All 14 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 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye . Tiebreaking procedures were unchanged from the 2015 Tournament
2015 Tournament
2015 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
2016 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament