| Year: | 2018 |
| Conference: | Big Ten |
| Gender: | women's |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Matches: | 7 |
| Venue: | Grand Park |
| City: | Westfield, Indiana (Semifinals and Final) |
| Champions: | Minnesota |
| Titlecount: | 2nd |
| Coach: | Stefanie Golan |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Broadcast: | BTN |
| Mvp: | April Bockin (Offensive) Maddie Nielsen (Defensive) |
| Mvpteam: | Minnesota |
The 2018 Big Ten Conference women's soccer tournament is the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Big Ten Conference for the 2018 season.[1] It is held from October 28 through November 4, 2018. The seven-match tournament began with first-round matches held at campus sites, before moving to Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana for the semifinals and final.[1] The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular-season conference play.[1] Penn State is the defending champions. Minnesota beat Penn State in the tournament championship game on penalties 5–4 in seven rounds. Minnesota is the Big Ten Tournament Champion.It was the first Big Ten final ever decided on penalties and just the fifth to go to overtime (first since 2014), with the Golden Gophers becoming the fourth No. 7 seed to win the Big Ten Tournament title and the first since Wisconsin in 2005.[2]
Eight Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record.
| Seed | School | Conference record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pld. | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts. | |||
| 1 | Penn State | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 6 | +14 | 27 | |
| 2 | Rutgers | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 24 | |
| 3 | Ohio State | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 21 | |
| 4 | Wisconsin | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 21 | |
| 5 | Illinois | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 10 | +2 | 18 | |
| 6 | Nebraska | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | +3 | 18 | |
| 7 | Minnesota | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 14 | +2 | 16 | |
| 8 | Michigan | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 16 | |