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Big Ten Conference Basketball Tournaments Coming To Las Vegas, T-Mobile Arena With Women’s Tourney In 2027, Men’s Hoops In 2028

Oregon routed Washington in the second half to win a berth in the national college basketball tournament. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

T-Mobile Arena lost the Pac-12 Conference men’s basketball tourney when the Pac-12 was dissolved, but another conference is coming to the arena to stage its college basketball tournaments in 2027 and 2028.

The Big Ten Conference — now 18 teams strong with four former Pac-12 schools — announced Wednesday that it is staging the Women’s Basketball Tournament at T-Mobile Arena March 3-7, 2027 and the Men’s Basketball Tourney at T-Mobile Arena March 8-12, 2028.

College basketball’s Final Four will also be in Las Vegas in 2028 at Allegiant Stadium.

T-Mobile Arena is no stranger for new Big Ten/Former Pac-12 schools USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon. Those four colleges played Pac-12 conference hoops tourneys at T-Mobile Arena.

Las Vegas is already home to four college basketball tournaments. The Mountain West holds its conference tourney at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center, the West Coast and Western Athletic Conferences stage their tournaments at Orleans Arena and the Big West uses Lee’s Family Forum in Henderson for its year-end college hoops tourney.


 

Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.