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2020 Big Ten men's basketball tournament

2020 Big Ten men's basketball tournament
Division I
2019–20
14
Bankers Life FieldhouseIndianapolis, Indiana
BTN, CBS
Big Ten men's basketball tournaments

The 2020 Big Ten men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament remained in its more traditional Midwest roots as it was held at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The first round games on March 11 were played with spectators in attendance. Later on March 11, the Big Ten conference announced that the remainder of the Big Ten tournament would proceed as scheduled but with no spectators in attendance due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Also on March 11, the NCAA announced that no fans would be able to attend the men's and women's 2020 NCAA tournament games due to concerns about the outbreak of COVID-19. A number of college conferences followed suit by either cancelling their basketball tournaments entirely or limiting spectator attendance.

On March 12, the Big Ten announced the cancellation of the remainder of the tournament.

The NCAA further announced that all remaining winter and spring championships for both men's and women's sports were canceled due to the pandemic.

All 14 Big Ten schools were scheduled to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye. Tiebreaking procedures remained unchanged from the 2019 tournament.

Seed	School	Conf.	Tiebreak 1	Tiebreak 2
1	Wisconsin	14–6	2–1 vs. Michigan State/Maryland
2	Michigan State	14–6	2–2 vs. Wisconsin/Maryland
3	Maryland	14–6	1–2 vs. Wisconsin/Michigan State
4	Illinois	13–7
5	Iowa	11–9	3–1 vs. Ohio State/Penn State/Rutgers
6	Penn State	11–9	3–3 vs. Iowa/Ohio State/Rutgers	2–2 vs. Wisconsin/Michigan State/Maryland
7	Ohio State	11–9	2–2 vs. Iowa/Penn State/Rutgers	1–4 vs. Wisconsin/Michigan State/Maryland
8	Rutgers	11–9	1–3 vs. Iowa/Penn State/Ohio State
9	Michigan	10–10
10	Purdue	9–11	2–0 vs. Indiana
11	Indiana	9–11	0–2 vs. Purdue
12	Minnesota	8–12
13	Northwestern	3–17
14	Nebraska	2–18

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance	Score
1	1	6:00 pm	No. 13 Northwestern vs. No. 12 Minnesota	BTN		57–74
2	8:30 pm	No. 14 Nebraska vs. No. 11 Indiana	64–89
2	3	12:00 pm	No. 9 Michigan vs. No. 8 Rutgers	BTN	Cancelled
4	2:30 pm	No. 12 Minnesota vs. No. 5 Iowa
3	5	6:30 pm	No. 10 Purdue vs. No. 7 Ohio State
6	9:00 pm	No. 11 Indiana vs. No. 6 Penn State
4	7	12:00 pm	Game 3 winner vs. No. 1 Wisconsin	BTN	Cancelled
8	2:30 pm	Game 4 winner vs. No. 4 Illinois
5	9	6:30 pm	Game 5 winner vs. No. 2 Michigan State
10	9:00 pm	Game 6 winner vs. No. 3 Maryland
6	11	1:00 pm	Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner	CBS	Cancelled
12	3:30 pm	Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner
7	13	3:30 pm	Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner	CBS	Cancelled

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

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