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Big Ten Men's Tournament 2007

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Buckeyes rested, ready to defend Big Ten title

No. 1 Ohio State's deep rotation is filled with players used to winning championships.


By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer

Friday, March 09, 2007

CHICAGO ? Ohio State's been here before, but the view is much different.
Last year's men's basketball team surprisingly won the Big Ten outright and entered the conference tournament as the top seed.

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MICHIGAN 49 MINNESOTA 40
Wolverines advance with lackluster win
Friday, March 09, 2007
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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</IMG> NAM Y . HUH ASSOCIATED PRESS Michigan?s Brent Petway, defending Spencer Tollackson, still has the faint outline of a winged helmet hairdo from the game last Saturday with Ohio State.


CHICAGO ? The outlines of a weekold haircut remained visible on Brent Petway?s head yesterday. You would recognize the design. Picture Petway?s head as a Michigan football helmet and his hair as the maize wings.
Petway got the ?do before the Wolverines played No. 1-ranked Ohio State on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich. "It was sort of special for Ohio State," Petway said. "It?s a good little football rivalry, so I thought why not bring a little bit of it to basketball? "

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BIG TEN TOURNAMENT
MSU escapes with victory over Northwestern
Friday, March 09, 2007

ASSOCIATED PRESS



Michigan State 62, Northwestern 57 ? Drew Neitzel scored 20 points and Travis Walton hit two free throws with 10.4 seconds left to lead Michigan State over Northwestern in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament yesterday in the United Center in Chicago. The Spartans? Goran Suton shot an air ball with 11 seconds left. Northwestern?s Jeremy Nash grabbed the rebound and threw a pass to Craig Moore, who was not looking. The ball sailed out of bounds, erasing the Wildcats? last chance.

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BIG TEN TOURNAMENT
Tucker finds his touch for Wisconsin
League player of year hits key threes to help beat Michigan State
Saturday, March 10, 2007

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No. 3 Wisconsin 70, Michigan State 57 ? Alando Tucker, limited to three free throws in the opening half, made four three-pointers in the second half last night and Wisconsin won a Big Ten tournament quarterfinal in Chicago. Tucker, the league?s player of the year, finished with 21 points ? his 39 th straight game in double figures ? and the Badgers (28-4) advanced to a semifinal today against Illinois.

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PURDUE 74 IOWA 55
Purdue has no trouble with Iowa
Landry leads the way for Boilermakers; next up is Ohio State
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Andrew Seligman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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</IMG> BRIAN KERSEY ASSOCIATED PRESS Purdue forward Carl Landry applauds his team?s 74-55 victory over Iowa as walks past Iowa forward Cyrus Tate.


CHICAGO ? David Teague wanted to focus on the tournament at hand, not the one Purdue hopes to reach.
So on a day when the Boilermakers made a loud statement, the senior had little to say about the NCAA. "We can?t talk about the NCAA Tournament yet," Teague said. "We still have a lot of work to do to accomplish our goal."

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NO. 3 WISCONSIN 53 ILLINOIS 41
First it?s Tucker, then Taylor as Badgers cruise
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Andrew Seligman
ASSOCIATED PRESS



CHICAGO ? Nothing fazed Alando Tucker. It didn?t matter that he was constantly twisting like a contortionist, trying to elude his defender. Tucker showed why he is the Big Ten?s player of the year. He set the school?s career scoring record and finished with 21 points to lead No. 3 Wisconsin past Illinois 53-41 in a conference semifinal yesterday.

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