2023 Big Ten women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2023
Conference:Big Ten
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:14
Arena:Target Center
City:Minneapolis, MN
Champions:Iowa
Titlecount:5th
Coach:Lisa Bluder
Coachcount:4th
Mvp:Caitlin Clark
Mvpteam:Iowa
Attendance:47,883
Television:BTN, ESPN

The 2023 Big Ten women's basketball tournament was held from March 1–5, 2023 at Target Center in Minneapolis. As the tournament winner, Iowa received the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. This was the last year of the tournament in which the preliminary rounds were broadcast on Big Ten Network and the final was broadcast on ESPN, as in 2024 these would move to Peacock and CBS, respectively.

Seeds

All 14 Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2022–23 Big Ten Conference season record. The top 10 teams received a first-round bye and the top four teams received a double bye.[1]

SeedSchoolConfTiebreak 1Tiebreak 2
1Indiana‡##16–2
2Iowa15–31–1 vs. Maryland1–1 vs. Indiana
3Maryland15–31–1 vs. Iowa0–1 vs. Indiana
4Ohio State12–6
5Michigan11–71–0 vs. Illinois
6Illinois11–70–1 vs. Michigan
7Purdue9–8
8Nebraska8–10
9 Michigan State7–10
10Wisconsin6–12
11Rutgers5–13
12Minnesota4–142–0 vs. Penn State
13Penn State4–140–2 vs. Minnesota
14Northwestern2–16

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022 Big Ten Conference Men's and Women’s Basketball Championship Procedure and Tiebreaker Procedures for Tournament Seeding . https://web.archive.org/web/20220216183849/https://bigten.org/documents/2022/1/26//2022_Big_Ten_MBB_WBB_Tournament_Tiebreaker_January_2022.pdf?id=7393 . dead . February 16, 2022 . BigTen.org . February 27, 2022 . February 27, 2022.