The college basketball season is off to an exciting start. Through six weeks we have seen many intriguing matchups and down to the wire games.
Early in the season it’s apparent that the Big Ten has at least one national title contender. Purdue has looked fantastic as evidenced by its 92-84 victory over Arizona on Saturday and reclaiming of the No. 1 ranking.
The Boilermakers are the clear frontrunners in the Big Ten currently but the conference projects to be very competitive with 12 of the 14 teams currently sitting in the top 100 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.