The Big Ten Conference women's basketball tournament is held annually at the end of the women's
college basketball
In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...
regular season. The tournament has been played each year since 1995. The winner of the tournament is designated the
Big Ten
The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...
Tournament Champion, and receives the conference's automatic bid to the
NCAA women's basketball tournament. The tournament is typically held the first week of March with games played Wednesday thru Sunday.
The Big Ten did not begin sponsoring women's basketball until the 1982–83 basketball season. In February 1982 during the 1981–82 season, the conference held a tournament at Michigan State in which Ohio State defeated Illinois 69–66 in the championship game. The conference has listed this in some publications as a regular season championship.
Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big Ten Conference for the 2014–15 season bringing the conference to 14 teams. The 2015 Big Ten Conference tournament was the first for each school with Maryland winning their first tournament title in their debut season.
The Big Ten Network broadcasts the first round, second round, quarterfinals and semifinals of the tournament, with the championship game on the ESPN family of networks. Starting in 2024, the final will air on
CBS
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.
Results
Championships by school
See also
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Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball regular season champions Champions by Year
Below is a list of Big Ten Conference men's basketball regular season champions. There are no tie breakers within the Big Ten Conference. Thus, if two or more teams tie atop the standing at the end of the season, they both win a sh ...
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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 ...
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References
External links
2007 Bracket showing seed matchups and television schedule
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