Unlike most other conferences, the Big Ten does not compile an official preseason all-conference team.
Instead, the Big Ten will release a list of preseason honorees – five from the East and five from the West – to recognize some of the conference’s best players regardless of position as chosen by a panel of media voters. But that’s not nearly as much fun as predicting who the Big Ten’s best players at each position will be, is it?
So as I’ve done every year since I’ve started here at Eleven Warriors in the week leading up to Big Ten Media Days, I’ve put together my own unofficial preseason All-Big Ten team with the players I believe will be the conference’s top performers at each position group in 2021.