2001 Big Ten men's basketball tournament

2001 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2000–01
Teams	11
Site	United Center Chicago, Illinois
Champions	Iowa (1st title)
Winning coach	Steve Alford (1st title)
MVP	Reggie Evans (Iowa)
Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournaments

2000–01 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 4 Illinois	13	–	3		.813			27	–	8		.771
No. 3 Michigan State	13	–	3		.813			28	–	5		.848
No. 20 Indiana	10	–	6		.625			21	–	13		.618
No. 25 Wisconsin	9	–	7		.563			18	–	11		.621
No. 24 Iowa †	7	–	9		.438			23	–	12		.657
Penn State	7	–	9		.438			21	–	12		.636
Purdue	6	–	10		.375			17	–	15		.531
Minnesota	5	–	11		.313			18	–	14		.563
Michigan	4	–	12		.250			10	–	18		.357
Northwestern	3	–	13		.188			11	–	19		.367
Ohio State*	0	–	0		–			0	–	0		–
† 2001 Big Ten tournament winner Rankings from AP poll *Ohio State: 30 reg. season games; 1 NCAA Tourn. game vacated due to sanctions against the program Disputed record: Ohio State-(20-11)(11-5)

The 2001 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played from March 7 to March 10, 2001. The tournament was held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois and won by Iowa as they defeated Indiana in the championship game. As winner of the tournament, Iowa received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Due to NCAA sanctions, Ohio State has vacated the records from this tournament.

Seeds

All Big Ten schools played 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 five teams received a first round bye.

Seed	School	Conference	1st Tiebreaker	2nd Tiebreaker	3rd Tiebreaker
1	Illinois	13–3	1–0 vs MSU
2	Michigan State	13–3	0–1 vs Ill
3	Ohio State	11–5
4	Indiana	10–6
5	Wisconsin	9–7
6	Iowa	7–9	1–1 vs PSU	1–1 vs Ill	0–1 vs MSU
7	Penn State	7–9	1–1 vs Iowa	1–1 vs Ill	0–2 vs MSU
8	Purdue	6–10
9	Minnesota	5–11
10	Michigan	4–12
11	Northwestern	3–13

Bracket

	Opening round March 7					Quarterfinals March 8					Semifinals March 9					Championship March 10
						1	Illinois	83
						8	Purdue	66
	8	Purdue	91
	9	Minnesota	77
											1	Illinois	56
											4	Indiana	58
						4	Indiana	64
						5	Wisconsin	52
																4	Indiana	61
																6	Iowa	63
						2	Michigan State	63
						7	Penn State	65
	7	Penn State	82
	10	Michigan	80
											7	Penn State	74
											6	Iowa	94
						3	Ohio State	66
						6	Iowa	75
	6	Iowa	72
	11	Northwestern	55