Ohio State battled its way to the top of the team leader board on Day Three at the 2010 Big Ten Championships in front of a home crowd at McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The Buckeyes will enter the final day of competition with 592.50 team points with Michigan trailing close behind in second place with 512.50 team tallies.

The pair of frontrunners distanced themselves from the field by 190 points as Minnesota sits in third with 321 points, The Gophers are followed by Purdue (262) and Indiana (193) rounding out the top five.

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Michigan surged to an early lead after the first day of competition at the Big Ten Championships at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio. The sixth-ranked Wolverines swept both relay events, including a record-setting performance in the 800-yard freestyle relay on Wednesday evening to earn all 80 points.

Championships host Ohio State finished the day in second place with 68 team tallies, followed by Minnesota with 62 points. Penn State sits a mere two points back in fourth place while Michigan State (54) rounds out the top five. READ MORE ...

The McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion on the campus of Ohio State University will play host to the 2010 Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships. Competition begins Wednesday, Feb. 24, with the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays, and concludes with the highly anticipated 400 freestyle relay on Saturday, Feb. 27. Each day throughout the event, competition will begin at Noon ET with preliminary heats, while the finals will be contested at 7 p.m. ET nightly.

The Big Ten Network will air the meet on a tape delay on March 7 at Noon ET. In addition, Ohio State will offer live streaming of the event on ohiostatebuckeyes.com.

Look here for more information, including a schedule of events, national rankings, championships history and more.

Nick Fulton is the National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative for the Big 10 Conference and the current Chair of the committee. He spent the last year serving as the Vice-Chair. Nick graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2009 with a dual degree in Political Science and Economics. As a Swimming Student-Athlete, he competed in the 100 and 200 Backstroke events for the Badgers.

Look here to see what Nick had to say about competing at the Division-I level and his experience as a National SAAC representative.

Indiana's Titus Knight and Purdue's David Boudia earned the nod as Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively, the Big Ten Conference office announced today.

In a dual meet against Purdue, Knight touched the wall first in every event he swam last weekend while registering two NCAA provisional qualifying marks in the 100 and 200 freestyle events. In the diving competition, Boudia earned season-best scores to sweep the springboard events. READ MORE ...