March Madness begins with the college basketball conference tournaments. This year the Big Ten tournament will be bigger than ever with the top 15 teams getting together to determine who gets the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

With its most recent loss to Maryland on Saturday, Penn State was officially eliminated from the Big Ten men's basketball tournament. There is no path to the postseason for the Nittany Lions, who sit one win behind Iowa and USC, who are each battling for the final seed going into the final week of the Big Ten's regular season.

The Big Ten Tournament picture is beginning to come into focus for a Maryland men’s basketball team that could end up top-four seed.

The men's basketball tournament for the Midwest-based league will make its first trip out west in the near future.

If there’s to be a third game, on a neutral court in the 2025 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, it won’t come until the final on March 9, as U-M and MSU wound up on opposite sides of the bracket finalized Sunday evening.

Ohio State men’s basketball is hoping to avoid missing out on March Madness for a third straight season and earning a higher seed for the Big Ten tournament is a step in the right direction. The Buckeyes (16-13,