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.Tiebreaking Procedures 2011 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament , BigTen.org. Retrieved 2010-11-09. The top 5 teams received a first round bye.
The seeding for the tournament was as follows: SeedSchoolConfOverallTiebreaker#1Michigan State13–325–4#2Penn State11–522–8#3Michigan10–617–115–0 vs. IOWA/OSU/WISC#4Iowa10–622–72–2 vs. MICH/OSU/WISC#5Ohio State10–619–92–3 vs. MICH/IOWA/WISC#6Wisconsin10–615–140–4 vs. MICH/IOWA/OSU#7Purdue9–720–10#8Northwestern6–1018–12#9Minnesota4–1212–18#10Indiana3–139–20#11Illinois2–148–22
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionScore First Round - Thursday, March 3 1 1 2:00pm#7 Purdue vs #10 IndianaBTN66–62 2 4:30pm#6 Wisconsin vs #11 IllinoisBTN63–56 3 7:00pm#8 Northwestern vs #9 MinnesotaBTN53–44 Quarterfinals - Friday, March 4 2 4 11:30am#2 Penn State vs #7 PurdueBTN73–61 5 2:00pm#3 Michigan vs #11 IllinoisBTN55–47 3 6 6:00pm#1 Michigan State vs #8 NorthwesternBTN56–25 7 8:30pm#4 Iowa vs #5 Ohio StateBTN71–61 Semifinals - Saturday, March 5 4 8 5:00pm#2 Penn State vs #11 IllinoisBTN79–64 9 7:30pm#1 Michigan State vs #5 Ohio StateBTN72–57 Championship Game - Sunday, March 6 5 10 3:30pm#2 Penn State vs #5 Ohio StateESPN284–70 *Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.
Bracket
All game times are ET.
References