Format: Two four-team, double-elimination brackets. The winners meet Sunday for a single championship game.
TV: All games on BTN
Gophers: Minnesota, the regular-season conference champ, faces Iowa on Wednesday at 5 p.m. The Gophers went 2-1 against Iowa in an early April series at Siebert Field, but the Hawkeyes are 5-1 in their past six games.
Other notables: No. 2-seeded Nebraska, which hasn't faced the Gophers this season, is riding a six-game winning streak. At least 6,000 all-session tickets have been sold, so this will feel like a home-field advantage for the Cornhuskers. … Minnesota and Nebraska might be NCAA tournament locks, but No. 3 Indiana, No. 4 Ohio State, No. 5 Michigan and No. 6 Maryland are on the bubble. The winner of the tournament gets an automatic NCAA tournament bid.
JOE CHRISTENSEN
