It hurts to think about it and even more to say it, but the loss of Big Ten football on Tuesday afternoon may not be the only punch we take in the coming weeks. While nobody (except me, of course) has thought too much about basketball yet, it won’t be long until our gaze shifts to the next major sport that draws revenue.
Schedules aren’t ironed out yet, but the first games of the college basketball season usually come in the form of a small double-header involving four “blue blood” programs during the first week of November.