari Parker is -- when you've got three state titles and a Gatorade National Player of the Year award before your senior season, and you've been on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline "The best hi...

Of course he isn't. He's Mark Hollis. In the past five years, when the Michigan State athletic director has an idea, no matter how farfetched that idea is, he usually sees it through to fruition. The Carrier Classic, the Germany army base game, et...

Outside of Wieden+Kennedy, Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis might be the best sports marketing professional in the country, even if that's not exactly his job description. At the very least, he is its most enthusiastic. In the past dec...