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I was very happy to see the Hawkeye women win the Big Ten Basketball Tournament. My little sister is exuberant on Facebook. She played for the Hawkeye basketball team in the Late 70s /early 80s. She had talent I didn't have.

And Megan Gustafson for the Hawkeyes, leading the nation in scoring last season and this season, scored 45 points. Plus she is a vacuum that picks up rebounds. She is an amazing player from a tiny town in Wisconsin near Lake Superior.

Nebraska high jumper Mayson Conner was named the Big Ten Men's Indoor Freshman of the Year on Tuesday after a vote by the league's head coaches. Conner is the first Husker male track and field athlete chosen as the Big Ten Freshman of the Year since NU joined the conference in 2011-12. 

The McCool Junction native was the Big Ten champion in the high jump and earned first-team All-America honors after finishing seventh at the NCAA Indoor Championships last weekend. Conner cleared 7-3 3/4 (2.23m) at both meets, which is tied for the ninth-best mark in school history. 

McCool Junction is a village in York County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 409 at the 2010 census.  Just drove through there on my way to Texas a week ago.

Shocker, ESPN screwed up


https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1107742327995617280


https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1107746649697341441

The most unexpected season I've followed in some time is 2019 Michigan Women's lacross. Last year, the program finally beat its first Top 25 team ever in the finale (#16 PSU) of a 7-10 season. They'd never previously even had a 0.500 season.

One offseason later ... they are 10-0 with five Top 25 wins. That win last year started a revolution. Well that ... and all the money flowing into the program is clearly taking root in recruiting.

Your optimism is understandable but only one of those wins is currently in the top 25 (Denver).
https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/wdi/polls/19
Only beating OSU by 5 goals raises an eyebrow for a top 10 team. Particularly since it was neck and neck for most of the game until it got a little out of hand there at the end. Notre Dame beat OSU by nearly twice as many goals (9), and the Buckeyes were coming off of a 15 goal loss to Maryland (16-1) the week before THE GAME. So by the transitive property vs OSU combined with the fact that the schedule turned out to be a lot softer than it initially appeared, I would speculate that the Wolverines are probably more in the 15-20 range. I'd expect them to go 1-2 vs the three remaining ranked teams on their slate, Hopkins, Maryland and Northwestern, with a blowout loss to the Terps (>10 goals) and splitting a pair of close games (<5 goals) vs the other two.
On the other hand a win is a win, and taking down a rival on the road is nothing to sneeze at. So I have them finishing 15-2 going into the Big Ten Tourney, and then a third loss in that Tourney, which "should" of course be good enough to get them into their first NCAA Tourney. That would no doubt be a pretty good cap to their first winning season in school history. At 2-0 in the Big Ten, they have already tied their record for Big Ten wins in a singular season (2-4 in 2018) and should, at the very least, beat unranked Rutgers for a new high water mark both in and out of conference.

Wisconsin beat Minnesota in the CCG.
Both teams made it to the NCAA Tourney. OSU and PSU didn't.
Bracket:
https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/icehockey-women/nc/2019

W Ice Hockey
Wisconsin and Minnesota will play each other for the NC tomorrow afternoon. They went 2-2 against each other during the regular season, splitting each series. The Gophers edged out Wisconsin by one point in the WCHA standings for the regular season title. Then the Badgers beat Minnesota in the WCHA Tourney Final. 
A sixth and final game for all the marbles. 

Tough loss to the Huskers but weird how Michigan ended up winning the regular season conference championship the same day (at 4-2) despite the loss because Minnesota topped Iowa. 

This was the first Big Ten M gymnastics season to give out a regular season championship.

W Ice Hockey
Wisconsin and Minnesota will play each other for the NC tomorrow afternoon. They went 2-2 against each other during the regular season, splitting each series. The Gophers edged out Wisconsin by one point in the WCHA standings for the regular season title. Then the Badgers beat Minnesota in the WCHA Tourney Final.
A sixth and final game for all the marbles.

BTN, 1:30 CDT. I'll take a look at this.