2000 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2000 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	1999–00
Teams	11
Site	United Center Chicago, Illinois
Champions	Michigan State (2nd title)
Winning coach	Tom Izzo (2nd title)
MVP	Morris Peterson (Michigan State)
Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournaments «1999  2001»

The 2000 Big Ten Tournament was played from March 9 to March 12, 2000. The tournament was held at the United Center in Chicago, and won by the Michigan State Spartans.

Due to NCAA sanctions, Ohio State has vacated the records from this tournament.

Seeds

All Big Ten schools play in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Overall
1	Ohio State	13–3	22–5
2	Michigan State	13–3	26–7
3	Purdue	12–4	20–8
4	Illinois	11–5	19–8
5	Indiana	10–6	20–7
6	Wisconsin	8–8	16–12
7	Iowa	6–10	13–15
8	Michigan	6–10	15–12
9	Penn State	5–11	13–14
10	Minnesota	4–12	12–15
11	Northwestern	0–16	5–24

Bracket

	Opening round March 9					Quarterfinals March 10					Semifinals March 11					Championship March 12
						1	Ohio State	66
						9	Penn State	71
	8	Michigan	66
	9	Penn State	76
											9	Penn State	84
										4	Illinois	94
						4	Illinois	72
						5	Indiana	69
																4	Illinois	61
																2	Michigan State	76
						2	Michigan State	75
						7	Iowa	65
	7	Iowa	81
	10	Minnesota	78
											2	Michigan State	55
										6	Wisconsin	46
						3	Purdue	66
						6	Wisconsin	78
	6	Wisconsin	51
	11	Northwestern	41

Television

Network	Play-by-play announcer	Color analyst(s)	Sideline reporter(s)
ESPN Plus (Northwestern–Wisconsin, opening round; Iowa–Michigan State, quarterfinals) ESPN2 (Wisconsin–Purdue, quarterfinals) CBS (semifinals and championship game)	Wayne Larrivee Dave Barnett Jim Nantz	Greg Kelser Quinn Buckner Billy Packer

Local Radio

Seed	Teams	Flagship station	Play-by-play announcer	Color analyst(s)
2	Michigan State	WJIM–AM/WJIM-FM (Michigan State)	Mark Champion	Gus Ganakas
6	Wisconsin	WIBA–AM/WOLX-FM (Wisconsin)	Matt Lepay	Mike Lucas