The bracket is officially set for the 2007 Big Ten Basketball Tournament in Indianapolis March 1-5. The tournament will be presented by XBOX 300 at Conseco Fieldhouse. This year, Ohio State will enter the tournament as the number one seed for the record-breaking third straight year in a row. The number two seed will be Purdue, number three will be Michigan State and the fourth seed will be Illinois. The rest of line up is as follows:
5th seed: Penn State, 6th seed: Minnesota, 7th seed: Wisconsin, 8th seed: Iowa, 9th seed: Indiana, 10th seed: Michigan and 11th seed: Northwestern
The 2006 tournament's attendance of more than 38,000 was record-breaking last year. Tickets for the tournament can be found at http://www.ticketmaster.com/, and a complete line up of the bracket includeing a list of teams, times, dates and television stations can be found at the ISC Web site, http://www.indianasportscorp.com/.
3 comments:
It's great to see women's basketball getting more attention. Most of what I hear about women's college basketball is simply how many times Candace Parker dunked in a game. Now with Ohio State building its name in women's basketball, I'm sure the school is getting even more publicity. I guess Troy Smith and Greg Oden weren't enough!
You mentioned the seeding of the tournament. This is part of the reason I like college basketball better than college football. While I love both, basketball is just so much easier to watch. The tournaments make things easy and fair. An 11-team conference can function in a basketball conference tournament. It apparently can't function in football, so there's the whole BCS controversy. Why does the Big Ten always have to complicate things? Isn't it enough that the Big Ten has eleven teams?
I agree with liz about conference tournaments. I think having this kind of system is easy and fair. It gives teams an opportunity to show their talent, regardless of what number they are ranked. The Gators, for example, were unranked last year and won the National Title.
I'm excited for all the excitement to begin.
Also, congrats to Ohio State's Women's Basketball team, way to hold your own!
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