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Big Ten men's basketball tournament
Big Ten men's basketball tournament
Sport	College basketball
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Number of teams	15
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	Target Center
Current location	Minneapolis, MN
Played	1998–present
Last contest	2024
Current champion	Illinois Fighting Illini (4)
Most championships	Michigan State (6)
TV partner(s)	CBS (semifinals/championship); Big Ten Network (second and third rounds); Peacock (first round)
Official website	Big Ten Men's Basketball
Sponsors
	SoFi
Host stadiums
	United Center (1998–2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2023, 2026); Gainbridge Fieldhouse (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008–12, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025, 2027); Verizon Center (2017); Madison Square Garden (2018); Lucas Oil Stadium (2021); Target Center (2024); T-Mobile Arena (2028)

The Big Ten men's basketball tournament is held annually at the end of the men's college basketball regular season. The tournament has been played each year since 1998. The winner of the tournament is designated the Big Ten Tournament Champion, and receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Big Ten was one of the last NCAA Division I college basketball conferences to start a tournament.

The finals of the tournament are typically held immediately before the field for the NCAA Tournament is announced, although in 2018 it was held the week before Selection Sunday.

On seven occasions, the champion of the tournament has gone on to reach the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament (Michigan State in 1999, 2000, and 2019, Illinois in 2005, Ohio State in 2007, Wisconsin in 2015, and Michigan in 2018). In 2000, champion Michigan State won the NCAA tournament. The No. 1 seed has won the tournament ten times, the most of any seed. The lowest seed to win the tournament was Michigan as a No. 8 seed in 2017. Three schools have won two consecutive championships: Michigan State (1999, 2000), Ohio State (2010, 2011), and Michigan (2017, 2018).

Host

The Big Ten Men's Basketball tournaments have been held at neutral sites every year. The first four tournaments were held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Beginning in 2002, the tournament alternated between the United Center and Conseco Fieldhouse (later known as Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and now as Gainbridge Fieldhouse) in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2008, the tournament began a five-year stay in Indianapolis.^[1]

On June 5, 2011, the Big Ten announced that the tournament would revert to alternating between Indianapolis and Chicago. The 2013 and 2015 tournaments were played at the United Center in Chicago and the 2014 and 2016 tournaments were played at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.^[2]

The 2017 tournament was held at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.^[3]^[4] The 2018 tournament was held at Madison Square Garden in New York and held a week earlier than usual due to the Big East tournament, ending on March 4, 2018, one week before Selection Sunday.^[5]^[6]^[7]

The 2019 through 2022 Tournaments returned to alternating between the United Center in Chicago and Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.^[8] On February 9, 2021, it was announced that the 2021 edition would be moved from its planned location of the United Center in Chicago to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis due to health and safety protocols relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was held at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in 2022 as planned before returning to Chicago in 2023.^[9]

On April 20, 2022, the Big Ten announced that Minneapolis will host the 2024 edition at the Target Center for the first time.^[10] On July 31, 2024, the Big Ten announced the Tournament locations from 2025 through 2028, with the 2025 and 2027 editions being held at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the 2026 edition being held at the United Center, and for the first time, the 2028 edition being held at the T-Mobile Arena.^[11]

Vacated results

Due to various rulings against participating programs, some of the results of the Big Ten tournament have been vacated or voided. Here is a compiled list of sanctions imposed that have affected the results and records of the tournament since its inception. The information in this article does not include results of the teams in which records were vacated.

Because of the Minnesota academic scandal, the NCAA has vacated the postseason tournament records for the Minnesota basketball team from the 1993–94 season through the 1998–99 season.^[12] Minnesota had a record of 2–1 in the 1998 tournament and went 0–1 in 1999.
Because of the Ed Martin scandal, the NCAA vacated the records for the Michigan basketball team from the 1995–96 season through the 1998–99 season, including the 1998 and 1999 Big Ten tournaments.^[13] Michigan had won the Tournament championship in 1998 with a 3–0 record, and had a record of 1–1 in 1999.
The NCAA has vacated most NCAA records for the Ohio State basketball team from the 1998–99 season through the 2001–02 season,^[14] including the 1999, 2001, and 2002 Big Ten tournaments. Ohio State had a record of 1–1 in the 1999 Tournament, went 0–1 in 2001, and had won the championship in 2002.

Results by year

Year	Champion	Seed	Score	Runner-up	Seed	Most Outstanding Player	Site
1998	Michigan^{[note 1]}	4	76–67	Purdue	3	Robert Traylor, Michigan^{[note 1]}	United Center, Chicago
1999	Michigan State	1	67–50	Illinois	11	Mateen Cleaves, Michigan State
2000	Michigan State	2	76–61	Illinois	4	Morris Peterson, Michigan State
2001	Iowa	6	63–61	Indiana	4	Reggie Evans, Iowa
2002	Ohio State^{[note 2]}	2	81–64	Iowa	9	Boban Savovic, Ohio State^{[note 2]}	Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2003	Illinois	2	72–59	Ohio State	8	Brian Cook, Illinois	United Center, Chicago
2004	Wisconsin	2	70–53	Illinois	1	Devin Harris, Wisconsin	Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2005	Illinois	1	54–43	Wisconsin	3	James Augustine, Illinois	United Center, Chicago
2006	Iowa	2	67–60	Ohio State	1	Jeff Horner, Iowa	Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2007	Ohio State	1	66–49	Wisconsin	2	Greg Oden, Ohio State	United Center, Chicago
2008	Wisconsin	1	61–48	Illinois	10	Marcus Landry, Wisconsin	Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2009	Purdue	3	65–61	Ohio State	5	Robbie Hummel, Purdue
2010	Ohio State	1	90–61	Minnesota	6	Evan Turner, Ohio State
2011	Ohio State	1	71–60	Penn State	6	Jared Sullinger, Ohio State
2012	Michigan State	1	68–64	Ohio State	3	Draymond Green, Michigan State
2013	Ohio State	2	50–43	Wisconsin	4	Aaron Craft, Ohio State	United Center, Chicago
2014	Michigan State	3	69–55	Michigan	1	Branden Dawson, Michigan State	Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2015	Wisconsin	1	80–69^OT	Michigan State	3	Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin	United Center, Chicago
2016	Michigan State	2	66–62	Purdue	4	Denzel Valentine, Michigan State	Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2017	Michigan	8	71–56	Wisconsin	2	Derrick Walton, Michigan	Verizon Center, Washington, D.C.
2018	Michigan	5	75–66	Purdue	3	Moritz Wagner, Michigan	Madison Square Garden, New York City
2019	Michigan State	1	65–60	Michigan	3	Cassius Winston, Michigan State	United Center, Chicago
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Illinois	2	91–88^OT	Ohio State	5	Ayo Dosunmu, Illinois	Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis
2022	Iowa	5	75–66	Purdue	3	Keegan Murray, Iowa	Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2023	Purdue	1	67–65	Penn State	10	Zach Edey, Purdue	United Center, Chicago
2024	Illinois	2	93–87	Wisconsin	5	Terrence Shannon Jr., Illinois	Target Center, Minneapolis
2025							Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2026							United Center, Chicago
2027							Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis
2028							T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas

School records

Through 2024 tournament

School	Record	Winning pct	Championships	Runners-up	Title Years
Michigan State	35–20	.636	6	1	1999, 2000, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019
Ohio State	34–19^{[note 2]}	.642	4	5	2007, 2010, 2011, 2013
Illinois	34–22	.607	4	4	2003, 2005, 2021, 2024
Michigan	25–22^{[note 1]}	.532	2	2	2017, 2018
Wisconsin	29–23	.558	3	5	2004, 2008, 2015
Iowa	22–23	.489	3	1	2001, 2006, 2022
Purdue	20–24	.455	2	4	2009, 2023
Minnesota	19–24^{[note 3]}	.442	0	1
Penn State	21–26	.447	0	2
Indiana	17–26	.395	0	1
Rutgers	5–9	.357	0	0
Nebraska	6–13	.316	0	0
Maryland	5–9	.357	0	0
Northwestern	10–27	.270	0	0
Oregon	0-0	–	0	0
Washington	0-0	–	0	0
UCLA	0-0	–	0	0
USC	0-0	–	0	0

Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, and Rutgers have yet to make an appearance in a Big Ten Men's Basketball Championship Game.

Performance by team

Through 2024 tournament^[13]

Teams (# of titles)		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020*	2021	2022	2023	2024
B1G (26)		(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(11)	(12)	(12)	(12)	(14)	(14)	(14)	(14)	(14)	(14)	(14)	(14)	(14)	(14)
1	Michigan State (6)	QF	C	C	QF	QF	SF	SF	QF	SF	QF	SF	SF	QF	SF	C	SF	C	F	C	QF	SF	C	QF	2R	SF	QF	QF
2	Ohio State (5)	1R	SF	QF	QF	C	F	1R	QF	F	C	QF	F	C	C	F	C	SF	QF	QF	1R	QF	QF	2R	F	2R	SF	QF
3	Illinois (4)	SF	F	F	SF	SF	C	F	C	QF	SF	F	SF	SF	QF	1R	QF	QF	2R	QF	2R	1R	2R	QF	C	QF	2R	C
4	Michigan (3)	C	QF	1R	1R	QF	QF	SF	1R	1R	QF	QF	QF	QF	SF	SF	QF	F	QF	SF	C	C	F	2R	SF	2R	2R	1R
4	Wisconsin (3)	QF	SF	SF	QF	QF	QF	C	F	QF	F	C	QF	QF	QF	SF	F	SF	C	2R	F	QF	SF	QF	QF	QF	1R	F
4	Iowa (3)	QF	QF	QF	C	F	1R	QF	SF	C	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	QF	1R	2R	2R	2R	2R	QF	2R	SF	C	2R	2R
7	Purdue (2)	F	1R	QF	QF	1R	QF	1R	1R	1R	SF	QF	C	SF	QF	QF	1R	1R	SF	F	QF	F	QF	2R	QF	F	C	SF
8	Indiana (0)	QF	QF	QF	F	SF	SF	QF	QF	SF	QF	QF	1R	1R	1R	QF	SF	1R	QF	QF	QF	2R	2R	2R	2R	SF	SF	QF
8	Minnesota (0)	SF	1R	1R	1R	QF	1R	QF	SF	QF	1R	SF	QF	F	1R	QF	1R	QF	2R	1R	SF	1R	SF	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R
8	Penn State (0)	1R	1R	SF	SF	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	1R	1R	QF	1R	F	1R	1R	1R	QF	2R	2R	SF	2R	2R	2R	QF	F	2R
11	Northwestern (0)	1R	QF	1R	1R	1R	QF	QF	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	QF	1R	1R	QF	2R	2R	SF	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	QF	QF
11	Nebraska (0)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	1R	QF	QF	1R	QF	1R	QF	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	SF
11	Maryland (0)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	SF	SF	QF	2R	2R	QF	QF	2R	QF	2R
11	Rutgers (0)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	1R	1R	2R	QF	1R	2R	QF	QF	QF	1R

Teams (# of titles)		2025
B1G (26)		(15)
1	Michigan State (6)	•
2	Ohio State (5)	•
3	Illinois (4)	•
4	Michigan (3)	•
4	Wisconsin (3)	•
4	Iowa (3)	•
7	Purdue (2)	•
8	Indiana (0)	•
8	Minnesota (0)	•
8	Penn State (0)	•
11	Northwestern (0)	•
11	Nebraska (0)	•
11	Maryland (0)	•
11	Rutgers (0)	•
11	Washington (0)	•
11	Oregon (0)	•
11	UCLA (0)	•
11	USC (0)	•

Key

C	Champion
F	Runner-up
SF	Semifinals
QF	Quarterfinals
RR	Round Number
•	Did not participate

*The 2020 tournament was canceled after the first-round games due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Records all-time by seed

through 2024 tournament^[13]

Seed	Record	Winning pct	Championships	Runners-up
1	42–16	.724	10	3
2	34–16^{[note 2]}	.680	8*	2
3	27–23^{[note 2]}	.540	2	7
4	16–25^{[note 1]}	.390	0*	4
5	27–24	.529	2	3
6	33–24^{[note 3]}	.579	1	2
7	20–26	.435	0	0
8	23–24^{[note 3]}	.489	1	1
9	12–26	.316	0	1
10	15–25^{[note 1]}	.375	0	2
11	13–26	.333	0	1
12	6–12	.333	0	0
13	9–10	.474	0	0
14	4–10	.286	0	0

* Does not include vacated wins by Michigan (1998) and Ohio State (2002)

Records by coaches

through 2024 tournament ^[13]

Coach	School	Record	Winning pct.	Championships
Thad Matta	Ohio State	23–9	.719	4
Micah Shrewsberry	Penn State	5–2	.714	0
Bill Self	Illinois	5–2	.714	1
Steve Alford	Iowa	13–6	.684	2
John Beilein	Michigan	21–10	.677	2
Lon Kruger	Illinois	6–3	.667	0
Tom Izzo	Michigan State	35–20	.636	6
Brad Underwood	Illinois	7–4	.636	2
Bo Ryan	Wisconsin	17–11	.607	3
Bruce Weber	Illinois	12–8	.600	1
Chris Holtmann	Ohio State	7–5	.583	0
Mike Davis	Indiana	7–6	.538	0
Tubby Smith	Minnesota	7–6	.538	0
Matt Painter	Purdue	17–16	.515	2
Richard Pitino	Minnesota	7–7	.500	0
Greg Gard	Wisconsin	8–8	.500	0
Fran McCaffery	Iowa	9–12	.429	1
Steve Pikiell	Rutgers	5–7	.417	0
Tim Miles	Nebraska	5–7	.417	0
Pat Chambers	Penn State	5–8	.385	0
Ed DeChellis	Penn State	5–8	.385	0
Bill Carmody	Northwestern	5–13	.278	0

Note: Current coaches at school in bold. Minimum of five wins.^[13]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Due to NCAA sanctions, Michigan has vacated the records from the 1992 Final Four, the 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, and 1998–99 seasons. See above section Vacated results
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Due to NCAA sanctions, Ohio State has vacated the records of 34 games in 1998–99, 16 games in 1999–00 and the entire 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons. See above section Vacated results
^ ^a ^b ^c Due to NCAA sanctions, Minnesota has vacated the records from the 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, and 1998–99 seasons. See above section Vacated results