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2021 NCAA Tournament: Where the Big Ten Stands on February 18

We’re less than a month from Selection Sunday and the Big Ten still stands a very good chance of earning its highest number of bids ever to the NCAA Tournament. It won’t be a single conference record, however. In 2011 the old bloated Big East got 11 teams in. Our beloved conference has gotten eight before, and getting that many seems likely again this year. The dream of 12 or 13 teams making it is dead, however. As expected, we have seen some teams fade, while others may have a good computer profile, but they are under .