Both official and unofficial Big Ten preseason predictions see Indiana as a serious force in the conference.

Two Hoosiers, senior forward Juwan Morgan and freshman guard Romeo Langford, landed preseason All-Big Ten honors Thursday, as awarded by a conference-organized media vote.

Morgan also landed on the preseason All-Big Ten first team via a poll organized by Brendan Quinn of The Athletic. That same vote saw Langford picked as unanimous preseason conference freshman of the year. It also tipped the Hoosiers to finish third in the 14-team conference, behind only Michigan State and Michigan.

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The Big Ten itself has scaled down preseason voting in recent seasons. This year's ballot only asked for a 10-player preseason all-league team and a preseason player of the year.

Quinn's poll in The Athletic asked for a five-player preseason all-conference team, a projected conference finish (1-14), a preseason player of the year and a preseason freshman of the year. It polled two media members in each Big Ten press corps, of which I was one.

Here are the results of both polls, starting with the Big Ten's official 10-man team:

Big Ten

Preseason player of the year: Carsen Edwards, Purdue.

Preseason All-Big Ten team: Edwards; Ethan Happ, Wisconsin; Langford and Morgan, Indiana; Anthony Cowan, Maryland; Charles Matthews, Michigan; Nick Ward and Cassius Winston, Michigan State; Jordan Murphy, Minnesota; James Palmer Jr., Nebraska.

The Athletic

Projected finish

1 Michigan State

2 Michigan

3 Indiana

4 Nebraska

5 Purdue

6 Wisconsin

7 Maryland

8 Ohio State

9 Minnesota

10 Iowa

11 Penn State

12 Northwestern

13 Illinois

14 Rutgers

Preseason All-Big Ten team: Edwards, Happ, Palmer, Winston, Morgan.

Preseason player of the year: Edwards.

Preseason freshman of the year: Langford.

Osterman's ballot(s)

How I voted in each poll ...

BIG TEN

Preseason player of the year: Edwards.

Preseason All-Big Ten team: Edwards, Morgan, Happ, Winston, Palmer, Murphy, Cowan, Ward, Iowa forward Tyler Cook, Minnesota guard/forward Amir Coffey.

THE ATHLETIC

Projected finish

1. Michigan State

2. Wisconsin

3. Indiana

4. Michigan

5. Ohio State

6. Purdue

7. Nebraska

8. Minnesota

9. Iowa

10. Maryland

11. Northwestern

12. Penn State

13. Rutgers

14. Illinois

Preseason player of the year: Edwards.

Preseason All-Big Ten team: Edwards, Happ, Morgan, Winston, Palmer.

Preseason freshman of the year: Langford.

Follow IndyStar reporter Zach Osterman on Twitter: @ZachOsterman.