After its annual West Coast Big Ten swing, fourth-ranked Purdue looks to put its first conference loss in its rearview in a marquee home game vs. No. 11 Illinois in Mackey Arena Saturday. DETAILS: Saturday,

The Boilermakers' Big Ten rival in the hunt for the league championship will be without one of their star players for Saturday's game against Purdue.

The Boilermakers went nine days between games, and were able to give their starters more rest in a blowout before Big Ten play resumes. Here's what we learned:

Twenty-four of college basketball's 25 ranked teams are in action Saturday. And sixteen of those teams are playing on the road. So as someone who has followed this sport closely for decades, let me translate: the forecast over the next 24 hours in the sport has a high probability of chaos.

A Big Ten battle will help get the Wednesday college basketball schedule underway when the Purdue Boilermakers host the Iowa Hawkeyes. No. 5

With his team having traversed the Midwest, UCLA men's basketball coach Mick Cronin isn't a fan of how the Big Ten structured the Bruins' conference slate this year.

The No. 4 Boilermakers slip up for the first time in Big Ten action as the Bruins make the big plays late: Results, recap, stats.