After losing a heartbreaker on Saturday night against the University of Oregon, the University of Washington men's basketball team has little time to sit and think about what went wrong.

The Big Ten Tournament begins on Tuesday and the Huskies will try to engineer a miracle run to keep their season going.

At 15-16 overall and 7-13 inside league play, the odds are extremely long for Danny Sprinkle's squad, but hey, that's why they play the games.

Washington will open up play on Wednesday against Southern California. The first game of the day is at 9 a.m. PT. Washington will play 25 minutes after that game concludes. The games are held in Chicago.

Here's what you need to know.

Unlike the women's tournament, all 18 Big Ten teams make the conference tournament. It's a single-elimination tournament that begins on Tuesday and culminates on Sunday right before the NCAA Tournament selection show.

Seeds 16 and 17 play each other on Tuesday, as do seeds 15 and 18. The winners from those games advance to Wednesday, when seeds 9-14 open play. Thursday features seeds 5-8 opening up and then Friday brings seeds 1-4 into action. 

Day 1 matchups (Tuesday): No. 16 Oregon vs. No. 17 Maryland and No. 15 Northwestern against No. 18 Penn State.

Day 2 matchups (Wednesday): No. 9 Iowa against Oregon/Maryland winner, No. 13 USC vs. No. 12 Washington, No. 10 Indiana vs. Northwestern/Penn State winner and No. 14 Rutgers vs. No. 11 Minnesota

Day 3 matchups (Thursday): Brings in No. 8 Ohio State, No. 7 Purdue, No. 6 UCLA and No. 5 Wisconsin

Day 4 matchups: (Friday): Brings in No. 4 Illinois, No. 3 Michigan State, No. 2 Nebraska and No. 1 Michigan

If Washington were to win the league title, they'd have to win five games in five days. On a positive front, the Huskies did just beat USC in the penultimate game of the regular season. The Trojans have lost best player Chad Bazer-Mazara as well, making them very susceptible.

Should UW win on Tuesday, they'll take on Wisconsin.

--The UW women's basketball team fell in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament against eventual champion UCLA. The Huskies had a 10-point lead in the second half but weren't able to secure it. They'll now wait for their NCAA Tournament fate until the brackets are revealed on March 15.

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