2005 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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The 2005 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 9 and March 12, 2005 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. This was the seventh annual Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament. The Illinois Fighting Illini were champions of the tournament, and thereby received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. James Augustine of Illinois was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.

[edit] Seeds

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.

Seed	School	Conference (Overall)
1	Illinois	15-1 (29-1)
2	Michigan State	13-3 (22-5)
3	Wisconsin	11-5 (20-7)
4	Indiana	10-6 (16-12)
5	Minnesota	(20-10)
6	Ohio State	(-1)
7	Iowa	(19-10)
8	Northwestern
9	Michigan	4-12
10	Purdue	3-13 (7-20)
11	Penn State	2-14

[edit] Bracket

Opening Round 10 March 2005			Quarterfinals 11 March 2005			Semifinals 12 March 2005			Championship 13 March 2005


			1	Illinois (30-1)	68

			8	Northwestern	51
8	Northwestern	58

9	Michigan	56
						1	Illinois (31-1)	64

						5	Minnesota (21-11)	56



			4	Indiana (16-13)	55

			5	Minnesota (21-10)	71



									1	Illinois (32-1)	54

									3	Wisconsin (22-8)	43



			2	Michigan State (22-6)	69

			7	Iowa (21-10)	71
7	Iowa (20-10)	71

10	Purdue (7-21)	52
						7	Iowa (21-11)	56

						3	Wisconsin (22-7)	59



			3	Wisconsin (21-7)	60

			6	Ohio State	49
6	Ohio State	72

11	Penn State	69