2025 Big Ten Softball Tournament Bracket: Updated matchups, scores, schedule

The 2025 Big Ten Softball Tournament gets underway Wednesday in West Lafayette with Purdue serving as the host school. Michigan comes in as the defending champion, winning the 2024 title over Indiana.

Coming into this year’s tournament, newcomer Oregon is the No. 1 overall seed, followed by fellow west coast school UCLA as the No. 2. Nebraska and Ohio State are No. 3 and 4, serving as the final two teams with byes into the quarterfinals.

Host school Purdue grabbed the final seed in the Big Ten Tournament, seeded at No. 12 and taking on No. 5 Northwestern. Not everyone makes the postseason tournament, leaving the bottom five teams in the conference home for the postseason. So with that, let’s take a look at the Big Ten Softball Tournament bracket and schedule.

Wednesday, May 7 (First Round) 

Game 1: No. 11 Penn State 6, No. 6 Iowa 2
Penn State pulled off the upset to advance into Thursday’s quarterfinals with a controlling win, never trailing Wednesday afternoon. Things got off to a great start in the top of the second inning as Michela Barbanete hit a two-run home run and the Nittany Lions never looked back. She added an RBI in the top of the fifth just for good measure as well.

Game 2: No. 10 Indiana vs. No. 7 Washington – 1:30 p.m. ET (BTN) 
Game 3: No. 9 Wisconsin vs. No. 8 Michigan – 4:30 p.m. ET (BTN) 
Game 4: No. 12 Purdue vs. No. 5 Northwestern – 7 p.m. ET (BTN) 

Thursday, May 8 (Quarterfinals) 

Game 5: No. 3 Nebraska vs. No. 11 Penn State – 11 a.m. ET (Big Ten Network) 
Game 6: No. 2 UCLA vs. Game 2 winner – 1:30 p.m. ET (BTN) 
Game 7: No. 1 Oregon vs. Game 3 winner – 4:30 p.m. ET (BTN) 
Game 8: No. 4 Ohio State vs. Game 4 winner – 7 p.m. ET (BTN) 

Friday, May 9 (Semifinals) 

Game 9: Game 5 vs. Game 6 winner – 5 p.m. ET (Big Ten Network)
Game 10: Game 7 vs. Game 8 winner – 7:30 p.m. ET (BTN) 

Saturday, May 10 (Championship) 

Game 11: Game 9 vs. Game 10 winner – 4 p.m. ET (Big Ten Network)

Oregon comes in as the No. 1 seed, as well as the highest ranked Big Ten team in the country. They were ranked No. 7 and received a first place vote in the most recent softball top 25. UCLA was ranked No. 10 and Nebraksa was No. 19 in the latest top 25.

Ohio State rounded out the Big Ten teams that were ranked with a No. 22 ranking as of May 5. There’s no doubt the competition of the Big Ten Softball Tournament is at some of its best this season.