2010 Big Ten Conference Tournament Basketball Odds: Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana will be the sight for the 13th annual Big Ten Conference Tournament, which gets underway Thursday, March, 11, 2010. The Purdue Boilermakers [6/1] will try to make it two in a row this year but they won’t be the sports betting odds favorites to do so. In fact, 2010 Big Ten Tournament Basketball Odds makers believe that the Ohio State Buckeyes [7/4] will avenge last year’s 65-61 title loss to Purdue and win the 2010 Big Ten championship.
The top five seeds in this year’s event have all earned bye weeks in Thursday’s opening round. Aside from the aforementioned, Boilermakers and Buckeyes, the Michigan State Spartans [2/1] also finished with a 14-4 record in a three-way tie atop the Big Ten. Ohio State received the top-seed by virtue of winning the tie-breaker and Purdue and Michigan State were given the second and thirds seed.
The other two teams enjoying byes in the opening round will be Big Ten’s No.4 Wisconsin Badgers [2/1] and No.5 Illinois Fighting Illini [20/1]. These teams will battle it out in Friday’s quarterfinals with the winner advancing to face the victor between Michigan/Iowa vs. Ohio State semifinal game on Saturday.
Other 2010 Big Ten Conference Tournament Basketball Odds include:
Illinois [20/1]
Michigan [30/1]
Michigan State [2/1]
Minnesota [20/1]
Northwestern [50/1]
Ohio State [7/4]
Purdue [6/1]
Wisconsin [2/1]
Field [30/1]
