After a busy Thanksgiving week, teams in the Big Ten will begin stepping into conference play this week. It'll be an interesting gauge to see where each team stands.

With Big Ten play beginning this week, we can finally add a head-to-head element to these theoretical comparisons. Everyone plays two league games over the next two weeks — one at home, one on the road. Those programs who have hidden from competition in the first month of the season must come out of hiding.

A slew of interesting results in big ranked matchups and Thanksgiving tournaments have caused some shakeup in the USA TODAY Sports Network's third Big Ten women's basketball power rankings. Many teams are finally getting tested in the non-conference,