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The 2016–17 Big Ten men's basketball season began with practices in October 2016, followed by the start of the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November.
Contents
- Preseason All Big Ten
- Preseason watchlists
- Player of the week
- Conference matrix
- Head coaches
- All Big Ten Awards and Teams
- References
The Conference held its preseason media day on October 13 in Washington, D.C. The season will begin on November 11 and conference play is slated to start on December 27. The Big Ten Tournament will be held from March 8 through March 12 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. It will be the first Big Ten Conference Tournament in Washington, D.C. The winner of the tournament will receive the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Indiana is the defending regular season conference champion. Michigan State is the defending Big Ten Tournament champion.
Preseason All-Big Ten
On October 11, 2016, a panel of conference media selected a 10-member preseason All-Big Ten Team and Player of the Year.
Preseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.
Player of the week
Throughout the conference regular season, the Big Ten offices named one or two players of the week and one or two freshmen of the week each Monday.
Conference matrix
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play through February 22, 2017. Each team played 18 conference games, and at least 1 against each opponent.
Head coaches
Notes:
All-Big Ten Awards and Teams
Nicolas Baer, Zak Irvin, Sanjay Lumpkin, Keita Bates-Diop, Payton Banks, Isaac Haas and Vitto Brown were nominees for the Allstate Good Works Team in honor of their volunteerism and civic involvement. On January 6, 2017, Malcolm Hill, Peter Jok, Derrick Walton, Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig were included on the 30-man Senior CLASS Award candidate list. Melo Trimble was the only returning selection among the January 11 Wooden Award top 25. He was joined by Ethan Happ, Nigel Hayes and Caleb Swanigan. Happ and Swanigan were on the Robertson midseason 19-man watchlist. Trimble was named to the Cousy Award Final 10 on January 30. Swanigan and Miles Bridges were named Malone Award top 10 finalists on February 2. Happ was named as a Jabbar Award top 10 finalist the following day. Swanigan, Trimble and Happ were named to both the February 9 Wooden Top 20 and the February 9 Naismith Top 30 lists. Swanigan and Moritz Wagner were named to the February 9 2016-17 NCAA Division I Academic All-District Men’s Basketball Team for District 5 (IL, IN, MI, OH), placing them among the 40 finalists for the Academic All-American 15-man team. Hayes and Jok were named to the 10-man Senior CLASS Award finalist list.