1999 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

1999 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

 
Classification Division I
Season 199899
Teams 11
Site United Center
Chicago, Illinois
Champions Michigan State (1st title)
Winning coach Tom Izzo (1st title)
MVP Mateen Cleaves (Michigan State)
Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments
«1998  2000»

The 1999 Big Ten Tournament was played from March 4 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.

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
WLGB W L
#2 Michigan State151-335
#14 Ohio State1243279
#19 Indiana9762311
#18 Wisconsin9762210
#21 Iowa9762010
Minnesota8871711
Purdue7982113
Northwestern61091514
Penn State511101314
Michigan511101219
Illinois313121418

Bracket

[1]

  Opening round
March 4
Quarterfinals
March 5
Semifinals
March 6
Championship
March 7
                                     
        
  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  

Honors

[2]

All-Tournament Team

References

  1. "Men's Basketball – All-Time Results". Big Ten. Retrieved February 28, 2014.
  2. "Past Big Ten Tournament Results". SpartanTailgate.com.
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