2016–17 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season

2016–17 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season

League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
TV partner(s)	Big Ten Network, ESPN, CBS
2017 NBA draft
2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Tournament

2016–17 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Maryland	0	–	0	–	8	–	1	.889
No. 9 Indiana	0	–	0	–	7	–	1	.875
Minnesota	0	–	0	–	7	–	1	.875
Ohio State	0	–	0	–	7	–	1	.875
Rutgers	0	–	0	–	7	–	1	.875
No. 17 Wisconsin	0	–	0	–	7	–	2	.778
Michigan	0	–	0	–	6	–	2	.750
Northwestern	0	–	0	–	6	–	2	.750
No. 18 Purdue	0	–	0	–	6	–	2	.750
Illinois	0	–	0	–	6	–	3	.667
Penn State	0	–	0	–	6	–	3	.667
Nebraska	0	–	0	–	5	–	3	.625
Michigan State	0	–	0	–	5	–	4	.556
Iowa	0	–	0	–	3	–	5	.375

† 2017 Big Ten Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016–17 Big Ten men's basketball season began with practices in October 2016, followed by the start of the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November.

The Conference held its preseason media day on October 13 in Washington, D.C.^[1] The season will begin on November 11 and conference play is slated to start on December 27.^[2] The Big Ten Tournament will be held from March 8 through March 12 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.^[3] It will be the first Big Ten Conference Tournament in Washington, D.C. The winner of the tournament will receive the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Indiana is the defending regular season conference champion. Michigan State is the defending Big Ten Tournament champion.

Preseason

Big Ten recruits at the 2016 McDonald's All-American Boys Game

Joshua Langford, Michigan State

Miles Bridges, Michigan State

Preseason All-Big Ten

On October 11, 2016, a panel of conference media selected a 10-member preseason All-Big Ten Team and Player of the Year.^[4]

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Player of the Year	Nigel Hayes, Wisconsin
Preseason All-Big Ten Team	Malcolm Hill, Illinois
	James Blackmon Jr., Indiana
	Thomas Bryant, Indiana
	Peter Jok, Iowa
	Melo Trimble, Maryland
	Derrick Walton Jr., Michigan
	Caleb Swanigan, Purdue
	Ethan Happ, Wisconsin
	Nigel Hayes, Wisconsin
	Bronson Koenig, Wisconsin

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

	Wooden	Naismith	Robertson	Cousy	West	Erving	Malone	Abdul-Jabbar	Olson	Tisdale	Notes
O. G. Anunoby						Y					^[5]
James Blackmon Jr.	Y	Y			Y				Y		^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Miles Bridges	Y	Y					Y				^[10]^[8]^[9]
Thomas Bryant	Y	Y						Y	Y		^[11]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Vincent Edwards						Y					^[5]
Isaac Haas								Y			^[11]
Ethan Happ	Y	Y						Y			^[11]^[8]^[9]
Eron Harris					Y						^[6]
Nigel Hayes	Y	Y					Y		Y		^[10]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Malcolm Hill	Y				Y						^[6]^[9]
Peter Jok	Y	Y			Y				Y		^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Bronson Koenig	Y	Y		Y					Y		^[12]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Caleb Swanigan	Y	Y					Y				^[10]^[8]^[9]
Jae'Sean Tate						Y					^[5]
Melo Trimble	Y	Y		Y					Y		^[12]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Preseason All-American teams

	CBS^[13]	AP	TSN	USA Today	SB Nation	Blue Ribbon^[14]	Athlon Sports^[15]	Bleacher Report	NBC Sports ^[16]	Sporting News^[17]	BigTen.org	BTN	Sports Illustrated^[18]	Lindy's Sports
O. G. Anunoby							3rd		2nd	3rd
Miles Bridges										2nd
Thomas Bryant	3rd					1st	3rd		2nd
Nigel Hayes	3rd					1st							2nd
Melo Trimble	2nd					1st	2nd			1st

Preseason polls

Main article: 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season § Pre-season_polls

Illinois
	AP^[19]	Coaches^[20]	CBS^[21]	NBC^[22]	Sporting News^[17]	Sports Illustrated^[23]	Blue Ribbon Yearbook^[24]	Bleacher Report^[25]	Athlon Sports^[26]	Lindy's Sports^[27]	ESPN^[28]	USBWA^[29]
Indiana	11	12	9	14	13	15	18	9	12		14	13
Iowa
Maryland	25	21		25			24
Michigan
Michigan State	12	9	15	10	11		11	14	11	11	13	11
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue	15	15	20	15	10	11	9	14	14	12	21	14
Rutgers
Wisconsin	9	10	11	11	8	8	6	7	10	6	12	8

Rankings

**Legend**
		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25 of poll
(Italics)		Number of first place votes

		Pre/ Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4
Illinois	AP
Illinois	C
Indiana	AP	11	6 (1)	3 (2)	13
Indiana	C	12	5	5 (2)	10
Iowa	AP
Iowa	C
Maryland	AP	25	RV	RV	RV
Maryland	C	21	24	23	22
Michigan	AP	RV		25T	RV
Michigan	C	RV	RV	24	RV
Michigan State	AP	12	13	24	RV
Michigan State	C	9	13	20	RV
Minnesota	AP				RV
Minnesota	C
Nebraska	AP
Nebraska	C
Northwestern	AP
Northwestern	C
Ohio State	AP	RV	RV	RV	RV
Ohio State	C	RV			RV
Penn State	AP
Penn State	C
Purdue	AP	15	15	17	15
Purdue	C	15	15	19	16
Rutgers	AP			RV	RV
Rutgers	C
Wisconsin	AP	9	9	16	17
Wisconsin	C	10	11	14	17

Player of the week

Throughout the conference regular season, the Big Ten offices named one or two players of the week and one or two freshmen of the week each Monday.

Week	Player of the week	Freshman of the week
November 14, 2016^[30]	Malcolm Hill, ILL	Curtis Jones Jr., IND
November 14, 2016^[30]	James Blackmon Jr., IND	Miles Bridges, MSU
November 21, 2016^[31]	Peter Jok, IOWA	Amir Coffey, MINN
November 28, 2016^[32]	Melo Trimble, MD	Miles Bridges (2), MSU
November 28, 2016^[32]	Caleb Swanigan, PUR	Miles Bridges (2), MSU

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team played 18 conference games, and at least 1 against each opponent.

Total	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
	Illinois	Indiana	Iowa	Maryland	Michigan	Michigan St	Minnesota	Nebraska	Northwestern	Ohio St	Penn St	Purdue	Rutgers	Wisconsin
vs. Illinois	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Indiana	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Iowa	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Maryland	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Michigan	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Michigan St	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Minnesota	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Nebraska	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Northwestern	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Ohio State	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Penn State	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Purdue	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0
vs. Rutgers	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0
vs. Wisconsin	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–

Head coaches

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Year at school	Overall record	Big Ten record	Big Ten titles	NCAA Tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
Illinois	John Groce	Ohio	5th	77–61	29–43	0	1	0	0
Indiana	Tom Crean	Marquette	9th	148–119	64–80	2	4	0	0
Iowa	Fran McCaffery	Siena	7th	118–86	54–54	0	3	0	0
Maryland	Mark Turgeon	Texas A&M	6th	114–59	26–10*	0	1	0	0
Michigan	John Beilein	West Virginia	10th	189–123	88–74	2	6	1	0
Michigan State	Tom Izzo	Michigan State (Asst.)	22nd	524–205	246–111	7	19	7	1
Minnesota	Richard Pitino	Florida International	4th	51–51	16–38	0	0	0	0
Nebraska	Tim Miles	Colorado State	5th	63–67	27–45	0	1	0	0
Northwestern	Chris Collins	Duke (Asst.)	4th	49–48	20–34	0	0	0	0
Ohio State	Thad Matta	Xavier	13th	320–108	143–67	5	9	2	0
Penn State	Pat Chambers	Boston University	6th	72–91	23–67	0	0	0	0
Purdue	Matt Painter	Purdue (Assoc.)	12th	238–134	113–84	1	8	0	0
Rutgers	Steve Pikiell	Stony Brook	1st	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	Greg Gard	Wisconsin (Assoc.)	2nd	15–8	12–6	0	1	0	0

Notes:

Year at school includes 2016–17 season.
Overall and Big Ten records are from time at current school and are before the beginning of the season.
Turgeon's ACC conference record excluded since Maryland began Big Ten Conference play in 2014–15

Honors and Awards

All-Big Ten Awards and Teams

Honor-	Coaches	Media
Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
Freshman of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year		Not Selected
Sixth Man of the Year		Not Selected
All Big Ten First Team




All Big Ten Second Team




All Big Ten Third Team





All Big Ten Honorable Mention












	No selected





All-Freshman Team		Not Selected




All Defensive Team		Not Selected

Postseason

Big Ten Tournament

Main article: 2017 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Session	Game	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 8
1	1
1	2
Second round – Thursday, March 9
2	3
2	4
3	5
3	6
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 10
4	7
4	8
5	9
5	10
Semifinals – Saturday, March 11
6	11	CBS
6	12	CBS
Championship – Sunday, March 12
7	13	CBS
*Game times in Eastern Time. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Big Ten Conference men's basketball

Teams	Illinois Fighting Illini Indiana Hoosiers Iowa Hawkeyes Maryland Terrapins Michigan Wolverines Michigan State Spartans Minnesota Golden Gophers Nebraska Cornhuskers Northwestern Wildcats Ohio State Buckeyes Penn State Nittany Lions Purdue Boilermakers Rutgers Scarlet Knights Wisconsin Badgers

Championships & awards	Regular season champions Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Player of the Year Chicago Tribune Silver Basketball (defunct)

Seasons	1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball conference seasons

America East American Atlantic 10 ACC Atlantic Sun Big 12 Big East Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA C-USA Horizon Ivy MAAC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Pac-12 Patriot SEC Southern Southland Summit Sun Belt SWAC WAC West Coast

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