We've turned a small corner in our unveiling of the Preseason Top 25 players of the Big Ten and before we get to our No. 20 player on the list, let's remind you of who made up the first five on the list. 

No. 25: Christian Bryant (S, Ohio State)
No. 24: Ryan Groy (OL, Wisconsin)
No. 23: Isaiah Lewis (S, Michigan State)
No. 22: Carlos Hyde (RB, Ohio State)
No. 21: Denicos Allen (LB, Michigan State)

After a defensive heavy first five will we see some more impact players on the offensive side of the ball in our list? Well, our No. 20 selection certainly is an impact player on the offensive side of the ball. 

Before we get into our No. 20 player, let us remind you of what criteria we used to make our Top 25 list. We used things like importance to your team, overall skill at your position, records set, past performance, conference honors (coaches, media, our list too), and the good old-fashioned eye test.

Now let's get into another reason why some have referred to Wisconsin as "Tight End U" as of late..... 

Welcome into our post-spring look at where the Big Ten stands in terms of talent. We got things kicked off yesterday with a look at our No. 25 player, Christian Bryant of Ohio State. Today we move on to a name that may surprise a few people, not because of the position or school this man comes from, but because he was perhaps overshadowed a lot in the past 24 months or so. 

Before we get there though, let us remind you of what criteria we used to make our Top 25 list. We used things like importance to your team, overall skill at your position, records set, past performance, conference honors (coaches, media, our list too), and the good old fashioned eye test.

Without further ado... let us dive into one of the most versatile players in the Big Ten.

This one comes to you courtesy of the "if you care about these sort of things" file. Wisconsin players have received their 2012 Big Ten championship rings, marking their 3rd straight conference title from this past season. Here is one look at the ring courtesy of kicker Kyle French's Facebook page:

Pretty plain and not super gaudy... of course we can't see the sides, but at least they aren't in your face about it... Or something like that.

Now, if only the Badgers could've found a way to win one of the last three Rose Bowl's and make this conference actually look good, huh? Then again, their just another team to fail in a long line of recent failure in the "Granddaddy of Them All," so perhaps that's asking too much... 

Will they get the chance to play for four straight this season? It's only happened once with Ohio State going from 1973 to 1976. 

When Wisconsin announced Gary Andersen as its new head coach in late December, there were no doubts that he was going to bring a fresh philosophy on both sides of the football. In the time since the hire, seemingly all of the talk centered on how far the offense would stray from “the Wisconsin tradition.”

A crowd of 12,050 descended upon Camp Randall on Saturday in hopes of getting their answer, firsthand.  Frankly, not much of the new playbook was on display. The offense was straightforward and the defense primarily base packages.  While, from what we’ve seen,  it’s hard to deny the presence of some new wrinkles and nuances, truth be told, it appears as though Andersen and offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig have teamed up to provide an approach which, at least on the surface, is no further from said tradition than Matt Canada’s philosophy of a year ago.

To many, the biggest headline was the absence of some of the bigger names on the roster. The returning conference champion Badgers lost just 10 letter winners from a season ago, but it would have been hard to discern that given the, largely, unfamiliar names on the field for the bulk of Saturday.

Among those held out of the contest were consensus first team All-Big Ten wideout Jared Abbrederis, linebacker Chris Borland, a first team All- Conference pick by the coaches and running back James White, who ranks second in the NCAA among active rushers in career rushing yards.

As it turned out, the lack of high-profile players opened the door for some of the lesser known talents on the squad to shine.

If you've been paying attention to championship week (and you should be) then you've already seen your share of buzzer beaters. However, the Big Ten hasn't seen a ton of them at all this year, but there's one team becoming adept at doing it and that's the Wisconsin Badgers. 

We all remember Ben Brust's magic over Michigan and on Sunday it was time for the other starting guard to do nearly the same thing. The only difference was the shot was just a smidge closer and from the other side. The result? Well, fancy a look for yourselves: 

Jackson finished the game with 15 points and 6 rebounds to lead Wisconsin in the hard fought 63-60 victory. The shot is even more amazing considering the fact that nearly two seconds earlier the Badgers nearly gave the game away on the original inbounds attempt. 

For a variety of reasons, the Wisconsin Badgers may be the least heralded three-time Big Ten Football Champions ever.

Sure, they were not technically division champions last year, but you can’t blame the Badgers for the lack of institutional discipline at Ohio State and Penn State.

No, their brand of play isn’t sexy. They grind it out on the offensive side of the ball in hopes of winning the time of possession, an approach that is made effective by a consistent core of talent at running back and some of the largest offensive linemen found in captivity.

Their defense, generally speaking, is very stout particularly against the run. Combine these two factors and you have a lot of low-scoring bouts, a hard sell to the average fan in a world of college football where defense may still win championships, but offense is generally predicated on the high-flying spread attack.

The 2013 season took an unexpected turn before the 2012 season was even over. Shortly after Wisconsin’s stomping of Nebraska in the Big Ten Championship game, then-head coach Bret Bielema announced that he was leaving the school for, what he felt were, greener pastures at Arkansas.

UW eventually tabbed former Utah State head coach Gary Andersen as their new head man. Andersen can count himself as one of the few coaches to ever inherit a program that was arguably at its peak. But, with that luxury come high expectations.

Wisconsin won in dramatic fashion thanks to Ben Brust... at least that's what the headlines will tell you. Yes, it's true Brust hit the game tying three pointer from just inside the half-court stripe and yes it's true that Brust hit the game winning three pointer with 39.6 seconds remaining. 

However, when you hit the rewind button on this game there's a play that on any other night would've been the lead story and on Saturday afternoon it was a play that happened just 30 seconds earlier that even made it possible and it's a play equally as exciting as the buzzer-beater that sent the Kohl Center crowd into a frenzy. We are talking about Jared Berggren's posterization of one Trey Burke:

In fact, one could argue that the crowd was already in a frenzy because of this play. As you can see the Badgers were down by three before Berggren went all point-forward on McGary and the rest of the Wolverines. So, without this play the Badgers aren't in a position to even get a tie at the end of the game. Berggren stepped up, hit the free throw and made it 57-57 with 30 seconds left.

One has to wonder if it's Jared Berggren's personal mission to posterize every likely member of the All-Big Ten team. He's already got Victor Oladipo and Trey Burke off the list... Who's next? Well, it could be Rodney Williams or Dre Hollins as Minnesota is up next for Bucky. 

Michigan fans have got to hate seeing the ball in the hands of a Wisconsin sharp-shooter with the game on the line in the waning seconds of the game. Why? Well, on Saturday Ben Brust did this to put the game into OT:

All that proceeded this was Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. hitting a clutch trey of his own to virtually seal the deal - or so most thought. Too bad they forgot that Ben Brust has done this once before too.

Safe to say you may want to foul this guy instead of letting him handle the ball period with the game on the line? Wisconsin went on to win the game on another Ben Brust three with 39 seconds left in OT, defeating No. 3 Michigan 65-62 in Madison.

Raise your hand if you thought Wisconsin would be sitting atop the Big Ten standings on Jan. 16th, 2013? Not even the most diehard of the Cardinal and White lovers would've told you that would be the case, especially not after back-to-back games against ranked opponents. After all they hadn't beaten a ranked opponent all season long. Yet, after a 64-59 victory over Indiana - their 5th straight at Assembly Hall and 11th straight overall over the Hoosiers - here we sit the morning after with the Badgers alone at the top of the Big Ten heap. They've also won 7 straight games since a 10 point loss to Marquette on the road in early December.

However, as improbable as all of that sounds perhaps the better question is can the Badgers stay atop of the standings? This isn't the normal Big Ten season to say the least and that alone would lead you to believe it unlikely that the Badgers stay atop the standings. I mean, take a look at just how difficult it's been to win on the road in the Big Ten this season, especially against ranked opponents. Just ask Michigan State and Ohio State what it's like - it ain't fun or pretty.

So, that alone goes against the Badgers, but so to does the schedule Wisconsin plays, at least according to conventional wisdom. Let's just take a look at it's next 8 games, shall we? Over the next 9 games the Badgers schedule looks like this: at Iowa, vs. No. 18 Michigan State, vs. No. 9 Minnesota, @ No. 11 Ohio State, @ No. 23 Illinois, vs. Iowa, vs. No. 5 Michigan, @ No. 9 Minnesota, vs. No. 11 Ohio State. 

Well, it took all of three nights, but I think we may just have our leader in the clubhouse for "Dunk of the Year" in conference play and it belongs to a name you're not likely to be thinking of - Wisconsin's Jared Berggren - who threw down a posterization on poor Sasa Borovnjack. 

This came at a crucial moment as well with Wisconsin needing a spark in the second half to extend a lead that was beginning to slip away. This was the last of what were four SportsCenter worthy dunks, two by Berggren and two by Penn State's D.J. Newbill.

All of those dunks should be added to a great resource, the BTN.com Dunk Archive shortly, so check it out to see the rest of these dunks.

It's the first you've gotta see this moment of the season in my book, what say you?