The league is starting to sort itself out. Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan State appear to be the class of the league this season. Michigan, Northwestern, and Illinois seem to lie at the other end. The middle has a bunch of question marks. Ohio State occasionally shows signs of challenging the top three. Purdue’s youngster’s are [...]
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Game Predictions 01/19/08
Ohio State travels out of conference to take on the Tennessee Volunteers down in Knoxville in today’s featured Big Ten game. Illinois looks to continue their march back to respectability when they travel to West Lafayette for a game against Purdue. I’ll also toss in a teaser day-early game prediction for PSU at Indiana. Of [...]
Game Predictions 01/16/08
Tonight offers a rarity, a Big Ten team playing a non conference opponent in the middle of conference play. In fact, it’s a double rarity in that’s it’s a Big Ten team taking on a mid major on the mid major’s court. Northwestern travels into the city to take on Chicago State. Here are the [...]
Game Predictions 1/12/08
Look like we’ll have some very competitive action this weekend with three games all predicted to be within a three point margin. Michigan and Northwestern actually predict to a tie but the Wildcats do have a .2 of a point edge – I guess that means I’m calling for a NW victory in overtime. In [...]
Game Predictions 01/08/08
It’s going to take a while to get used to these Tuesday games. We have two on the slate tonight. Indiana 79 Michigan 65 Michigan St 73 Purdue 59
Game Prediction 01/05/08
We enter the first weekend of Big Ten games with three Saturday games on the slate. Wisconsin 67 Iowa 46 Purdue 71 Michigan 62 Mich St 72 Minnesota 64
Game Prediction 01/02/08
Conference play has finally arrived! We also see a slightly unusual sight though – only three games on a Big Ten Wednesday. You can thank the new TV contracts for that. While we’d usually have 10 teams in action, the new contracts call for Tuesday and Thursday games most weeks so your typical Wednesday will [...]
Game Predictions 12/22/07
Heavy schedule of games on the slate as the teams get ready for the Holidays then the opening of Big Ten play. For hoops fans the big matchup is the Top Ten matchup between MSU and Texas, but the replay of last year’s national championship between Ohio State and Florida probably catches the general public’s [...]
Game Predictions 12/15/07
Purdue at Louisville highlights today’s slate. Indiana 87 W Carolina 55 Michigan 73 Central Mich 66 MSU 86 IUPU-Fort Wayne 60 Ohio State 75 Presbyterian 51 PSU 72 Denver 54 Louisville 66 Purdue 59 Wisconsin 82 Wis-GB 53 Note: My prediction algorithm is based on Ken Pomeroy offensive and defensive efficiency ratings. I use my [...]
