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 | Illinois | 13–3 |
| 2 | Michigan State | 13–3 |
| 3 | Ohio State | |
| 4 | Indiana | 10–6 |
| 5 | Wisconsin | 9–7 |
| 6 | Iowa | 7–9 |
| 7 | Penn State | |
| 8 | Purdue | 6–10 |
| 9 | Minnesota | 5–11 |
| 10 | Michigan | |
| 11 | Northwestern | 3–13 |
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