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{{Infobox NCAA Basketball Conference tournament |
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{{2024-25 Big Ten women's basketball standings}} |
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The '''2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament''' (branded as the '''2025 ] Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament''' for sponsorship reasons) is a postseason women's basketball ] for the ] of the ] which will take place from March 5–9, 2025. The tournament will be held at the ] in ], ]. The tournament winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the ]. |
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This will be the first season in the current tournament format as the conference expanded to 18 teams.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 30, 2024 |title=Big Ten Conference to Alter Basketball Tournaments Starting in 2025 |url=https://www.sportstravelmagazine.com/big-ten-conference-to-alter-basketball-tournaments-in-2024-2025/ |access-date=September 10, 2024 |website=SportsTravelMagazine.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The conference announced that only 15 teams will participate with the bottom three teams not qualifying for the tournament. |
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==Seeds== |
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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 ] and the top four teams receive a double bye. |
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!colspan=7| First round – Wednesday, March 5 |
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<small>*Game times in ]. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.</small> |
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<ref>{{cite web |title=2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament |url=https://www.indianasportscorp.org/events/2025-tiaa-big-ten-women |publisher=Indiana Sports Corp |access-date=September 10, 2024}}</ref> |
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==Bracket== |
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{{15TeamBracket-StepladderToQF |
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|RD1='''First round'''<br />{{nowrap|Wednesday, March 5}}<br />] |
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|RD2='''Second round'''<br />Thursday, March 6<br />] |
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|RD3='''Quarterfinals'''<br />Friday, March 7<br />BTN |
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|RD4='''Semifinals'''<br />Saturday, March 8<br />BTN |
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|RD5='''Championship'''<br />Sunday, March 9<br />] |
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==References== |
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{{reflist|30em}} |
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{{Big Ten Conference women's basketball tournament navbox}} |
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{{2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament navbox}} |
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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.
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.