Long known as a football school, Ohio State has surpassed its Big Ten rivals in the category of most current NBA players. Seven of the conference's 30 NBA players were members of the Buckeyes.

Its 2007-2009 one and done center trilogy of Greg Oden, Kosta Koufos and B.J. Mullens may all be hanging by a tread and Michael Redd is an NBA player in name only at this point, Mike Conley and Evan Turner are each playing substantial minutes.

Conley signed a five-year, $45 million extension with the Grizzlies just before the deadline.

Turner was the second overall pick and is being brought along, albeit slowly, by the Sixers.

Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans have five former players, with the youngest being Shannon Brown. Brown was drafted in 2006, while Jason Richardson, Zach Randolph and Charlie Bell were members of the 2001 class and Morris Peterson dates back to 2000.

Juwan Howard, the Big Ten's oldest current NBA player, is one of four former Wolverines. But one of those four players, Ekpe Udoh, left Ann Arbor for Baylor.

Like Michigan, Indiana has four former players on NBA rosters, and one that transfered.

Illinois and Purdue have three former players apiece, while Minnesota has two and Iowa and Wisconsin have one representative.

Neither Penn State or Northwestern have a player currently on an NBA roster, as the Calvin Booth and Evan Eschmeyer battles of the late 1990s are now in the distant past.

The Big Ten will get no help from Nebraska when they join the conference next season. The Cornhuskers don't currently have a former player in the NBA and haven't had a first rounder selected since Tyronn Lue in 1998.

While individual NBA success has been somewhat meager for the Big Ten of late, Deron Williams was joined by Randolph on the Western Conference All-Star team in 2010.

Illinois
Brian Cook, 2003
Luther Head, 2005
Deron Williams, 2005

Indiana
Jordan Crawford (Xavier), 2010
Eric Gordon, 2008
Jared Jeffries, 2002
D.J. White, 2008

Iowa
Reggie Evans, 1998

Michigan
Jamal Crawford, 2000
Manny Harris, 2010
Juwan Howard, 1994
Ekpe Udoh (Baylor), 2010

Michigan State
Charlie Bell, 2001
Shannon Brown, 2006
Morris Peterson, 2000
Zach Randolph, 2001
Jason Richardson, 2001

Minnesota
Kris Humpries, 2004
Joel Przybilla, 2000

Ohio State
Daequan Cook, 2007
Mike Conley, 2007
Kosta Koufos, 2008
B.J. Mullens, 2009
Greg Oden, 2007
Michael Redd, 2000
Evan Turner, 2010

Purdue
Brian Cardinal, 2000
Carl Landry, 2007
Brad Miller, 1998

Wisconsin
Devin Harris, 2004