Mar 10, 2021
Championship Week is here, and while some bids have already been punched, the majority of conference tournament action takes place in the next five days. As we enter this critical week, the final installment of this season’s Stars of the Week highlights five teams playing their best basketball at the right time.
San Diego State
The Aztecs have quietly been one of the nation’s best teams in the last six weeks. Since getting swept by Utah State in mid-January and throwing themselves onto the bubble, SDSU has gone a perfect 11–0 to climb back into the AP Top 25 and claim a second consecutive Mountain West title. In that stretch almost no one in the country has played as well as the Aztecs. Per T-Rank, Brian Dutcher’s team has been the fifth-best team in the U.S. since Jan. 21, trailing just Gonzaga, Houston, Michigan and Illinois.
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Stephen Cohn: Illinois beats Michigan in Big Ten Tournament championship
This just feels right. March is all about storylines, and this is the best storyline of all, and something tells me it will happen.
Illinois seems far too determined to drop a game to a Rutgers or an Iowa, and Michigan I’m sure really wants that rematch against the Illini. Bad news though for the Wolverines? Illinois is up to the challenge. Masked Ayo goes for 25 and 10, and Illinois wins by 15, hopefully sparking a humungous celebration in the face of Juwan and Co.
I went to the ESPN webpage this morning and lo and behold, this gem was waiting for me on the front page. God bless whatever intern (surely a Michigan student/grad) chose this picture to accompany the article.
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