2011–12 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season
| 2011–12 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season | |
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| League | NCAA Division I |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Duration | December 27, 2011 – March 4, 2012 |
| Number of teams | 12 |
| TV partner(s) | Big Ten Network, ESPN, CBS |
| 2012 NBA Draft | |
| Top draft pick | Meyers Leonard |
| Picked by | Portland Trail Blazers |
| 2011-12 NCAA Division I season | |
| Regular season tri-champions |
Michigan (13–5) Michigan State (13–5) Ohio State (13–5) |
| Runners-Up | Wisconsin (12–6) |
| Season MVP | Draymond Green |
| Tournament | |
| Champions | Michigan State |
| Runners-up | Ohio State |
| Finals MVP | Draymond Green |
| 2011–12 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #7 Ohio State | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 31 | – | 8 | .795 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #5 Michigan State † | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 29 | – | 8 | .784 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #13 Michigan | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 24 | – | 10 | .706 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #14 Wisconsin | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 26 | – | 10 | .722 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #16 Indiana | 11 | – | 7 | .611 | 27 | – | 9 | .750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 22 | – | 13 | .629 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 8 | – | 10 | .444 | 19 | – | 14 | .576 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 8 | – | 10 | .444 | 18 | – | 17 | .514 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota | 6 | – | 12 | .333 | 23 | – | 15 | .605 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 6 | – | 12 | .333 | 17 | – | 15 | .531 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nebraska | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 12 | – | 18 | .400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 4 | – | 14 | .222 | 12 | – | 20 | .375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2012 Big Ten Tournament winner As of April 3, 2012; Rankings from AP Poll |
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The 2011–12 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season marks the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive basketball among Big Ten Conference members that began in 1904. The 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season marks the first season of participation of the Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team in Big Ten competition. With the addition of Nebraska all teams will play seven other teams twice and four teams once during the conference schedule, which continues to be 18 games. The season commenced on October 14 when Michigan State and Minnesota celebrated Midnight Madness and three more conference schools hosted events on the 15th. For the fifth consecutive season, all conference games were broadcast nationally with 8 aired by CBS Sports, 36 carried by the ESPN Inc. family of networks including ESPN and ESPN2, while 64 games were carried by the Big Ten Network. The conference led the nation in attendance for the 36th consecutive season.
The conference lost five players to the 2011 NBA Draft (JaJuan Johnson (27th overall), Jon Leuer (40th), Darius Morris (41st), Jon Diebler (51st) and E'Twaun Moore (55th)), but the conference returns Jared Sullinger who was named 2011 USBWA National Freshman of the Year. The conference had 3 2011 Consensus All-Americans (Sullinger and Johnson both first team and second team selection Jordan Taylor). Taylor returned for his senior season along with Sullinger. Sullinger repeated as a 2012 Consensus All-American and was joined by Draymond Green, who was named the NABC Player of the Year. The conference had three 2012 Academic All-Americans as well as both the Elite 89 Award (Aaron Craft) and the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award (Robbie Hummel) winners.
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