Sheesh that is a light B1G schedule. Purdue will be decent but they will take a step back with Smith and TKR gone. Northwestern is dead in the water for the foreseeable future and Wisconsin doesn't seem to have improved much.
People are defending Wemby but stars getting a pass on calls like this because of how much it affects the game is one of the bigger criticisms of the NBA and of basketball as a whole.
Sure, McDaniels caught Wemby with the errant swat at the ball, and that should have been called, but it...
For much of last year's cycle, I was consistently talking people off the ledge by saying, hey, we have two good freshmen coming in, too, that will get a good amount of minutes. The same is true this year. And that's before we even talk about Ethan Brown.