We all knew it was coming, but the Big Ten has made it official: The B1G will go to its East and West divisions starting in 2014. The divisions will look like this:

East: Maryland, Rutgers, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana.

West: Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska.

Along with this announcement came the announcement that the B1G will move to  a nine-game conference season beginning in 2016. With this, the East teams will have five conference home games in even-numbered years. To me, these divisions are way off. The East looks to be a much tougher division, and I would like to hear someone say otherwise. For now, let’s wait to see how these divisions play out in the near future.

A night after barely keeping a streak that's been intact since 1953 alive thanks to Wisconsin's Travis Frederick the Big Ten showed themselves much, much better with six players going on night two of the NFL Draft over the 2nd and 3rd rounds. 

The 2nd round was where it was at for Big Ten selections as four of the six picks from league schools went in a star-studded round. In a not so surprising bit of news the first B1G player off the board was former Purdue defensive tackle Kawann Short, who went 12th in the 2nd round (44th overall) to the Carolina Panthers. 

However, in the unexpected category it was Le'Veon Bell and not Montee Ball that was the first running back off the board from the B1G. Bell would go 48th overall to the Pittsburg Steelers. He would be the first of back-to-back B1G players selected in the 2nd round as Jonathan Hankins, a defensive tackle from Ohio State, would go next at 49th to the New York Giants. 

There's rivalry shenanigans and then there's what the Illini are about to pull in a few weeks. Chicago has long been a fighting ground for the college sports fans hearts - after all, it's the number one location for grads of Big Ten schools in the country - but for decades it's been the battle ground for Northwestern vs. Illinois. However, yesterday the Illini decided to poke the Wildcat with their announcement of the "Chicago Coaches Caravan." 

Normally, no big deal, there's probably about 10,000 different places the caravan could stop inside Chicago. What's the big deal? Well, of those tens of thousands of places the Ilini deliberately chose a bar that's literally three-blocks from the Northwestern campus. 

The best part of all of this news? The $25 dollar a person event's registration has already been shut down. It's believed because the tickets were about to be taken over by Northwestern students and fans.

Instead according to this article, they have been taken down and those wanting to attend must get them through contacting the local Chicago I Fund chapter. 

The 2012-13 Michigan Wolverine's season may end up being less known for it's national runner-up status than for it's incredible comeback punctuated by Trey Burke's trey against Kansas. Any way you slice it's season the Wolverines year will be one that fans of the team and frankly neutral fans will remember for quite some time. 

If there was a more entertaining trio of guards than Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway, Jr., and Nic Stauskas I'd love for you to point them out to me. The Wolverines rode them all season long until they finally found a major presence by a freshman who arguably had the best NCAA Tournament of any single player in the big dance, of course we are talking about Mitch McGary. 

Safe to say this season went all sorts of right, more than it went wrong. In fact, so right that I was able to do this..... 

The Big Ten's NFL Draft party could've taken a nasty little turn, or more like a turn to Mt. Pleasant, MI to latch on to Central Michigan - Hey, we have teams that play these guys every year so we're gonna play hangers on... O.k.? That's what happens when you have to wait until the 31st pick of the NFL Draft to hear a name of a player from the Big Ten to be called. So, thank you Dallas Cowboys and congrats to Travis Frederick on being picked - you saved us from humiliation. 

However, it shouldn't have some as a total shock, after all, we did warn you that getting skunked was an extremely high possibility earlier this week. Thankfully it didn't happen, but it still won't stop the haters from hating.

Some will go off the deep end and say it's a sign of how bad the Big Ten is... yada, yada, yada... Go back to your trailers in the deep south and enjoy finding ways to ruin trees and monuments on your rivals campuses. 

Remember the book and movie "The NeverEnding Story"? If not, well, just think of it as a fantasy version of the Northwestern Wildcats who are on a never ending quest to make just one, yes ONE NCAA Tournament birth. 

2012-13 was the season - or so we thought could be possible if things went their way for a change - but instead they were nearly dead in the water as the season began with Jershonn Cobb suspended for the year for academic reasons and the devastating news that star forward Drew Crawford would be out the rest of the season thanks to a torn labrum after just 10 games played. 

From then on this team was completely different and their decent start to the year went down the tubes. It all ended with Bill Carmody being let go as the head coach of the Wildcats and the announcement of Chris Collins, the son of long-time NBA coach Doug Collins, as the next man to lead the Wildcats' quest for an NCAA tournament birth. 

That said, 2012-13 wasn't devoid of interesting news, notes, or trends for NU, so let's explore a season most want to forget in Evanston.

When times were hard and things were down at Assembly Hall there was hope in the form of Maurice Creek. He was a member of the same class as Christian Watford, Jordan Hulls, and Derek Elison and arguably was the first of all of those players to help Hoosiers basketball begin it's upward climb. Unlike the others he won't finish out his eligibility at IU, instead opting to graduate and transfer for his final year in search of better playing time. 

Life can be brutal at times and no one on the Hoosiers exemplifies this more than Creek, who started as a freshman and averaged 16.4 points per game. No one could forget his 31 points against rival Kentucky that season either. However, it would be all downhill following that as he failed to finish out a season until this past year. 

In that freshman campaign he played just 14 games before suffering a stress fracture to his left knee, shutting his season down. Fast forward to the next year and it's 18 games played before a stress fracture to his right knee, shutting his season down once again. Finally, in 2011, just as he was coming back healthy for his junior season Creek suffers a ruptured Achilles tendon in a preseason workout in October and is shut down for a full season.