1999 Big Ten men's basketball tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Season | 1998–99 |
Teams | 11 |
Site | United Center Chicago, Illinois |
Champions | Michigan State (1st title) |
Winning coach | Tom Izzo (1st title) |
MVP | Mateen Cleaves (Michigan State) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 2 Michigan State† | 15 | – | 1 | .938 | 33 | – | 5 | .868 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 19 Indiana | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 23 | – | 11 | .676 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 18 Wisconsin | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 22 | – | 10 | .688 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 21 Iowa | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 20 | – | 10 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purdue | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 21 | – | 13 | .618 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northwestern | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 15 | – | 14 | .517 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn State | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 13 | – | 14 | .481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illinois | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 14 | – | 18 | .438 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 14 Ohio State** | 0 | – | 4 | .000 | 1 | – | 9 | .100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minnesota*** | 0 | – | 8 | .000 | 0 | – | 11 | .000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michigan* | 0 | – | 11 | .000 | 0 | – | 19 | .000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 1999 Big Ten tournament winner Rankings from AP poll *Michigan: 12 games vacated due to sanctions against the program **Ohio State: 26 games including 5 NCAA Tourn. games vacated due to sanctions against the program *** Minnesota vacated 17 games including 1 NCAA Tourn. game due to sanctions against the program Disputed records: Michigan: 12–19, 5–11; Ohio State: 27–9, 12–4; Minnesota: 17–11, 8–8 |
The 1999 Big Ten men's basketball tournament was the second annual postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference and was played from March 4 through March 7, 1999, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The championship was won by Michigan State who defeated Illinois in the championship game. [1] As a result, Michigan State received the Big Ten's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Due to Michigan basketball scandal, Michigan has vacated the records from this tournament. [2] Similarly, due to the Minnesota academic scandal, Minnesota's appearance in this tournament was vacated. [3] Ohio State also vacated its appearance in the tournament due to NCAA Sanctions. [4]
All Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season. The top five teams received a first round bye.
Seed | School | Conference | 1st Tiebreaker | 2nd Tiebreaker |
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1 | Michigan State | 15–1 | ||
2 | Ohio State | 12–4 | ||
3 | Indiana | 9–7 | ||
4 | Wisconsin | 9–7 | ||
5 | Iowa | 9–7 | ||
6 | Minnesota | 8–8 | ||
7 | Purdue | 7–9 | ||
8 | Northwestern | 6–10 | ||
9 | Penn State | 5–11 | ||
10 | Michigan | 5–11 | ||
11 | Illinois | 3–13 |
Opening round March 4 | Quarterfinals March 5 | Semifinals March 6 | Championship March 7 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | #2 Michigan State | 61 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | Northwestern | 59 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | Northwestern | 54 | |||||||||||||||||
9 | Penn State | 44 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | #2 Michigan State | 56 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | #19 Wisconsin | 41 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | #19 Wisconsin | 74 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | #20 Iowa | 60 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | #2 Michigan State | 67 | |||||||||||||||||
11 | Illinois | 50 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | #11 Ohio State | 87 | |||||||||||||||||
10 | Michigan | 69 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | Purdue | 73 | |||||||||||||||||
10 | Michigan | 79 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | #11 Ohio State | 77 | |||||||||||||||||
11 | Illinois | 79 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | #17 Indiana | 66 | |||||||||||||||||
11 | Illinois | 82 | |||||||||||||||||
6 | #23 Minnesota | 64 | |||||||||||||||||
11 | Illinois | 67 |
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