If you've been following along with us all season long then you know that we tend to do things that aren't always done by other outlets and one of those things is taking a look back - back to what they said when previewing a season - and frankly we find that a bit odd. 

I mean, you are brazen enough to go out on a limb and predict the season, but aren't willing to tell your viewers just how good, bad, or mediocre you were in your predictions? Well, that doesn't fly here at The B1G Time. So, strap yourself in as we bring you a look back at each team and how their season faired and give you the lowdown on how we did in predicting things for each team. 

Up first is a team that saw transition in 2012-13 as John Groce came from Ohio to the Land of Lincoln in hopes of getting the program back to elite status and stop with the "sleeping giant" moniker that's hung around the program for so long.  How did Groce and his players do in his 1st year at the helm? Let's explore an interesting year in the life of the Illini program, shall we? 

From the this is freaking awesome files - Upper Deck has announced they are honoring the 7 year old cancer patient, Jack Hoffman, that ran for a 69 yard touchdown in the Nebraska spring game two weekends ago. 

UD created a special card for @huskers future star Jack Hoffman. Take a look at Jack's Star Rookie card: facebook.com/notes/upper-de… #Collect

— Upper Deck (@UpperDeckSports) April 16, 2013

There hasn't been a more touching moment in all of college football this spring and in quite some time frankly and this is just icing on the cake. Pure class by both Nebraska and Upper Deck, but let's just hope this doesn't hurt his NCAA eligibility in the future! One can only hope that Jack can get healthy again and perhaps one day enter the halls of the University of Nebraska as a student! 

Here is the picture of the card: 

On Monday the hammer came down on Mark Osiecki as the head coach of the Ohio State hockey program after just three years at the helm. It also comes just as the Buckeyes enter a brand new era in their history as a hockey program with the first ever season of Big Ten hockey coming in 2013-14. 

It appears that this was more about the future direction of the program and how it was going to be run than about Osiecki's record of results. 

"We are making a change in our head hockey coaching position," OSU athletics director Gene Smith said. "There was a difference of opinion over the management of the program that could not be resolved."

The Buckeyes finised the 2012-13 season with a 16-17-7 overall record and were 13-10-5 in their final year as a member of the now defunct CCHA. 

Osiecki was 46-50-16 in his three years at the helm in Columbus. The ties between the Big Ten and Osiecki are deep, having played four years at Wisconsin and being an assistant coach under Mike Eaves from 2004-2010, when he was appointed the head coach of the Buckeyes.

According to reports, associate head coach Steve Rohlik will be taking over the day-to-day operations of the program while a national search for a new head coach gets under way. 

Braxton Miller scored three touchdowns, two of them passing and he threw for 217 yards while completing 16 of 25 attempts. That's not a bad outing for the junior signal caller. Problem was, those numbers were rather deceiving as he was sacked a whopping SEVEN times in front of a decent crowd of 37,643 at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati. 

All in all Miller's team won 31-14 and won't have to clean and landscape Buckeye Grove next Friday and that's all that matters. 

However, for us the biggest story of this "game" was the fact that the defense, despite having to replace five of the seven starters upfront ate alive the offensive line and made the day a living hell for Miller and backup Kenny Guiton (9-14 for 116 yards and a TD). 

Anytime you give up 11 sacks it's a bit worrisome on the offensive line and Meyer was quick to praise the defensive effort while also chastising the offensive line as well. 

Eleven days ago we reported that Michigan guards Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. were expected to declare for the NBA draft following their teams run in the NCAA tournament. Well, one half of that equation is about to become official, at least according to Jeff Goodman of CBSSports.com:

Michigan's Trey Burke announcing he is headed to NBA tomorrow at 1:30, sources told CBSSports.

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanCBS) April 13, 2013

Burke is a likely lottery pick and according to ESPN.com's Chad Ford is one of the top 5 guards in the upcoming draft. He can likely thank a crazy good NCAA tournament performance where he averaged 15.5 points per game, twice scoring 20 or more points. 

Easily his best and most iconic game came in the Sweet 16 against Kansas where he went off for a double-double of 10 assists and 23 points, none more iconic than a three-pointer with just over 2 seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime.

On the year Burke averaged 18.6 points per game and a whopping 6.7 assists per game for the national runner-up this past season.

Now, the question is if junior guard Tim Hardaway, Jr. will join Burke in declaring for the draft like has been speculated on and reported by multiple outlets in the past.

Late Friday it was announced that sophomore guard Remy Abell is transferring from the University of Indiana. Normally a player that saw less than double digit minutes transferring isn't all that big of news, however in light of the major roster turnover that's about to happen this is a transfer that is a bit more news worthy. 

Abell transferring out means he will become the fifth player to leave IU as both Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller declared early for the NBA draft and Jordan Hulls and Christian Watford graduate this May. That means just two players in the rotation from last year will be back. 

Those two are starting point guard Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell and the reigning Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year, Will Sheehy. But that's not the real story here...

Abell saw diminishing playing time from the non-conference season to the Big Ten portion of the schedule, recording double digit minutes in 10 games during the final 15 of the regular season.  He averaged 4.0 points per game last season and is a clear victim of oversigning with a class of six players coming to Bloomington for 5 spots.

On a blustery Friday night in Champaign improvement was easily recognizable despite the crazy amount of injuries going into and during spring. Well, improvement was the name of the game for the offensive side of the ball at the least as the Blue team, led by Nathan Scheelhaase, won 35-28 over the Orange team led by Riley O'Toole.

The old adage is that you can never read too much into a spring football game and that can be very true, especially when you are dealing with things on the micro-level. However, when you are the Illinois Fighting Illini and 2012 was what it was, any signs of positive growth have to be good, right? 

Obviously we haven't been attendance at every practice and seen every drill, but a few things are abundantly clear about this team following Friday night's spring game. 

Observations:

- Nathan Scheelhaase looks completely reengerized after going 24 of 32 for 210 yards passing with 1 touchdown. If he hasn't already put to rest the questions about a possible QB battle go ahead and throw on this game when it comes back on and tell me ho looked better? It's not even close and here's your proof:

- O'Toole threw 52 passes, completing 66% for 362 yards, but threw 4 INT's to 3 TD's - that's not going to get it done in a battle with a veteran like Scheelhaase.

- One of the big questions was if the QB's would have anyone to throw the ball to on a consistent basis. Well, a great toe-tapping TD catch by Ryan Lankford, who had 9 catches for 77 yards, and an overall amazing effort from Justin Hardee (6 receptions for 104 yards) should help ease those concerns. 

- The offensive line showed a lot of improvement (in the running gam especially).... either that or the Illini D-Line is in some serious trouble this fall and both are likely to be true when it's all said and done. 

- Donovonn Young really showed more in terms of a being a north/south runner in this game and on the last of three touchdown drives for him it was all him. He ended the spring game averaging a very impressive 4.8 yards a carry. Overall he had 86 yards on just 16 carries with those three touchdowns. Add in a returning Josh Ferguson and perhaps, maybe, possibly the Illini may just have something of a running game ahead of them. 

- Finally, when this team is running at full throttle and playing the tempo they want under new OC Billy Cubit it's so, SO much better than a season ago. Offense is likely to be the least of the Illini's problems in 2013 based on the spring game from top to bottom.