{"id":240011,"date":"2025-09-19T22:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240011\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:52:15","slug":"big-ten-to-include-all-18-teams-in-mens-basketball-conference-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240011\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten to include all 18 teams in men\u2019s basketball conference tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you were looking to get in some Big Ten Tournament bracketology this year, I\u2019m afraid you\u2019re out of luck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The conference opted to cut off the bottom three teams in the final league standings from tournament play starting last season with the arrival of UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington, which made the Big Ten an 18-team league. The logistical challenges presented by an 18-team tournament were obvious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The new rule led to Nebraska, Penn State and Washington missing out on tournament play last season after finishing at 16th, 17th and 18th in the conference standings. Nittany Lions head coach Mike Rhoades was vocal in his opposition to the rule prior to Penn State\u2019s official elimination:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2026 Big Ten Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament will be played from March 10-15 at the United Center in Chicago. The 15-18 seeds will play a pair of games that Tuesday to begin the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were looking to get in some Big Ten Tournament bracketology this year, I\u2019m afraid you\u2019re out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,89032,128376,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-240011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-big-ten-news","10":"tag-big-ten-tournament","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115233419998564087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}