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Very, very slow news day today.
Nothing much to talk about right now as it's an FA Cup weekend, and I already covered these
matchups a little bit after the draw for this round was conducted. The first legs of the UEFA Cup
Round of 32 ties will be finished up tomorrow as half were played today.
The slate of games for next year's annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge was released today and I have to be
honest, there's only a couple of big-time matchups and I'm fairly disappointed. In past years,
there have been four or five different games that were truly must-see TV early in the season, but
that won't be the case this time around.
On April 15, I posted the matchups for the 10th annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge, an event won by the
ACC every year so far. Member schools from that conference have gone a combined 56-30 over that
span, thoroughly dominating their brethren from the Big Ten en route to the Commissioner's Cup.
You can take a look at that post here (http://englishsoccertalk.
Well first off, I want to congratulate the University of Michigan Wolverines football team for
winning the Capital One Bowl (formerly the Citrus Bowl) in Orlando yesterday, beating the virtual
home team, the Florida Gators, 41-35. The win was a great way to send out Coach Lloyd Carr, whose
retirement as head football coach begins today, and the senior class led by Jake Long, Mike Hart,
Chad Henne, and Shawn Crable.
Just wanted to let everyone know that if you're interested, a college basketball podcast featuring
myself and host Kartik Krishnaiyer (from CSRN and US Soccer Spot) will be available for your
listening pleasure within the next few days over at canesrising.com.
I was a guest on the show earlier this month and Kartik and I had a good discussion about the ACC
and the Big Ten, particularly the different styles of play in both conferences and some early NCAA
Tournament talk.
Each team in the Big Ten Conference is now either three or four games into an 18-game league slate
and things are really starting to become clear.
The Big Ten is extremely down this year. In past seasons, this league routinely sent six or seven
teams to the NCAA Tournament but with new head coaches and young rosters all across the conference,
it looks like the Big Ten will get four teams (at most) into the Big Dance.
After a sloppy 55-47 win over Iowa yesterday in the First Round of the 2008 Big Ten Tournament, the
Michigan Wolverines advanced to today's quarterfinal against Wisconsin, the 6th-ranked team in the
country and the #1 seed in this tournament.
I'll be honest. I'm as big a Michigan fan as there is, but I didn't believe for a second that
they'd beat the Badgers today.
