#422: Big Ten Preview

Three Man Weave: College Basketball Podcast

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4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

18 teams are in the Big Ten, which is way too many. We're going to talk about them all anyway! Every squad, storyline, coaching change, and more is broken down in our last conference preview before the new season!

Rundown:

(0:00) - Intro
(4:16) - Root's Roundup
(16:25) - Big Ten Preview
Tier 1 & 2
1) Purdue
2) Michigan
3) UCLA
4) Illinois

(41:30) - Tier 3
5) Wisconsin
6) Iowa
7) Michigan St.
8) USC
9) Oregon
10 Washington
11) Indiana
12) Ohio St.
13) Maryland

(1:12:40) - Tier 4 & 5:
14) Nebraska
15) Northwestern
16) Minnesota
17) Penn St.
18) Rutgers

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Three Man Weave College Basketball podcast.
0:18.0	I'm your host this week, Jim Root, for the Big 10 preview, our final. Power 5 preview.
0:24.4	I'm joined by the whole weave. Everybody's here. Kai McEwen, Matt Cox. Kai's back from France.
0:32.2	Matt is just log in a big shift as the resident father on the podcast. But we've got everybody.
0:39.0	The season is fast approaching.
0:44.4	Kai, how does it feel to be back talking hoops when we are, what is it, like 11 days?
0:46.3	Yeah, 11 days from college hoops.
0:47.9	So close, Jim, we, we.
0:51.6	I'm back from France or we as the French like to say.
0:53.2	I'm tired.
1:11.9	I'm pretty jet lagged still or whatever, just lack of sleep. We had a wedding out there in Cannes. Beautiful, but we said it to like 4 a.m. that night, and then we went out another night, and it really messed up our sleeping patterns. But I'm here, and I'm ready to talk college hoops. And Matthew, I'm excited that it's our last preview because the season is so near and I'm so excited.
1:13.3	How was Cannes?
1:15.2	Did you prefer can or nice?
1:17.3	I prefer nice.
1:18.5	I preferred niece.
1:20.3	Can was nice.
1:21.2	Can was nice.
1:21.9	Nees was nice.
1:23.7	The entire French Riviera, beautiful.
1:25.7	All the cool kids are going to the French Riviera.
1:44.4	I'm like behind the casino was a letdown a little bit, Jim. It was beautiful, like very palacy, but it was very small, like tiny, tiny. I wouldn't it wouldn't be rich enough to make it there. No, not nearly as cool as that as the Last Jedi Casino. No. Got it. Good. All right, yes, we are talking Big Ten today. The final preview is noted. Kai has already said in the chat, 18 teams is too many. That's correct. I would tend to agree with him. But we are coming to you live on YouTube on Friday morning, or Thursday morning, excuse me, 7 a.m. It's Thursday morning. We could not do
2:01.3	Friday because I have my annual Packers Road Game trip leaving Friday morning for Pittsburgh,
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