The 2016 Big Ten men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the

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held from March 9 through March 13 at

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. It was the nineteenth annual

Big Ten men's basketball tournament 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, an ...

and was the second tournament to feature 14 teams of the expanded Big Ten, including

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and

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. The championship was won by

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who defeated

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in the championship game. As a result, Michigan State received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The win marked Michigan State's fifth tournament championship, the most tournament championships by any team in the Big Ten (Ohio State has won five championships as well, but one has been vacated). It was Michigan State's third straight appearance in the championship game and their fourth appearance in the championship in the prior five years.

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was named the Tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Seeds

All 14 Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye. Tiebreaking procedures were unchanged from the 2015 tournament.

Schedule

Game summaries

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Bracket

* denotes overtime period

All-Tournament Team

, Michigan State – Most Outstanding Player *

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, Michigan *

Shavon Shields Shavon O'Day Shields (born June 5, 1994) is an American-Danish professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketba ...

, Nebraska * Vincent Edwards, Purdue *

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, Purdue

References

External links

Tournament results
at BigTen.org {{2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament navbox Big Ten men's basketball tournament

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Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament 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, a ...