You don't think so? What teams do YOU think will? Certainly not gonzaga! They are in a nobody conference?

Butler was in a nobody conference and made the championship game in back-to-back years with a team that never got any higher than #10 overall.

Gonzaga, IU, Michigan State, and *gasp* Georgetown are my Final Four.

Trey Burke won Big Ten PotY, but I don't understand why. He averages 5 more points than Victor Oladipo in 8 more minutes per game. Oladipo is *much* better in other areas of his game than Burke in his, and the statbook doesn't always show the whole story. Oh yeah, and Burke is 0-2 against Oladipo. Sigh...

I understand not to be bi-est (sorry I spelt that wrong) but I'm a die hard state fan and I think Gary Harris should have been he was a OUTSTANDING freshman for MSU. Trey Burke was over rated and I think oladipo was good but he just didn't have a spark for me. I think either Aaron craft or Gary Harris should've been the big ten player. Now with butler I see we're your coming from, but butler has a well known coach who is really good at explaining the game of basketball.

I understand not to be bi-est (sorry I spelt that wrong) but I'm a die hard state fan and I think Gary Harris should have been he was a OUTSTANDING freshman for MSU. Trey Burke was over rated and I think oladipo was good but he just didn't have a spark for me. I think either Aaron craft or Gary Harris should've been the big ten player. Now with butler I see we're your coming from, but butler has a well known coach who is really good at explaining the game of basketball.

Gary Harris? Yeah, you are a *really* way-too-much diehard fan, so much that you can't see any logic and just think based on your team.

I used to play pickup games with him (by used to I mean last year when he was at HSE... played with Yogi Ferrell too). He can't defend a post-up and is not as strong as he needs to be. If he leaves after this year, which I doubt he will with his background, he won't be ready for the NBA.

Aaron Craft is a great player; never going to win player of the anything because he's got no numbers. He will win the old school player of the year if it ever comes around.

Butler did not have a well known coach until the game against Duke. That's when Brad Stevens was exposed to the world. Gordon Hayward would have been a small town, potentially overseas player without that run - exactly what the people at Brownsburg figured he'd be. Shelvin Mack would have been a nobody. Brad Stevens wouldn't have gotten a massive contract and he'd probably have filled the spot at Illinois or USC or something. You obviously have no idea what that run was for Butler and how they were the epitome of a basketball nobody prior to that game.

Before that year, the only significant thing about Hinkle was the movie. Now people know it as the place that Butler plays. Don't confuse that with what you know now.

I'm guessing your a butler fan? I see Gary Harris as rookie of the year in the big ten at least he can drain some threes;)

I'm really Impressed with Minnesota this year although they lose dome easy games they did best Indiana

Freshman of the Year, yeah, probably. Between him and Yogi. Ironic.

I'm much more impressed with Ohio State and Wisconsin than Minnesota. They did what all Big Ten teams should be able to do which is beat each other on occasion. Wisconsin was much more forceful and deserved much more praise than Minnesota.

I am a Butler fan (I live minutes from campus and they are recruiting me for baseball, though it's not nearly the best school on my list), and I'd say I know just about everything about Butler from A.J. Graves to Rotnei Clarke. Still, when it comes to sports, I try my best to stay relatively neutral, specifically with awards and predictions. I do mock drafts all the time in the NFL and NBA plus prospect write ups in the MLB. When it comes to the NCAA, I got my 2009 winners bracket within two games of perfect (predicted Illinois would beat WKU and Wake Forest over Cleveland State if I remember correctly.. both were obviously wrong). In short, I do my analysis and my research and a lot of people - myself included - think I'm much smarter than Todd McShay anyway when it comes to March and April.

I used to play with Harris and Yogi but those two aren't the best I've played around. You'll hear Trevon Bluiett (4-star junior) and Trey Lyles (5-star junior; #4 in class according to ESPN) more than either Harris or Yogi in the long run. I'd even take a chance and put Jordan Pickett (Rivals called him 2-star but he went to a small prep school - my school - for two years and nobody really recruited him much; he's much much better than that) above Gary Harris in terms of overall skill. Harris is definitely the better shooter, but out of these five, the best I've played around, Harris is probably the worst overall.

Of course that doesn't mean I'm bashing him; he's a hell of a player and a thousand times better than I am... all five of those players can make the NBA if they put in the work and make the right improvements.

Yea I agree. That's funny because I live about 15 minutes from the spartan campus. Beautiful campus!

Pretty much all college campuses are beautiful nowadays. Good for the world to have something to look at when the rest of it is mystically disappearing every day...

I have some friends at MSU. They've sent me emails and letters, but I'll be going to college on baseball or academic scholarship, and it certainly won't be to a school above 10,000 if I have no substantial offers.

Yep. Well the university of Michigan campus sucks

OSU in the final four

On behalf of the Pac-12, I say... the Pac-12 sucks this year. I'll be rooting for Cal to make the tourney and go as far as they can (which is probably a first round loss). UCLA? Arizona? Oregon? They're all weak. I'm glad Allen Crabbe won P12 POY, but the fact that he did so kinda says it all. He's a questionable 1st round pick.

Ah, stop talking us down THM. Just watch UW make a surprising conference tournament run to hurt the seeding of other Pac12 teams and then choke in the tournament. Oh how I love Seattle sports.

Spartan campus *rocks*...way better than UoM...and when Michigan State wins it all...it will look so pretty in the fire light! lol Pjman -- how's the Landshark these days??

It could happen, ghug... because the conference is weak. UW vs. WSU, you have to favor UW. I don't respect Oregon, so that could be a UW win. I think Cal will beat the winner of USC/Utah, but UW is a bad matchup for Cal (I like Cal vs. UCLA or UA, but would expect Cal to UW or Stanford). It could easily be something like UCLA vs. UW for the P12 tournament title.

Yep. I retain my hope for my team as my Mariners manage to fuck up their once-impressive spring training. Go Huskies!

Hey, they locked up Felix for three years out of his massive contract. At least you have him for that long before a lack of cap space forces them to trade him.

I think state will make a run and the saying " march is michigan states magic month" will come into play!! Sparty in but always remember VCU they always make a run to elite 8/ sweet 16

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130313/SPORTS0601/303130085/Indiana-basketball-Oladipo-Sporting-News-national-player-year

How the fuck do you win a national player of the year award when you didn't even win your conference award? Big Ten voters are losing it.