Tomorrow at noon E.T. Indiana tips off in Assembly Hall against Nebraska to open this first, early-season stretch of Big Ten play before the holidays. Also noteworthy, Purdue opens their Big Ten season tonight as the number two team in the country with a home game against Iowa. This will be the last Purdue game before the next AP Poll, and with Duke’s loss to Ohio State this week, the Boilermakers have a shot at the number one spot for the first time in program history. (Go Hawkeyes!)
As a graduate of The Media School at Indiana University, I feel as though it would be journalistic malpractice to take a step that the Associated Press has never taken themselves, so I will not put Purdue in the one spot of our power rankings.