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2025 Big Ten men's basketball tournament
2025 Big Ten men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2024–25
Teams	15
Site	Gainbridge Fieldhouse; Indianapolis, Indiana
Television	Peacock, BTN, CBS/Paramount+
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2024–25 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 16 Michigan State	4	–	0	1.000	13	–	2	.867
No. 24 Michigan	4	–	0	1.000	12	–	3	.800
Indiana	4	–	1	.800	13	–	3	.813
No. 13 Illinois	4	–	1	.800	12	–	3	.800
No. 20 Purdue	4	–	1	.800	12	–	4	.750
No. 15 Oregon	3	–	2	.600	14	–	2	.875
Wisconsin	3	–	2	.600	13	–	3	.813
Nebraska	2	–	2	.500	12	–	3	.800
Iowa	2	–	2	.500	11	–	4	.733
Maryland	2	–	3	.400	12	–	4	.750
Penn State	2	–	3	.400	12	–	4	.750
No. 22 UCLA	2	–	3	.400	11	–	5	.688
Ohio State	2	–	3	.400	10	–	6	.625
Northwestern	1	–	3	.250	10	–	5	.667
USC	1	–	3	.250	9	–	6	.600
Washington	1	–	4	.200	10	–	6	.625
Rutgers	1	–	4	.200	8	–	8	.500
Minnesota	0	–	5	.000	8	–	8	.500

† 2025 Big Ten tournament winner As of January 10, 2025 Rankings from AP Poll

The 2025 Big Ten men's basketball tournament (branded as the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament for sponsorship reasons) is a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season which will take place from March 12–16, 2025. The tournament will be held at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tournament winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

This will be the first season in the current tournament format as the conference expanded to 18 teams.^[1] The conference announced that only 15 teams will participate with the bottom three teams not qualifying for the tournament.^[2]

Seeds

The top 15 Big Ten schools will participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 9 teams receive a first round bye and the top four teams receive a double bye.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreak 1	Tiebreak 2	Tiebreak 3
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
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13
14
15
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 12
1	1	3:30 pm	No. 12 vs. No. 13	Peacock
	2	25 mins after Game 1	No. 11 vs. No. 14
	3	25 mins after Game 2	No. 10 vs. No. 15
Second round – Thursday, March 13
2	4	12:00 pm	No. 8 vs. No. 9	BTN
2	5	25 mins after Game 4	No. 5 vs.
3	6	6:30 pm	No. 7 vs.
3	7	25 mins after Game 6	No. 6 vs.
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 14
4	8	12:00 pm	No. 1 vs.	BTN
4	9	25 mins after Game 8	No. 4 vs.
5	10	6:30 pm	No. 2 vs.
5	11	25 mins after Game 10	No. 3 vs.
Semifinals – Saturday, March 15
6	12	1:00 pm	vs.	CBS
6	13	25 mins after Game 12	vs.	CBS
Championship – Sunday, March 16
7	14	3:30 pm	vs.	CBS

*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding. ^[3]

Bracket


First round Wednesday, March 12 Peacock	Second round Thursday, March 13 BTN	Quarterfinals Friday, March 14 BTN	Semifinals Saturday, March 15 CBS	Championship Sunday, March 16 CBS



		1

	8

	9



		4

	5

12

13

		2

	7

10

15

		3

	6

11

14

* denotes overtime period

Game summaries