BTN.com staff, December 16, 2011

With nine Big Ten men's basketball games on Saturday and eight teams in the RPI's Top 50,  our Rick Pizzo, Derek Rackley and Tim Doyle take you into this pre-holiday weekend on The Big Ten Pulse at 7 p.m. ET tonight with an in-depth conversation on the overall depth of the Big Ten as each team builds out their tournament resumes. For example, Northwestern is 8-1 after racking up another win Thursday night. Also, tonight, Michigan State's Draymond Green will join Pizzo, Rackley and Doyle to tell us how the Spartans' tough games early on have helped the team come together.