The 2023-24 college basketball regular season is entering the home stretch with March Madness quickly approaching. Conference play is heating up around the country, and we are closing in on the Big Ten Tournament.
The 2024 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament takes place at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The conference tournament gets underway with a pair of first-round matchups March 13 and concludes with the championship game March 17.
Each of the league’s 14 teams are set to participate in the Big Ten Tournament. The top 10 seeds in the conference receive a first-round bye, while the top four seeds get to bypass the first two rounds.
The Big Ten Tournament champion secures an automatic bid into the 68-team field for the 2024 NCAA Tournament, which includes 32 automatic qualifiers and 36 at-large bids. The full NCAA Tournament field will be finalized on Sunday, March 17, and the bracket will be revealed during the March Madness Selection Show on CBS.
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With that in mind, the current Big Ten standings can be seen below, along with the full schedule for the 2024 Big Ten Tournament and the conference tiebreaking procedures.
BIG TEN CONFERENCE STANDINGS
(Updated through Feb. 23)
1. Purdue Boilermakers (13-3)
2. Illinois Fighting Illini (10-5)
3. Wisconsin Badgers (10-6)
4. Northwestern Wildcats (10-6)
5. Michigan State Spartans (9-6)
6. Nebraska Cornhuskers (9-7)
7. Minnesota Golden Gophers (8-7)
8. Iowa Hawkeyes (7-8)
9. Penn State Nittany Lions (7-9)
10. Rutgers Scarlet Knights (6-9)
11. Indiana Hoosiers (6-9)
12. Maryland Terrapins (6-10)
13. Ohio State Buckeyes (5-11)
14. Michigan Wolverines (3-13)
2024 BIG TEN TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Note: All times central.
First round: Wednesday, March 13
Game 1: No. 12 seed vs. No. 13 seed | 5:30 p.m. | Peacock
Game 2: No. 11 seed vs. No. 14 seed | 25 min. after Game 1 | Peacock
Second round: Thursday, March 14
Game 3: No. 8 seed vs. No. 9 seed | 11 a.m. | Big Ten Network
Game 4: No. 5 seed vs. Game 1 winner | 25 min. after Game 3 | Big Ten Network
Game 5: No. 7 seed vs. No. 10 seed | 5:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Game 6: No. 6 seed vs. Game 2 winner | 25 min. after Game 5 | Big Ten Network
Quarterfinals: Friday, March 15
Game 7: No. 1 seed vs. Game 3 winner | 11 a.m. | Big Ten Network
Game 8: No. 4 seed vs. Game 4 winner | 25 min. after Game 7 | Big Ten Network
Game 9: No. 2 seed vs. Game 5 winner | 5:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Game 10: No. 3 seed vs. Game 6 winner | 25 min. after Game 9 | Big Ten Network
Semifinals: Sat., March 16
Game 11: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner | Noon | CBS/Paramount+
Game 12: Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner | 25 min. after Game 11 | CBS/Paramount+
Championship: Sun., March 17
Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner | 2:30 p.m. | CBS/Paramount+
BIG TEN TIEBREAKERS
Tiebreaker Procedures for Tournament Seeding
1. Teams shall be seeded No. 1 through No. 14 in the tournament bracket based on the final regular-season Conference standings.
2. A team’s seed shall correspond to its regular-season finish (i.e., the champion shall be the No. 1 seed, the runner-up the No. 2 seed, etc.).
3. Teams that finished Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the regular season shall receive a “bye” through the first two rounds.
4. In case of a tie for any place finish in the regular-season standings, the following tie-breaking procedure shall be followed in order to seed teams in the tournament bracket:
A. Ties Involving Two Teams:
1. Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season.
2. Each team’s record vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular-season standings (or in the case of a tie for the championship, the next highest position in the regular-season standings), continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage.
- a. When arriving at another pair of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to their own tiebreaking procedures), rather than the performance against the individual tied teams.
- b. When comparing records against a single team or a group of teams, the higher winning percentage shall prevail, even if the number of games played against the team or group are unequal (i.e., 2-0 is better than 3-1, but 2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0-0).
3. Won-loss percentage of all Division I opponents.
4. Highest NET ranking of the teams. NET ranking of the previous week to be utilized.
B. Ties Involving more than Two Teams:
1. Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season.
- a. When comparing records against the tied teams, teams will be seeded based on winning percentage among the group, even if the number of games played against the team or group are unequal (i.e., 2-0 is better than 3-1, but 2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0-0). If all teams among the group are separated based on winning percentage, all ties are broken. If winning percentage among the group for any tied teams is equal, move to step b with those specific tied teams only (e.g. if there is a four-team tie, one team is 4-0, another is 3-1 and the last two are 2-2 among the group, the two teams that are 2-2 move to step b and the teams that are 4-0 and 3-1 assume the next two available highest seeds).
Note: Teams can be separated from the top, middle or bottom. - b. If a team or teams are separated from the group based on step a, seeding for remaining teams among the group is not determined by head-to-head record vs. the remaining teams, but rather by taking all remaining teams to next tiebreaker.
2. If the remaining teams are still tied, then each tied team’s record shall be compared to the team occupying the highest position in the final regular-season standings, continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage.
- a. When arriving at another pair of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to their own tiebreaking procedures), rather than the performance against the individual tied teams.
- b. When comparing records against a single team or group of teams, the higher winning percentage shall prevail, even if the number of games played against the team or group are unequal (i.e., 2-0 is better than 3-1, but 2-0 is not better than 1-0 or 0-0).
3. Won-loss percentage of Division I opponents.
4. Highest NET ranking of the teams. NET ranking of the previous week to be utilized.
