The Big Ten is one of the best conferences for men's college basketball on an annual basis, and we can thank great coaches like Michigan State's Tom Izzo and Ohio State's Thad Matta for that.
Power ranking the coaches in the Big Ten was no easy task. No. 1 and No. 2 were no-brainers, and it wasn't a challenge to figure out which ones belonged in the bottom six. However, the minutiae separating Chris Collins from Richard Pitino in the basement and the differences between Matt Painter and Tom Crean in the top five were minuscule enough that we went back and forth on the exact order several times.