With a win against Indiana on March 7, 2020, Wisconsin earned a share of the Big Ten regular season championship.

[1] With a win over Michigan on March 8, Maryland earned a share of their first Big Ten regular season championship.

[11] Nine days later, the school hired former Michigan player and member of the "Fab Five" Juwan Howard as head coach.

Michigan State was the near unanimous selection to win the conference, receiving 27 of 28 first-place votes.

[14] On October 2, 2019, a panel of conference media selected a 10-member preseason All-Big Ten Team and Player of the Year.

Cassius Winston was named the Naismith National Player of the Week on January 6, 2020.

For the 44th consecutive season, the Big Ten Conference led the nation in average attendance.

Wisconsin (6th, 16,912), Indiana (10th, 16,300), Nebraska (11th, 15,605), Maryland (13th, 15,336), Purdue (16th, 14,804), Michigan State (17th, 14,797), Ohio State (18th, 14,531), Illinois (24th, 13,041), Michigan (26th, 12,539) and Iowa (27th, 12,357) were all among the top 30 of the 350 schools that host Division I basketball.

[56] On March 10, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association released its Men's All-District Teams, based upon voting from its national membership.