What does everyone love about March Madness? Upsets, of course.
The Big Ten tournament is approaching, and it has the potential to be the most exciting conference tournament in college basketball for that very reason.
Throughout the regular season, unranked teams upset ranked teams 24 times in conference play, and that doesn’t count the seven times ranked teams upset higher-ranked teams. The only other power conference that even comes close to that amount is the Big 12 with 14 — and that’s still 10 less. The ACC, a conference that currently boasts three teams in the top five, only has six unranked-over-ranked upsets — the least of any top five conference in the country.