Northwestern plays in the initial game on Wednesday, Illinois shut down on Thursday and Ketleen Clarke and Iowa have a double bye in Friday’s quarter -finals as the Pairing has been set for the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament in Miniapolis.
The coach which is ranked 13th in McCain’s Wildcats (9-20, 4-14) and will face the number 12 seed perdue (12-17, 5-13) on the peacock at 5:30 pm in the tournament opener. The winner proceeds to meet the fifth seeded Nebraska (19–10, 11–7).
In her second season under coach Shuna Green, the ninth seed will be taken to the number 8 seed Maryland (17–12, 9-9) in a four-second-round game at 11:30 am on the Big Ten network in her second season. Top Seed Ohio State (25-4, 16-2) will wait in the quarter-finals.
The All-Time Division I Scoring Leader Clarke and Hawkis (26–4, 15–3) have been prepared to play second and open on BTN against Pen State (18–11, 9-9) or visconsin (13–15, 6-12) at 5:30 pm on Friday.
ESPN’s latest bracketology projects seven Big Ten teams in the field of NCAA tournament: Ohio State No. 1 Seed, Iowa, Indiana (24-4, 15-3) as number 2, as number 4, Michigan State (22-7, 12-6) as number 7, number 7 as Nebraska (18–12, Michigan (18–12, 8-12, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9, 9-9). Two of the last four bye of ESPN, while Pen State is one of the first four.
According to Big Ten, the tournament is sold for the first time in its 31 -year history, while Sunday’s championship game will first air on CBS -2.
Big ten tournament schedule
Target center, miniapolis
First round of Wednesday
- (12) Perdue vs (13) Northwestern, 5:30 pm, Peacock
- (11) Minnesota vs (14) Ratgers, 8 pm, Peacock
Second round of Thursday
- (8) Maryland vs (9) Illinois, 11:30 pm, BTN
- (5) Nebraska vs Nebraska. Perdue-Noo winner, 2 pm, BTN
- (() Pen State vs (10) Visconsin, 5:30 pm, BTN
- (6) Michigan vs Minnesota-Ratgers winners, 8 pm, BTN
Friday’s quarter finals
- (1) Ohio State vs. Maryland-Illinois winner, 11:30 pm, BTN
- (4) Michigan State vs. Nebraska/Perdue/NU, 2 pm, BTN
- (2) Iowa vs. Pen State-Cisconsin winner, 5:30 pm, BTN
- (3) Indiana VS. Michigan/Minnesota/Rutgers, 8 pm, BTN
Saturday’s semi -finals
- First two quarterfinal winners, 1 pm, BTN
- Last two quarterfinal winners, 3:30 pm, BTN
Sunday’s final
- Semi -final winner, 11 am, CBS -2