The Big Ten has a claim to be the best top-to-bottom conference in the nation, and nothing illustrates that better than the fact that its last-place team took down its first-place team three nights ago and it arguably wasn’t even the league’s most surprising upset so far this year. The entire 14-team conference is within the top 90 on kenpom and the crowded race runs all the way to the top, where as many as five or six teams are still dreaming of at least a share of the league title.
The schedule has saved some of the best fireworks for last: tied for first place, Michigan and Michigan State have yet to play either of their two matchups, and the Wolverines also still have two games left with fourth-place Maryland, the first of which comes Saturday.