The five star zone with Rico Beard.

Welcome to the five star zone.

Rico Beard, Harold Shelton, the third from the Big Ten Network senior research manager.

Joining us on the show, college hoops, Big Ten Hoops, Harold, you're kind of getting a separation.

While all of a sudden, you're seeing the good teams some teams are starting

to fall off a surprising team was wisconsin nobody saw this coming picked to finish

close to the bottom of the big 10 Wisconsin in a race because really their schedule sets up

they get the Michigan state schedule at the beginning of the season,

where they're kind of playing the bottom feeders,

and they got Michigan State on the road.

That's it.

Other than that, they finish up with a bunch of teams that they should win.

So I look for Wisconsin to kind of make a play to be Big Ten champions,

co-champions.

Put it this way, I can almost guarantee just like every year,

it's like death and taxes.

Wisconsin will always be in the top four and get the double by in the Big Ten tournament.

Yeah, certainly seeming that way again.

And like you said, schedule-wise,

outside of the game at Michigan State, I mean, they'll be heavy favorites at home against

Oregon and Washington and Penn State. There are only other road games, Minnesota. And while

they are playing well, you know, Wisconsin, I think, is better than them. Their offense is unbelievable.

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