That's 12 years, no NCAA men's basketball titles for Big Ten

Ohio State blew it Saturday. Thus, the Big Ten is now without an NCAA men's basketball title for the 12th-straight year.

Since Michigan State cut down the nets in 2000, five championships have gone to the ACC (Duke 2, North Carolina 2, Maryland), three to the Big East (Connecticut 2, Syracuse), two to the SEC (Florida 2) and one to the Big 12 (Kansas).

Monday night, either the SEC or Big 12 adds another in Kentucky or Kansas.

Twelve years. The Big Ten has had four national runners-up in that time in Indiana (2002), Illinois (2005), Ohio State (2007) and Michigan State (2009). But they lost those championship games by an average of 10.8 points.

Twelve years. And just one in the last 23 years. The Big Ten didn't win a single national-title in the 1990s.

Kentucky is one win from its third national-title under three different coaches since 1996. Kansas is a win from its second national-championship in five years.

Twelve years.

But Kentucky and North Carolina will be "rebuilding" next year, and Kansas will surely lose Thomas Robinson. Maybe if Jared Sullinger and DeShaun Thomas stay in school for Ohio State. Many will say they should after OSU's second-half collapse against Kansas.  ... Maybe if Indiana can somehow persuade Cody Zeller to bypass the NBA's money for a year ...

Or maybe Kentucky's freshmen will dominate again.

Football, anyone? The SEC's stranglehold on national-titles in that sport is only six years old, and the Big Ten's championship-drought is only nine years.