Will 6 Sweet 16 teams lift Big Ten to first men's hoops title since 2000?
It's been more than a quarter-century since a Big Ten men's basketball team won the NCAA tournament. The conference has six contenders remaining.
It's been more than a quarter-century since a Big Ten men's basketball team won the NCAA tournament. Is this the year the drought ends? On sheer numbers ...
perhaps? Half of the Big Ten – that's nine teams – reached the tournament and six of those made the Sweet 16. (The three first-weekend losers: Ohio State and Wisconsin in tight first-round games and UCLA in a second-round game vs.
2-seed Connecticut. ) That, Michigan basketball coach Dusty May believes, is a good thing for the Big Ten in its second season as an 18-team conference. "We've been cheering like crazy for the Big Ten, and everyone's done well," May said on Tuesday, March 24, previewing his Wolverines' Sweet 16 matchup with Alabama on Friday, March 27 (7:35 p.
m. , TBS/truTV) at United Center in Chicago. "It's important for recruiting, for future whatever the case, television rights, package, everything that goes with the enterprise of college basketball, how we do in the NCAA tournament is incredibly important.