big ten championship game 2019 start time

Assistant coach Jim Ferry served as interim coach for the 2020–21 season. New allegations involving Chambers surfaced after the school's investigation. It had been reported in July that former player Rasir Bolton had left the program due to comments to him by Chambers. On October 21, 2020, Pat Chambers resigned after an internal investigation by the school into inappropriate conduct by Chambers.

Head coaches Coaching changes Penn State The nine bids to the tournament marked a conference record. In addition to Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue, Rutgers, and Wisconsin received bids to the NCAA tournament. Garza and Illinois point guard Ayo Dosunmu were consensus first-team All-Americans. Michigan coach Juwan Howard was named Big Ten Coach of the Year. Iowa big man Luka Garza was named Big Ten Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. Illinois defeated Ohio State in the championship game to win the Big Ten tournament and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. However, on February 9, the conference announced the tournament would be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana to better deal with testing concerns raised by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Big Ten tournament was originally to be held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois from March 10–14, 2021. With a win over rival Michigan State on March 4, 2021, Michigan won the Big Ten regular season championship based on winning percentage as the Wolverines did not play a full 20-game schedule due to COVID-19 issues. The conference played the highest percentage of scheduled conference games in the nation, having only four games that could not be played. The schedule had built-in collapsible byes to attempt to make up for expected COVID-19 issues. The Big Ten announced the season schedule on Novemwith games starting on December 13 and featuring games played on December 25 and 26. The 2020–21 Big Ten men's basketball season began with practices in October 2020, followed by the start of the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November 2020.

Big ten championship game 2019 start time