Everything will be alright.
We swear.

Boy would I like to be a fly on the ball rack at the next Michigan State practice. Getting worked over at home to the Wildcats of Northwestern has to cause Tom Izzo to get absolutely zero sleep tonight, maybe tomorrow night too.
MSU as a team committed 18 turnovers. Guard Chris Allen had 7 of them, in fact Allen played pretty poorly overall, shooting just 1-11.
As for Northwestern, senior Kevin Coble did his best Larry Bird impersonation, scoring 31 points and making a disgustingly pretty falling away off the glass shot late in the …read more

When I began this prediction assortment, cometh straight from my crystal ball, no way-no how I saw coming a Northwestern Wildcat yearning. But if paper sheds any truth for this upcoming season, Big Ten basketball teams look to either ‘have’, or ‘have not’.
When coming up with a spot to slide NW into, I took into account the scoring punch returning for each team.
Northwestern ranks high in the returning scorers category, only Purdue ranks higher. Only Purdue and Northwestern return at least three players who scored in double figures last season. Scoring isn’t exactly the staple of …read more

It’s never too early to start pontificating about the upcoming season.
My crystal ball I dust off every July or August is acting abnormally insane, as, for the very first time, the Northwestern Wildcats have scratched their way to the front of my lopsided prediction formation… via the crystal ball.
I need to listen to the ball.
You can’t not listen to the ball.
It’s like the Tommyknockers.
Apparently Kevin Coble and his band of international scholars, not so much ballers, are going to be getting some help of the vertically gifted variety this next season. Four 6’8 or taller players are …read more