How big of a deal is the Big Ten tournament in faraway New York? Based on the coverage in the city's major newspapers: Not very.
It didn't come close to making the Sports cover of the New York Daily News (right). On the paper's website, the first mention of the event is five stories deep in the college sports section, after "Coach fired after rejecting Colorado recruit because of weed laws" and "In college hoops, follow the money: 14 coaches make more than 3M."
NICHOLAS PERCO wrote about Rutgers-Minnesota. The nearby Scarlet Knights beat the Gophers to advance.