2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament

2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament
2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2024–25
Teams	15
Site	Gainbridge Fieldhouse; Indianapolis, IN
Television	Peacock, BTN, CBS/Paramount+
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2024–25 Big Ten women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 1 UCLA	6	–	0	1.000	17	–	0	1.000
No. 4 USC	6	–	0	1.000	16	–	1	.941
No. 9 Ohio State	5	–	0	1.000	16	–	0	1.000
No. 8 Maryland	6	–	1	.857	16	–	1	.941
Indiana	4	–	1	.800	12	–	4	.750
No. 24т Minnesota	4	–	2	.667	16	–	2	.889
Nebraska	4	–	2	.667	13	–	4	.765
No. 22 Michigan State	4	–	2	.667	14	–	3	.824
Oregon	4	–	3	.571	13	–	5	.722
Washington	3	–	3	.500	12	–	6	.667
Michigan	3	–	3	.500	12	–	5	.706
Illinois	2	–	3	.400	12	–	4	.750
Iowa	2	–	4	.333	12	–	5	.706
Wisconsin	1	–	5	.167	10	–	7	.588
Northwestern	0	–	5	.000	7	–	9	.438
Purdue	0	–	6	.000	7	–	10	.412
Penn State	0	–	7	.000	9	–	9	.500
Rutgers	0	–	7	.000	8	–	10	.444

† 2025 Big Ten tournament winner As of January 15, 2025 Rankings from AP Poll

The 2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament (branded as the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament for sponsorship reasons) is a postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season which will take place from March 5–9, 2025. The tournament will be held at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tournament winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

This will be the first season in the current tournament format as the conference expanded to 18 teams.^[1] The conference announced that only 15 teams will participate with the bottom three teams not qualifying for the tournament.

Seeds

The top 15 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. The top 9 teams receive a first round bye and the top four teams receive a double bye.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreak 1	Tiebreak 2	Tiebreak 3
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 5
1	1	TBA	No. 12 vs. No. 13	Peacock
	2	TBA	No. 11 vs. No. 14
	3	TBA	No. 10 vs. No. 15
Second round – Thursday, March 6
2	4	TBA	No. 8 vs. No. 9	BTN
2	5	TBA	No. 5 vs.
3	6	TBA	No. 7 vs.
3	7	TBA	No. 6 vs.
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 7
4	8	TBA	No. 1 vs.	BTN
4	9	TBA	No. 4 vs.
5	10	TBA	No. 2 vs.
5	11	TBA	No. 3 vs.
Semifinals – Saturday, March 8
6	12	TBA	vs.	BTN
6	13	TBA	vs.	BTN
Championship – Sunday, March 9
7	14	TBA	vs.	CBS

*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding. ^[2]

Bracket


First round Wednesday, March 5 Peacock	Second round Thursday, March 6 BTN	Quarterfinals Friday, March 7 BTN	Semifinals Saturday, March 8 BTN	Championship Sunday, March 9 CBS



		1

	8

	9



		4

	5

12

13

		2

	7

10

15

		3

	6

11

14

* denotes overtime period

Game summaries