2011 Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Tournament

2011 Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	11
Site	Conseco Fieldhouse Indianapolis, Indiana
Champions	Ohio State (Fourth title)
Winning coach	Jim Foster (Fourth title)
MVP	Jantel Lavender (Ohio State)
Television	BTN and ESPN2
Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Tournaments «2010  2012»

The 2011 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament will be played Thursday, March 3 through Sunday, March 6 at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. All 10 games will be aired nationally on the Big Ten Network and ESPN2. The Big Ten Network will carry every game except the final, which will air on ESPN2. The winner will receive 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.^[1] The top 5 teams received a first round bye.

The seeding for the tournament was as follows:

Seed	School	Conf	Overall	Tiebreaker
#1	Michigan State	13-3	25-4
#2	Penn State	11-5	22-8
#3	Michigan	10-6	17-11	5-0 vs. IOWA/OSU/WISC
#4	Iowa	10-6	22-7	2-2 vs. MICH/OSU/WISC
#5	Ohio State	10-6	19-9	2-3 vs. MICH/IOWA/WISC
#6	Wisconsin	10-6	15-14	0-4 vs. MICH/IOWA/OSU
#7	Purdue	9-7	20-10
#8	Northwestern	6-10	18-12
#9	Minnesota	4-12	12-18
#10	Indiana	3-13	9-20
#11	Illinois	2-14	8-22

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Score
First Round - Thursday, March 3
1	1	2:00pm	#7 Purdue vs #10 Indiana	BTN	66-62
	2	4:30pm	#6 Wisconsin vs #11 Illinois	BTN	63-56
	3	7:00pm	#8 Northwestern vs #9 Minnesota	BTN	53-44
Quarterfinals - Friday, March 4
2	4	11:30am	#2 Penn State vs #7 Purdue	BTN	73-61
	5	2:00pm	#3 Michigan vs #11 Illinois	BTN	55-47
3	6	6:00pm	#1 Michigan State vs #8 Northwestern	BTN	56-25
	7	8:30pm	#4 Iowa vs #5 Ohio State	BTN	71-61
Semifinals - Saturday, March 5
4	8	5:00pm	#2 Penn State vs #11 Illinois	BTN	79-64
	9	7:30pm	#1 Michigan State vs #5 Ohio State	BTN	72-57
Championship Game - Sunday, March 6
5	10	3:30pm	#2 Penn State vs #5 Ohio State	ESPN2	84-70
*Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

	First Round Thursday, March 3					Quarterfinals Friday, March 4					Semifinals Saturday, March 5					Championship Game Sunday, March 6
						1	Michigan State	56
						8	Northwestern	25
	8	Northwestern	53
	9	Minnesota	44
											1	Michigan State	57
										5	Ohio State	72
						4	Iowa	61
						5	Ohio State	71
																5	Ohio State	84
																2	Penn State	70
						2	Penn State	73
						7	Purdue	61
	7	Purdue	66
	10	Indiana	62
											2	Penn State	79
										11	Illinois	64
						3	Michigan	47
						11	Illinois	55
	6	Wisconsin	56
	11	Illinois	63

All game times are ET.

References

1. Tiebreaking Procedures 2011 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, BigTen.org. Retrieved 2010-11-09.