In our ongoing, but almost never remembered to be done Q&A series, we Anchor of Gold writers occasionally loosen our grips from our cocktails long enough to type and send questions to upcoming competitors. As such, Jim Vainisi of SBNation's The Champaign Room, the University of Illinois' sports blog, reached out to us this week.
Anyway... Jim asked me a series of questions. In the spirit of quid pro quo, I did the same. Here are the questions I asked, and the responses given, verbatim. Let's see what can be gleaned about our B1G opponent:
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Anchor of Gold: The Big 10, 14, 1G (which looks like a thousand to me), whatever it's called, which is traditionally a football and basketball conference, has really shot up recently in baseball - this year in particular.