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.

There might be more questions than answers after the first month of the season, but the current parity in women's college basketball has given us great entertainment. The CBS Sports Power Rankings saw a lot of movement this week,