The new-look Big Ten will host its first basketball tournaments of its 18-team era in the coming weeks, after adding four West Coast programs last summer: Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington. The next few Big Ten women's basketball tournaments will be held in familiar locations,

Marquee wins can solidify a strong contender into a lock, strengthen a bubble team or keep a program on the radar. Bad losses, meanwhile, can send schools tumbling out of the projected NCAA tournament field or force a bubble team into a better-make-a-deep-run-in-the-conference-tournament-or-else scenario.