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Big Ten keeping football championship in Indianapolis

The Big Ten is keeping its football championship game in the perfect spot through 2024.

For as long as the game has existed, the Big Ten’s football championship game has been played in LucasOil Stadium in Indianapolis. After an announcement on future championship sites on Wednesday, the Big Ten confirmed that will remain the case for another three seasons.

The Big Ten announced it will continue to play its football championship game in the home of the Indianapolis Colts through the 2024 season, giving the next three Big Ten football title games to LucasOil Stadium in Indianapolis. While there have been discussions about exploring other potential venues for the championship game, keeping the game in Indianapolis is perhaps the best option for the Big Ten.

Indianapolis is widely regarded as a terrific host city, and its central location serves the Big Ten well. Having the dome handy is also nice, although some fans would love to see just one Big Ten title game played outside in the Big Ten elements. But, all things considered, playing on a neutral field in a controlled environment allows for the best quality product for the Big Ten and all parties involved.

Penn State has appeared in the Big Ten championship game once, topping Wisconsin in 2016 to earn a berth in the Rose Bowl Game. The Big Ten has played a conference championship game every season since 2011, when the conference expanded to 12 members with the addition of Nebraska and split into two divisions, the Legends and Leaders Divisions.

Men’s and women’s basketball tournament sites confirmed too

The Big Ten also confirmed its future plans for the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The 2023 women’s basketball tournament will be played in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Target Center. Both the men’s and women’s tournaments will be played in the same location the following season, in 2024. This will mark the first time either tournament has been played in Minnesota.

The 2023 men’s basketball tournament is already scheduled to be played in Chicago at the United Center. The Big Ten men’s basketball tournament has been played in Chicago 10 times since 1998, including the first four years the tournament was held beginning in 1998. Chicago and Indianapolis have alternating hosting duties for the tournament throughout the history of the Big Ten tournament, with Washington D.C. and New York City each hosting the tournament in back-to-back years in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

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Lady Lions go one-and-done in women’s Big Ten Basketball Tournament

Penn State closed out its 2021-22 season with a blowout loss to Rutgers in the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament.

Penn State’s time in the women’s Big Ten basketball tournament ended just as soon as it started. Penn State came up short in a first-round matchup against Rutgers on Wednesday afternoon in Indianapolis, losing 75-50. Penn State’s season concludes with a record of 11-18 overall, and 5-13 in the Big Ten.

Penn State trailed by six points at halftime but Rutgers pulled ahead by a wide margin in the third quarter by outscoring Penn State 23-11. Rutgers put the game well out of reach with a big 11-2 run to start the fourth quarter, by which time the damage had been done.

Leilani Kapinus recorded a double-double in the losing effort and Makenna Marisa added 15 points to finish off her impressive season.

Penn State’s season may have ended with a thud against Rutgers, but it does so with an improved win total from the previous season. And for the second straight season, Penn State improved its win total under head coach Carolyn Kieger. Penn State won just seven games in Kieger’s first season since being hired away from Marquette. Each of the past two seasons has tacked on two more wins to the season record.

Those small steps forward may be difficult to respect given the current state of the program overall. Losing by 25 points to the 13-seed in the Big Ten tournament is truly a tough pill to swallow, but we will see what comes next for the program in 2022-23. Kieger’s track record suggests Penn State could be due for a major step forward soon. Kieger won 9 and 12 games in her first two seasons as head coach at Marquette before winning at least 24 games in each of the following three seasons, with back-to-back second-round appearances in the NCAA tournament.

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Big Ten women’s basketball tournament set to tip. Here’s the bracket

Penn State will play in the first game of the 2022 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament. Here’s the full brcket.

It seems the glory years of Penn State women’s basketball are fading more and more each season, but the Lady Lions will embark on a quest for a conference championship on Wednesday afternoon as they play in a first-round matchup of the 2022 Big Ten women’s basketball tournament. The conference tournament will get underway in Indianapolis on Wednesday with a pair of first-round matchups.

Penn State will play in the opening game of the tournament, as the Lady Lions will take on Rutgers in a 12 vs 13 matchup. Wisconsin will face Illinois in the second game of the day with the winner advancing to face Nebraska on Thursday. The winner of the Penn State-Rutgers game will meet Indiana on Thursday.

The Ohio State Buckeyes own the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament. Iowa, Michigan, and Maryland own the second through fourth seeds in that order. All four top seeds won’t have to play a game until Friday. So for Penn State, the journey to shocking the Big Ten will be a long one.

Here is the full bracket for this year’s women’s tournament.

You can catch all of the action during Penn State’s first-round matchup with Rutgers on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s how to watch.

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How to follow Penn State Lady Lions vs Rutgers in Big Ten tournament

Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament: Penn State and Rutgers meet in a conference tournament game for the first time since 1990. How to watch…

Conference championship week is here around the world of college basketball, and the Big Ten is starting things off with its women’s tournament on Wednesday in Indianapolis. Penn State will be a part of the opening day of the Big Ten tournament with a matchup against Rutgers in the first round.

Penn State (11-17, 5-13 Big Ten) comes into the Big Ten tournament with the No. 12 seed, and Rutgers (10-19, 3-14 Big Ten) enters with the No. 13 seed. A second-round matchup with No. 5-seed Indiana awaits the winner of this one.

This will be the first conference tournament meeting between the two schools since meeting in the Atlantic-10 semifinals in 1990. My, how times have changed. With All-Big Ten First Team Makenna Marisa leading the way, Penn State should be feeling pretty good about this chance of advancing to Thursday to face the Hoosiers.

Here’s how you can catch all of the action in the first-round matchup of the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament.

Basic Info

When: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse (Indianapolis, IN)

How to watch/listen

Broadcast: Big Ten Network

Online: FOX Sports Live

Live Stream: fuboTV (try it free)

Radio: Find a local Penn State radio affiliate near you

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Ohio State women’s basketball beats Michigan, advances to Big Ten Tournament Championship Game

The Ohio State women’s basketball team beat rival Michigan to advance to the Big Ten Tournament Championship Game against Maryland.

Poor Michigan. It just can’t seem to beat Ohio State at anything substantial these days. And so it was again Saturday night when the Buckeyes turned back the Wolverines 66-60 in the semifinal of the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament.

The Buckeyes will now face Maryland on Sunday for the 2019-2020 title, in a year in which its youth has continued to get better as the season has gotten longer in the tooth.

Ohio State controlled the game for a large portion, holding the lead for most of the contest from the 2nd quarter on, but Michigan wouldn’t quite go away. The Wolverines were able to tie it late at 47 points apiece with just seven minutes to go. But then the Buckeyes would go on a run and finish the game at the free-throw line despite the Wolverines getting it to a one-possession game a couple of times.

Five Buckeyes finished in double figures, with Madison Greene leading the way with thirteen points. It’s the second-straight game OSU had five players in double figures on a team that is maturing from multiple spots on the floor.

Tomorrow’s contest will be a rematch of the 2018 Big Ten Tournament Championship when Ohio State was able to take down the Terps. But this time will be more difficult.

Maryland has been the clear class of the conference all season, and OSU has yet to give the No. 1 seed a game this season, losing twice by an average of fifteen points. The Terps have won sixteen straight games.

It’ll all go down at 6 PM Eastern on ESPN2.

 

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