Big Ten Bitchslapped By Division II Once Again

Finally, I understand the logic of The Big Ten Network. Create a channel that no one gets so that when Big Ten teams continue their trend of losing to Division II schools, it goes as close to unnoticed as possible. Just four days after Michigan State dropped a home exhibition game to Grand Valley State, another team from the Bracket Sub-Basket Division, formerly known as Division II*, has knocked off a Big Ten power in their own building. The University of Findlay, a small school in rural Ohio, knocked off big, bad Ohio State in Columbus 70-68 in another exhibition match last night. Add the two football defeats by Michigan and Minnesota to DI-A or D II schools, and you can see why people think that the Big Ten might by a tad overrated in both football and basketball.

I’m fully aware that both the Michigan State and Ohio State losses were in exhibition games, but that does not take away from the fact that A) the starters played a majority of the game for both MSU and OSU and B) as long as there is a score being kept on the scoreboard, there is no excuse not handle to your business at home to a DII school. Ever.

*This division may have been made up in my head