
Penn State superfans: Get exclusive, in-depth Nittany Lions news, analysis and recruiting updates every day. Become a PennLive Football Insider. Only $5.99 a month. Learn more. We’ve reached roughly the halfway point in the Big Ten basketball season which makes this a perfect time to take stock of the league, substantially with an eye toward the NCAA tournament draw in six weeks. The NCAA men’s basketball committee will reveal its in-season top 16 on Saturday afternoon (12:30 EST, CBS). I expect no more than three B1G schools to be on those top-4-seed lines. But that won’t be indicative of Big Ten participation in the field of 68. The B1G has been ranked as the strongest conference in the nation by all the major metrics sites, not because of strength at the top but because of competitiveness in the middle. You can count on at least 8 B1G members in the…
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