ROSEMONT, Ill.\u00a0– The Big Ten Conference announced the complete bracket\u00a0for the 2026 Big Ten Women\u2019s Tennis Tournament presented by Allstate, which will\u00a0take place\u00a0on April 23-26 at the Ty Tucker Tennis Center in Columbus, Ohio.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ohio State (21-3,\u00a012-1\u00a0Big Ten), USC (19-5,\u00a012-1\u00a0Big Ten)\u00a0and Michigan (16-6,\u00a012-1\u00a0Big Ten) each clinched a share of the Big Ten\u00a0Championship,\u00a0and tiebreaking procedures were used to\u00a0determine\u00a0tournament seeding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Buckeyes will look to defend their Big Ten Tournament\u00a0title as the No. 1 seed in this year\u2019s tournament, opening play on Friday against the winner of No.\u00a08 seed Illinois and No. 9 seed Nebraska.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After clinching its first-ever Big Ten Championship, USC earned the No. 2 seed and will face the winner of No. 7 Maryland vs. No. 10 Northwestern in Friday\u2019s third\u00a0quarterfinal\u00a0match. The Trojans\u00a0finished the regular season 10-0 at home\u00a0and\u00a0enter\u00a0the postseason on a seven-match win streak.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michigan won its fourth straight and 14th\u00a0overall Big Ten Championship and\u00a0will play the winner of No. 6 Wisconsin vs. No. 11 Iowa in Friday\u2019s final quarterfinal match. The Wolverines\u00a0have won seven Big Ten Tournament titles, including three in a row from 2022-24.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
UCLA claimed the No. 4 seed and will receive a bye into the quarterfinals\u00a0for the second-straight year. The Bruins\u00a0await the winner of No. 5 Washington and No. 12 Penn State.\u00a0\u00a0UCLA\u00a0finished the regular season 9-4 in Big Ten play\u00a0(15-6 overall), winning six straight matches to close out the regular season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
All matches for this year\u2019s tournament will be\u00a0streamed live\u00a0on B1G+.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2026 Big Ten Women\u2019s Tennis Tournament presented by Allstate schedule is as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thursday, April 23
Match 1 (#8 Illinois vs. #9 Nebraska) – 9 a.m. ET\u00a0
Match 2 (#5 Washington vs. #12 Penn State) – 11:30 a.m. ET\u00a0
Match 3 (#7 Maryland vs. #10 Northwestern) – 2 p.m. ET\u00a0
Match 4 (#6 Wisconsin vs. #11 Iowa) – 4:30 p.m. ET\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Friday, April 24\u00a0(Quarterfinals)
Match 5 (#1 Ohio State vs. Match 1 winner) – 9 a.m. ET\u00a0\u00a0
Match 6 (#4 UCLA vs. Match 2 winner) – 11:30 a.m. ET\u00a0
Match 7 (#2 USC vs. Match 3 winner) – 2 p.m. ET\u00a0
Match 8 (#3 Michigan vs. Match 4 winner) – 4:30 p.m. ET\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday, April 25\u00a0(Semifinals)
Match 9 (Match 5 winner vs. Match 6 winner) – 11 a.m. ET\u00a0
Match 10 (Match 7 winner vs. Match 8 winner) – 2 p.m. ET\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sunday, April 26 (Championship Match)
Match 11 (Match 9 winner vs. Match 10 winner) – Noon ET\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
NOTES: All times are approximate and subject to change \u2026 matches streamed on B1G+ (details available at bigtenplus.com).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSEMONT, Ill.\u00a0– The Big Ten Conference announced the complete bracket\u00a0for the 2026 Big Ten Women\u2019s Tennis Tournament presented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[24319,76557,69585,76558,76562,99,76560,2415,76556,76559,76561,428],"class_list":["post-595683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-big-ten","tag-college-basketball-scores","tag-college-football-scores","tag-college-volleyball-scores","tag-player-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-information","tag-sports-news","tag-sports-scores","tag-sports-videos","tag-team-statistics","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595683","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=595683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}