Indiana’s last common season sport may affect whether or not the Hoosiers make the NCAA Tournament, however it’ll don’t have any affect on their seed in subsequent week’s convention match.
IU will likely be the No. 10 seed in head coach Darian DeVries’ first Big Ten Tournament no matter the end result of Saturday’s sport at Ohio State, or some other convention sport nonetheless to be performed.
The Hoosiers (18-12, 9-10) are at present in tenth place, and there is just one staff at present above or under them that may tie them in the league standings. And that’s a 10-8 Iowa staff that holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over Indiana.
The 2026 Big Ten Tournament is at the United Center in Chicago. As the No. 10 seed, IU will play on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. ET.
As the No. 10 seed, IU will play the winner of a Tuesday sport between the No. 18 and 15 seeds. Penn State seems to be locked into the No. 18 seed. There are nonetheless some completely different eventualities for which staff will find yourself No. 15. The contenders look like Northwestern and Rutgers.
If IU have been to win its first sport they’d face the No. 7 seed, which is at present UCLA however may additionally find yourself being Purdue, Iowa and Ohio State.
Indiana has by no means received the Big Ten Tournament.
The twenty ninth Big Ten Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament will likely be performed March 10-15, marking the first Big Ten Tournament to characteristic an 18-team subject.
The No. 15-18 seeds play on March 10 in the first spherical. The No. 9-14 seeds all get a bye and can play on March 11, whereas the No. 5-8 seeds get a double-bye and can play on March 12. The winner of these video games advance to the fourth spherical on March 13, the place the No. 1-4 seeds, await.
In case of a tie in the regular-season standings, the Big Ten makes use of the following 4 tiebreakers in conditions with two or greater than two tied groups.
- Head-to-head report, utilizing profitable proportion for ties of greater than two groups.
- Record in opposition to groups with highest positioning in the convention (finest win).
- Won-loss proportion of all Division 1 opponents (D1 power of schedule).
- Previous week’s NET score.
Here is the bracket for the 18-team subject:
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