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.

Nebraska has joined the Big Ten Conference, which means Nebraska has also joined The Journey!  Here’s a quick behind the scenes clip with the Cornhuskers from our first shoot for The Journey, which debuts Jan. 8, 2012. Remember: We’re on Twitter @BTNJourney and we archive a lot of our material at BTN.com/thejourney and on the BTN YouTube page. And you can watch all of the episodes on BTN2Go.com including the season debut last winter. Want to hear the show’s theme song? Dive deeper into this post.

The last two years Robbie Hummel has suffered season ending knee injuries. From talking to head coach Matt Painter at Big Ten Media Day, Robbie looks as good as ever. From talking to Robbie at Big Ten media Day, he is excited to get back on the court that he loves so much.

One of the best things about working on The Journey is getting behind the scenes.  What happens when the game telecast is off the air? In this clip, you get a chance to see Michigan celebrating a win over their rival Michigan State.  The telecast is off the air, but The Journey cameras are still rolling! We have more clips like this over here.

Blue or green? That is the question for fans in the state of Michigan must ask itself whenever Michigan plays Michigan State. The game featured in this clip in this post came down to the last shot, but more impressive than the game itself was the respect the two star players had for each other after the game. It was yet another great behind the scenes moment caught by our @BTNJourney crew. And have you seen our other clips? They’re all right here. We’ll be adding more in the days and weeks ahead.