{"id":210138,"date":"2025-09-08T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210138\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:05:09","slug":"iu-basketball-picked-to-finish-9th-in-the-big-ten-by-blue-ribbon-college-basketball-yearbook-inside-the-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210138\/","title":{"rendered":"IU basketball picked to finish 9th in the Big Ten by Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook – Inside the Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook<\/a>, an annual publication previewing the college basketball season since the early 1980s, was recently released in a digital format. Printed copies will be available in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

After being picked to win the Big Ten last fall, Blue Ribbon projects the Hoosiers to finish 9th in the Big Ten this season.<\/p>\n

The Blue Ribbon preseason top 25 rankings include five Big Ten teams: Purdue (No. 2), Michigan (No. 9), UCLA (No. 12), Illinois (No. 20) and Wisconsin (No. 21).<\/p>\n

Here are some notes on Indiana, the Big Ten at large and more from the Blue Ribbon Yearbook:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Blue Ribbon predicts the order of finish in the Big Ten as follows: Purdue, Michigan, UCLA, Illinois, Wisconsin, Oregon, Iowa, Michigan State, Indiana<\/strong>, Washington, Ohio State, USC, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Minnesota, Rutgers and Penn State.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Purdue\u2019s Braden Smith is the Blue Ribbon pick for Big Ten and national player of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The preseason Big Ten all-conference team selected by Blue Ribbon is Smith, Trey Kaufman-Renn (Purdue), Donovan Dent (UCLA), Yaxel Lendeborg (Michigan) and Bennett Stirtz (Iowa).<\/p>\n

\u2022 The top three Big Ten backcourts are Purdue, UCLA and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The top three Big Ten frontcourts are Michigan, Purdue and Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Blue Ribbon preseason All-American teams are as follows:<\/p>\n

First team<\/strong>: Smith, Tahaad Pettiford (Auburn), Lendeborg, Alex Condon (Florida) and JT Toppin (Texas Tech).<\/p>\n

Second team<\/strong>: Kaufman-Renn, Darryn Peterson (Kansas), AJ Dybantsa (BYU), Otega Oweh (Kentucky) and Cameron Boozer (Duke).<\/p>\n

Third team<\/strong>: Graham Ike (Gonzaga), Zuby Ejiofor (St. John\u2019s), Nate Ament (Tennessee), Joseph Tugler (Houston) and Dent.<\/p>\n

Fourth team<\/strong>: Alex Karaban (UConn), Nate Bittle (Oregon), Stirtz, PJ Haggerty (Kansas State) and Emanuel Sharp (Houston).<\/p>\n

The Blue Ribbon college basketball yearbook is available to purchase here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Photo credit: IU Athletics)<\/p>\n

See More: Media<\/a>, 2025-26 Big Ten preview<\/a>, Blue Ribbon Yearbook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, an annual publication previewing the college basketball season since the early 1980s,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[101697,1339,115285,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-210138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-2025-26-big-ten-preview","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-blue-ribbon-yearbook","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115168590440957811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}