OFFENSE

Everything goes down. That's just how Wisconsin plays. I contradict myself on the dry spell near the end because we recorded this before I managed to rewatch it for the column today. Cackling about Bo Ryan.

DEFENSE

Jordan Morgan sends it back. Hard hedging returns; a good performance against Wisconsin but how applicable is that to teams that don't provide matchups that are quite as friendly?

TALKING BIG TEN WITH JAMIEMAC

There is no bubble. The ineffable lightness of Fran McCaffery. Tom Crean as "Clappy," per internet. The statistically bizarre Northwestern Wildcats. Zak Irvin discussed. Dan Dakich's Overused Michigan Story Cram Period.

MUSIC

"Across 110th Street."
"The Mariner's Revenge Song," The Decemberists
"You And All Of Us," Hoots And Hellmouth

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