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Indiana Has No. 1 Seed in This Week's Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2023 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament schedule has been released, and Indiana is the No. 1 seed.
The 30th women's tournament presented by TIAA will take place March 1-5 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn. All 12 games will be televised on Big Ten Network Wednesday through Saturday, and the Sunday championship game will be broadcast on ESPN.
2023 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament Schedule
The Hoosiers as the No. 1 seed will first play on Friday at 12:30 a.m. ET in the quarterfinals, facing the winner of the Michigan State-Nebraska game. This season, Indiana won its first Big Ten regular season title since the 1982-83 team. The Hoosiers were the tournament's runner-up to Iowa last year and holds one Big Ten Tournament title from 2002.
Defending Big Ten tournament champs Iowa earned the No. 2 seed this year and will face the winner of the Wisconsin-Purdue game on Friday at 6:30 p.m. ET. Iowa has four tournament titles.
2023 Big Ten women's basketball tournament schedule
Wednesday, March 1 (First Round)
- Game 1: No. 12 Minnesota vs. No. 13 Penn State, 2 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 2: No. 11 Rutgers vs. No. 14 Northwestern, approximately 4:30 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
Thursday, March 2 (Second Round)
- Game 3: No. 8 Nebraska vs. No. 9 Michigan State, 12:30 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 4: No. 5 Michigan vs. Game 1 winner, approximately 3 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 5: No. 7 Purdue vs. No. 10 Wisconsin, 6:30 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 6: No. 6 Illinois vs. Game 2 winner, approximately 9 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
Friday, March 3 (Quarterfinals)
- Game 7: No. 1 Indiana vs. Game 3 winner, 12:30 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 8: No. 4 Ohio State vs. Game 4 winner, approximately 3 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 9: No. 2 Iowa vs. Game 5 winner, 6:30 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 10: No. 3 Maryland vs. Game 6 winner, approximately 9 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
Saturday, March 4 (Semifinals)
- Game 11: Game 7 vs. Game 8 winner, 2:30 p.m. ET. TV: Big Ten Network
- Game 12 Game 9 vs. Game 10 winner, approximately 5 p.m. TV: Big Ten Network
Sunday, March 5 (Championship)
- Game 13: Game 11 vs. Game 12 winner, 5 p.m. ET. TV: ESPN
Related stories on Indiana women's basketball
- WATCH CAITLIN CLARK'S BUZZER BEATER: Watch the highlight of Iowa guard Caitlin Clark hitting the buzzer-beater three-point shot to defeat the No. 2 Indiana women's basketball team at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday. CLICK HERE
- GAME STORY: HOOSIERS FALL TO IOWA OFF BUZZER BEATER: In a regular season finale letdown, No. 2 Indiana women's basketball fell to No. 6 Iowa 86-85 off of Iowa guard Caitlin Clark's three-point buzzer beater shot in Iowa City Sunday afternoon. CLICK HERE
- WHAT TERI MOREN SAID ON ESPN COLLEGE GAMEDAY: Read the full transcript of Indiana women's basketball head coach Teri Moren's interview with ESPN's Holly Rowe as part of the Hoosiers' segment on ESPN College GameDay. Indiana will tip off versus Iowa at 2 p.m. ET. CLICK HERE
