It's a race for second place at this point, and the biggest game in that regard kicks off the week as Purdue visits the Kohl Center for the Badgers and Boilers first meeting of the season. Winner of that gives themselves an edge for #2 in the league. MSU with two road games as well as they try to avoid complete disaster, while the first-place Buckeyes travel to Minneapolis on Sunday for a rematch of the teams' 3-point game from earlier this year.

Tuesday 2/1
#11 Purdue @ #19 Wisconsin
Penn State @ Illinois

Wednesday 2/2
#18 Minnesota @ Indiana
Michigan State @ Iowa

Thursday 2/3
Michigan @ #1 Ohio State

Saturday 2/5
Illinois @ Northwestern
Iowa @ Indiana

Sunday 2/6
Michigan @ Penn State
Michigan State @ #19 Wisconsin
#1 Ohio State @ #18 Minnesota

Big Ten standings (through Sunday 1/31):

Ohio State 9-0 22-0
Purdue 7-2 18-4
Wisconsin 5-3 15-5
Penn State 5-4 12-8
Michigan State 5-4 13-8
Minnesota 5-4 16-5
Illinois 4-4 14-7
Michigan 3-6 13-9
Northwestern 3-7 13-8
Indiana 2-7 11-11
Iowa 1-8 8-13

Big Ten +/- standings (through Sunday 1/31):

(+1 for road win, 0 for home win, 0 for road loss, -1 for home loss):

OSU +5
Purdue +2
Wisconsin +1
Minnesota +1
MSU 0
Illinois 0
Penn St. 0
N'western -2
Indiana -2
Michigan -2
Iowa -3

Newest AP Poll: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/polls?poll=1, MSU and Illinois are out. Four Big Ten teams remain ranked, #1 Ohio State, #11 Purdue, #18 Minnesota and #19 Wisconsin.

Wisconsin outlasts Purdue at home to draw even with them for second place in the Big10 each with three losses.

Commanding 3 game lead for the Buckeyes.

Purdue got homered tonight against Wisconsin..that was bad. Johnson had like 3 touch fouls that simply were not fouls.

I tuned in late and only saw the last couple minutes. Wisconsin is like 4593-2 at home though so I wouldn't be surprised.

This Penn State game is HUGE for their @ large chances. They have a legitimate shot at making the tournament after being picked 10th by many in the preseason. I felt that Penn State was going to be a lot better than people gave them credit. By the way, this game is on BTN with Illinois up eight.

I should say one of many huge games. They still are home against OSU, @ Sparty, @ Wisky, and have a home and home against Minnesota. I would say if they get two of the remaining games and avoid getting knocked-off by the likes of NW/Mich,they could maybe make the tourney with a win or two (depending whom they play) in the B10 tourney. Losing by one @ Purdue and by three @ OSU doesn't look awful either.

HeathAlum21;661417 wrote: Losing by one @ Purdue and by three @ OSU doesn't look awful either.

It don't matter if they lost by 30, all the committee sees is a L.

Tiger2003;661433 wrote:It don't matter if they lost by 30, all the committee sees is a L.

Pretty sure they will acknowledge a close loss vs a 30 point loss.

SportsAndLady;661443 wrote:Pretty sure they will acknowledge a close loss vs a 30 point loss.

This.

Plus losing to a good team is better than losing to a bad team.

Looking like an ugly L for the Nittany Lions tonight, Illini taking care of business after a few losses.

Crappy 3 balls for PSU doomed their hopes in Campaign.

Purdue got fucked over

Minnesota struggles continue as they are down 8 at the under 12 timeout at IU.

That is a terrible T call.

The Minnesota player was touching him

I didn't get a chance to see that, what exactly happened?

Hawkeyes lead the Spartans 30-8. Wow.

burt07;662599 wrote:I didn't get a chance to see that, what exactly happened?

IU kid had a nice one handed dunk, hung for a second(not deserving of a T) and then the Minny guy was getting the ball and they made a little contact the the IU player sort of kicked his leg. I just don't think it was deserving at all of a T.

Maybe not a "terrible" call, but it wasn't a good one.

Lol @ MSU. They make no sense what soever. Even losing Lucious and Allen they should of been a damn good team

WOW at Michigan State tonight, and for that matter, the whole season.

Travel, and then an Elbow to the mouth for Draymond Green...ouch

Iowa is hitting everything they throw at the rim. They might of used up all their shots for the season in this one half lol

College bball guru cincix said Iowa wouldn't win a bigten game. Now they are up 20 on msu

Hb31187;662608 wrote:Lol @ MSU. They make no sense what soever. Even losing Lucious and Allen they should of been a damn good team

They Ohio bigs, Payne and Sherman, aren't ready to play at a high level.

Hb31187;662620 wrote:Iowa is hitting everything they throw at the rim. They might of used up all their shots for the season in this one half lol

Uber-confidene playing against bad MSU team.