The Big Ten is the best top-to-bottom conference in men's college basketball this season. It has four teams in the AP Top 10. It might send as many as 11 teams to the NCAA tournament. In KenPom.com conference ratings, not only is the Big Ten's plus-20.16 rating more than 20 percent higher than the next-closest league, but it also is the highest rating since the ACC's 20.32 mark in 2003-04.
However, that just means this year's Big 12 is perhaps the best second-best conference ever.
While the Big Ten makes up 40 percent of the AP Top 10, the Big 12 boasts one-third of the teams ranked in the Top 18: No.