Big Ten Basketball Preview

August 21 2009

My Big 10 Basketball Preview...

Top Players:
1 Kalin Lucas (Michigan State)
2 Robbie Hummel (Purdue)
3 Talor Battle (Penn State)
4 Raymar Morgan (Michigan State)
5 E'Twuan Moore (Purdue)
6 Manny Harris (Michigan)
7 Mike Tisdale (Illinois)
8 Ralph Simpson III (Minnesota)
9 Kevin Coble (Northwestern)
10 William Buford (Ohio State)

Projected Standings
1 Michigan State
2 Purdue
3 Minnesota
4 Ohio State
5 Illinois
6 Northwestern
7 Penn State
8 Wisconsin
9 Indiana
10 Michigan
11 Iowa

Top 5 Non Conference games
1 Michigan State vs North Carolina (Last year's Championship game)
2 Duke at Wisconsin (Big 10/ACC Challenge)
3 Michigan State at Texas
4 Michigan State vs Gonzaga
5 Purdue vs Wake Forest

The Butkus Award Watchlist

August 21 2009

The Butkus Award list for 09 is out. Some of the top players on the list are Sean Lee and Navarro Bowman (Penn State), Chris Galippo (USC), Dont'a Hightower, Rolando McClain (Alabama), Ryan Reynolds (Oklahoma), Brandon Spikes (Florida) and Martez Wilson (Illinois)