The new-look Big Ten will host its first basketball tournaments of its 18-team era in the coming weeks, after adding four West Coast programs last summer: Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington. The next few Big Ten women's basketball tournaments will be held in familiar locations, before the league starts to look west.
Indianapolis is the traditional home of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament, hosting the event 25 times between Hinkle Fieldhouse, the RCA Dome and Gainbridge Fieldhouse since the tournament launched in 1995. The tournament has been held in the Chicago area twice, in Grand Rapids once, and in Minneapolis twice, each of the last two years.
