The Big Ten has been a conference that’s been like a revolving door of basketball contenders. It seems like almost weekly (if not more often), there’s a different team taking control of things and looking like the favorite to win the conference’s regular-season crown.
With a league so deep and talented, we sure to see more twists and turns than a mountain highway — and really — any one of five teams still has a legitimate shot at notching a Big Ten championship.
Predictions are as good as the person making them and teams showing up and playing well, but we like to keep tabs on ESPN’s BPI matchup predictor to forecast what it says about Ohio State basketball’s journey the rest of the way. Now, we’re taking it a step further and looking at how the numbers and formulas used to predict these sorts of things with mad-scientist skill, say about the entire conference.
Here’s a look at what the final conference and overall record will be for each Big Ten basketball team and who might win the regular-season title heading down the stretch. We’ll go from worst to first as usual.
