Big Ten Men’s Basketball Conference Championship Game: Full Schedule, Bracket and How to Watch

The Big Ten is loaded with talent this season, with Michigan leading the way in a conference that is expected to send at least eight teams to March Madness and maybe even more.

While several Big Ten teams will be dancing at the NCAA tournament, only one can win the conference tournament and the automatic bid that comes with it. While the teams that are expected to win the conference tournament likely won’t need the automatic bid to make the field of 68, there are 18 teams in the Big Ten, and all of them make the conference tournament. If one of the bottom-feeders in the conference can find a way to make a run over the next week, they could steal a spot in the field and force the rest of the bubble teams to sweat just a little bit more.

The Big Ten tournament began Tuesday with the bottom four teams in the conference battling to make it into the tournament field, while the top four teams in the conference got a bye all the way to the quarterfinals and didn’t play their first tournament game until Friday. The championship game will be carried nationally by CBS.

Big Ten men’s basketball final regular-season standings

Rank	Team	Conference record	Overall record
1.	(3) Michigan	19–1	29–2
2.	(11) Nebraska	15–5	26–5
3.	(8) Michigan State	15–5	25–6
4.	(9) Illinois	15–5	24–7
5.	(23) Wisconsin	14–6	22–9
6.	UCLA	13–7	21–10
7.	(18) Purdue	13–7	23–8
8.	Ohio State	12–8	20–11
9.	Iowa	10–10	20–11
10.	Indiana	9–11	18–13
11.	Minnesota	8–12	15–16
12.	Washington	7–13	15–16
13.	USC	7–13	18–13
14.	Rutgers	6–14	13–18
15.	Northwestern	5–15	13–18
16.	Oregon	5–15	12–19
17.	Maryland	4–16	11–20
18.	Penn State	3–17	12–19

Big Ten men’s basketball conference tournament bracket

Big Ten men’s basketball conference tournament full schedule

March 10: First round

Game 1: No. 17 Maryland 70, No. 16 Oregon 60
Game 2: No. 15 Northwestern 76, No. 18 Penn State 66

March 11: Second round

Game 3: No. 9 Iowa 75, No. 17 Maryland 64
Game 4: No. 12 Washington 83, No. 13 USC 79
Game 5: No. 15 Northwestern 74, No. 10 Indiana 61
Game 6: No. 14 Rutgers 72, No. 11 Minnesota 67

March 12: Third round

Game 7: No. 8 Ohio State 72, No. 9 Iowa 69
Game 8: No. 5 Wisconsin 85, No. 12 Washington 82
Game 9: No. 7 Purdue 81, No. 15 Northwestern 68
Game 10: No. 6 UCLA 72, No. 14 Rutgers 59

March 13: Quarterfinals

Game 11: No. 1 Michigan 71, No. 8 Ohio State 67
Game 12: No. 5 Wisconsin 91, No. 4 Illinois 88
Game 13: No. 7 Purdue 74, No. 2 Nebraska 58
Game 14: No. 6 UCLA 88, No. 3 Michigan State 84

March 14: Semifinals

Game 15: No. 1 Michigan 68, No. 5 Wisconsin 65
Game 16: No. 7 Purdue 73, No. 6 UCLA 66

March 15: Championship game

Game 17: No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 7 Purdue, 3:30 p.m. ET (CBS)

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