With Christmas in the rear view mirror we are coming up on conference play in college basketball. Ohio State will play West Virginia on Saturday to finish off the non-conference slate before two and half months of Big Ten opponents.
The conference projects to be competitive as although Purdue is certainly the front runner all 14 Big Ten teams currently rank in the top 110 of the Basketball Power Index (BPI).
Seven of those teams are currently projected to be amongst the field of 68 in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in March by ESPN’s Joe Lunardi and his venerable “Bracketology.”
Lunardi has been one of the go-to analysts in college basketball for many years and on Tuesday he updated his predictions for who would make the big dance from the Big Ten.