The five star zone with Rico Beard.

Hey guys, welcome to another edition of the five star zone.

Rico Beard, Harold Sheldon from the Big Ten Network, the BTN.

Join us as Harold.

We're getting ready to set up the final week and week in of Big Ten Hoops action.

Looks like we may be close to claiming a Big Ten champion. We won't know that until

probably maybe as early as Thursday night. You may have a flat out outright Big Ten champion,

depending on how things go when Michigan State takes on Iowa but Michigan at number two

they're going to be playing Maryland at home I mean honestly the big 10 schedule makers

couldn't know that they were originally signed up for this. But, man, this final weekend, so far, it's going to be as advertised.

Yeah, I mean, the fact that you get so many of the good teams all playing each other within this final week or two, you know, you have Michigan State Maryland, you have Michigan State, Wisconsin, now you're going to get michigan maryland you're going to get michigan state so a lot of these you know top four

top five teams all playing each other and even before the season you thought Purdue illinois

will wind up meaning even more and they play each other this weekend too so yeah the schedule

maker certainly did a good job of putting all of the best

teams together to fight it out. So now here we are. Let's recap some of the games. Since we last

talked, we had not one, but two buzzer-beater victories in the state of Michigan. Trey Holloman,

I mean, the Maryland Michigan State game kind of went back to the,

it was a rock fight, as you like to call it.

It was ugly in the final minute, it looked like Michigan State had it locked up,

then all of a sudden Maryland scored some points, which is unlike what Michigan State has done in these previous games.

And Maryland actually scored, ties the game up, MSU gets the ball, dumps it down low to Kohler.

Kohler misses a layup.

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