Caleb Swanigan (right) is Purdue's best player.Michael Conroy/Associated Press
This has been a strange year for Big Ten men's basketball, because the league does not appear to have an elite team this year.
Purdue sits in first place in the league standings, but the 24-6 Boilermakers rank 16th in the nation. That ranking is not going to go up very much before the end of the regular season Sunday, and that basically translates to a No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament.
It's unusual when the Big Ten does not have a No. 1 or No.