Step one is complete. Purdue has won at least a share of the Big Ten championship. If any one of three games (Iowa at Wisconsin tomorrow Minnesota at Wisconsin Sunday, or Purdue at Northwestern Sunday) goes its way it will be an outright championship. We could have it locked up before even taking the floor Sunday afternoon in Evanston. Now we’re on to the next step. What will our Big Ten Tournament look like? Pulling off the double is hard. Here are the teams that have done it in the first 19 years of the Big Ten Tournament:
1999: Michigan State
2000: Michigan State
2002: Ohio State (OSU had to vacate both, and the regular season was shared with Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin)
2005: Illinois
2007: Ohio State
2008: Wisconsin
2010: Ohio State (Shared regular season with Michigan State and Purdue)
2011: Ohio State
2012: Michigan State (Shared regular season with Michigan and Ohio State)
2015: Wisconsin
Purdue will have to win three games in three days now, and has the preferential path to the title.