The Scarlet Knights suffered their third consecutive defeat on Thursday, falling 68-50 to No. 20 Purdue ... Ten play, putting them in position to not playing in the Big Ten Tournament come March ...

WEST LAFAYETTE — The Mackey Arena nets are frayed, probably scented of singed nylon after Purdue basketball's latest reminder that the Big Ten still runs through the Boilermakers. After five ...

Michigan State continued its undefeated run over the weekend, defeating Rutgers 81-74 at Madison Square Garden to maintain its spot atop the conference standings. Purdue pummeled Michigan 91-64 to ...

Rutgers basketball is back on track at a good time. Rutgers will hope it can replicate that form over the next month as Big Ten play restarts. The Scarlet Knights travel to Bloomington on Thursday ...

LINCOLN — After two years of controlling Big Ten ... Rutgers was 16-7 with six conference wins over teams that would eventually make the NCAA tournament, including on the road at then-No. 1 Purdue.

The Big Ten had a strong representation in the 2024 NCAA Tournament and appears on track to do so again this season. Six teams from the conference went dancing, ...

The operative word as he looked ahead: "Chill." By quirk of the Big Ten schedule, Purdue played six games in a 16-day span, ranging from Rutgers in the east and Washington and Oregon in the west.

Purdue and Rutgers ... and earned a visit to the NCAA Tournament in 2016. When he arrived at Rutgers, the program was struggling to find its footing in the Big Ten. In his first eight seasons ...

The uphill climb Rutgers faces in making an improbable NCAA Tournament run just got even ... 1 games this season and 11-11 in its last 22 Big Ten home games, to build anything resembling a ...