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Where Do We Stand

Where Do We Stand? January 14th

Where Do We Stand? January 14th

The return of the Bar Code Graph! I tweeted it yesterday but I thought it would also make for a great cover photo for this post. No, it's not a code to scan at checkout. It's a graphic representation of every Illini basketball Big Ten win

Where Do We Stand? December 18th

Where Do We Stand? December 18th

The return of basketball NERDstats! 43% of subscribers just said "hurray!" 57% read this intro and didn't click on the post because NERDstats aren't their thing. Which is fine. They weren't my thing for a long time, either. But now that I&

Where Do We Stand? March 12th

Where Do We Stand? March 12th

The final WDWS of the year. I won't write one next week because the NCAA Committee will tell us exactly where we stand this Sunday at 5:00 pm. It won't matter what I think or what KenPom thinks or what anyone else thinks. The Committee

Where Do We Stand? March 5th

Where Do We Stand? March 5th

My very first thought this week: when is the last time that the only two ranked Big Ten teams met during the final week of the season? Now that I type that out, I'm realizing that it's probably been a very long time since the Big

Where Do We Stand? February 27th

Where Do We Stand? February 27th

Where Do We Stand? February 21st

Where Do We Stand? February 21st

I've been publishing these on Tuesdays, but I'm a day late with this one. We will blame whatever I ate on my trip from Washington DC to central Pennsylvania that led to my body ordering a full evacuation of the entire GI tract. I thought I

Where Do We Stand? February 13th

Where Do We Stand? February 13th

It's fairly amazing how the intensity of a "rivalry" dies down when one team is awful. Two years ago today, a matchup with Michigan would make your phone feel warm when you picked it up just from the chirping back and forth between Michigan fans and