2012 Big Ten women's basketball tournament

The 2012 Big Ten women's basketball tournament was held from March 1 to March 4 at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. 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.

Seeds 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. The top 4 teams would receive a first round bye.

The seeding for the tournament was determined as the conference season concluded:

SeedSchoolConf1st Tiebreak2nd Tiebreak3rd Tiebreak4th TiebreakHead-to-HeadWin% vs. #1 SeedWin% vs. All D1Coin Flip#1Penn State13–3#2Ohio State11–53–0#3Iowa11–52–2#4Purdue11–52–3#5Michigan State11–51–3#6Nebraska10–6#7Michigan8–8#8Minnesota6–10#9Wisconsin5–112–0#10Illinois5–110–2#11Northwestern4–12#12Indiana1–15

Schedule Source

SessionGameTime**Matchup#TelevisionScore First round - Thursday, March 1 1 111:30am#7 Michigan vs. #10 IllinoisBTN68–53 22:00pm#6 Nebraska vs. #11 NorthwesternBTN88–56 2 36:00pm#8 Minnesota vs. #9 WisconsinBTN81–49 48:30pm#5 Michigan State vs. #12 IndianaBTN97–68 Quarterfinals - Friday, March 2 3 511:30am#2 Ohio State vs. #7 MichiganBTN57–48 62:00pm#3 Iowa vs. #6 NebraskaBTN68–80 4 76:00pm#1 Penn State vs. #8 MinnesotaBTN78–74 88:30pm#4 Purdue vs. #5 Michigan StateBTN73–64 Semifinals - Saturday, March 3 5 9 5:00pm#2 Ohio State vs. #6 NebraskaBTN62–77 10 7:30pm#1 Penn State vs. #4 PurdueBTN66–68 Championship Game - Sunday, March 4 6 11 4:00pm#6 Nebraska vs. #4 PurdueESPN270–74* * – Denotes overtime **Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

All game times are ET. * – Denotes overtime

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