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Big Ten Men's Steals per game leaders entering today: Braden Smith (Purdue Men's Basketball): 2.5 Great Osobor (Washington Men's Basketball): 2.0 Ace Baldwin Jr. (Penn State Men’s Basketball): 2.0 Drew Thelwell (Iowa Men’s Basketball): 1.9 Ja'Kobi Gillespie (Maryland Men’s Basketball): 1.9 TJ Bamba (Oregon Men's Basketball): 1.8 Kobe Johnson (UCLA Men’s Basketball): 1.8

Big Ten Men's Field goal percentage leaders entering today: Oumar Ballo (Indiana Basketball): 65.0% Vladislav Goldin (@UMichBBall): 64.8% Owen Freeman (Iowa Men’s Basketball): 63.8% Trey Kaufman-Renn (Purdue Men's Basketball): 60.1% Julian Reese (Maryland Men’s Basketball): 57.4% Devin Royal (Ohio State Hoops): 54.3%

Today's Men's CBB Top Matchups (by net rating) Maryland at Ohio St., 7:00 PM St. Mary's at San Francisco, 9:00 PM Loyola Marymount at Gonzaga, 9:00 PM Washington St. at Oregon St., 11:00 PM Louisiana Tech at Liberty, 8:00 PM UC-Riverside at UC-San Diego, 10:00 PM

Big Ten Men's 3-Point field goal percentage leaders entering today: Payton Sandfort (Iowa Men’s Basketball): 34.9%

Big Ten Men's Player efficiency rating (PER) leaders entering today: Julian Reese (Maryland Men’s Basketball): 26.8 Owen Freeman (Iowa Men’s Basketball): 26.8 Vladislav Goldin (@UMichBBall): 26.7 Yanic Konan Niederhauser (Penn State Men’s Basketball): 25.9 Dawson Garcia (Minnesota Men's Basketball): 25.8

Big Ten Women's Points per game leaders entering today: JuJu Watkins (USC): 24.2 Lauren Betts (UCLA): 20.2 Serah Williams (Wisconsin): 19.1 Kiyomi McMiller (Rutgers): 19.0 Kiki Iriafen (USC): 17.7 Destiny Adams (Rutgers): 17.5 Kaylene Smikle (Maryland): 17.3

Big Ten Women's Rebounds per game leaders entering today: Kendall Bostic (Illinois): 11.3 Serah Williams (Wisconsin): 10.6 Lauren Betts (UCLA): 9.9 Destiny Adams (Rutgers): 9.9 Taylor Williams (Northwestern): 9.4 Rayah Marshall (USC): 8.9 Christina Dalce (Maryland): 8.4

Big Ten Women's Assists per game leaders entering today: Caroline Lau (Northwestern): 6.0 Ronnie Porter (Wisconsin): 5.0 Lucy Olsen (Iowa): 5.0 Kiki Rice (UCLA): 4.4 Alli Campbell (Penn St.): 4.4 Elina Aarnisalo (UCLA): 4.4 Shyanne Sellers (Maryland): 4.4

Big Ten Women's Blocks per game leaders entering today: Lauren Betts (UCLA): 2.9 Serah Williams (Wisconsin): 2.5 Rayah Marshall (USC): 2.2 Elsa Lemmil� (Ohio St.): 1.7 JuJu Watkins (USC): 1.7 Julia Ayrault (Michigan St.): 1.5 Gracie Merkle (Penn St.): 1.5

Big Ten Women's Steals per game leaders entering today: Destiny Adams (Rutgers): 2.5 Jocelyn Tate (Michigan St.): 2.3 Taylor Thierry (Ohio St.): 2.3 JuJu Watkins (USC): 2.3 Destini Lombard (Purdue): 2.2 Britt Prince (Nebraska): 2.0 Jaddan Simmons (Michigan St.): 2.0

Big Ten Women's Field goal percentage leaders entering today: Gracie Merkle (Penn St.): 67.0% Addison O'Grady (Iowa): 66.7% Lauren Betts (UCLA): 64.0% Kendall Bostic (Illinois): 53.0% Grace Vanslooten (Michigan St.): 52.9% Kiki Iriafen (USC): 51.9%

Big Ten Women's 3-Point field goal percentage leaders entering today: Taylor McCabe (Iowa): 44.2% Sayvia Sellers (Washington): 41.5% Yarden Garzon (Indiana): 41.4% Moriah Murray (Penn St.): 39.3% Tess Myers (Wisconsin): 38.5% Chance Gray (Ohio St.): 36.8%

Big Ten Women's Player efficiency rating (PER) leaders entering today: Lauren Betts (UCLA): 41.4 JuJu Watkins (USC): 33.9 Serah Williams (Wisconsin): 32.8 Gracie Merkle (Penn St.): 32.6 Julia Ayrault (Michigan St.): 31.0 Kiki Iriafen (USC): 30.8 Kiki Rice (UCLA): 30.0

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Michigan finishes league play with a -10 point differential. Among the 294 teams that have finished B10 play with a winning percentage of 60% or better (in conf play), Michigan becomes just the 8th to finish w/ a negative point differential.

Updating this a year later... Since the start of the 2015-2016 season, Gonzaga is 283-38 (88.2%) vs. everyone excluding SMC & 18-10 (64.2%) vs. the Gaels. Over the last 10 seasons, here is the list of teams w/ a better winning % than SMC: -Zags -Houston -Kansas -End of list.

Jamiya Neal w/ an NCAA Tournament performance not seen in a long time. 29 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 68.8% FG, & 2 made threes. He's the first w/ at least 25/10/5, multiple 3PM's & a FG% above 60% since Dwyane Wade's triple-double vs. Kentucky in 2003.

With 30 points, 7 assists, 6 rebounds, & 3 blocks tonight, Cooper Flagg's NCAA Tournament totals are now 62 points, 22 rebounds, 17 assists, & 6 blocks. The list of FR with at least 60/20/15/6 in an NCAAT: -P. Banchero: 94/38/17/6 -J. Winslow: 86/56/16/10 -A. Davis: 82/74/18/29

If you were curious about the 0-2 teams in the Natty Houston surpassed, it's a fun mix of past and present: Purdue, Oklahoma, Memphis, Dartmouth, Butler, Bradley, and Gonzaga. Houston is there since this search displays results going into Monday.