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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. The regular season ended with Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State tied for the league championship. Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis hosted the 2012 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament played Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, March 11. Green was both the regular season and tournament MVP. The conference had an 11–6 record in the 68-team 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, with 6 entrants, 4 sweet 16 competitors and Ohio State reaching the final four. The conference had a 6–3 record in the 32-team 2012 National Invitation Tournament, with 3 entrants and Minnesota losing in the championship game. ==Preseason== Three teams were ranked in the preseason USA Today/ESPN poll: Ohio State (#3), Wisconsin (#14) and Michigan (#18), while Michigan State and Purdue were also receiving votes. The Big Ten Basketball Media Day for men's and women's basketball was October 27 in Chicago. The men's basketball media day was covered by ESPNU. Jared Sullinger was named preseason conference player of the year at the conference media day. Other preseason All-Big Ten first team selections were Draymond Green, Trevor Mbakwe, Robbie Hummel, and Jordan Taylor. Ohio State was chosen as the top team, followed by Wisconsin and Michigan State. Sullinger and Taylor were also both preseason Associated Press All-Americans.〔 5 of the 30 nominees for the men's basketball Lowe's Senior CLASS Award were from the Big Ten: Michigan's Zack Novak, Michigan State's Green, Ohio State's William Buford, Purdue's Hummel and Wisconsin's Taylor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011–12 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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