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2025 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament: schedule, clip, recent history, television/streaming information

The last 2025 Big ten men's tournament -logo clip.

format

Traditional bracket

Website

The Big Ten tournament takes place again in the Gainsbridge Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis after having spent last year in the Target Center in Minneapolis.

There is a television/streaming change for 2025, with Peacock being taking Triplesheaders from the Big Ten network on Wednesday on Wednesday. (I'm still as a BTN, damn.)

Participant

As mentioned in the ACC tournament primer, the easiest way is to secure the top half of an 18-team conference, at least one bye, you have to drop three teams. This year this means Nebraska (17-14, 7-13, T12); Penn State (16-15, 6-14, 17th); Washington (13-18, 4-16, 18th). The hopeful hopes of the Cornhuskers are basically toast after they lost to Iowa at home on Sunday and ended up as a fifth team in a five-way difference for the 12th place. That is 16. And not good enough to make it to Indy.

All times are PM Eastern, unless specified. Games with an asterisk

are the second of a Doubleader, so the tip is approximate.

First round (Wed., March 12) Game 1:(13) Northwestern 72
(12) Minnesota (15-17, 7-13) 64 Game 2:(15) Iowa 77
(10) State of Ohio (17-15, 9-11) 70 Game 3:(14) USC 97

(11) Rutgers (15-17, 8-12) 89 (2ot)

Second round (Thu., March 13) Game 4: (9) Indiana (19-13, 10-10) 59,
(8) Oregon 72 Game 5: (13) Northwestern (17-16, 7-13) 63,
(5) Wisconsin 70 Game 6: (15) Iowa (17-16, 7-13) 94,
(7) Illinois 106 Game 7: (14) USC (16-17, 7-13) 71,

(6) Purdue 76

Quarter -finals (Fri., March 14) Game 8: (8) Oregon (24-9, 12-8) 64,
(1) Michigan State 74 Game 9:(5) Wisconsin 86
(4) UCLA (22-10, 13-7) 70 Game 10: (7) Illinois (21-12, 12-8) 65,
(2) Maryland 88 Game 11: (6) Purdue (22-11, 13-7) 68,

(3) Michigan 86

Half -final (Sat., March 16) Game 12:(5) Wisconsin 77
(1) State Michigan (27-6, 17-3) 74 Game 13:(3) Michigan 81

(2) Maryland (25-8, 14-6) 80

Championship (Sun., March 17) Game 14: (5) Wisconsin (26-9, 13-7) 53,

(3) Michigan (25-9, 14-6) 59 Data originally published by Bob Vetrone Jr. on Twitter

In 2020 with my own additions to the seasons beyond.

  • Nine of the last 14 big ten tournaments were either won by the 1 or 2 seeds, with 4, 6, 7 and all seeds of 9 down. 1 seed (5):
  • 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2023 2 seeds (4):
  • 2013, 2016, 2021, 2024 5 seeds (2):
  • 2018, 2022 3 seeds (1);
  • 2014 8 seeds (1):
  • 2017 9 bids (2):
  • 2021 (8-9 record, 14 teams), 2022 (9-9, 14) 8 bids (1):
  • 2019 (13-8 record, 14 teams), 2023 (6-8, 14) 7 bids (5):
  • 2011 (7-7 Record, 11 teams), 2013 (14-7, 12), 2015 (12-7, 14), 2016 (8-7, 14), 2017 (8-7, 14) 6 bids (3):
  • 2012 (11-6 record, 12 teams), 2014 (10-6, 12), 2024 (10-6, 14) 4 bids (1):

2018 (3-9 record, 14 teams)

Surprisingly, the NCAA win from Big Ten with six repetitions in 2024 was better than eight or nine between 2021 and 2023. There is a good chance that the 2025 conference would have double figures, although Nebraska's inability to easily qualify this quest. Illinois:
2024 (2 seeds) Oregon:
2024 (4 seeds, PAC-12) Purdue:
2023 (1 seed) Iowa:
2022 (5 seeds) Michigan State:
2019 (1 seed) Michigan:
2018 (5 seeds) Wisconsin:
2015 (1 seed) UCLA:
2014 (2 seed, PAC-12) Ohio state:
2013 (2 seeds) Washington:
2011 (3 seeds, PAC-12) USC:
2009 (6 Seed, PAC-12) Maryland:
2004 (6 seed, acc) Nebraska:
1994 (4 Seed, Big eight) Penn State:
1991 (3 Seed, Atlantic 10) Rutgers:

1989 (3 Seed, Atlantic 10)

Remember that the Big Ten tournament only started in 1998, so it should not be too surprising that long-term members of Indiana, Minnesota and North Western have not recorded a single conference tournament (although it is a slight shock in the case of Hoosiers). Maryland, Nebraska, Penn State and Rutgers won all titles in previous conferences. This year's tournament has two defending champion tournament champion in Illinois and Oregon, the last PAC-12 champion before the league took a two-year break.