Attention fans of “The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2012″ and all others: This week’s show debit’s at a special time on Saturday at 9:30 p.m. ET. This week we take a look at the special friendship between Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger and Michigan’s Trey Burke and go on campus with Penn State’s Tim Frazier and Illinois’ Brandon Paul. Also, we’ll meet Wisconsin’s Otto Puls, the Badgers’ team scorekeeper for four decades. You can also catch an encore presentation of this episode at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Find more on past episodes over here.

This week on “The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2012,” we found out how Iowa’s Roy Devyn Marble has flourished while carrying a memorable last name in Iowa City. Also, we learned about Wisconsin’s Mike Bruesewitz’s hockey talents and saw how Purdue seniors Robbie Hummel and Lewis Jackson have battled through injuries this season. We also examined the amazing transformation of Michigan State’s Derrick Nix. Watch a clip from the show on Marble and see a couple bonus clips in this post.

The third episode of “The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2012″ airs in its regular spot on TV on Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET but it will debut Saturday night too immediately after the 8 p.m. ET men’s basketball game between Ohio State and Nebraska.

On Sunday’s debut of the second episode of “The Journey,” our crew looked at a number of Big Ten stories. One of them involved tracking Zack Novak and Michigan as they knocked off Wisconsin and another looked at Illinois’ Meyers Leonard. Watch those segments here and be sure check our TV schedule and check “The Journey” posts on BTN.com. You can also watch the show on BTN2Go.

In the second installment of the award-winning show “The Journey” tonight at 8 p.m. ET, our crew takes you inside several more compelling stories during this Big Ten Basketball season. We went to Lincoln for the Huskers’ first Big Ten game. In Ann Arbor, we’ll show you more about the Wolverine senior leader Zack Novak and then take you to Champaign to learn how Meyers Leonard went from a small town to the big time. We also spend time with first-year Penn State coach Pat Chambers.

This week we spoke once again with Julian Darnell, a BTN senior features producer who works on “The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2012.” In the next episode on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET find out what drives Penn State’s first-year coach Pat Chambers and go behind the scenes at a Nittany Lion practice as well as at the Chambers household. (Watch a sneak peak now.)

Our award-winning series “The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2012″ returned Sunday night. On the season’s first show, we followed Michigan State’s Draymond Green back to his hometown of Saginaw, Mich., to see how his upbringing made him into the leader he is today, and we introduced you to Indiana’s Cody Zeller. Also, we took a look at Matt Painter’s roots in the state of Indiana and profiled how two Ohio State McDonald’s All-Americans have taken different paths to success in Columbus. Watch a clip from the show now and find a few bonus clips in this post.

One of our popular shows returns this season with “The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2012,” and the first show airs at 8 p.m. ET Sunday on BTN TV and BTN2Go. It’s a fantastic weekly show that takes you inside the games and practices – just look at season debut opening clip in this post. Every week before each episode airs, BTN.com will chat with someone involved in the production of the show. This week before the season debut we spoke with Julian Darnell, a BTN senior features producer who works on the show.

BTN’s first original series and its highest rated last year, he Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2012 returns at 8 p.m. ET Sunday.  The Emmy-nominated, documentary-style program takes viewers deep inside Big Ten basketball programs, spending consecutive days with different conference teams to follow the season’s most compelling storylines during the 10-week march toward the Big Ten Tournament.

Our show “The Journey 2012″ debuts on Jan. 8, 2012 and our Journey crew is already out there covering Big Ten men’s basketball action during the non-conference games. You can see a number of very cool promotional spots right over here.  The weekly show gets to go where every fans wants to go: Behind the scenes. If you get BTN2Go, you can watch all of last season right now.