The Big Ten is a guard-heavy conference—everyone knows that.

The league boasts some of the best men in the business: Michigan State's Kalin Lucas, Purdue's Etwaun Moore, and Illinois' Demetri McCamey.

All three men are certainly in the mix for the league's prestigious "player of the year" honor, but there's another name that has stood out for the last half of the season: Ohio State's Evan Turner.

After his superb showing in East Lansing last Sunday (74-67 OSU win) while fighting the flu and hostile environment at the Breslin Center, Turner all but crowned himself as the man to beat in the Big Ten's POTY race. The National Player of the Year candidate not only scored 20 points against Tom Izzo's Spartans, but he put...

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