Big Ten tournament 2025: Projected seeds, schedule, tiebreaker

The regular 2024-25 college basketball season joins the home route, with March Madness approaching quickly. The conference game heats up across the country, and the big ten tournament will be here before we know.

The 2025 Big Ten men's basketball tournament takes place in the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The conference tournament begins with three games in the first round on March 12th and ends with the championship game on March 16.

The top 15 teams in the league will take part in the Big Ten tournament, while the lower three do not qualify. The nine best seeds of the conference get a goodbye in the first round, while the four best seeds can handle the first two rounds.

The Big Ten tournament champion has an automatic offer for the 68-team field for the NCAA tournament 2025, which includes 31 automatic qualification features and 37 AT large offers. The full NCAA tournament field will be completed on Sunday, March 16 and the bracket will be unveiled on CBS during the March Madness Selection Show.

The current big ten rating can be seen below with the full schedule for the 2025 Big Ten tournament and the TIE BREAKING procedure from Conference.

Big ten Conference rating

(Updated by March 4)

1. Michigan State Spartan (15-3)
2. Michigan Wolverines (14-4)
3. Purdue Boilermakers (13-6)
4. Maryland Terrapins (12-6)
5. Wisconsin Badgers (12-6)
6. Ucla Bruins (12-7)
7. Illinois Fight Illini (11-8)
8. Oregon Ducks (11-8)
9. Indiana Hoosiers (9-10)
10. Ohio State Buckeyes (9-10)
11. Minnesota Golden Gopher (7-11)
12. Rutgers Scarlet Knights (7-12)
13. Nebraska Cornhuskers (7-12)
14. Northwest Wildcats (7-12)
15. USC Trojan (6-12)
16. Iowa Hawkeyes (6-12)
17. Penn State Nittany Lions (5-14)
18. Washington Huskies (4-14)

2025 Big Ten tournament plan

Note: All times Eastern.

First round (Wed., March 12)
Game 1: No. 12 Seed vs. No. 13 Seed | 3:30 p.m. | peacock
Game 2: No. 10 Seed vs. No. 15 Seed | 6 p.m. | peacock
Game 3: No. 11 Seed vs. No. 14 Seed | 8:30 p.m. | peacock

Second round (Thu., March 13)
Game 4: No. 8 Seed vs. No. 9 Seed | Lunch | Big ten Network
Game 5: No. 5 seed vs. game 1 winner | 2:30 p.m. | Big ten Network
Game 6: No. 7 Seed vs. game 2 winners | 6:30 p.m. | Big ten Network
Game 7: No. 6 Seed vs. game 3 winners | 9 p.m. | Big ten Network

Quarter -finals (Fri., March 14)
Game 8: No. 1 Seed vs. game 4 winners | Lunch | Big ten Network
Game 9: No. 4 Seed vs. game 5 winners | 2:30 p.m. | Big ten Network
Game 10: No. 2 seed vs. game 6 winners | 6:30 p.m. | Big ten Network
Game 11: No. 3 Seed vs. game 7 winner | 9 p.m. | Big ten Network

Half -final (Sat., March 15th)
Game 12: game 8 winners against game 9 winners | 1 p.m. | CBS
Game 13: game 10 winners against game 11 winners | 3:30 p.m. | CBS

Championship game (Sun., March 16)
Game 14: game 12 winners against game 13 winners | 3:30 p.m. | CBS

Big ten tiebreaker

Tiebreaker procedure for tournament seeds

1. The teams are set in tournament class No. 1 in the tournament bracket based on the last conference of the regular season.

2. The seeds of a team should correspond to its regular season finish (ie the champion is the seed No. 1, the second place in the No. 2 seeds, etc.).

3. Teams who ended in regular season No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 receive a “goodbye” in the first two rounds.

4. In the event of a tie for every place in the regular season, the following procedure is pursued to sow teams in the tournament bracket:

A. bonds with two teams:

1. Results of the head-to-head competition during the regular season.

2. The record of each team compared to the team, which takes up the highest position in the final start page of the regular season (or in the event of a draw for the championship, the next height position in the regular season) and continues through the overall ranking until a team receives an advantage.

• A. When arriving in another couple of tied teams when comparing the records, use the record of each team against the collective teams as a group (before their own tie -breaking methods) and not the performance against the individual tied teams.
• For example, when comparing records with a single team or a group of teams, there is a higher profit percentage, even if the number of games played against the team or group is unequal (ie 2-0 is better than 3-1, 2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0: 0).

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4. The highest net ranking of the teams. Netto rankings that will be published on the last Friday of the regular season are used.

B. ties with more than two teams:

1. Results of the head-to-head competition during the regular season.

• A. When comparing recordings with the tied teams, the teams are sown due to the group's percentage profit in the group, even if the number of games played against the team or group is unequal (ie 2-0 is better than 3-1, but 2-0 is no better than 1: 0 or 0: 0). If all teams under the group are separated due to the profit percentage, all bonds are broken. Ties are considered separate when a team (s) arises from the upper, medium or lower group and is awarded a seed.
  
• For example, as soon as a seed has been given, all remaining teams have to restart the tiebreak process in the first criteria (e.g. if there is a four-team dungeon, a team with 4: 0, another is 3-1 and the last two are 2: 2, the two teams that change 2: 2 (head and head teams), and the teams, the teams, the 4: 0 and the teams. 3: 1 and 3: 1.

2. If the remaining teams are still bound, every record of the respective team is compared to the team, in which the highest position in the last route of the regular season occurs and is continued by the overall ranking until a team gains an advantage.

• A. When arriving in another couple of tied teams when comparing the records, use the record of each team against the collective teams as a group (before their own tie -breaking methods) and not the performance against the individual tied teams.
• For example, when comparing records with a single team or a group of teams, there is a higher profit percentage, even if the number of games played against the team or group is unequal (ie 2-0 is better than 3-1, 2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0: 0).

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4. The highest net ranking of the teams. Netto rankings that will be published on the last Friday of the regular season are used.