2011 Big Ten women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2011
Conference:Big Ten
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:11
Arena:Conseco Fieldhouse
City:Indianapolis, Indiana
Champions:Ohio State
Titlecount:Fourth
Coach:Jim Foster
Coachcount:Fourth
Mvp:Jantel Lavender
Mvpteam:Ohio State
Television:BTN and ESPN2

The 2011 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament was played between Thursday, March 3 and Sunday, March 6 at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Big Ten Network carried every game except the final, which was aired on ESPN2. Ohio State won the tournament and received an automatic bid to the 2011 Women's NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2010–11 Big Ten Conference season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records (Tie-breaking Procedure.[1] The top 5 teams received a first round bye.

The seeding for the tournament was as follows:

SeedSchoolConfOverallTiebreaker
  1. 1
Michigan State13–325–4
  1. 2
Penn State11–522–8
  1. 3
Michigan10–617–115–0 vs. IOWA/OSU/WISC
  1. 4
Iowa10–622–72–2 vs. MICH/OSU/WISC
  1. 5
Ohio State10–619–92–3 vs. MICH/IOWA/WISC
  1. 6
Wisconsin10–615–140–4 vs. MICH/IOWA/OSU
  1. 7
Purdue9–720–10
  1. 8
Northwestern6–1018–12
  1. 9
Minnesota4–1212–18
  1. 10
Indiana3–139–20
  1. 11
Illinois2–148–22

Schedule

SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionScore
First Round - Thursday, March 3
112:00pm
  1. 7 Purdue vs #10 Indiana
BTN66–62
24:30pm
  1. 6 Wisconsin vs #11 Illinois
BTN63–56
37:00pm
  1. 8 Northwestern vs #9 Minnesota
BTN53–44
Quarterfinals - Friday, March 4
2411:30am
  1. 2 Penn State vs #7 Purdue
BTN73–61
52:00pm
  1. 3 Michigan vs #11 Illinois
BTN55–47
366:00pm
  1. 1 Michigan State vs #8 Northwestern
BTN56–25
78:30pm
  1. 4 Iowa vs #5 Ohio State
BTN71–61
Semifinals - Saturday, March 5
485:00pm
  1. 2 Penn State vs #11 Illinois
BTN79–64
97:30pm
  1. 1 Michigan State vs #5 Ohio State
BTN72–57
Championship Game - Sunday, March 6
5103:30pm
  1. 2 Penn State vs #5 Ohio State
ESPN284–70
  • Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

All game times are ET.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/110410aae.html Tiebreaking Procedures 2011 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament