Why is the Combine so Special?

Feb 28, 2019
Now look, I understand what you might be thinking here. It’s special due to the nature of kids living out their life long dreams! However, wouldn’t you think that playing for you childhood...

Put me in Buzz

Feb 28, 2019
Coach Buzz Williams posted a video today, and my god I was willing to drive to VA Tech, ready to run through a wall for that man. If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. It’s no wonder why...

What Hornibrook Transferring Means for Wisconsin

Feb 28, 2019
First of all, as a Badger fan, I want to say thank you. I will not shit on Hornibrook right away. He wasn’t the most talented guy, but damn it all if he couldn’t at least get the job done....

Kyler Murray: The NFL’s Next Big Thing

Feb 28, 2019
It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year. The NFL Combine. With all the weird psychological questions asked, the bench press, the 40-yard sprint, and of course the measurements, what could be bet...

BIG Takes: Week 7 Edition

Feb 28, 2019
Tip of the hat to Michigan State this week, as they went into Ann Arbor and pulled off their most impressive win of the year. The win put the Spartans a half game ahead of Purdue and a full game ahead...

NCAA Alumni of the Week: Sean Kuraly

Feb 28, 2019
Sean Kuraly was a fifth round pick in the 2011 NHL Draft. The former Miami (OH) standout is currently a grinder on the Boston Bruins fourth line and has played a key role in a few wins for the Bruins ...

National Player of the Year: Gustafson by a Mile

Feb 28, 2019
Respect The Name I have seen plenty of articles about the National Player of the Year debate in Women’s Basketball. Many of these articles have slept on or totally missed Megan Gustafson. One of...

Badgers Lose in Double-OT… My Reaction

Feb 27, 2019
In the famous words of Drake… “I’m upset”. I’m so pissed off about that double overtime shit show I just witnessed in Bloomington, Indiana. I have seen some terribly offi...

Purdue Fans Drooling Over New Hockey Unis

Feb 26, 2019
Purdue Hockey plays in the ACHA, and on December 21st they teased some new unis on their Twitter page. Rebirth Sports is the maker of these FIRE jerseys and did the official unveiling of them today on...

Big Ten Wrap-up: Wrapped up

Feb 26, 2019
Ohio State ran away with the Big Ten regular season crown. Are they a lock for the conference tournament?...

NCHC Weekend Recap

Feb 26, 2019
With three weeks left in the regular season, all eight teams in the NCHC returned to the ice over the weekend. St. Cloud State needed a weekend sweep and a Minnesota Duluth loss to capture their secon...

NCAA Tournament: ACC has potential to get 9 teams in

Feb 25, 2019
March Madness is just around the corner, and the ACC is stacked as always. The league has nine teams currently in the mix for NCAA Tournament spots, three of which have a shot at a No. 1 seed. There a...

It’s More Than the Player

Feb 23, 2019
In the wake of Zion Williamson’s knee injury on Wednesday against North Carolina, the debate has been on whether Williamson should sit out the rest of the season to preserve his draft spot and avoid...

Two Prolific Players You (Maybe) Haven’t Heard Of

Feb 23, 2019
I want to start off by saying that I appreciate everyone who reads my articles and spreads the word about my writing. That’s why I’m not sure if I’m the reason to blame or if everybo...

Bearcats baseball recap vs Florida Atlantic

Feb 21, 2019
The first weekend is complete, and the Bearcats have some work to do. Their first series of the year was at Florida Atlantic, a team who finished last year with a 43-19-1 record while making the NCAA ...

A Student Athletes Take on Paying College Atheltes

Feb 21, 2019
Duke’s, Zion Williamson, injured himself 30 seconds into arguably the biggest college basketball rivalry in the country last night. Ticket prices were starting at $2,900 for this game and former...

Will the real Syracuse Orange please stand up?

Feb 21, 2019
After a 69-49 drubbing of No. 18 Louisville on Wednesday night, Syracuse now sits at 18-8 overall and 9-4 in ACC play. They’re also tied for fourth place in the ACC standings with Florida State, tra...

BIG Takes: Week 6 Edition

Feb 20, 2019
There was little to no drama this week in the Big Ten which sets up a wild race to the finish. Purdue, Michigan and Michigan State are tied at the top with 12-3 conference records. Maryland is a game ...

What’s wrong with the Hoosiers?

Feb 20, 2019
Whatever is ailing the Indiana basketball team, currently #12 in the Big Ten, has taken their season to its breaking point. After starting the season 12-2 and boasting strong wins over Marquette and L...

The Buzzer-Beater, Second Edition: February Blues

Feb 18, 2019
Welcome to the second edition of the sophomore year of The Buzzer-Beater, my weekly Monday column about college basketball and what’s going on around the country. This past weekend, I was in Tucson,...

NCAA Hockey Hair Team: WCHA Edition

Feb 18, 2019
There are so many things to love about the game of hockey. The blistering speed, the bone-jarring body checks, and the mind-meltingly dirty dangles, not to mention the fact that these athletes are lit...

Wiesy Outta Here: Hawkeyes win another Thriller

Feb 16, 2019
The Iowa Hawkeyes took the court in Piscataway, NJ tonight against Rutgers. True freshman guard, Joe Wieskamp, would play the hero on this night. This role is often filled by Jordan Bohannon, but Wies...

Iowa @ Rutgers: Game Preview

Feb 16, 2019
Recap: Iowa Once again, the Iowa men’s basketball team has been looking great of late. The Hawkeyes are coming off three straight wins. First, an upset of Michigan at home in which they outpaced...

How the Bearcats are Reloading

Feb 15, 2019
Baseball season is upon us! College baseball has started today, and man am I excited. The Bearcats had a decent season last year going 28-28 and leading the entire nation with the most double plays. T...

Hobey Baker Finalist: Jimmy Schuldt

Feb 15, 2019
The Hobey Baker Award is college hockey‘s Heisman Trophy. Named after American hockey hall of famer, Hobey Baker, the award is given annually to the nations best player. St. Cloud State’s,...

American International Did it Again

Feb 15, 2019
The Jackets are buzzzzzzzin’. Since we talked about American International a few weeks ago, they are undefeated after consecutive sweeps of Niagara and Army West Point. They’re playing the...

Duke: Overrated?

Feb 15, 2019
Is this Duke team really as good as everyone thought it was at the beginning of the season? Duke was being talked about like they were going to be the best college basketball team in history for havin...

Jim Leavitt (oddly) out at Oregon

Feb 15, 2019
Well, this is going to get more interesting.  After only two years as the defensive coordinator, Jim Leavitt has been relieved of his duties in Eugene. Leavitt,...

Locker Room Talk: Episode 3

Feb 15, 2019
The Student Union Sports podcast about nothing in particular. Hot takes, cold drinks, and trash talk is what we like best. This weeks topics include Joe Flacco, Nick Cage, and life on Mars…. Sit bac...

Top 5 Gamecock Players of All-Time: Alshon Jeffery

Feb 14, 2019
I’m back with my fourth favorite Gamecock this week, and another player who was instrumental in leading some of the best football in Carolina history. Lane Kiffin once told Alshon Jeffery that i...

Rivals Gives Three Stars To Fake Recruit

Feb 14, 2019
This is Internet 101 and Rivals has masterfully failed. This group of high school kids decided to make a fake recruit named Blake (great name) Carringer from Knoxville, Tennessee. Literally all they d...

Alternate History: Auston Matthews in College Hockey

Feb 14, 2019
Auston Matthews just signed a monster extension which will make him the second-highest paid player in the NHL behind only Edmonton’s Connor McDavid. Matthews is a franchise center, three-time al...

Takeaways from National Signing Day 2019: Part 2

Feb 13, 2019
Alright folks, ya boi is back and better then ever for yet another fire article. Let’s pick up right back up where I left off with my last article in part 1. So let’s jump right into this ...

NCHC Weekend Recap

Feb 13, 2019
Another weekend has come and gone which means we have more NCHC action to recap. A lot of the conference had a bye week, but we were still able to get two really good matchups. Let’s dive i...

BIG Takes: Week 5 Edition

Feb 12, 2019
  Week in Review Tuesday night had all the madness Big Ten fans wanted. The top five teams in the league were on display, and as the standings were just a few weeks ago, Michigan and Michigan Sta...

Illinois Basketball: B1G Tournament Champions

Feb 12, 2019
Speak it into existence. Brad Underwood’s squad is trending upward, and while they sit at 9-15, an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is up for grabs in March. The path to the madness is far f...

Return to the Diamond: 2019 College Baseball Preview

Feb 12, 2019
Baseball season is just around the corner. The opening weekend of college baseball kicks off this Friday, February 15th. Major league pitchers and catchers are beginning to report to their respective ...

Wooden Award Top 20: Part 2

Feb 12, 2019
Part 1 – posted yesterday – included some big names and studs who are putting up crazy numbers. Those ballers have earned their stripes. They are insanely athletic and are having fantastic...

Spartans head to Madison: B1G Preview

Feb 11, 2019
The Michigan State Spartans travel to the Kohl Center on Wednesday to take on the 20th ranked Badgers. Michigan State is 1-3 in their last four games, snapping a 3-game losing streak last Saturday at ...

Wooden Award Top 20: Part 1

Feb 11, 2019
This is my favorite time of the year. We just had the Super Bowl signifying the end of football, which is sad. Football was my first love, BUT the Super Bowl means that we have about a month and a hal...

#SU25 Basketball: Week 16

Feb 11, 2019
The Student Union Difference: #1 team in the country from last week’s poll defeats #3 team, #1 drops in this week’s #SU25 Basketball poll! This week lacked major upsets, but since the last...

Five-Star Recruit Anthony Edwards Commits to Georgia

Feb 11, 2019
Tom Crean’s bag man is finally starting to make some moves. Anthony Edwards, a top-five player in the 2019 recruiting class, and projected top-five pick in the 2020 NBA draft, has committed to ...

Kyler Murray to the NFL

Feb 11, 2019
Kyler Murray has officially made his choice. Since his last football game at Oklahoma and declaring for the draft in January, it has seemed more clear that the Heisman Trophy winner was going to choos...

Takeaways from National Signing Day 2019: Part 1

Feb 11, 2019
From the rich getting richer…To a battle between in-state foes…To a National Signing Day’s flip filled finale, this year’s recruiting cycle left us with tons of story lines hea...

Do You Know what N.E.T. Stands for?

Feb 11, 2019
NET or NCAA evaluation tool is the new RPI ranking, it will help the NCAA rank teams going into March Madness. Step 1, team value index or an algorithm that is set up to only reward teams for beating ...

NCAA Alumni of the Week: Danny DeKeyser

Feb 10, 2019
Danny DeKeyser was a force for the Western Michigan Broncos during his three seasons in Kalamazoo. The defenseman was a favorite of Bronco fans and hockey fans in general. His NHL career started slowl...

Justin Fields is Eligible Immediately

Feb 8, 2019
Ohio State was facing a dire situation at quarterback. Incumbent starter Dwayne Haskins declared for the NFL draft and Tathan Martell transferred to the University of Miami. While all this was going o...

Top 5 Gamecock Players of All-Time: Jadeveon Clowney

Feb 8, 2019
This is the start of a new series I’ll be putting out every Friday for the next five weeks. This isn’t who I think is the best or most accomplished. These are my five favorite players I...

Ole Miss Lands Two Sport Stud Jerrion Ealy

Feb 8, 2019
On National Signing Day 2019, Ole Miss was able to come away with one of the top players in the state of Mississippi. Jerrion Ealy of Jackson Prep is a four-star prospect, ranked 58th in the country b...

Arizona Basketball is in Trouble, Again

Feb 7, 2019
The Arizona Wildcats are one of the biggest headlines in college basketball news for all the wrong reasons, again. Yesterday, Arizona placed assistant coach Mark Phelps on administrative leave and are...

Big Ten Recap, Preview

Feb 7, 2019
Big Ten Hockey Hockey season is winding down making every weekend absolutely crucial. The Big Ten is going to come right down to the wire and it’s gonna be a wild ride. Wisconsin @ Michigan Stat...

South Carolina Beefs Up DL; Signs Jaquaze Sorrells

Feb 7, 2019
Jaquaze Sorrells is now a Gamecock. On National Signing Day, the Gamecocks boosted their recruiting class a bit more. After having an already good class, Muschamp and his crew were able to snag Jaquaz...

Georgia Steals George Pickens From Auburn

Feb 7, 2019
The Bulldogs now seem to be invading the neighboring Yellowhammer State. After the flip of commitment today from George Pickens, Georgia now has landed the top two players in Alabama. Pickens, the #2 ...

Florida Defense Goes Big on NSD

Feb 7, 2019
The Florida defense hauled in two big prizes on National Signing Day of 2019. The latest additions to the roster are Khris Bogle and Kaiir Elam. Bogle, a four-star weakside defensive end was ranked 66...

Indiana vs #20 Iowa

Feb 7, 2019
What a year it has been for the Big Ten. The twenty in conference games for the Big Ten sure has a way of creating drama throughout the tail end of the season, and the upset wins for Iowa and Indiana ...

Brohm Brings in Best Class in Purdue History

Feb 6, 2019
National signing day is finally upon us and no one is happier than Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm. Going into his third season leading the Boilers, he has secured a top-25 recruiting class, a feat that ...

#SU25 Basketball: Week (1)5!

Feb 6, 2019
Football season is over, but there is some good news: The Patriots can’t win March Madness. But the Patriots of college basketball find themselves atop our first #SU25 rankings of the regular se...

BIG Takes: Week 4

Feb 5, 2019
Would anybody like to tell me what the heck is going to happen in this last month of the Big Ten? Just two weeks ago, it looked like a clear cut race between Michigan and Michigan State to see who wou...

NCHC Weekend Recap

Feb 5, 2019
This past weekend, the best conference in college hockey, the NCHC, was back in action with some great matchups. Let’s dive into how each team fared. #8 Western Michigan at Nebraska-Omaha Last F...

The Big Ten, March Madness, and My Word

Feb 5, 2019
With Michigan and Michigan State both competing in conference play tonight, there is still some uncertainty in who will claim the Big Ten regular season Championship come early March. Both Teams stand...

Bad Beat in Norman

Feb 5, 2019
Last night some of you bettors may have fallen victim to maybe the worst bad beat of the season so far. To set the stage, Iowa State was favored on the road at Norman, from anywhere between 2.5 and 3....

ACC Corner: Week 4 Edition

Feb 4, 2019
Welcome to ACC Corner: Week 4 Edition. With some big games coming up this week, the picture became a little bit more clear in the standings. We also saw Duke blow out St. Johns in a non-conference gam...

Breaking: Francois Dismissed from Florida State

Feb 3, 2019
The Florida State Seminoles will unexpectedly have a new starting quarterback in 2019. Willie Taggart announced Sunday, “I informed Deondre Francois that he is no longer a member of the Florida ...

Silvio De Sousa, Kansas Hosed by NCAA

Feb 2, 2019
Well, that’s that. Silvio De Sousa banned from the NCAA until 2020-2021. Held out for all of the 2018-19 season this point, hope remained with the Jayhawks that they might get their big back bef...

Dan’s Bedtime Thoughts: CBB Edition

Feb 1, 2019
It’s college basketball season! Yes, I know that CBB started way back in November, but now that we’re without football, I’ll officially declare it college basketball season. Let̵...

Locker Room Talk: Episode 2

Feb 1, 2019
The Student Union Sports podcast about nothing in particular. Hot takes, cold drinks, and trash talk is what we like best. This week on the Locker Room Talk podcast we are talking about anything and e...