With the Purdue Boilermakers' 76-62 win over the McNeese State Cowboys, Big Ten teams officially have gone 9-0 in the tournament thus far, No conference has ever gone 9-0 to start the tournament thus far. There is a chance that the conference can better that mark over the next few hours as well.

After defeating the hottest team in the nation, the Penn State Nittany Lions, in a thrilling overtime victory when Gunnarwolfe Fontaine had the clutch breakaway to win it for the Buckeyes and take down Penn State, the 24-12-1 Buckeyes had a large task at hand: to take down the Big Ten regular season champions.

The Big Ten has done something no other conference has in the history of March Madness. So, after one round, it has bragging rights over the SEC.

The Big Ten is undefeated in March Madness no more. On Saturday, the No. 3 seed Wisconsin Badgers were ousted from the 2025 men's NCAA Tournament by the No. 6 seed BYU Cougars 91-89. That meant the conference's 10-0 start to the competition,

For years and years, the Big Ten has been known as one of the conferences that consistently comes up short in the NCAA Tournament. However, that has not been the case this year. The conference absolutely steamrolled through the Round of 64 on Thursday and Friday,