The 2012 Big Ten women's basketball tournament was held from March 1 to March 4 at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
[2] The tournament marked the debut of the University of Nebraska.
Teams were seeded by 2011–12 Big Ten Conference women's basketball season record.
A new tie-breaking procedure was announced for the 2012 tournament for teams with identical conference records.
The seeding for the tournament was determined as the conference season concluded: Source[4] All game times are ET.