It was held from February 28 through March 4, 2018 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

[1] Due to the Big East's use of that venue for their conference tournament, the Big Ten tournament took place one week earlier than usual, ending the week before Selection Sunday.

[3] As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

[4] * denotes overtime period Financial firm SoFi acquired presenting sponsorship of the tournament as part of a multi-year deal, including signage, presenting sponsorship of BTN telecasts of the tournament, and on-site marketing presences.