2017 Big Ten men's basketball tournament

2017 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2016–17
Teams	14
Site	Verizon Center Washington, D.C.
Television	BTN, ESPN/2, CBS
Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournaments

2016–17 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 15 Purdue	14	–	4		.778			27	–	8		.771
No. 25 Wisconsin	12	–	6		.667			27	–	10		.730
Maryland	12	–	6		.667			24	–	9		.727
Minnesota	11	–	7		.611			24	–	10		.706
No. 23 Michigan †	10	–	8		.556			26	–	12		.684
Northwestern	10	–	8		.556			24	–	12		.667
Michigan State	10	–	8		.556			20	–	15		.571
Iowa	10	–	8		.556			19	–	15		.559
Illinois	8	–	10		.444			20	–	15		.571
Ohio State	7	–	11		.389			17	–	15		.531
Indiana	7	–	11		.389			18	–	16		.529
Penn State	6	–	12		.333			15	–	18		.455
Nebraska	6	–	12		.333			12	–	19		.387
Rutgers	3	–	15		.167			15	–	18		.455
† 2017 Big Ten tournament winner Rankings from AP poll

The 2017 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming postseason tournament that will be held from March 8 through March 12 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.. It will be the first Big Ten Conference Tournament in Washington, D.C. The winner of the tournament will receive the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Seeds

All 14 Big Ten schools will participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. Seeding for the tournament will be determined at the close of the regular conference season. The top 10 teams will receive a first round bye and the top four teams will receive a double bye. Tiebreaking procedures will remain unchanged from the 2016 Tournament.

Seed	School	Conf.	Tiebreaker	Tiebreaker 2	Tiebreaker 3	Tiebreaker 4
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

Bracket

	First round Wednesday, March 8 ESPN2/BTN					Second round Thursday, March 9 ESPN2/BTN					Quarterfinals Friday, March 10 ESPN/BTN					Semifinals Saturday, March 11 CBS					Championship Sunday, March 12 CBS
											1
						8
						9
											4
						5
	12
	13
											2
						7
						10
											3
						6
	11
	14

External links

• Tournament results at BigTen.org