Year: | 2012 |
Conference: | Big Ten |
Division: | I |
Gender: | Women's |
Teams: | 12 |
Arena: | Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
City: | Indianapolis, Indiana |
Champions: | Purdue |
Titlecount: | 8th |
Coach: | Sharon Versyp |
Coachcount: | 3rd |
Television: | BTN and ESPN2 |
The 2012 Big Ten women's basketball tournament was held from March 1 to March 4 at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.[1] The tournament marked the debut of the University of Nebraska. The Big Ten Network carried all games except the championship game which was aired on ESPN2. Purdue won the tournament and received an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA tournament.
All 12 Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2011–12 Big Ten Conference women's basketball season record. A new tie-breaking procedure was announced for the 2012 tournament for teams with identical conference records.[2] The top 4 teams would receive a first round bye.
The seeding for the tournament was determined as the conference season concluded:
Seed | School | Conf | 1st Tiebreak | 2nd Tiebreak | 3rd Tiebreak | 4th Tiebreak | |
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Head-to-Head | Win% vs. #1 Seed | Win% vs. All D1 | Coin Flip | ||||
| Penn State | 13–3 | |||||
| Ohio State | 11–5 | 3–0 | ||||
| Iowa | 11–5 | 2–2 | ||||
| Purdue | 11–5 | 2–3 | ||||
| Michigan State | 11–5 | 1–3 | ||||
| Nebraska | 10–6 | |||||
| Michigan | 8–8 | |||||
| Minnesota | 6–10 | |||||
| Wisconsin | 5–11 | 2–0 | ||||
| Illinois | 5–11 | 0–2 | ||||
| Northwestern | 4–12 | |||||
| Indiana | 1–15 |
Source[3]
Session | Game | Time** | Matchup# | Television | Score | |
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First round - Thursday, March 1 | ||||||
1 | 1 | 11:30am |
| BTN | 68–53 | |
2 | 2:00pm |
| BTN | 88–56 | ||
2 | 3 | 6:00pm |
| BTN | 81–49 | |
4 | 8:30pm |
| BTN | 97–68 | ||
Quarterfinals - Friday, March 2 | ||||||
3 | 5 | 11:30am |
| BTN | 57–48 | |
6 | 2:00pm |
| BTN | 68–80 | ||
4 | 7 | 6:00pm |
| BTN | 78–74 | |
8 | 8:30pm |
| BTN | 73–64 | ||
Semifinals - Saturday, March 3 | ||||||
5 | 9 | 5:00pm |
| BTN | 62–77 | |
10 | 7:30pm |
| BTN | 66–68 | ||
Championship Game - Sunday, March 4 | ||||||
6 | 11 | 4:00pm |
| ESPN2 | 70–74* | |
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All game times are ET.
* – Denotes overtime