2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament

College basketball tournament

2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2024–25
Teams	15
Site	Gainbridge Fieldhouse Indianapolis, IN
Television	Peacock, BTN, CBS/Paramount+
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2024–25 Big Ten women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 4 USC	7	–	0	1.000	17	–	1	.944
No. 1 UCLA	6	–	0	1.000	18	–	0	1.000
No. 12 Ohio State	6	–	1	.857	17	–	1	.944
No. 8 Maryland	6	–	1	.857	16	–	2	.889
Nebraska	6	–	2	.750	15	–	4	.789
No. 23 Minnesota	5	–	2	.714	17	–	2	.895
No. 21 Michigan State	5	–	2	.714	15	–	3	.833
Oregon	5	–	3	.625	14	–	5	.737
No. 24 Michigan	4	–	3	.571	13	–	5	.722
Washington	4	–	3	.571	13	–	6	.684
Indiana	4	–	3	.571	12	–	6	.667
Illinois	3	–	4	.429	13	–	5	.722
Iowa	2	–	6	.250	12	–	7	.632
Penn State	1	–	7	.125	10	–	9	.526
Wisconsin	1	–	7	.125	10	–	9	.526
Northwestern	0	–	6	.000	7	–	10	.412
Purdue	0	–	7	.000	7	–	11	.389
Rutgers	0	–	8	.000	8	–	11	.421

† 2025 Big Ten tournament winner As of January 20, 2025 Rankings from AP Poll

The 2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament (branded as the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament for sponsorship reasons) is a postseason women's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season which will take place from March 5–9, 2025. The tournament will be held at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tournament winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

This will be the first season in the current tournament format as the conference expanded to 18 teams. The conference announced that only 15 teams will participate with the bottom three teams not qualifying for the tournament.

Seeds

The top 15 Big Ten schools will participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 9 teams receive a first round bye and the top four teams receive a double bye.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreak 1	Tiebreak 2	Tiebreak 3
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7
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9
10
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14
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18

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 5
1	1	3:30 p.m.	No. 12 vs. No. 13	Peacock
	2	6:00 p.m.	No. 11 vs. No. 14
	3	8:30 p.m.	No. 10 vs. No. 15
Second round – Thursday, March 6
2	4	12:00 p.m.	No. 8 vs. No. 9	BTN
2	5	2:30 p.m.	No. 5 vs.
3	6	6:30 p.m.	No. 7 vs.
3	7	9:00 p.m.	No. 6 vs.
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 7
4	8	12:00 p.m.	No. 1 vs.	BTN
4	9	2:30 p.m.	No. 4 vs.
5	10	6:30 p.m.	No. 2 vs.
5	11	9:00 p.m.	No. 3 vs.
Semifinals – Saturday, March 8
6	12	3:00 p.m.	vs.	BTN
6	13	5:30 p.m.	vs.	BTN
Championship – Sunday, March 9
7	14	4:30 p.m.	vs.	CBS

*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket


First round Wednesday, March 5 Peacock	Second round Thursday, March 6 BTN	Quarterfinals Friday, March 7 BTN	Semifinals Saturday, March 8 BTN	Championship Sunday, March 9 CBS



		1

	8

	9



		4

	5

12

13

		2

	7

10

15

		3

	6

11

14

* denotes overtime period

Game summaries