Time for MSU to be an elite. Beat Duke!

GO BIG GREEN!  Step up and deliver the knockout blow to the Dukies, as 95% of the country is asking us to do!!!  

This is an opportunity for another "program" statement.  OK, Tom Izzo has built an elite program... but one need this Michigan State has NOT completed is a defeat of Duke repeatedly, and repeatedly in an arena to take a step to the Promised Land.  This is the opportunity.  Michigan State can permanently stamp itself as the elite of the elite. 

GO SPARTANS, BEAT THE DEVIL OUT OF THE DEVILS!  God, I hate Duke.

Big Ten 14 or 16 team alignment

The Big 12 is dead.

Y0ur new Big Ten in 2012? I say count Notre Dame out; they won't join, they have a superiority complex and a stick so far up their Catholic butt that money don't matter. The key here is all teams in consideration: Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse -- all are members of the AAU. One other school to consider would be Iowa State, if the Big Ten decides to nix the Big East and just steal from the Big 12.

16 teams:

WEST
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Northwestern
Missouri
Minnesota
Wisconsin

EAST

Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Pittsburgh
Penn Sate
Purdue
Rutgers/Syracuse

14 teams:

WEST
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Northwestern
Missouri
Minnesota
Wisconsin

EAST

Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Pittsburgh
Penn Sate
Purdue