The tournament was the second Big Ten Conference Tournament held outside the conference 's traditional heartland in the Midwest following the 2017 Tournament held at the Verizon Center in Washington , D.C. 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 . The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye . Tiebreaking procedures remained unchanged from the 2017 Tournament
2017 Tournament
2017 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
2018 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament