Illinois, Northwestern, and Indiana sat in the Nittany Lions’ way, and they conquered, becoming the conference’s lowest seed to reach Sunday’s title game against the regular season champion Purdue Boilermakers.Īs has been the case all postseason thus far, the championship game had a David vs. When the Big Ten Tournament began Wednesday night in Chicago, Penn State was only on bubble-watchers’ radar.įour days later, the entire college basketball community watches its every move. Zach Edey’s 30 points propelled Purdue to its first Big Ten title victory since 2009 and a No.