![]() ![]() CBS will air the conference semifinals and the conference championship game. The entire tournament will air on Big Ten Network until the conference semifinal round and championship game over the weekend. Here is the updated Big Ten Men’s Basketball tournament schedule with updated matchups, start times, and how to watch each game on TV. And Nebraska and Minnesota will close the first day with the second game on Wednesday evening. The fun will officially begin with two games on Wednesday as Ohio State and Wisconsin play in the first game of the Big Ten tournament, a bit of an oddity given where these two programs have typically been in recent seasons. Michigan and Rutgers are each looking to make a final push for a spot in the tournament, and they’ll open the Big Ten tournament facing each other on Thursday. Penn State is a double-digit seed in the Big Ten tournament, but they are matched up with an Illinois team the Nittany Lions have beaten twice this season. There could be a lot of drama in the days leading up to then. Northwestern, Indiana, and Michigan State also have a double-bye and will not have to step on the court for a game until Friday. Purdue is the top seed in the tournament, but the Boilermakers suffered all five of their losses this season in conference play, so they know nothing is guaranteed this week. Penn State and Michigan are two teams floating in bubble conversation as the Big Ten tournament gets underway, and picking up a couple of wins in Chicago would go a long way toward helping the cause of getting into the NCAA tournament. The Big Ten men’s basketball tournament returns to Chicago’s United Center this week for a multi-day extravaganza with the purpose of determining who will get the conference’s automatic spot in the big dance, but there should be plenty on the line for a number of schools that will not be holding the Big Ten trophy at the end of the weekend. Seems fitting for the 2020-21 season defined by COVID where the blue bloods haven’t been reliable.The Big Ten is looking to fill a good number of spots in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, but it first must crown a conference champion. Regardless of what happens, going into the Big 12 Tournament, this might be the year where everything changes. Texas is ranked third and can be the wild card in all of this. 2 Kansas in a rematch of their game at the end of February where he only scored five points. He will be looking for revenge if they were to meet No. He is just an awesome offensive presence leading the league in threes and steals. They are led by guard Jared Butler who was just named the AP Big 12 Player of the year. With Iowa State sitting tenth in the conference and a day one start in the tournament, the gates are wide open to finally get a new champion.īaylor is the best team in the conference winning the regular season title and only bested by Gonzaga in the sport. The prototypical defense exhibited by Bill Self’s teams isn’t overwhelming and their prospects on the opposite end of the floor in this tournament just got harder because their big men David McCormack and Tristan Enaruna will be out because of COVID protocols. In their last game of the regular season, they had to rally from a 15-point deficit just after coming off their signature win of the season beating the best team in the conference, Baylor. They haven’t necessarily been bad with a respectable record of 19-8 to finish the season but they haven’t been characteristically themselves. They lost to an unranked Texas twice getting absolutely blown out in their first matchup. The inconsistencies really started adding up in the middle of the season against conference and ranked opponents. Going into the season Kansas was deemed the best out of the BIG 12 and still after they were handled easily by all-season No.1 Gonzaga, the prospects looked high for the Jayhawks to be their normal dominant self. Kansas Cancelled Saturday, March 13: Championship 3 Texas, 67-66 Texas Friday, March 12: Semifinals 10 Iowa State, 79-73 Oklahoma Thursday, March 11, Quarterfinals This year, the reign of Kansas and Iowa State may just be over. For how good the Baylor Bears and Texas Tech making it all the way to the last national championship, it is weird that neither have won the championship. But what may be surprising is that Iowa State has gone toe-to-toe with the Jayhawks the past decade and won four championships including the last one to be played in 2019. They’ve won the most with 11 since the start of the tourney in 1997. GETTY IMAGESįor the past decade, it would surprise absolutely no one that Kansas has won the Big-12 tournament. Big 12 Player of the Year Jared Butler and the Baylor Bears look to shift the tide in the 2021 Conference Tournament. ![]()
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