The Buckeyes will face the winner of Thursday’s game between No. 10 seed Northwestern and No. 7 seed Penn State Friday at 6:30 pm on BTN.
From a Big Ten release
ROSEMONT, Ill. – Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue and Nebraska are the top four seeds in the 2018 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament, the conference office announced on Sunday night. The 21st annual event will be played from Feb. 28 – March 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Michigan State finished with a 16-2 conference record and claimed the outright regular-season title with a 68-63 win at Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon. The Spartans’ outright regular-season crown is its first since the 2008-09 season. They open play at Noon ET on Friday.
Ohio State and Purdue tied for the second place in the regular-season standings, with a 15-3 record, with the Buckeyes earning the No. 2 seed based on a head-to-head victory vs. the Boilermakers. Nebraska earned the No. 4 seed and the final double-bye of the tournament with a 76-64 result vs. Penn State on the last day of the regular season. The Huskers tied with Michigan at 13-5, but Nebraska claimed the fourth seed by virtue of its head-to-head win vs. the Wolverines.
The tournament begins on Wednesday with two opening-round games of No. 13 Illinois vs. No. 12 Iowa at 5:30 p.m. ET followed by No. 11 Minnesota vs. No. 14 Rutgers. BTN will broadcast games on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with CBS set to televise the semifinals on Saturday and championship game on Sunday.
All-session tickets currently remain available at the Madison Square Garden box office, Ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 800-745-3000. Single-session tickets will go on sale beginning at Noon ET on Monday.
I watched both PSU games. If the Bucks don’t figure out in the next few days how to defend the 3 they will be out quickly. PSU also pushed OSU around and was the more physical team both games. I hate everything about PSU and a 3rd loss to them would make this season a disappointment. Go Bucks!
LOL. So we get treated to a garbage PSU team beating the snot out of the Buckeyes for the 3rd time this season. The only real question is. How many points will PSU win by.
Please explain why a “garbage” team would beat a team, for the THIRD time, that practically won the conference and have the likely conference mvp, coach of the year and national coach of the year. Are we a garbagier team? Yes I said garbagier. I wouldn’t bet a nickel on OSU but they ain’t losing to any “garbage” team. Try to come up with some new comments and maybe word them in a way that is less annoying and that portray you as less of a know it all numbskull.
Because our Guard Play sucks, outside of having KBD bringing the ball up….
Mommy mommy that mean James Mills……he, he is picking on this Buckeye team for getting stomped by a garbage team like PSU.
Dude…….shut up and wipe your tears and nose.
Know it all? Is that what you think clown?
Too bad you can’t handle the truth. Ohio State lost on it’s own court to a garbage team. Got blown off the garbage teams home court. Why in the world would there be any confidence the Buckeyes would have any success against that garbage team in round 3?
You’ve made it clear. You have the same kind of lust affair with PSU that Sandusky had. Now trot along and play with your puppy and playdough.