1999 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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| Classification | Division I | ||
| Season | 1998–99 | ||
| Teams | 11 | ||
| Site | United Center Chicago, IL |
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| Champions | Michigan State (1st title) | ||
| Winning coach | Tom Izzo (1st title) | ||
| MVP | Mateen Cleaves Michigan State | ||
| Post-Big Ten Conference tournament(s) |
1999 NIT, 1999 NCAA | ||
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The 1999 Big Ten tournament was played from March 4, 1999, to March 7, 1999. The tournament was held at the United Center in Chicago, and won by the Michigan State Spartans.
Due to NCAA sanctions, Michigan and Ohio State have vacated the records from this tournament. Similarly, Minnesota's appearance in this tournament was voided.
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[edit] Seeds
All Big Ten schools play in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.
| 1998–1999 Big Ten Conference Standings | |||||||
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| Team | Conference Record | Overall | |||||
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| #2 Michigan State | 15 | 1 | - | 33 | 5 | ||
| #14 Ohio State | 12 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 9 | ||
| #19 Indiana | 9 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 11 | ||
| #18 Wisconsin | 9 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 10 | ||
| #21 Iowa | 9 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 10 | ||
| Minnesota | 8 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 11 | ||
| Purdue | 7 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 13 | ||
| Northwestern | 6 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 14 | ||
| Penn State | 5 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 14 | ||
| Michigan | 5 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 19 | ||
| Illinois | 3 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 18 | ||
- Rankings are based on the final USA Today polls of the 1998–1999 Regular Season
[edit] Bracket
| Opening Round 4 March 1999 | Quarterfinals 5 March 1999 | Semifinals 6 March 1999 | Championship 7 March 1999 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Michigan State | 61 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Northwestern | 59 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Northwestern | 54 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Penn State | 44 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Michigan State | 56 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wisconsin | 41 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wisconsin | 74 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Iowa | 60 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Michigan State | 67 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Illinois | 50 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Ohio State | 87 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Michigan | 69 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Purdue | 73 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Michigan | 79 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Ohio State | 77 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Illinois | 79 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Indiana | 66 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Illinois | 82 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Minnesota | 64 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Illinois | 67 | ||||||||||||||||
[edit] Awards
[edit] All-Tournament Team
Cory Bradford, Illinois
Mateen Cleaves, Michigan State
Antonio Smith, Michigan State
Evan Eschmeyer, Northwestern
Michael Redd, Ohio State
[edit] Most Outstanding Player
Mateen Cleaves, Michigan State
[edit] References
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