The 2015 Big Ten men's basketball tournament was held from March 11 through March 15 at

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. This was the eighteenth annual Big Ten tournament and was the first tournament to feature 14 teams of the expanded Big Ten to include

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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, Wisconsin received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The win marked Wisconsin's third tournament championship and first since

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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 2014 tournament.

Game summaries

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Bracket

All-Tournament Team

* Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin – Big Ten tournament Most Outstanding Player *

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, Michigan State * Travis Trice, Michigan State * D. J. Newbill, Penn State *

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, Wisconsin

References

External links

Tournament results
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