Big Ten

[Fred Garvin]

Michigan state only team to make sweet 16,conference was extremely over-rated! We should have beat them today,and they would have been completely shut out!!

[We R Final Four]

One title since the 80's. They've Added PSU....Rutgers....Maryland....now adding UCLA and USC. Sooner or later a conference with 20+ teams has to win.

[Johnny B]

Yeah but when u play ur worst game of the year it's tough. pretty much gave it to msu. Classic Marquette in the nccas. I've gone from sad to mad. That was a ridiculous performance I mean come on

[Dickthedribbler]

Year in and year out, the basketball playing Big 10, as a group, is the most fraudulent operation in college sports. Every year in the preseason, the B10 promotions people and the media crank out the same bullchit------that  THIS YEARS B10 is the deepest and most talented in history. This year they got 8 teams in and only 1 goes to the round of 16. In spite of being overrepresented every year, they haven't produce a champion in 23 years.

By contrast the BE gets 5 in and 3 advance.

[CountryRoads]

Lol at this thread. I was planing on starting it to dunk on the big ten if our game went the way we wanted it to.

We had 7 losses this year. 3 of them were to the big ten. Not much smack we can talk unfortunately.

[94Warrior]

Year in and year out, the basketball playing Big 10, as a group, is the most fraudulent operation in college sports. Every year in the preseason, the B10 promotions people and the media crank out the same bullchit------that  THIS YEARS B10 is the deepest and most talented in history. This year they got 8 teams in and only 1 goes to the round of 16. In spite of being overrepresented every year, they haven't produce a champion in 23 years.

By contrast the BE gets 5 in and 3 advance.

The BigWhatever has a darn fine marketing department, considering how mediocre they are at basketball. 

That may sound like sour grapes; I don't care - it's the truth.

[Dickthedribbler]

Lol at this thread. I was planing on starting it to dunk on the big ten if our game went the way we wanted it to.

We had 7 losses this year. 3 of them were to the big ten. Not much smack we can talk unfortunately.

But the issue isn't one team versus another team on a given day. Absolutely we were 0-3 against the BE this year, and congratulations to Michigan State.

But the fact remains the B10, as a whole, sucks come Tournament time. The BE got 5 of its 11 teams in, and 3 are advancing to the 2nd weekend.

If the measure of a conference is performance in March, tell me whether the B10 or the BE is having the better year. And every BE fan should share that smack with their B10 friends.

[oldwarrior81]

As we all know, Michigan State's title in 2000 is the last BigTen championship.

Will adding a couple from the Conference of Champions reverse that trend?  Wasn't the Pac10's last title even further back in 1997 by Arizona?

[DoctorV]

Their conference might be overrated, but their program isn't

[Fred Garvin]

This wasn't about Mich St,its the conference as a whole.No different then their football programs.

[NoLongerWarrior]

Michigan state only team to make sweet 16,conference was extremely over-rated! We should have beat them today,and they would have been completely shut out!!

The Big East champion was thoroughly outplayed by a middle of the road Big Ten team, right? What is with all this nonsense. Be humble, we have a lot of improving to do.

[Marquette Fan in WI]

Michigan state only team to make sweet 16,conference was extremely over-rated! We should have beat them today,and they would have been completely shut out!!

Just because the tournament played out this way this time doesn't mean a lot. If we went back a few days and everything played again the brackets would look different. Some teams have bad games some teams have bad match-ups. It's kind of a crapshoot. Sometimes the teams that are the best win it all other times not. I wouldn't paint with a broad brush stroke based on this iteration.

[Fred Garvin]

The Big 12 was the best conference for basketball this year,still only 2 teams make final 16.Thats a poor conference showing! You can't take all the accolad all year,and then crap the bed in the tournament without being called out.It just doesn't work that way!

[Uncle Rico]

The Big 12 was the best conference for basketball this year,still only 2 teams make final 16.Thats a poor conference showing! You can't take all the accolad all year,and then crap the bed in the tournament without being called out.It just doesn't work that way!

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