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2010 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2010 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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2010 Tournament logo
Classification Division I
Season 2009–10
Teams 11
Site Conseco Fieldhouse
Indianapolis, Indiana
Champions Ohio State (3rd title)
Winning coach Thad Matta (2nd title)
MVP Evan Turner (Ohio State)
Television BTN, ESPN, ESPN2, and CBS
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2009–10 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
No. 5 Ohio State 14 4   .778     29 8   .784
No. 10 Purdue 14 4   .778     29 6   .829
No. 13 Michigan State 14 4   .778     28 9   .757
No. 16 Wisconsin 13 5   .722     24 9   .727
Illinois 10 8   .556     21 15   .583
Minnesota 9 9   .500     21 14   .600
Northwestern 7 11   .389     20 14   .588
Michigan 7 11   .389     15 17   .469
Indiana 4 14   .222     10 21   .323
Iowa 4 14   .222     10 22   .313
Penn State 3 15   .167     11 20   .355
2010 Big Ten Tournament winner
As of April 3, 2010; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2010 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 11 through March 14 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the 12th annual Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament. The championship was won by Ohio State who defeated Minnesota in the championship game. As a result, Ohio State received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The win marked Ohio State's third tournament championship (one prior championship has been vacated).

All Big Ten schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season. The top five teams received a first round bye.


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