That thud you heard across America Saturday night was the reputation the Big Ten built all season as sort of an uber conference crashing down. The first impact was in the state of Indiana, then the Midwest, then, via Twitter, across the entire basketball world.
So far, here are the teams from the mighty Big Ten that have departed: Michigan State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Ohio State, Illinois and Rutgers. Left standing, for now at least: Michigan, Iowa and Maryland. All three play on Monday and right now, we’re only feeling good about Michigan. Iowa will have a tough game against Oregon and we expect Alabama to beat Maryland.