Wisconsin (22-12) 76 Purdue (29-4) 75 overtime Story can be found at: www.excelhsports.com Illinois (25-8) 98 Nebraska (23-10) 87 The Illini of Head Coach Brad Underwood must have told his team at the half, with Illinois trailing Nebraska 51 to [More]

Boilers win with Grit, Guts, Edey and Jones by: Steven Stremming, Excel H Sports/USBWA In the opening round of the 2024 B1G Ten Men’s Quarterfinals, Michigan State and Purdue went toe to toe for the entire contest. And what a [More]

Game set for the 2024 B1G Ten Men’s basketball tournament semi-finals include, Purdue 67 Michigan State 62 see game story at: www.excelhsports.com Wisconsin (21-12) 70 Northwestern (21-11) 61 A J Storr had a career high 30 points for the Badgers [More]

The quarterfinals of the 2024 B1G Ten Men’s basketball tournament presented by TIAA got underway today in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the opening session, the Michigan State Spartans had a come from behind win over home standing Minnesota 77 to 67. [More]

Opening Round of 2024 B1G Ten Men’s basketball tournament presented by TIAA. Maryland (7-13, 16-16) big first half puts away Rutgers (7-13, 15-17) 65 to 51. Four Terps were in double digits with Donta Scott leading the way with 16 [More]

This is my idea of NCAA Men’s bracketology. There are 32 automatic qualifying conferences for the tournament. As of today, this who would qualify from those conferences. Conference-Regular Season-Automatic Bid in BOLD Big East=Connecticut B1G Ten= Purdue Big 12= Houston [More]

Conference-Regular Season-Conference Automatic Bid in BOLD Big East=Connecticut=Connecticut B1G Ten= Ohio State=Iowa Big 12= Oklahoma=Texas PAC 12=Stanford=Southern California Atlantic Coast=Virginia Tech=Notre Dame Southeastern Conference=South Carolina=South Carolina Mountain West=University of Nevada Las Vegas West Coast Conference= Gonzaga=Portland Missouri Valley= Drake Western [More]

Strength of schedule is factored into rankings. We have our own in-house methodology. 1 Houston 28-3 1 2 Purdue 28-3 2 3 Connecticut 28-3 3 4 North Carolina 25-6 7 5 Tennessee 24-7 4 6 Arizona 24-7 5 7 Iowa [More]

A “Nobody” Leads Boilers to Undefeated Record in Mackey   THE DRUM BEAT PURDUE BASKETBALL SHAWN MARTIN EXCELHSPORTS.COM West Lafayette, In – Senior day at Mackey Arena started off a little differently than normal. And finished that way as well. [More]

Indiana pulls out Senior Day Squeaker over Michigan State By Nick Jenkinson/Excel H Sports              The Indiana Hoosiers squeaked out a win on Senior Day against the Michigan State Spartans 65-64 on Sunday Afternoon in [More]

The 2024 B1G Ten Women’s basketball conference championship belongs in overtime to the Iowa Hawkeyes 94 to 89. The Hawkeyes have now three-peated. Two blocks by Gabbie Marshall one to end regulation play and the other in overtime helped the [More]

The 2024 B1G Ten Women’s Conference Championships presented by TIAA have reached the semi-final round. Today’s games are set with eighth seeded Maryland facing fifth seeded Nebraska in Game One. The second game features second seeded Iowa against sixth seeded [More]

Game One:  Maryland (19-12) 82 Ohio State (25-5) 61 Maryland takes out the number one seed Ohio State in a rout behind a very balanced effort led by Brad Sellers’ daughter, first team All-B1G Ten player Shyanne Sellers. Sellers leads [More]

Game One:   Maryland (18-12, 9-9) 75   Illinois (14-15, 8-10) 65 Illinois went cold in the third quarter and Maryland took advantage as they overcame a two-point, halftime deficit to go into the final stanza with a five-point advantage. For the [More]