By Tuesday night around 22:00 there is only one team in the university basketball that can achieve nine victories in the quadrant 1 events during the season. It will either no. 2 in Michigan, or no. 4 Illinois. And as luck would have it, the two leave at 19:00 ET.
There are far-reaching implications for the game of the evening. The Wolverines have a one-game lead in the Big Ten race over the Illini with three games left. A victory will take the crown for them after seven consecutive victories penetrated the evening.
There are also NCAA tournaments that have consequences. Both teams are number 1 seed in Jerry Palm’s Bracketology. The winner was able to conquer the number 1 status with a bullet entering the home field.
If it does not get your attention, then the product should do so in court. Michigan boasts a top-five offense and top-five defense, the only team in the sport to possess such a distinction. It faces an Illini team facing a top-10 attack and a bowling ball from a big man in Kofi Cockburn, whose physical play is an incredible showdown that haunts Michigan bruiser Hunter Dickinson.