The Big Ten has nine teams in the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. The conference is certainly hoping for better results than it achieved in last year’s tournament.
While the Big Ten was expected to make a big mark on last year’s tournament, when the conference had two No. 1 seeds, two No. 2 seeds and a No. 4 seed among its nine teams that earned bids to the Big Dance, most of those teams went out with a whimper. Michigan was the only Big Ten team that even made it to the second weekend of the tournament, and even the Wolverines fell short of expectations, as they lost in the Elite Eight to No.