2024–25 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season

2024–25 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season
LeagueNCAA Division I
SportBasketball
Teams18
TV partner(s)Big Ten Network, Fox, FS1, CBS, Peacock, NBC
2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Regular season championsMichigan State
Season MVPBraden Smith
Top scorerNick Martinelli
Tournament
VenueGainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana
ChampionsMichigan
  Runners-upWisconsin
Finals MVPVladislav Goldin
2024–25 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 7 Michigan State 17 3   .850 30 7   .811
No. 9 Maryland 14 6   .700 27 9   .750
No. 10 Michigan 14 6   .700 27 10   .730
UCLA 13 7   .650 23 11   .676
No. 16 Wisconsin 13 7   .650 27 10   .730
No. 14 Purdue 13 7   .650 24 12   .667
Illinois 12 8   .600 22 13   .629
Oregon 12 8   .600 25 10   .714
Indiana 10 10   .500 19 13   .594
Ohio State 9 11   .450 17 15   .531
Rutgers 8 12   .400 15 17   .469
Minnesota 7 13   .350 15 17   .469
Northwestern 7 13   .350 17 16   .515
USC 7 13   .350 17 18   .486
Iowa 7 13   .350 17 16   .515
Nebraska 7 13   .350 21 14   .600
Penn State 6 14   .300 16 15   .516
Washington 4 16   .200 13 18   .419
2025 Big Ten tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll

The 2024–25 Big Ten men's basketball season was for the Big Ten Conference in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The basketball teams began practicing in October 2024, followed by the start of the season in November 2024. The regular season concluded on March 9, 2025.

This was the conference's first season with 18 teams, as four schools joined the conference in 2024: Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington. Each team played 20 regular season conference games, seven opponents only at home, seven others only on the road, and a home-and-home with three opposing schools.

With a loss by Michigan on March 5, 2025, Michigan State secured at least a share of the Big Ten regular season championship, their first since 2020. On March 6, the Spartans secured the outright regular season championship with a win over Iowa, their first outright championship since 2018. Purdue point guard Braden Smith was named the Big Ten Player of the Year and Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year.

The Big Ten tournament was held from March 12 through March 16 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Michigan defeated Wisconsin to win the school's fourth Big Ten tournament championship.

Michigan received the conference's automatic NCAA tournament bid, in addition Illinois, Maryland, Michigan State, Oregon, Purdue, Wisconsin, and UCLA received at-large bids to the tournament. In the first round the Big Ten went 8–0, setting an NCAA record for the most wins without a loss by any conference in any round in the history of the tournament. Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. Only Michigan State advanced to the Elite Eight before losing, extending the conference's national championship drought to 25 years.