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Ulis is playing 18+ minutes per game on the #1 team in the nation as a true freshman. I don't think he needs to be worried about getting recruited over.

247Sports does a really good job with objective, math based team recruiting rankings for football. Unfortunately, I don't think the model that they use to grade football recruiting classes, which usually have 20-25 players or more, translates well to basketball recruiting classes, which tend to...

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I came up with those point spreads using Jeff Sagarin's Rating and giving 3 points to the home teams. Wisconsin 88.09 Nebraska 83.59 Minnesota 75.62 Iowa 75.36 Minnesota at Nebraksa: 83.59-75.62=7.87+3=10.87 rounded to 11. Wisconsin at Iowa: 88.09-75.36=12.73-3=9.73 rounded to 10. Nebraska at...

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Based on those win probabilities, these are the odds of winning the division: Wisconsin--78.35% Iowa--16.78% Minnesota--3.14% Nebraska--1.46%

Using this chart and the following point spreads, plus a spread-to-percentage chart I found on BettingTalk.com, I have come up with the following likelihoods of winning the West. Minnesota at Nebraska (-11) Wisconsin (-10) at Iowa Minnesota at Wisconsin (-16) Nebraska (-5.5) at Iowa Odds of...

Pulling his scholarship would be very un-Ferentzian. Keep in mind that Beneventi transferred to a new school and new offensive system this year and dealt with some family issues off the field as well. That doesn't fully excuse his play, which has been pretty bad, but I think the physical tools...

I don't root for Wisconsin ever.

Gordon got hurt and missed most of his true freshman season in '11. I have to think that given Iowa's track record with running backs that if that had happened to him as a Hawkeye, we would have added his name to the list of AIRBHG victims and watched him walk out the door.

Since 2000 (which is as far back as Sports-Reference.com will allow me to search), these were the only other instances of a multiple players rushing for 300+ in the same weekend-- 11/17/12: Tavon Austin, West Virginia--344 yards vs. Oklahoma Montel Harris, Temple--351 vs. Army 11/21-22/08...

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What?! If Roethlisberger would have been drafted by the Bucs and spent his first 5+ seasons with Jon Gruden as his head coach, he probably would have better career numbers. Maybe he wouldn't have had the postseason success that he has in Pittsburgh, but if there's one thing that Gruden knew...

I personally think that Ben Roethlisberger is the best NFL comparison for Winston in terms of playing style, talent, and ceiling.

It looks like Anthony Rizzo got robbed of the Silver Slugger. NL 1B went to Adrian Gonazalez, even though Rizzo bested Gonzalez in nearly every relevant batting statistic.

I agree with both points (marginalized the national identity and hurt the appeal to national recruits), and I would add that BTN made the Big Ten Conference a direct competitor of the most powerful sports entity on the planet, ESPN.

I have a suspicion that there's something going on behind the scenes that the schools are aware of but Doherty isn't making reporters aware of. Maybe it's as simple as him having a strong lean toward signing with MLB after the June draft, but it seems very odd to me that as late as August he...

I'm not sure why you would say that Vandeberg "got the job done" and Willies "didn't". Up to the Purdue game (Willies didn't play after that and redshirted last year, so games 1-5 this year are the game where we can best compare Willies and Vandeberg), Willies had more catches, yards, and...

I don't think the Cubs will go after Robertson very hard (too expensive in dollars and draft picks), and I hope they don't give too much money to Peavy if they go after him. Lester and Martin seem like they'll be 1A and 1B in the Cubs' pursuit of FAs. The one thing that could make this a...