After briefly reviving its iconic pinwheel logo last season, the Huge Ten lately revealed a brand new emblem for its males’s and girls’s basketball tournaments at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
The pinwheel emblem featured the colour schemes of all 14 Huge Ten establishments, however with the additions of Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington this season, it merely wanted to be expanded or changed.
It wouldn’t be the primary time the pinwheel emblem has expanded because it was initially launched for 11 groups in 2007-08, because the convention added Nebraska in 2011-12 and Maryland and Rutgers in 2014-15.
The pinwheel was scrapped in 2022-23, as the conference unveiled a new look that matched its branding, however gave it one final spin final yr, which we are able to now solely assume was a farewell of kinds.
The brand new emblem, in the meantime, leans again into the Huge Ten’s branding, with the “B1G” being flanked by checkered flags, an apparent nod to the host metropolis, famously often known as the “Racing Capital of the World.”
There’s a basketball with the yr on the backside, with protruding wings that recall to mind the brand from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in addition to a TIAA emblem on the prime for the event’s presenting sponsor.
The ladies’s event tipped off on Wednesday and runs by means of Sunday, whereas males’s event begins on March 12 and culminates with the championship sport on March 16.
That mentioned, it’s seemingly a one-time use for the boys’s emblem, although the ladies might get a second use subsequent yr, as their event will stay in Indianapolis in 2026 earlier than shifting to Las Vegas in 2027 and Detroit in 2028.
The lads’s event, in the meantime, might be performed in Chicago in 2026, return to Indianapolis in 2027 and head to Las Vegas in 2027 – the third time will probably be held outdoors of the Midwest (Washington D.C. in 2016-17 and New York Metropolis 2017-18).
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