1. Cy the Cardinal, Iowa State University Cyclones. I have to put this one in here, ‘cause I’m an ISU alum and still like to tailgate it up during football season. So why is a cardinal the mascot of a team named after a force of nature? Because it’s kind of hard to make a mascot out of a torna...

There's two weeks to go in conference races around the nation. The Big Ten seems headed towards a split championship for the first time since a four-way train wreck in 2002. Since then, the league has crowned an outright champ for five straight years (Wisconsin, Illinois back-to-back, and a Ohio Sta...

It was showdown week in the Big Ten and Purdue once again stood the test. The Boilermakers jumped out to a big lead against Michigan State and then held off the surging Spartans down the stretch for a 60-54 triumph in front of a delighted Mackey crowd. Purdue did an outstanding job taking away Tom I...

It was, as Bob Kravitz of The Indianapolis Star writes, Eric Gordon's toughest road game. The freshman made the visit into Illinois last night, the school he spurned for Indiana after making a verbal committment to the Illini and spawning a sea of hatred and recriminations between the border rivals....

Homecourt advantage reigned in the five conference games played this weekend, nowhere with more consequence then Purdue's win over Wisconsin in Mackey. In a hard-fought defensive battle, the Boilermakers pulled out a 60-56 win that upsets the nice and tidy analysis of which teams belong on which tie...