2001 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2001 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2000–01
Teams	11
Site	United Center Chicago, Illinois
Champions	Iowa (1st title)
Winning coach	Steve Alford (1st title)
MVP	Reggie Evans (Iowa)
Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «2000  2002»

The 2001 Big Ten Tournament was played from March 7 to March 10, 2001. The tournament was held at the United Center in Chicago, and won by the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Due to NCAA sanctions, Ohio State has vacated the records from this tournament.

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.

Seed	School	Conference	Overall
1	Illinois	13–3	23–6
2	Michigan State	13–3	24–3
3	Ohio State	11–5	20–9
4	Indiana	10–6	19–11
5	Wisconsin	9–7	18–9
6	Iowa	7–9	18–11
7	Penn State	7–9	17–10
8	Purdue	6–10	14–13
9	Minnesota	5–11	17–12
10	Michigan	4–12	10–17
11	Northwestern	3–13	11–18

Bracket

	Opening round March 7					Quarterfinals March 8					Semifinals March 9					Championship March 10
						1	Illinois	83
						8	Purdue	66
	8	Purdue	91
	9	Minnesota	77
											1	Illinois	56
										4	Indiana	58
						4	Indiana	64
						5	Wisconsin	52
																4	Indiana	61
																6	Iowa	63
						2	Michigan State	63
						7	Penn State	65
	7	Penn State	82
	10	Michigan	80
											7	Penn State	74
										6	Iowa	94
						3	Ohio State	66
						6	Iowa	75
	6	Iowa	72
	11	Northwestern	55

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References

1. "Men's Basketball – All-Time Results". Big Ten. Retrieved February 28, 2014.