1999 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1999 Big Ten Conference Men's
Basketball Tournament

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Classification Division I
Season 1998–99
Teams 11
Site United Center
Chicago, IL
Champions Michigan State (1st title)
Winning coach Tom Izzo (1st title)
MVP Mateen Cleaves Michigan State
Post-Big Ten Conference
tournament(s)
1999 NIT, 1999 NCAA
Big Ten Conference Men's
Basketball Tournaments
«1998  2000»

The 1999 Big Ten tournament was played from March 4, 1999, to March 7, 1999. The tournament was held at the United Center in Chicago, and won by the Michigan State Spartans.

Due to NCAA sanctions, Michigan and Ohio State have vacated the records from this tournament. Similarly, Minnesota's appearance in this tournament was voided.

Contents

Seeds

All Big Ten schools play in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

1998–1999 Big Ten Conference Standings
Team Conference Record Overall
W L GB W L
#2 Michigan State 15 1 - 33 5
#14 Ohio State 12 4 3 27 9
#19 Indiana 9 7 6 23 11
#18 Wisconsin 9 7 6 22 10
#21 Iowa 9 7 6 20 10
Minnesota 8 8 7 17 11
Purdue 7 9 8 21 13
Northwestern 6 10 9 15 14
Penn State 5 11 10 13 14
Michigan 5 11 10 12 19
Illinois 3 13 12 14 18

Bracket

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  Opening Round 4 March 1999 Quarterfinals 5 March 1999 Semifinals 6 March 1999 Championship 7 March 1999
                                     
        
  1  Michigan State 61  
    8  Northwestern 59  
8  Northwestern 54
9  Penn State 44  
  1  Michigan State 56  
  4  Wisconsin 41  
        
        
  4  Wisconsin 74
    5  Iowa 60  
      
        
  1  Michigan State 67
  11  Illinois 50
        
        
  2  Ohio State 87
    10  Michigan 69  
7  Purdue 73
10  Michigan 79  
  2  Ohio State 77
  11  Illinois 79  
        
        
  3  Indiana 66
    11  Illinois 82  
6  Minnesota 64
11  Illinois 67  

Awards

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All-Tournament Team

Cory Bradford, Illinois
Mateen Cleaves, Michigan State
Antonio Smith, Michigan State
Evan Eschmeyer, Northwestern
Michael Redd, Ohio State

Most Outstanding Player

Mateen Cleaves, Michigan State

References