Btw, I'm sure you guys missed my other thread, but here's a fun stat for Illinois and Wisconsin fans:
No team has ever won a national championship after failing to reach their conference tournament's semifinal round.............in case you were wondering about the importance of a conference tournament.
So from the Big Ten, these are the 4 teams that could win the national championship:
Purdue
Iowa
Michigan State
Indiana
*And yes, that stat is referring only to conferences that actually host a tournament. 1997 Arizona was the last team to win a national title without playing in a conference tourney or winning their regular season title.
And the Big Ten Tournament has only been around since 1997 so any championship won by a Big Ten team prior to that would be excluded.