The Big Ten is starting its home stretch towards the postseason, and the league is about as bunched up as a little league soccer game. Illinois, Wisconsin, Purdue, Ohio State, and Michigan State are all still right in the thick of things, and even the Rutgers Scarlet Knights have started to make some noise in the league.
As we begin the sprint to the end of the regular season, we thought it’d be a good idea to pause and take stock of where things stand in the league. Not by way of what the standings say, but who is playing the best right now. This is also not a projection of where things will end up (there’s plenty more space for that), but a look at who is playing at a high level as we sit here in mid-February.
All the madness begins in March, but there’s chaos happening before that in one of the deepest and most talented leagues in the country. Here are the current Big Ten basketball power rankings as we count down from 14 to 1.
