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Basketball Tournament |
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2008 Tournament logo |
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| Classification | Division I | ||
| Season | 2007–08 | ||
| Teams | 11 | ||
| Site | Conseco Fieldhouse Indianapolis, Indiana |
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| Champions | Wisconsin Badgers (2nd title) | ||
| Winning coach | Bo Ryan (2nd title) | ||
| MVP | Marcus Landry Wisconsin | ||
| Television | BTN, ESPN, ESPN2, and CBS | ||
| Post-Big Ten Conference tournament(s) |
2008 NIT, 2008 NCAA, 2008 CBI |
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| Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
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The 2008 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played between March 13 and 16, 2008 at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. By winning the tournament, Wisconsin received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. This year's contest marked the tenth anniversary of the tournament.[1] Games were televised on BTN, ESPN, ESPN2, and CBS, with the championship broadcast on CBS, March 16.
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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. Each of the top 5 teams received a first round bye.
| Seed | School | Conference (Overall) |
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| 1 | Wisconsin | 16–2 (26–4) |
| 2 | Purdue | 15–3 (24–7) |
| 3 | Indiana | 14–4 (25–6) |
| 4 | Michigan State | 12–6 (24–7) |
| 5 | Ohio State | 10–8 (19–12) |
| 6 | Minnesota | 8–10 (18–12) |
| 7 | Penn State | 7–11 (15–15) |
| 8 | Iowa | 6–12 (13–18) |
| 9 | Michigan | 5–13 (9–21) |
| 10 | Illinois | 5–13 (13–18) |
| 11 | Northwestern | 1–17 (8–21) |
| Opening Round March 13, 2008 | Quarterfinals March 14, 2008 | Semifinals March 15, 2008 | Championship March 16, 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Wisconsin | 51 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Michigan | 34 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Iowa | 47 | ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Michigan | 55 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Wisconsin | 65 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Michigan State | 63 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Michigan State | 67 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Ohio State | 60 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Wisconsin | 61 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Illinois | 48 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Purdue | 67 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Illinois | 74 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Penn State | 63 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Illinois | 64 | ||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Illinois | 54 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Minnesota | 50 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Indiana | 58 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Minnesota | 59 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Minnesota | 55 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Northwestern | 52 | ||||||||||||||||
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