Its no secret that IU will be playing small this year and hoping that our interior players can hold their own. With that in mind I looked at each B1G team to consider what teams have a significant size advantage vs IU.
Badgers - Frank the Tank, Dekker & Hayes appear to be on the best team AND their size could cause IU problems.
OSU - returns a strong post player in Amir W, lost LaQuinton Ross but brings in experienced transfer A Lee from Temple. Might be tough.
Iowa - returns 3 good interior players in A White, Oleseni & Uthoff - did loose 1 in Basabe.
Purdue - AJ Hammons will have a distinct size advantage.
On paper those teams have enough inside power to create match-up problems for small ball IU.
Michigan lost McGary, Horford, Morgan and Big Dog Jr. They may have Freshmen recruits but I do not see any size issues.
MSU lost Payne and kicked K Kaminsky to the curb. They have serviceable interior players but their size will not be the issue.
Nebraska - has decent interior players but they will not dominate with size.
Illinois has Egwu who is pretty good and they bring in a front court Freshmen but again sheer size should not be the issue vs them.
Minn has improving M Walker inside with some help but again should not be able to dominate the interior.
Maryland - who knows they lost half their team and have a bunch of F recruits - which F live up to expectations. I doubt size will be a dominant issue.
PSU - was guard oriented and lost their best Guard. No size advantage here.
NW rebounding was lead by a wing that graduated. I don't see size being a major factor.
Rutgers - has 2 6-9 players that are at the top of Scoring & rebounding stats BUT they didn't win games last year so how effective can they be?
So size may be a significant disadvantage in 6 B1G games and should be about even in 12. I think whether we correct the turnover issue may be a more important issue.