Penn State kicked off the Big Ten dual season in Rec Hall on Sunday against the Indiana Hoosiers, starting their pursuit of a 10th Big Ten regular season championship. To put into perspective just how difficult the Big Ten Conference is to win, here’s a quick history lesson. Penn State has won 10 NCAA championships under Cael Sanderson. During that success, Cael’s teams have only managed to win or share the Big Ten Conference regular season championship 9 times and have only won the Big Ten Tournament 7 times.
What makes the Big Ten competitions so challenging is that they favor breadth over talent.