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2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament

2025 Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Division I
2024–25
15
Gainbridge FieldhouseIndianapolis, Indiana
UCLA (1st title)
Cori Close (1st title)
Lauren Betts (UCLA)
Peacock, BTN, CBS/Paramount+
Big Ten women's basketball tournaments

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

This was the first season in a new tournament format as the conference expanded to 18 teams, following the additions of Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington. The top 15 teams participated with the bottom three teams not qualifying for the tournament. The field was announced on March 2, 2025. The top four seeds were USC, UCLA, Ohio State, and Maryland. Purdue, Penn State, and Northwestern did not participate as the lowest three teams in the standings.

The top 15 Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top nine teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye.

Seed	School	Conference	Tiebreak 1a	Tiebreak 1b	Tiebreak 2a, 2b	Tiebreak 2c	Tiebreak 2d
1	USC	17–1
2	UCLA	16–2
3	Ohio State	13–5	1–1 vs. Maryland	—.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}N/a	0–1 vs. UCLA/USC	3–0 vs. ILL, MICH, MSU
4	Maryland	13–5	1–1 vs. Ohio State	—N/a	0–1 vs. UCLA/USC	2–1 vs. ILL, MICH, MSU
5	Michigan	11–7	2–1 vs ILL, MSU	1–1 vs. Michigan State	0–1 vs. UCLA/USC	0–2 vs. MD, OSU	3–1 vs. IND, IOWA, NEB, ORE
6	Michigan State	11–7	2–1 vs. ILL, MICH	1–1 vs. Michigan	0–1 vs. UCLA/USC	0–2 vs. MD, OSU	2–2 vs. IND, IOWA, NEB, ORE
7	Illinois	11–7	0–2 vs. MICH, MSU
8	Oregon	10–8	2–1 vs. IND, IOWA, NEB	1–0 vs. Indiana
9	Indiana	10–8	2–1 vs. IOWA, NEB, ORE	0–1 vs. Oregon
10	Nebraska	10–8	2–2 vs. IND, IOWA, ORE
11	Iowa	10–8	1–3 vs. IND, NEB, ORE
12	Washington	9–9
13	Minnesota	8–10
14	Wisconsin	4–14
15	Rutgers	3–15	1–0 vs. Purdue
DNQ	Purdue	3–15	0–1 vs. Rutgers
DNQ	Northwestern	2–16
DNQ	Penn State	1–17

Tiebreakers:

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Score	Television	Attendance
1	1	3:30 p.m.	No. 13 Minnesota vs. No. 12 Washington	65–79	Peacock
2	6:00 p.m.	No. 15 Rutgers vs. No. 10 Nebraska	60–84
3	8:30 p.m.	No. 14 Wisconsin vs. No. 11 Iowa	54–81
2	4	12:00 p.m.	No. 9 Indiana vs. No. 8 Oregon	78–62	BTN	7,028
5	2:30 p.m.	No. 12 Washington vs. No. 5 Michigan	58–66
3	6	6:30 p.m.	No. 10 Nebraska vs. No. 7 Illinois	74–70
7	9:00 p.m.	No. 11 Iowa vs. No. 6 Michigan State	74–61
4	8	12:00 p.m.	No. 9 Indiana vs. No. 1 USC	79–84	BTN	7,352
9	2:30 p.m.	No. 5 Michigan vs. No. 4 Maryland	98–71
5	10	6:30 p.m.	No. 10 Nebraska vs. No. 2 UCLA	74–85	7,500
11	9:00 p.m.	No. 11 Iowa vs. No. 3 Ohio State	59–60
6	12	3:00 p.m.	No. 1 USC vs. No. 5 Michigan	82–70	BTN	7,805
13	5:30 p.m.	No. 2 UCLA vs. No. 3 Ohio State	75–46
7	14	4:30 p.m.	No. 1 USC vs. No. 2 UCLA	67–72	CBS	8,358

*Game times in EST through the semifinals and EDT for the championship. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

denotes overtime period

Lauren Betts, UCLA – Most Outstanding Player
Kiki Iriafen, USC
Lucy Olsen, Iowa
Syla Swords, Michigan
JuJu Watkins, USC
An NCAA record twelve Big Ten teams were invited to the 2025 NCAA women's basketball tournament. UCLA, USC, Ohio State, Maryland, Michigan, Iowa, Michigan State, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington all received bids to the 2025 tournament. Tournament Winner UCLA was the overall No. 1 seed, and USC was the No. 4 overall seed.
Minnesota was the sole Big Ten team invited to the 2025 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT). The Gophers won the 2025 WBIT.
UCLA would regain the number 1 ranking they held before being defeated by USC for the regular season championship.
Both USC and UCLA lost to the eventual national champion UConn Huskies.

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