BTN.com staff, December 7, 2012
Basketball roars ahead on the BTN as we air five men?s games Saturday beginning with a noon ET tip off between No. 7 Ohio State and Long Beach State. At 2 p.m. ET, No. 17 Michigan State hosts Loyola, then Penn State hosts Army at 4 p.m.
All of BTN's televised games are available on BTN2Go.
At 6 p.m., top-ranked Indiana hosts Central Connecticut before Northwestern takes on Butler at 8 p.m.. After that game, Rick Pizzo, Tim Doyle and Scoonie Penn bring you highlights and analysis on the wrap-up show. And if you missed it this week, BTN went inside the Michigan State locker room at halftime recently. See the video in this post.
Who's scoring in the Big Ten? Check out the latest leaders through Thursday night.
Rank | Player | Team | GP | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG | SPG |
1 | D. Thomas | Ohio State | 6 | .495 | .441 | .913 | 6.5 | 1.0 | 21.0 | 0.8 |
2 | B. Paul | Illinois | 9 | .460 | .390 | .688 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 17.8 | 1.2 |
3 | T. Burke | Michigan | 8 | .495 | .361 | .767 | 2.9 | 7.1 | 17.0 | 1.1 |
4 | T. Hardaway Jr. | Michigan | 8 | .522 | .371 | .615 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 15.6 | 0.5 |
5 | D. Talley | Nebraska | 8 | .364 | .353 | .714 | 5.9 | 2.8 | 15.4 | 0.9 |
6 | K. Appling | Michigan State | 9 | .474 | .387 | .800 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 15.3 | 1.7 |
7t | J. Marshall | Penn State | 8 | .389 | .306 | .756 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 15.0 | 2.0 |
7t | C. Zeller | Indiana | 8 | .632 | .000 | .630 | 7.6 | 1.3 | 15.0 | 1.3 |
9 | J. Berggren | Wisconsin | 9 | .583 | .409 | .844 | 6.7 | 1.1 | 14.9 | 0.7 |
10 | R. Marble | Iowa | 9 | .462 | .385 | .759 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 14.4 | 1.0 |
For the women, check out the women's basketball scoreboard and schedule as well as the Big Ten women's stat leaders.
Here are the latest Big Ten men's standings:
Big Ten Men's Standings | ||||||||||||
Conference | Overall | vs | ||||||||||
W-L | Pct | Hm | Rd | W-L | Pct | Hm | Rd | Nt | Top 25 | |||
Illinois | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 9-0 | 1.000 | 5-0 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 | ||
Indiana | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-0 | 1.000 | 6-0 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | ||
Michigan | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-0 | 1.000 | 5-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | ||
Minnesota | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 9-1 | .900 | 6-0 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 1-1 | ||
Ohio State | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5-1 | .833 | 3-0 | 0-1 | 2-0 | 0-1 | ||
Iowa | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-2 | .800 | 7-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | ||
Michigan State | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-2 | .778 | 6-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 1-0 | ||
Northwestern | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-2 | .778 | 4-2 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 | ||
Nebraska | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6-2 | .750 | 5-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | ||
Wisconsin | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6-3 | .667 | 5-1 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-2 | ||
Purdue | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-4 | .500 | 3-2 | 1-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | ||
Penn State | 0-0 | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-4 | .500 | 3-1 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-1 |