Basketball News, Analysis, History, Schedule, Rumors
LWOS continues its busy coverage of the 2021-22 college basketball season with its 2021-22 Big Ten Basketball Preview. Last year, the Big Ten was a loaded conference as nine of the fourteen teams made the NCAA tournament. It seemed that Minnesota would have made that ten teams had they not lost seven straight. The conference […] READ MORE
Illinois had won 15 of their last 16 games before falling to Loyola Chicago in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. It had the makings of a magical season but it just didn’t come to fruition. They lost a couple of guys, including one of the best players in the country in Ayo Dosunmu. […] READ MORE
There wasn’t another sport more heralded than Big Ten basketball this spring. The conference couldn’t be criticized and the only question was how many teams would reach the Big Dance. Nine Big Ten programs reached the 2021 NCAA Tournament, and yet only one remains standing: the Michigan Wolverines. Big Ten Basketball has been a Big […] READ MORE
Seriously, this has been madness at its finest. Usually, we see upsets in the Round of 64, and then the Round of 32 filters out the Cinderellas from the dwarves. However, Sunday was as wild as we can remember any second-round being. Three double-digit seeds advanced and we saw our first one-seed fall (sorry, Illinois). […] READ MORE
The Big Ten was widely regarded as a top-two league this year. At one point, it appeared they were on pace for 11 of the 14 conference teams to make it to March Madness. That ship has sailed, but they still have nine really solid teams. Now that the regular season has ended, it is […] READ MORE
Somehow, the college basketball regular season is coming to an end. This weekend will see the final regular-season games played, as well as several conferences in the midst of their conference tournaments already. The power conferences will begin conference tournament play in just a few days. That means it is time to talk bubble and […] READ MORE
Let the madness begin. It’s March once again — let’s pretend last March didn’t happen — and that can only mean one thing: college hoops are about to go stupid. NCAA basketball fans will get their first dose of March Madness Tuesday night when five top-10 teams and 10 of the top 25 squads take […] READ MORE
Sunday puts us one month away from Selection Sunday. That means the pressure is on for teams sitting on the bubble. Regardless of all the scheduling issues this season, time is running out to make a statement. A win here or a loss there could mean ending up on the right or wrong side of […] READ MORE
Which teams have the roster, ability, and metrics to defeat Gonzaga and Baylor In the 2020-2021 NCAA Tournament? READ MORE