The Buckeyes have the #1 seed in the Big Ten tournament. They get a first round bye (as does #2 Minny).
On Thursday at 7:05 pm EDT on BTN, tOSU will play the lower seeded team of the two winners of these games: #4 Ill vs. #5 MSU, and #3 Indiana vs #6 Purdue.
It's a double elimination event, but if tOSU wins their first two games, they will play the team that comes out of the loser's bracket and only have to beat them once in two tries to win the tournament and gain the automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.
Bracket.pdf