Bad enough that the Big Ten threw together a television network without getting agreements to air it from most of the Big Ten region's major cable companies.
Now it looks like the league won't have a true men's basketball champion. Through Tuesday, Purdue was 11-1 in Big Ten play, Indiana 9-1. They have yet to play each other, and will only do so once this season, at Indiana Feb. 19.
They have an 18-game men's basketball schedule, which means each team will play eight league foes twice and two others just once. Indiana and Purdue, from the same state and rivals since the only the way to get from West Lafayette to Bloomington was via dirt roads, meet just once this season.
That's nuts. And it isn't very fair to the Boilermakers, who have beaten Wisconsin and Michigan State in back-to-back games. Purdue's Matt Painter may be the top threat to Drake's Keno Davis for National Coach of the Year.
Then again, how fair is that Indiana only plays Northwestern - 0-10 in the Big Ten through Tuesday - once?
Going from 16 to 18 games was a good move by the league. Going from 18 to 20, over the raging howls of all 11 league coaches, would be even better.