2025 B1G Ten Men’s Basketball Conference Championship presented by TIAA

       Michigan Wolverines Champions 

    The #3 seed Michigan Wolverines used an 11-2 run to beat the #5 seed Wisconsin Badgers 59-53 Sunday Afternoon to win the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship presented by TIAA at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.  Michigan is 25-9 and the number 5 seed in the South Region for the NCAA Tournament and will face UC San Diego on Thursday at 10 PM on TBS in the first round in Denver, Colorado

     This is Michigan’s 4th Big Ten Tournament Title to go when 1998 along with 2017 and 2018. The 1998 title was later vacated due to NCAA Rules Violations.

    Vlad Goldin Becomes the third Michigan player to win the Most Outstanding Player Award joining Robert Traylor in 1998 and Moritz Wagner in 2018.

     Goldin scored 11 points and pulled down 5 rebounds. Danny Wolf who was named to the all-tournament team scored 8 points and pulled down 8 rebounds and Tre Donaldson added 11 points for the Wolverines. Michigan finished 19-59 from the field for 32 percent, 9-33 from three-point range for 27 percent and ,12-13 from the free throw line. Michigan pulled down 40 rebounds, 14 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks and committed 8 turnovers.

     John Blackwell led Wisconsin with 18 points and was named to the all-tournament team. Max Klesmit added 11 points and John Tonje who was named to the all-tournament team scored 9 points and pulled down 7 rebounds. Maryland’s Derik Queen rounded out the all-tournament team.

     Wisconsin led 23-21 at halftime and Michigan outscored Wisconsin 38-30 in the second half. There were 6 lead changes and 7 ties. Wisconsin led by 11 with 13:11 to go but Michigan fought back and used ,11-2 run at the end of the game to win the game by six points which was thier largest lead of the game.

                   John Tonje

    This is the 14th time that the Big Ten Tournament has been played in Indianapolis. The Circle City hosted in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008-2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Chicago who will host the tournament next year hosted from 1998 through 2001, 2003, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2023.Washington DC hosted in 2017, and New York City hosted in 2018.

     In 2024 Minneapolis Minnesota hosted the tournament at the Target Center.  Indianapolis will get the Big Ten Tournament in 2027 before it heads West to Las Vegas and T-Mobile Arena. ,13,824 fans showed up for the championship and the attendance all week has been way better than a year when the tournament was in Minneapolis and Indianapolis makes a strong case that the tournament should be Indianapolis every year.

    Six different schools have won the Big Ten Tournament.  Michigan State has won six titles, Ohio State five, Illinois four, Michigan four, Wisconsin three, Iowa three and Purdue two in the Tournaments 28 Year History as the 2020 Tournament was canceled after the opening round due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    For the first time in Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament History threw teams were left out as Nebraska, Penn State and Washington finished in the bottom three in the Big Ten Conference standings and were left out of the conference tournament as the conference expands to 18 teams. 8 teams made the NCAA with Michigan State, Purdue, UCLA, Oregon, Illinois and Maryland in addition to Michigan and Wisconsin.

    The Big Ten Women’s conference tournament was held in Indianapolis last week and there were 51,799 that filled Gainbridge Fieldhouse for seven sessions. The Men’s Tournament has always had strong crowds Indianapolis and of course with the conference now Coast to Coast you will see different location but there is no better place to host a conference basketball tournament than Indianapolis Indiana.