2014–15 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	14
TV partner(s)	Big Ten Network, ESPN, CBS
2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Regular season champions	Wisconsin
Runners-up	Maryland
Season MVP	Frank Kaminsky
Top scorer	D. J. Newbill
Tournament
Champions	Wisconsin
Runners-up	Michigan State
Finals MVP	Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin
Basketball seasons
← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The 2014–15 Big Ten men's basketball season began with practices in October 2014, followed by the start of the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. It marked the first season for Rutgers and Maryland in the Big Ten Conference. Wisconsin won the regular season title and the 2015 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament.

Following the season, eight teams participated in post-season tournaments. Seven teams were invited to participate in the 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, and one team was selected for the 2015 National Invitation Tournament. The conference achieved a 12–7 record in the NCAA tournament and a 12–8 overall postseason record. The postseason was highlighted by Wisconsin's NCAA tournament championship game appearance and Michigan State's final four appearance.

Frank Kaminsky earned several national player of the year awards and was the Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year. He and D'Angelo Russell received 2014 All-American first team recognition and Melo Trimble earned second team recognition. Russell and Trimble were both 2015 USBWA Freshman All-America Team selections. Kaminsky and Russell were the inaugural Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award and Jerry West Award winners, respectively. Shavon Shields and Mike Gesell were Academic All-America selections.

Following the season, the conference had 5 selections in the 2015 NBA draft, including 3 in the first round: Russell (2nd), Kaminsky (9th), Sam Dekker (18th), Aaron White (49th), and Branden Dawson (56th). International player, Caleb Swanigan won a gold medal with Team USA at the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, while Trimble and Denzel Valentine won bronze medals at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Preseason

According to the Big Ten media, Frank Kaminsky was the preseason conference player of the year and he was joined on the All-Big Ten preseason team by Yogi Ferrell, Caris LeVert, Terran Petteway, and Sam Dekker.^[1] The Big Ten Network poll came to the same results.^[2]

When CBSSports.com named its Preseason All-American team, it included LeVert, Petteway, Kaminsky and Dekker to its second team.^[3] NBCSports.com selected LeVert and Dekker to its Preseason All-American first team, Kaminsky to its second team and named Petteway as an honorable mention.^[4] Kaminsky was also a Preseason All-American first team selection by the Associated Press.^[5] Sporting News included Branden Dawson (1st team), Petteway and Dekker (2nd team), and Kaminsky (3rd team).^[6] USA Today selected Dekker to its first team, Dawson to its second team and Kaminsky, LeVert and Petteway to its third team.^[7] SB Nation included Kaminsky on its first team, Dekker and LeVert on its second team and Petteway on its third team.^[8] Sports Illustrated included Kaminsky on its first team and selected Dekker and LeVert to its second team.^[9] Bleacher Report selected Kaminsky and Petteway to its first team and LeVert and Dekker to its second team.^[10] Athlon Sports selected Dekker to its first team, LeVert and Kaminsky to its second team and Petteway to its third team.^[11] Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook selected Kaminsky as its preseason National Player of the Year and to its first team, while selecting Dekker and LeVert to its second team.^[12]

CBS

AP

TSN

USA Today

SB Nation

Blue Ribbon

Athlon Sports

Bleacher Report

NBC

BigTen.org

BTN

Sports Illustrated

Frank Kaminsky

2nd

1st

3rd

3rd

1st

1st

2nd

1st

2nd

Y

Y

1st

Yogi Ferrell

Y

Y

Caris LeVert

2nd

3rd

2nd

2nd

2nd

2nd

1st

Y

Y

2nd

Terran Petteway

2nd

2nd

3rd

3rd

3rd

1st

Y

Y

Sam Dekker

2nd

2nd

1st

2nd

2nd

1st

2nd

1st

Y

Y

2nd

Branden Dawson

1st

2nd

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

	Wooden	Naismith	Robertson	Cousy	Olson	Tisdale
James Blackmon, Jr. IND						Y
Branden Dawson MSU	Y	Y	Y		Y
Sam Dekker WIS	Y	Y	Y		Y
Yogi Ferrell IND	Y	Y		Y
Robert Johnson IND						Y
Frank Kaminsky WIS	Y	Y	Y		Y
Caris LeVert MICH	Y	Y	Y		Y
Terran Petteway NEB	Y	Y	Y		Y
D'Angelo Russell OSU		Y				Y
Melo Trimble MD				Y
Derrick Walton MICH				Y
Dez Wells MD	Y

Derrick Walton, Ferrell and Melo Trimble were among the 36 athletes on the Bob Cousy Award Preseason Watch List.^[13][14] LeVert, Dawson, Petteway, Dekker and Kaminsky were named to the Lute Olson Award Preseason Watch List.^[15] The Oscar Robertson Trophy Watch List included LeVert, Dawson, Petteway, Dekker and Kaminsky.^[16] James Blackmon, Jr., Robert Johnson, and D'Angelo Russell made the Wayman Tisdale Award Watch List.^[16]

Dawson, Dekker, Ferrell, Kaminsky, LeVert, Petteway and Dez Wells all made the Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 list.^[17][18] When the Naismith Award Top 50 list came out in early December, it included Dawson, Dekker, Ferrell, Kaminsky, LeVert, Petteway and Russell.^[19]

Preseason polls

Wisconsin was selected as the unanimous preseason favorite to win the conference championship by the members of the Big Ten Media. Michigan State and Ohio State were predicted to finish second and third in the same poll.^[1] The Big Ten Network poll had Wisconsin followed by Ohio State and Michigan State.^[2] Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2014–15_Big_Ten_Conference_men's_basketball_season
Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.