Trey Kaufman-Renn and the Delaney Dozen

Key Highlights

• Named after former Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney, who started so much of this conference expansion nonsense, The Delaney Dozen is an honor given to Big Ten men’s basketball players who, over the course of their careers, manage to collect at least one victory in each conference arena. It is an honor that lies mostly with Purdue players because the Boilermakers have defended Mackey Arena so fiercely that many of the league’s greats on other teams simply do not win there.
• It is sustained excellence (with some luck) over the course of a career.
• In the 14 team team era only Iowa’s Peter Jok and the following players from Michigan got a win in Mackey and in every other arena: CJ Baird, Eli Brooks, Austin Davis, Isaiah Livers & Luke Wilson. We’re now in the 18-team era and you can already eliminate most of the conference, as Purdue has only lost at home to Wisconsin and Ohio State since the West Coast schools joined the league.
• Ohio State lost at UCLA last season and does not go back this year, so any freshmen or sophomores from last year will only get one more shot at that one.
• Wisconsin is in the same boat. Also, as an added note, Caleb Furst is in his own strange category.