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Big Ten's best basketball coaches in 20 years since league tourney began

By Dave McVety | damcvety@mlive.com

Following the lead of other conferences, the Big Ten held its first men's postseason basketball tournament after the 1997-98 season.

When you count up the years, that means there's been 20 of these tournaments so far as the 2018 version starts today in Madison Square Garden.

It seems a perfect span of time to evaluate the accomplishments of the conference's modern-day coaches.

The NCAA tournament has had the same basic format in these 20 years with 64 teams until expanding to 68 in 2010, and that makes looking at which coaches have done what at lot more comparable.