Big Ten NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Tracker

The madness is set to begin for the 2023 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, and the Big Ten is represented well in this year’s bracket. A total of eight teams from the Big Ten managed to grab a spot in the tournament, starting with Big Ten regular season and tournament champion Purdue taking a top seed in the East region.

Joining Purdue in this year’s tournament will be Penn State, which fell to the Boilermakers in the Big Ten tournament championship game. The Nittany Lions are making just their third appearance in the tournament since joining the Big Ten, and this is their first tournament appearance since 2011.

Indiana and Iowa each join Penn State in the Midwest region. Michigan State joins Purdue in the East region. Maryland will be the lone Big Ten team fighting in the South region. And Illinois and Northwestern could potentially face each other in the West region.

A pair of future Big Ten members, USC and UCLA, also made the tournament, although they are not included in this Big Ten NCAA Tournament tracker.

Here is a look at each Big Ten team in this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Results will be updated and matchups will be added throughout the tournament as long as a Big Ten team is in the big dance.

All times are Eastern.

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Region: East

Seed: 1

First round: vs. Texas Southern-Fairleigh Dickinson winner (Friday, Mar. 17, 6:50 p.m., TNT)