Fan Brew

With the elite 8 on the line starting tomorrow in the NCAA mens basketball championship tourney I thought I’d put my picks out there for the 8 teams to advance over the next 2 days. First you have to understand that I am partial to Midwest basketball and especially the Big Ten Conference. So that [...]

I haven’t filled out a bracket for the NCAA tourney because there are just too many teams I know too little about, but I know many of you have so it is only right for me to get in on the holy day of which the NCAA tourney begins. In fact the only games I [...]

The NCAA Tournament starts tomorrow 3/16/2010.  You sit by the computer, the flat screen, or even the radio (yes…people still listen) waiting for your picks to advance to the next round.  The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball programs does a fantastic job of declaring a clear National Champion (BTW… that date is 4/5/2010).  Good luck [...]

As a proud Boiler alum I have been really enjoying this college basketball season.  Purdue started 14-0, then had a 3 game skid but responded by winning 10 straight.  Going into last Wednesday’s game at Minnesota the Boilers record stood at 23-3 and were ranked number 3 in the country.  Things were looking good. Then [...]

There has been a lot of talk the last couple years about expanding the Big 10 from 11 teams to 12.  This isn’t really surprising given that, with the exception of the PAC 10, all the other “BCS” conferences have at least 12 teams.  Joe Paterno basically got the ball rolling when he called out [...]

Today is the first day of February.  For college basketball that means teams are in the thick of conference play and  little more than a month from conference tournaments and March Madness.  After watching almost two thirds of the season, I’m going to make a case for the Big Ten being the best conference in [...]