The star center of the Red Storm was anointed the best player in the conference before a Big East game had tipped off and he remained that through the entire regular season and was voted Player of the Year after they won the outright conference regular season championship.
Selection Sunday is right around the corner, meaning every result carries weight for NCAA Tournament seeding, bracket positioning, and bubble teams fighting for their postseason lives.
Listen up, that roar at your door is the UCLA women's basketball team, bursting on to the national headlines Sunday after delivering the kind of Big Ten tournament title beating that sounds, well, fake. They defeated ninth-ranked Iowa 96-45. They won the title game in arguably the country's deepest conference by 51 points.
I wasn't trying to get kicked out. I also think that at that time, what I said was warranted, and the action that I took was warranted, and I'll stand behind that. You want to kick me out for it, they can kick me out. What I do love is the fight that my team showed. There's only so many ways you can say something over and over again, so I said it differently, and I got kicked out, which is fine.
Sometimes, league tournament outcomes foretell the most success in March Madness. But the team that hoists a trophy during these next two weeks isn't always the one in its league to go the deepest in March Madness.
Iowa State was the last No. 1 seed in the original preview, along with the Duke Blue Devils, Michigan Wolverines and Arizona Wildcats. Those three are still on the one-line, but have since been joined by the UConn Huskies.
