{"id":498899,"date":"2026-03-02T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:25:09","slug":"official-big-ten-womens-tournament-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498899\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIAL: Big Ten Women’s Tournament Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bracket is officially set, and now, 15 teams will descend on Indianapolis for the Big Ten Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament to battle for an automatic bid the NCAA Tournament. The Iowa Hawkeyes, champions in three of the last four years will enter the tournament as the 2 seed, while reigning champion UCLA earned the top seed after going undefeated in Big Ten play. The action gets underway at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Wednesday with three opening round games. HawkeyeReport takes a look at the bracket and breaks down how the matchups played out during the regular season.<\/p>\n

Official Big Ten Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament Bracket<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, March 4th<\/p>\n

#13 Indiana Hoosiers (17-13, 6-12) vs #12 Nebraska Cornhuskers (18-11, 7-11)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Last Meeting: Nebraska won the regular season meeting 78-73 in Lincoln on Jan 8<\/p>\n

#15 Wisconsin Badgers (13-16, 5-13) vs #10 Illinois Fighting Illini (19-10, 9-9)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Last Meeting: Illinois won the regular season meeting 92-60 in Champaign on Feb 11<\/p>\n

#14 Purdue Boilermakers (13-16, 5-13) vs #11 Oregon Ducks (20-11, 8-10)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Last Meeting: Oregon won the regular season meeting 71-65 in West Lafayette on Feb 25<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 5th<\/p>\n

#9 USC Trojans (17-12, 9-9) vs #8 Washington Huskies (20-9, 10-8)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Last Meeting: USC won the regular season meeting 59-50 in Los Angeles on Dec 7<\/p>\n

#5 Ohio State Buckeyes (24-6, 13-5) vs #12 Nebraska\/#13 Indiana<\/p>\n

\u2013 Ohio State defeated Nebraska 90-71 in Columbus on Feb 1<\/p>\n

\u2013 Ohio State defeated Indiana 81-67 in Columbus on Jan 22<\/p>\n

#7 Michigan State Spartans (22-7, 11-7) vs #15 Wisconsin\/#10 Illinois<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michigan State lost to Wisconsin 78-64 in Madison on Dec 7<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michigan State defeated Illinois 81-75 in East Lansing on Jan 4<\/p>\n

#6 Maryland Terrapins (23-7, 11-7) vs #14 Purdue\/#11 Oregon<\/p>\n

\u2013 Maryland defeated Purdue 99-66 in College Park on Feb 22<\/p>\n

\u2013 Maryland lost to Oregon 68-61 in College Park on Jan 31<\/p>\n

Friday, March 6th<\/p>\n

#1 UCLA Bruins (28-1, 18-0) vs #9 USC\/#8 Washington<\/p>\n

\u2013 UCLA swept USC in their two-game season series (80-46 at UCLA) (73-50 at USC)<\/p>\n

\u2013 UCLA defeated Washington 82-67 in Los Angeles on Feb 19<\/p>\n

#4 Minnesota Golden Gophers (22-7, 13-5) vs #5 Ohio State\/#12 Nebraska\/#13 Indiana<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minnesota won all three games against those opponents, with an average margin of victory of 17.7 points.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Gophers defeated Ohio State 74-61 (Minneapolis), Nebraska 84-67 (Minneapolis) and Indiana 71-48 (Bloomington)<\/p>\n

#2 Iowa Hawkeyes (24-5, 15-3) vs #7 Michigan State\/#10 Illinois\/#15 Wisconsin<\/p>\n

\u2013 Iowa won all three games against those opponents, with an average margin of victory of 13.3 points.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Iowa defeated Michigan State 75-68 (Iowa City), Illinois 82-78 (Iowa City) and Wisconsin 81-52 (Madison)<\/p>\n

#3 Michigan Wolverines (24-5, 15-3) vs #6 Maryland\/#11 Oregon\/#14 Purdue<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michigan won all three games against those opponents, with an average margin of victory of 23.7 points.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michigan defeated Maryland 87-69 (Ann Arbor), Oregon 92-87 in 2OT (Eugene) and Purdue 104-56 (Ann Arbor)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bracket is officially set, and now, 15 teams will descend on Indianapolis for the Big Ten Women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[37758,99,1765],"class_list":["post-498899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-iowa-womens-basketball","tag-sports","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}