Michigan State basketball got the exact results it needed on Sunday: a win over Wisconsin and a Michigan loss to Illinois.

USC women’s basketball dominated crosstown rival UCLA at Pauley Pavilion. With the victory, the Women of Troy claimed their first Big Ten regular season title in their first year in the conference. It was widely expected that the Trojans were going to be very good this year.

Show Caption1 of 37 Head coach Lindsay Gottlieb of the USC Trojans holds up the championship trophy as she celebrates with her team after defeating the UCLA Bruins 80-67 to win a NCAA women’s basketball game and the BIG 10 Championship at Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Saturday,

Two of the top teams in the Big Ten this season meet on Sunday afternoon when No. 11 Wisconsin takes on No. 8 Michigan State in men's college basketball.

The race for the Big Ten regular-season title will come down to the final week of the regular season with No. 8 Michigan State and No. 11 Wisconsin's battle at the Breslin Center on Sunday looming large with implications for the conference and beyond.

Both Michigan State and in-state rival Michigan enter the weekend deadlocked atop the Big Ten leaderboard, each boasting a 14-3 conference record. Meanwhile, Wisconsin remains in