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This Week in the Big Ten: Gloves Are Now Off in the Big Ten
By Mark Bradford
Correspondent
The gloves are now off in the Big Ten. Parity, which did not look like a reality in mid-January, has played havoc with the prognosticators as well as the coaches.
The trend continued Thursday, as Nebraska took three overtimes to bring league-leading Purdue back to the pack. The win placed the Huskers in a tie with Purdue at the top of the conference standings with Ohio State only a half-game out and Penn State a game back.
If Michigan can beat in-state rival Michigan State on Saturday, the Wolverines, will be right in the thick of the conference regular-season title race as well.
Iowa also picked up an overtime win over a quickly improving Wisconsin, but the victory proved costly with the loss of Jamie Printy for the balance of the season. And Illinois continued its solid play after a shaky start to its conference season.
And still in the Big Ten basement, Indiana continues to look for its first win of the conference season.
Let’s take a closer look at the midweek Big Ten action and Full Court’s predictions for this weekend’s games.
Iowa’s Printy Out for Remainder of Season With Torn ACL
IOWA CITY, Iowa – An MRI Friday morning confirmed junior guard Jaime Printy suffered a torn ACL in her left knee in Iowa’s 85-79, overtime win at Wisconsin, a spokesman for the University announced Thursday. Printy will miss the rest of the 2012 season.
This is the second injury to Printy’s left ACL. She tore the same ligament as a sophomore in high school.
SECrets: Tennessee Thumped at Home by South Carolina; Kentucky Now Holds Two-Game Edge in SEC Race
By Mike Siroky
Correspondent
The mighty Southeastern Conference has arrived at that time of the season when the top teams are winning the expected games, and no second-tier team seems willing or able to step up and challenge the top guns.
The time when the top teams win the expected games, that is, except when they don’t.
This Thursday’s SEC women’s basketball action saw one of those games, as South Carolina ventured up to Rocky Top to knock off No. 8 Tennessee, 64-60.
As Full Court Press has been reporting for weeks now, South Carolina has been a team with ups all season, a program laying the foundation for one of its strongest seasons ever.
But even we didn’t predict this upset. It is South Carolina’s first win over the Lady Vols since 1980, when Tennessee game coach Holly Warlick was the point guard and SC’s head coach Dawn Staley was just nine years old. Tennessee had won 40 straight in the series between these two schools.
Indeed, it was also the Gamecocks’ first win against any Top 10 team in the past 32 years. And with the victory, South Carolina, which now boasts its best record in a decade, cemented its own place in the SEC’s top tier.
The Gamecocks now stand in third place, one conference loss behind Tennessee, which in turn is now two games back from the still-undefeated Kentucky Wildcats.
“I’m just glad our players got a chance to experience this experience, knowing the tradition of Tennessee,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “By far, this is the biggest win of my career.”
Remember, that’s a career that has spawned three Olympic gold medals.
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