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' oldest Division I college athletic conference

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. Its eleven member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States

United States

Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
and Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
in the west to Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
in the east. The conference enjoys the prestige of both high athletic achievement and academic excellence: nine of the eleven conference schools are considered Public Ivies (Purdue University and the private Northwestern--which itself ranks higher than several actual ivies--being the only exceptions).

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Iowa

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's Division I; its football

American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly known as Division I-A), the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport. Member schools of the Big Ten also are members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation

Committee on Institutional Cooperation

Logo

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(each "1" is on either side of the "T" in "Ten").

Members

The Big Ten is the only Division I conference to have all of its member institutions affiliated with the Association of American Universities

Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research university devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education....
, a prestigious collection of 60 research institutions, and leads all conferences in the total amount of research expenditures.

All or most member schools participate in baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
, men's and women's basketball

Basketball

Cross country running

Cross Country running is a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include Poaceae, mud, woodlands, and water....
, field hockey

Field hockey

Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
, football

American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
, golf

Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
, gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
, indoor and outdoor track and field

Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
, rowing

Sport rowing

Rowing is a sport in which athletes racing against each other on rivers, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline....
, men's and women's soccer

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, softball

Softball

Softball is a Team sport sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball and the rules of both sports are substantially similar....
, swimming

Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
and diving

Diving

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, tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
, women's volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
and wrestling

Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling is the style of amateur wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling is sometimes known as folkstyle wrestling because by and large, it is the style that emerged out of the folk wrestling styles practiced in the early history of the United States....
.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined Big Ten	Affiliation	Undergrad Enrollment	Nickname	Varsity Teams	NCAA Championships (As of Fall 2008) (excludes football)	Big Ten Championships
University of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a public university research university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Illinois system....	Champaign, Illinois Champaign, Illinois Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago and west of Indianapolis, Indiana.... (75,254)	1867	1896	Public	30,895	Fighting Illini Illinois Fighting Illini The Fighting Illini are the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The University offers 10 men's and 11 women's varsity sports....	21	17	?
Indiana University	Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is a city and the county seat of Monroe County, Indiana in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. According to the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 69,291 and its Bloomington, Indiana metropolitan area had a population of 175,506.... (69,291)	1820	1899 (Athletics 1900)	Public	30,394	Hoosiers Indiana Hoosiers Indiana University athletic teams are called the Hoosiers, and their colors are cream and crimson, though red and white have been used at times in the past....	24	23	?
University of Iowa University of Iowa The University of Iowa is a public university research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees....	Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, Iowa, United States. As of the 2007 census estimate, the city had a total population of 67,062 making it the fifth-largest city in Iowa.... (67,062)	1847	1899 (Athletics 1900)	Public	20,907	Hawkeyes Iowa Hawkeyes The Iowa Hawkeyes are the athletics teams that represent the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa, United States. The Hawkeyes have varsity teams in 24 sports, 11 for men and 13 for women....	24	23	?
University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....	Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan. It is the state's seventh largest city with a population of 114,024 as of the 2000 United States Census, of which 36,892 are university or college students.... (114,024)	1817	1896 Inactive 1907-1916	Public	26,083	Wolverines Michigan Wolverines The Michigan Wolverines comprise 24 varsity sports teams at the University of Michigan. These teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except men's ice hockey which competes in the NCAA D1 Central Collegiate Hockey Association, and women's water polo, which compete...	27	32	?
Michigan State University Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public university research university in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan United States. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act....	East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, Michigan, though a small portion lies in Clinton County, Michigan.... (46,525)	1855	1950 (Athletics 1953)	Public	36,072	Spartans Michigan State Spartans The Michigan State Spartans are the sport teams that represent Michigan State University. The school's athletic program includes 23 Varsity team sports teams....	25	19	?
University of Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public university research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States....	Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's Capital .... (388,020)	1851	1896	Public	28,645	Golden Gophers Minnesota Golden Gophers The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the college sports team for the University of Minnesota. The university fields both men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country running, gymnastics, golf, ice hockey, swimming, tennis, and track and field....	25	15	?
Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....	Evanston, Illinois Evanston, Illinois Evanston, Illinois is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois directly north of the Chicago, Illinois, east of Skokie, Illinois, and south of Wilmette, Illinois, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003.... (74,239)	1851	1896	Private/ Non-sectarian	8,284	Wildcats Northwestern Wildcats The Northwestern Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northwestern University, a founding member of the Big Ten Conference, and is the only private university in the conference....	19	5	?
Ohio State University Ohio State University The Ohio State University is a public university research university in the state of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the List of largest United States universities by enrollment in the United States....	Columbus, Ohio Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the Capital , the largest, and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located near the Geographic centers of the United States, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, although parts of the city also extend into Delaware County, Ohio and Fairfield County, Ohio counties.... (747,755)	1870	1912	Public	39,209*	Buckeyes Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State University's intercollegiate sports teams and players are called the "Buckeyes" , and participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports....	36	22	?
Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Land-grant university, space grant college public research university located in State College, PA, Pennsylvania, United States....	State College, Pennsylvania State College, Pennsylvania State College is the largest Borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is the principal city of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Centre county.... (38,420)	1855	1990 (Athletics 1993)	Public	36,612*	Nittany Lions	29	35	?
Purdue University Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, Indiana, United States, is the flagship university of the six campuses within the Purdue University System....	West Lafayette, Indiana West Lafayette, Indiana West Lafayette is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Indiana, United States, 65 miles northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana. Named in honor of General Lafayette, a French military hero who fought with and significantly aided the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.... (28,778)	1869	1896	Public	31,290	Boilermakers Purdue Boilermakers Boilermakers is the official athletic moniker for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Purdue University. As is common with athletic nicknames, it is also used as colloquial designation of Purdue's students and alumni at large....	18	2	?
University of Wisconsin	Madison, Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.... (223,389)	1848	1896	Public	28,999	Badgers Wisconsin Badgers The Wisconsin Badgers are the collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletic program has teams in American football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country running, tennis, swimming, collegiate wrestling, athletics , Rowing , golf, and so...	23	25	?

Former member

Institution	Location	Founded	Tenure of Membership	Affiliation	Enrollment	Nickname	Varsity Teams	NCAA Championships (excludes football)	Big Ten Championships
University of Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....	Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents.... , Illinois Illinois The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....	1890	1896-1946	Private/Non-sectarian	13,602	Maroons Chicago Maroons The University of Chicago's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Maroons , and they compete in the NCAA's Division III. They are primarily members of the University Athletic Association and were co-founders of the Big Ten Conference in 1895 and members until 1946....	19	1	?

The University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
was a co-founder of the conference and still maintains affiliation through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Committee on Institutional Cooperation

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation , also known as the "Academic Big Ten", was established in 1958 and is a 12 member academic consortium of primarily Including the ten Big 10 Midwest universities committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities and sharing resources....
.
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College, founded in 1857, is a Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Lake Forest, Illinois. The college has over 1,400 students, about 40% of whom come from the state of Illinois....
attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it.

Endowment

Illinois - $2.2 billion
Indiana - $1.6 billion
Iowa - $833 million
Michigan - $7.1 billion
Michigan State - $1.25 billion
Minnesota - $2.8 billion
Northwestern - $6.5 billion
Ohio State - $2.3 billion
Penn State - $1.6 billion
Purdue - $1.8 billion
Wisconsin - $1.6 billion

Membership timeline

History

On January 11, 1895, the presidents of the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
, the University of Illinois

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a public university research university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Illinois system....
, Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College, founded in 1857, is a Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Lake Forest, Illinois. The college has over 1,400 students, about 40% of whom come from the state of Illinois....
, the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public university research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States....
, Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
, Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, Indiana, United States, is the flagship university of the six campuses within the Purdue University System....
and the University of Wisconsin met in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
to discuss the regulation and control of intercollegiate athletics. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the main topics of discussion. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a second meeting on February 8, 1896. Lake Forest was not at the 1896 meeting that established the conference and was replaced by the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....
. At the time, the organization was more commonly known as the Western Conference, consisting of Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Chicago, and Northwestern.

The first reference to the conference as the Big Nine was in 1899 after Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public university research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees....
and Indiana had joined. In January 1908, Michigan

University of Michigan

Ohio State University

The Ohio State University is a public university research university in the state of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the List of largest United States universities by enrollment in the United States....
was added to the conference in 1913. The first reference to the conference as the Big Ten was in November 1917 after Michigan rejoined following a nine-year absence.

The conference was again known as the Big Nine after the University of Chicago decided to de-emphasize varsity athletics just after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. Chicago discontinued its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the conference in 1946. Chicago continues its relationship with the conference as a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation

Committee on Institutional Cooperation

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation , also known as the "Academic Big Ten", was established in 1958 and is a 12 member academic consortium of primarily Including the ten Big 10 Midwest universities committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities and sharing resources....
, the "academic Big Ten." On May 20, 1949, Michigan State joined and the conference was again known as the Big Ten. The Big Ten's membership would remain unchanged for the next 40 years.

The conference’s official name throughout this period remained the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. It did not formally adopt the name Big Ten until 1987, when it was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation. In 1990, the Big Ten universities voted to expand the conference to 11 teams, and extended an invitation to Penn State

Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Land-grant university, space grant college public research university located in State College, PA, Pennsylvania, United States....
, which it accepted. When Penn State joined in 1990, it was decided that the conference would continue to be called the Big Ten, but its logo

Logo

A logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo's design is for immediate recognition....
was modified to reflect the change; the number 11 is disguised in the white areas of the traditionally blue "Big Ten" lettering.

Following the addition of previously independent Penn State, efforts were made to encourage the University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Roman Catholic Church University located in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. It was founded by Father Edward Sorin, Congregation of Holy Cross, who was also the school's first president....
, the last remaining traditionally independent football powerhouse, to join the league. Early in the 20th century, Notre Dame had sought official entry into the Big Ten but was never extended an invitation. However, in 1999, both Notre Dame and the Big Ten entered into private negotiations concerning a possible membership that would include Notre Dame. Although the Notre Dame faculty senate endorsed the idea with a near unanimous vote, the ND board of trustees decided against joining the conference and Notre Dame ultimately withdrew from negotiations. Though the idea has been revisited in the wake of the Atlantic Coast Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference is a List of college athletic conferences in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member university compete in twenty sports in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I....
's expansion to 12 teams, neither Notre Dame nor the Big Ten has taken any official action in pursuit of Notre Dame's membership. Notre Dame had, in 1995, joined the Big East Conference

Big East Conference

The Big East Conference is a List of college athletic conferences consisting of seventeen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States....
in all sports except football, men's lacrosse, and men's hockey, the latter of which is not sponsored by the Big East Conference. Other possible universities that have gained favor for any possible expansion for the 12th spot in the conference include:

Rutgers University
Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the Colonial colleges in the United States....
Syracuse University
Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, New York. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College....
University of Missouri
University of Missouri

The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press....
University of Nebraska
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States....
West Virginia University
West Virginia University

West Virginia University is a public university research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia, United States of America. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg, West Virginia; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia; Potomac State College of West...
Iowa State University
Iowa State University

The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant university and Space grant colleges university located in Ames, Iowa, United States....

Due to a requirement of the Big Ten bylaws, any expansion must be within, or next to, current Big Ten territory (although, like all bylaws, this could be amended by conference vote). Due to the addition of the Big Ten Network, expansion talks have been revisited. Expansion could mean adding a conference championship football game and adding a school in or near a large TV market, greatly aiding the Big Ten Network's marketability. It is likely academics will also play an important role in any potential 12th school being invited into the conference.

On June 21, 2006, the Big Ten announced new television

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
broadcast agreements. This involved a 10-year extension of its contract with ABC/ESPN

ESPN

ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
as well as the formation of a brand new television station, the Big Ten Network. The Big Ten Network began broadcasting on August 30, 2007, "dedicated to covering both the athletic and academic content of the Big Ten member institutions on a national level". The Big Ten Network represents a 20-year partnership between the Big Ten and Fox

Fox Entertainment Group

Fox Entertainment Group is an United States entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial television, cable television, and direct broadcast satellite television properties....
. It will be majority-owned by the Big Ten Conference, with Fox holding a minority interest. The official network name and logo were announced on October 12, 2006. The conference announced previously that it is continuing its relationship with CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
and ESPN

ESPN

ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
for network broadcasts in basketball.

Commissioners

The office of the commissioner of athletics was created in 1922 "to study athletic problems of the various member universities and assist in enforcing the eligibility rules which govern Big Ten athletics."

Name	Years	Notes
Major John L. Griffith	1922-1944	died in office
Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson	1945-1961	retired
Bill Reed	1961-1971	died in office
Wayne Duke	1971-1989	retired
James Delany James Delany James E. Delany is the current commissioner of the of the Big Ten Conference, a role in which he has served since 1989. He is regarded among college athletics as being influential in the creation of the Bowl Championship Series and its maintenance....	1989-	present

Football

Bowl games

Since 1946, the Big Ten champion has had a tie-in with the Rose Bowl game, now a BCS

Bowl Championship Series

The Bowl Championship Series is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the Division I#Football Bowl Subdivision an opportunity to compete in a "national championship game"....
bowl. The Big Ten also has tie-ins with six non-BCS bowls:

Capital One Bowl
Capital One Bowl

The Capital One Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Orlando, Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the Tangerine Bowl and the Florida Citrus Bowl ....
: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #2 pick against SEC #2 pick)
Outback Bowl
Outback Bowl

The Outback Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The bowl was first called the Hall of Fame Bowl from 1986 to 1994....
: Tampa, Florida (Big Ten #3 pick against SEC #3/4 pick)
Alamo Bowl
Alamo Bowl

The Alamo Bowl is a major American college football bowl game played annually since 1993 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It matches the fourth or fifth choice teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Big 12 Conference....
: San Antonio, Texas (Big Ten #4/5 pick against Big 12 #4/5 pick)
Champs Sports Bowl
Champs Sports Bowl

The Champs Sports Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played in Orlando, Florida. The game was played at Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida from 1990 to 2000 and is now played at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida....
: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #4/5 pick against ACC #4 pick)

The Alamo Bowl has the 4th pick in 2007 and 2008, while the Champs Sports Bowl has the 4th pick in 2009.

Insight Bowl
Insight Bowl

The Insight Bowl is an National Collegiate Athletic Association-sanctioned Division I-A post-season American college football bowl game played in Arizona since 1989....
: Tempe, Arizona (Big Ten #6 pick against Big 12 #6 pick)
Motor City Bowl
Motor City Bowl

The Motor City Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the National Collegiate Athletic Association that has been played annually since 1997....
: Detroit, Michigan (Big Ten #7 pick against MAC #1)

Michigan appeared in the first bowl game

Bowl game

In the United States, a bowl game is commonly considered to refer to one of a number of post-season college football games. Prior to 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating teams, whi...
, the 1902 Rose Bowl

1902 Rose Bowl

Originally titled the "Tournament East-West football game," what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on 1 January 1902, starting the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games....
. The Big Ten did not allow their schools to participate in bowl games, other than the Rose Bowl, until the agreement struck with the Pacific Coast Conference for the 1947 Rose Bowl

1947 Rose Bowl

The 1947 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game. It was the 33rd Rose Bowl Game. The Illinois Fighting Illini football defeated the UCLA Bruins football 45-14....
. From 1946 through 1971, the Big Ten did not allow the same team to represent the conference in consecutive years in the Rose Bowl with an exception made after the 1961 season in which Minnesota played in the 1962 Rose Bowl

1962 Rose Bowl

The 1962 Rose Bowl game, played on January 1, 1962 was the 48th Rose Bowl game. The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers defeated the UCLA Bruins 21-3....
after playing in the 1961 Rose Bowl

1961 Rose Bowl

The 1961 Rose Bowl game, played on January 2, 1961 was the 47th Rose Bowl game. The University of Washington Huskies defeated the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers 17-7....
due to Ohio State declining the bid. It was not until the 1975 season that the Big Ten allowed teams to play in bowl games other than the Rose Bowl. Due to those rules, Big Ten powers such as Michigan and Ohio State have lower numbers of all-time bowl appearances than powerhouse teams from the Big 12 Conference

Big 12 Conference

The Big 12 Conference is a list of college athletic conferences of twelve schools located mostly in the central United States. It is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I for all sports; its American football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision , the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football c...
(formerly the Big 8 Conference and Southwest Conference

Southwest Athletic Conference

The Southwest Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States from 1914 to 1996. It consisted of schools in the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas....
) and Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in , which operates in the Southern United States part of the United States....
, which always placed multiple teams in bowl games every year.

Bowl selection procedures

Although the pick order usually corresponds to the conference standings, the bowls are not required to make their choices strictly according to the won-lost records; many factors influence bowl selections, especially the turnout of the fans for past bowl games. Picks are made after BCS selections; the bowl with the #2 pick will have the first pick of the remaining teams in the conference.

The Capital One, Outback, Alamo and Champs Sports Bowls can select any eligible team except a team that has two fewer wins or two more losses than another eligible team. The Insight and Motor City Bowls have no such restrictions, but if two Big Ten teams are selected by BCS bowls, the Alamo and Champs Sports Bowls also do not have that restriction. However, the bowls cannot select a 6-6 team if a 7-5 or better team is not selected by a Big Ten-affiliated bowl.

Men's basketball

The Big Ten has participated in basketball since 1904, and has led the nation in attendance every season since 1978. It has been a national powerhouse in men's basketball

College basketball

College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....
, having multiple championship winners and often sending four or more teams to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a Single-elimination tournament tournament held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States....
. Previous NCAA champions include Indiana with five titles, Michigan State with two, and Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio State with one each. Ohio State played in the first NCAA tournament national championship game in 1939, losing to Oregon. Despite this, Jimmy Hull of Ohio State was the first NCAA tournament MVP. The first three tournament MVP's came from the Big Ten (Marv Huffman of Indiana in 1940 and John Katz of Wisconsin in 1941).

Big Ten teams have also experienced success in the postseason NIT

National Invitation Tournament

The National Invitation Tournament is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The association plays two tournaments each season....
. Since 1974, 12 Big Ten teams have made it to the championship game, winning seven championships. NIT champions from the Big Ten include Michigan and Ohio State with two, and Indiana, Minnesota, and Purdue with one each.

In addition, the Helms Athletic Foundation

Helms Athletic Foundation

The Helms Athletic Foundation was an sport foundation based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1936 by Bill Schroeder and Paul Helms. It put together a panel of experts to select National Champion teams and make All-America selections in a number of college sports including college football and basketball....
recognizes Illinois as the 1915 National Champions, Minnesota as the 1902 and 1919 National Champions, Northwestern as the 1931 National Champion, Purdue as the 1932 National Champions, and Wisconsin as the 1912, 1914 and 1916 National Champions.

Since 1999, the Big Ten has taken part in the ACC–Big Ten Challenge with the Atlantic Coast Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference is a List of college athletic conferences in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member university compete in twenty sports in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I....
. The ACC holds an 10-0 record against the Big Ten, and Michigan State is the only Big Ten school with a winning record in the challenge.

NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.

Year	Champion		Runner-up		Venue and city
1939 1939 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1939 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Oregon Oregon Ducks The Oregon Ducks refers to the sports teams of the University of Oregon, located in Eugene, Oregon. The Oregon Ducks are part of the Pacific-10 Conference....	46	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	33	Patten Gymnasium Patten Gymnasium Patten Gymnasium is a multi-purpose gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois. The original building opened in 1910 and was home to the Northwestern Wildcats Men's Basketball until 1940, when it was demolished and rebuilt farther north to make room for the construction of the Technological Institute....	Evanston, Illinois Evanston, Illinois Evanston, Illinois is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois directly north of the Chicago, Illinois, east of Skokie, Illinois, and south of Wilmette, Illinois, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003....
1940 1940 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1940 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	60	Kansas	42	Municipal Auditorium	Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
1941 1941 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1941 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at the Kohl Center, located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin....	39	Washington State Washington State Cougars The Washington State Cougars are the sport teams at Washington State University; the term applies to any of the school's varsity teams. Washington State University is a member of the Pacific-10 Conference, which participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I....	34	Municipal Auditorium
1953 1953 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1953 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 22 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	69	Kansas	68	Municipal Auditorium
1956 1956 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1956 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	San Francisco San Francisco Dons The San Francisco Dons is the nickname of the athletic teams at the University of San Francisco ....	83	Iowa Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball The Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represents the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa, as a member of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association....	71	Welsh-Ryan Arena Welsh-Ryan Arena Welsh-Ryan Arena is an 8,117-seat multi-purpose arena in Evanston, Illinois. The arena opened in 1952 as McGaw Memorial Hall. It is home to the Northwestern University Northwestern Wildcats basketball, volleyball and wrestling teams....
1960 1960 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1960 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball in the United States....	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	75	California California Golden Bears The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 27 varsity athletic programs of the University of California, Berkeley. Referred to in athletic competition as California or Cal, the university competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I primarily as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference, and for a limite...	55	Cow Palace Cow Palace The Cow Palace is an list of indoor arenas in Daly City, California, situated on the border of Daly City, California and neighboring San Francisco....	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
1961 1961 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1961 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball in the United States.... †	Cincinnati Cincinnati Bearcats The Cincinnati Bearcats are the NCAA athletic teams representing the University of Cincinnati. Since July 1, 2005, the school's athletic teams have been members of the Big East Conference....	70	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	65	Municipal Auditorium
1962 1962 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1962 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball in the United States....	Cincinnati Cincinnati Bearcats The Cincinnati Bearcats are the NCAA athletic teams representing the University of Cincinnati. Since July 1, 2005, the school's athletic teams have been members of the Big East Conference....	71	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	59	Freedom Hall Freedom Hall Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth#US_states of Kentucky....	Louisville, Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. The city's estimated population as of 2006 is listed as 557,789, with a population of 1,233,733 in the Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area....
1965 1965 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1965 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 23 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	UCLA UCLA Bruins men's basketball The UCLA UCLA Bruins men's basketball program, established in 1920, owns a record 11 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. UCLA teams coached by John Wooden won 10 titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975, including 7 straight from 1967 to 1973....	91	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	80	Memorial Coliseum	Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
1969 1969 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1969 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	UCLA UCLA Bruins men's basketball The UCLA UCLA Bruins men's basketball program, established in 1920, owns a record 11 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. UCLA teams coached by John Wooden won 10 titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975, including 7 straight from 1967 to 1973....	92	Purdue Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball is rich in tradition and history, holding the record for wins in Big Ten Championships , along with being the only program in the conference to boast winning records versus every other school i...	72	Freedom Hall
1976 1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	86	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	68	Spectrum Wachovia Spectrum The Wachovia Spectrum...	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
1979 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 40 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Michigan State Michigan State Spartans men's basketball The Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represents Michigan State University and competes in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I....	75	Indiana State Indiana State University Indiana State University is a public university located in Terre Haute, Indiana.The Princeton Review has named Indiana State as one of the "Best in the Midwest" five years running, and the College of Education's Graduate Program was recently named as a 'Top 100' by U.S....	64	Jon M. Huntsman Center Jon M. Huntsman Center Jon M. Huntsman Center is a 15,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The arena opened in 1969 and is named after chemicals entrepreneur and billionaire philanthropist Jon Huntsman, Sr., father of Utah's current governor Jon Huntsman, Jr.....	Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC....
1981 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 48 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	63	North Carolina North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball program is a successful college basketball program, considered to be "one of the dominant basketball teams in NCAA history." The Tar Heels have won four NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1957, 1982, 1993, and 2005, and were retroactively named the national champions by...	50	Spectrum
1987 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	74	Syracuse Syracuse Orange men's basketball The Syracuse Orange men's basketball program is the college basketball program of Syracuse University. The program is classified in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, and the team competes in the Big East Conference....	73	Louisiana Superdome Louisiana Superdome The Louisiana Superdome, often informally referred to simply as the Superdome, The Dome or the New Orleans Superdome is a large, multi-purpose sports and exhibition facility located in the Central Business District, New Orleans of New Orleans, Louisiana....	New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
1989 1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball.... †	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	80	Seton Hall Seton Hall University Seton Hall University is a Private university Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States....	79	Kingdome Kingdome The Kingdome was an indoor sports and entertainment arena owned by King County, Washington and located in Seattle. It was built in 1972–1976 and operated from 1976 until its demolition in 2000....	Seattle, Washington Washington Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
1992 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Duke Duke Blue Devils men's basketball The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Duke University. The Duke Blue Devils are widely renowned in American college sports, especially in conjunction with their heated UNC-Duke rivalry with the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball....	71	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	51	Metrodome Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, often simply called The Metrodome, is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus....	Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's Capital ....
1993 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	North Carolina North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball program is a successful college basketball program, considered to be "one of the dominant basketball teams in NCAA history." The Tar Heels have won four NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1957, 1982, 1993, and 2005, and were retroactively named the national champions by...	77	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	71	Louisiana Superdome
2000 2000 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2000 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Michigan State Michigan State Spartans men's basketball The Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represents Michigan State University and competes in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I....	89	Florida Florida Gators men's basketball The Florida Gators men's basketball team represents the University of Florida in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I competition, in which they are a member of the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division....	76	RCA Dome	Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
2002 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in Single-elimination tournament play to determine the national champion of men's National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball....	Maryland Maryland Terrapins men's basketball The University of Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team has been one of the most successful college basketball programs in the country since hiring Coach Gary Williams before the 1989-1990 season....	64	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	52	Georgia Dome Georgia Dome The Georgia Dome is a stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia. It has been the home stadium for the Atlanta Falcons since 1992, and is owned and operated by the State of Georgia....	Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
2005 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....	North Carolina North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball program is a successful college basketball program, considered to be "one of the dominant basketball teams in NCAA history." The Tar Heels have won four NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1957, 1982, 1993, and 2005, and were retroactively named the national champions by...	75	Illinois Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball The Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at Assembly Hall , located on University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's campus in Champaign, Illinois....	70	Edward Jones Dome Edward Jones Dome The Edward Jones Dome is a multi purpose stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, and home of the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. It was constructed largely to lure an NFL team back to St....	St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
2007 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 NCAA schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2007–08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season....	Florida Florida Gators men's basketball The Florida Gators men's basketball team represents the University of Florida in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I competition, in which they are a member of the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division....	84	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	75	Georgia Dome

Post-season NIT championships

Year	Champion		Runner-up		MVP	Venue and city
1974 1974 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Purdue Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball is rich in tradition and history, holding the record for wins in Big Ten Championships , along with being the only program in the conference to boast winning records versus every other school i...	87	Utah Utah Utes men's basketball The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful Mid-Major basketball programs in the NCAA. They are currently an NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship program that plays in the Mountain West Conference....	81	Mike Sojourner, Utah	Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....	New York City New York City The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
1979 1979 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	53	Purdue Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball is rich in tradition and history, holding the record for wins in Big Ten Championships , along with being the only program in the conference to boast winning records versus every other school i...	52	Butch Carter Butch Carter Clarence Eugene "Butch" Carter is a retired United States basketball player and Coach of the National Basketball Association. He is the older brother of retired National Football League wide receiver Cris Carter.... and Ray Tolbert, Indiana	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1980 1980 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Virginia Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball The Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball program represents the University of Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference in the NCAA Division I. In the spring of 2006, Virginia's long-time home court, University Hall, closed its doors for the last time while, across North Massie Road, the brand-new John Paul Jones Arena opened in the fall of 20...	58	Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball The Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represents the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Minnesota Golden Gophers have played in the Big Ten since the conference began sponsoring basketball in 1905....	55	Ralph Sampson Ralph Sampson Ralph Lee Sampson is a retired American college basketball and professional basketball player.A 7-foot-4 phenom, three-time Naismith Award, and List of first overall NBA draft picks in the 1983 NBA Draft, Sampson brought heavy expectations with him to the NBA.... , Virginia	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1982 1982 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Bradley Bradley University Bradley University is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois . It is a medium-sized institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students....	68	Purdue Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball is rich in tradition and history, holding the record for wins in Big Ten Championships , along with being the only program in the conference to boast winning records versus every other school i...	61	Mitchell Anderson, Bradley	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1984 1984 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	83	Notre Dame Notre Dame Fighting Irish The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the Varsity team sports teams of the University of Notre Dame....	63	Tim McCormick Tim McCormick Timothy Daniel McCormick is a retired United States professional basketball player. He was six feet 11 inches tall and weighed 250 lbs. during most of his career, which ran 1984-1991.... , Michigan	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1985 1985 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	UCLA UCLA Bruins men's basketball The UCLA UCLA Bruins men's basketball program, established in 1920, owns a record 11 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. UCLA teams coached by John Wooden won 10 titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975, including 7 straight from 1967 to 1973....	65	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing Indiana University . The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the NCAA....	62	Reggie Miller Reggie Miller Reginald Wayne Miller is a retired American professional basketball player and one of the greatest NBA players of the 90s. Miller spent the entirety of his 18-year National Basketball Association career with the Indiana Pacers.... , UCLA	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1986 1986 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	73	Wyoming	63	Brad Sellers, Ohio State	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1988 1988 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Connecticut Connecticut Huskies men's basketball The UConn Huskies is the name of the men's and women's basketball teams at University of Connecticut, in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. The program is classified in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, and the team competes in the Big East Conference....	72	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	67	Phil Gamble, UConn	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1993 1993 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball The Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represents the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Minnesota Golden Gophers have played in the Big Ten since the conference began sponsoring basketball in 1905....	62	Georgetown	61	Voshon Lenard Voshon Lenard Voshon Kelan Lenard is an United States professional basketball player. He is currently a free agent. He is listed as 6' 4" and 215 lbs. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.... , Minnesota	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1997 1997 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	82	Florida State	73	Louis Bullock Louis Bullock Louis Bullock, Jr. is an United States professional basketball player. He is currently with the pro club Real Madrid Baloncesto.... , Michigan	Madison Square Garden	New York City
2004 2004 National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament is an annual US basketball competition....	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	62	Rutgers Rutgers Scarlet Knights The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are the athletic teams that represent Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey . In sports, Rutgers is chiefly known for being the "Birthplace of College Football," hosting the 1869 college football season on 6 November 1869 in which Rutgers defeated a team from the Princeton University with a score of 6 runs t...	55	Daniel Horton Daniel Horton Daniel Horton is a professional basketball player. He is a 6'3" 205 pound Guard .He graduated in 2002 from Cedar Hill High School in Cedar Hill, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, Texas and was named to the 2002 McDonald's High School All-American team.... , Michigan	Madison Square Garden	New York City
2006 2006 National Invitation Tournament The 2006 National Invitation Tournament was the first time the tournament was planned and operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, taking over after 68 years under the auspices of the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association ....	South Carolina South Carolina Gamecocks The University of South Carolina's 19 varsity sports teams are known as the Gamecocks, and USC is the only Division I school to use this nickname/mascot....	76	Michigan Michigan Wolverines men's basketball The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....	64	Renaldo Balkman Renaldo Balkman Renaldo Balkman is an United States professional basketball player, formerly of the University of South Carolina, currently playing for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association.... , South Carolina	Madison Square Garden	New York City
2008 2008 National Invitation Tournament The 2008 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I teams that did not participate in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament....	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball competition....	92	Massachusetts UMass Minutemen The UMass Minutemen are the athletic teams that represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I sports competition....	85	Kosta Koufos Kosta Koufos Konstantine Demetrios ?Kosta? Koufos is a Greek American professional basketball player. He was selected by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.... , Ohio State	Madison Square Garden	New York City

Women's basketball

Women's basketball teams have played a total of nine times in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981 in sports-1982 in sports season....
(since 1982) and Women's National Invitation Tournament

Women's National Invitation Tournament

The Women's National Invitation Tournament is a college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's National Invitation Tournament....
(since 1998). Big Ten women's teams have also led conference attendance from 1993-1999.

NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

Year	Champion		Runner-up		Venue and city
1993 1993 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1993 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 17 and ended on April 4. The tournament featured 48 teams. The Final Four consisted of Ohio State University, University of Iowa, Vanderbilt University, and Texas Tech University, with Texas Tech University defeating Ohio State University 84-82 to win its first NCAA title....	Texas Tech Texas Tech Red Raiders The Texas Tech Red Raiders are the College athletics teams that represent Texas Tech University. The women's basketball team uses the name Lady Raiders; however, the school's other women's teams use the "Red Raiders" name....	84	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State University's intercollegiate sports teams and players are called the "Buckeyes" , and participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports....	74	The Omni	Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
1999 1999 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1999 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 12, 1999 and concluded on March 28, 1999 when Purdue University won its first national championship in any women's sport....	Purdue Purdue Boilermakers Boilermakers is the official athletic moniker for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Purdue University. As is common with athletic nicknames, it is also used as colloquial designation of Purdue's students and alumni at large....	62	Duke Duke Blue Devils Duke University's 26 varsity sports teams, known as the Blue Devils, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The name comes from the France "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils," which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry battalion....	45	San Jose Arena	San Jose, California San Jose, California San Jose or San Jos? is the List of cities in California city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States....
2001 2001 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2001 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 16 and ended on April 1. The tournament featured 64 teams. The Final Four consisted of University of Connecticut, University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, and Missouri State University, with University of Notre Dame defeating Purdue University 68-66 to win its first NCA...	Notre Dame Notre Dame Fighting Irish The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the Varsity team sports teams of the University of Notre Dame....	68	Purdue Purdue Boilermakers Boilermakers is the official athletic moniker for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Purdue University. As is common with athletic nicknames, it is also used as colloquial designation of Purdue's students and alumni at large....	66	Savvis Center Scottrade Center Scottrade Center is a 19,150 seat arena located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1994. It is nicknamed "The House that Brett Hull Built"....	St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
2005 2005 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2005 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 19, 2005 and concluded on April 5, 2005 when Baylor University was crowned as the new national champion....	Baylor Baylor Bears Baylor Bears refers to the sports teams of Baylor University. Baylor's men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bears, and some women's teams are nicknamed the Lady Bears....	84	Michigan State Michigan State Spartans The Michigan State Spartans are the sport teams that represent Michigan State University. The school's athletic program includes 23 Varsity team sports teams....	62	RCA Dome RCA Dome The RCA Dome, originally named the Hoosier Dome, was a domed stadium located in Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana, and the home of the Indianapolis Colts NFL franchise for 24 seasons ....	Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....

Women's National Invitation Tournament championship games

Year	Champion		Runner-up		Venue and city
1998	Penn State	59	Baylor Baylor Bears Baylor Bears refers to the sports teams of Baylor University. Baylor's men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bears, and some women's teams are nicknamed the Lady Bears....	56	Ferrell Center Ferrell Center The Ferrell Center is a arena in Waco, Texas. It was built in 1988 and is located adjacent to the Brazos River. It is home to the Baylor University Bears basketball and volleyball teams....	Waco, Texas Waco, Texas Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. The city has a 2007 estimated total population of 122,222. It is the 26th largest city by population in Texas, and 195th in the US....
1999	Arkansas Arkansas Ladybacks The women's teams competing for the University of Arkansas , refers to any of the women's sports teams that competes officially for the University of Arkansas Arkansas Razorbacks....	67	Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers The Wisconsin Badgers are the collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletic program has teams in American football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country running, tennis, swimming, collegiate wrestling, athletics , Rowing , golf, and so...	64	Bud Walton Arena Bud Walton Arena Bud Walton Arena is the home to the men's and women's basketball teams of the University of Arkansas, known as the Arkansas Razorbacks and Arkansas Ladybacks ....	Fayetteville, Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas Fayetteville is a city in Washington County, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States, and is home to the University of Arkansas. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city had a total population of 58,047....
2000	Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers The Wisconsin Badgers are the collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletic program has teams in American football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country running, tennis, swimming, collegiate wrestling, athletics , Rowing , golf, and so...	75	Florida Florida Gators The Florida Gators are the athletic teams that collectively represent the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Lady Gators is an alternative often used for the women's teams....	74	Kohl Center Kohl Center The Kohl Center opened in 1998 in Madison, Wisconsin. It is the home of the UW-Madison Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball and women's basketball teams and the men's and women's ice hockey teams....	Madison, Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
2001	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State University's intercollegiate sports teams and players are called the "Buckeyes" , and participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports....	62	New Mexico University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, New Mexico, USA. It was founded in 1889. It offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering....	61	University Arena University Arena University Arena, more commonly known as The Pit, is a basketball only arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico on E Arena Dr SE @ Avenida Cesar Chavez & University Blvd SE with a capacity of 18,018....	Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque is the largest List of cities in the United States in the US state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande....
2007	Wyoming University of Wyoming The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie Mountains and Snowy Range mountains....	72	Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers The Wisconsin Badgers are the collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletic program has teams in American football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country running, tennis, swimming, collegiate wrestling, athletics , Rowing , golf, and so...	56	Arena-Auditorium Arena-Auditorium Arena-Auditorium is a 15,028-seat multi-purpose arena in Laramie, Wyoming. The arena opened in 1982 and has since been the home of the University of Wyoming Cowboys basketball team, as well as home to the Cowgirls basketball team since 2003....	Laramie, Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming File:GrandAveLaramie.jpgLaramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The population was 27,204 at the United States Census, 2000....
2008	Marquette Marquette Golden Eagles The Marquette Golden Eagles...	81	Michigan State Michigan State Spartans The Michigan State Spartans are the sport teams that represent Michigan State University. The school's athletic program includes 23 Varsity team sports teams....	66	Breslin Center	East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, Michigan, though a small portion lies in Clinton County, Michigan....

Rivalries

Big Ten football

The members of the Big Ten have longstanding rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. Each school has at least one traveling trophy at stake. Some Big Ten rivalries include (with their respective traveling trophy in parentheses):

Illinois-Northwestern (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk
Sweet Sioux Tomahawk

The Sweet Sioux Tomahawk was presented to the winner of the annual American football game between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University....
)
Indiana-Purdue (Old Oaken Bucket
Old Oaken Bucket

The Old Oaken Bucket is the name of the trophy that is annually awarded to the winner of the Big Ten Conference college football game between Indiana University Bloomington and Purdue University....
)
Indiana-Michigan State (Old Brass Spittoon
Old Brass Spittoon

The Old Brass Spittoon is presented to the winner of the Indiana University Bloomington-Michigan State University college football game. First presented in 1950 in sports, it was Michigan State's idea to start up the trophy and Indiana quickly accepted....
)
Iowa-Minnesota (Floyd of Rosedale
Floyd of Rosedale

The Floyd of Rosedale bronze pig is awarded to the winner of the annual college football game between the Universities of Iowa Hawkeyes football and Minnesota Golden Gophers football....
)
Iowa-Wisconsin (Heartland Trophy
Heartland Trophy

The Heartland Trophy is a brass Cattle that is presented to the winner of the annual Iowa Hawkeyes-Wisconsin Badgers college football game. The trophy is new to the rivalry, as it was first presented in 2004 to Iowa, which won the game 30–7....
)
Minnesota-Wisconsin (Slab of Bacon
Slab of Bacon

The Slab of Bacon was a traveling trophy that passed between the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Badgers and University of Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers football college football teams, given annually to the winning team immediately upon the conclusion of the game....
/Paul Bunyan's Axe
Paul Bunyan's Axe

Paul Bunyan's Axe, eponym the mythical giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan , is a prize awarded every year to the winner of the college football game between Minnesota Golden Gophers football and Wisconsin Badgers football....
)
Michigan-Michigan State (Paul Bunyan Trophy
Paul Bunyan Trophy

The Paul Bunyan-Governor of Michigan Trophy is a List of trophies awarded in U.S. college football awarded to the winner of the annual American football game between the Michigan Wolverines football and the Michigan State Spartans football....
)
Michigan-Minnesota (Little Brown Jug
Little Brown Jug (football)

The Little Brown Jug is awarded to the winner of each college football game between Minnesota Golden Gophers football and Michigan Wolverines football and is the oldest rivalry trophy, and one of the oldest rivalry games, in college football....
)
Illinois-Ohio State (Illibuck
Illibuck

Illy Illibuck is a wooden turtle trophy presented to the winner of the Ohio State University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College football game....
)
Illinois-Purdue (Purdue Cannon
Purdue Cannon

The Purdue Cannon is presented to the winner of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-Purdue University football game. The cannon was conceived by Purdue students 95 years ago but was first presented as a trophy by an Illinois alumnus in 1943....
)
Minnesota-Penn State (Governor's Victory Bell
Governor's Victory Bell

The Governor's Victory Bell is awarded to the winner of each college football game between Minnesota Golden Gophers football and Penn State Nittany Lions football....
)
Michigan State-Penn State (Land Grant Trophy
Land Grant Trophy

The Land Grant Trophy is presented to the winner of each football game between Michigan State University and Penn State University....
)
Michigan-Ohio State (No trophy)
Penn State-Michigan (no trophy)
Penn State-Ohio State (no trophy)
Illinois-Indiana (no trophy)

Furthermore, the Big Ten football schedule is set up with each team having two permanent rivalries within the conference, with the other eight teams in the conference rotating out of the schedule in pairs for two-year stints. Permanent rivalries are as follows:

Illinois: Indiana, Northwestern
Indiana: Illinois, Purdue
Iowa: Minnesota, Wisconsin
Michigan: Michigan State, Ohio State
Michigan State: Michigan, Penn State
Minnesota: Iowa, Wisconsin
Northwestern: Illinois, Purdue
Ohio State: Michigan, Penn State
Penn State: Michigan State, Ohio State
Purdue: Indiana, Northwestern
Wisconsin: Iowa, Minnesota

The pair of Big Ten teams that conference teams will not play during the 2009 and 2010 seasons are as follows:

Illinois: Iowa, Wisconsin
Indiana: Michigan State, Minnesota
Iowa: Illinois, Purdue
Michigan: Minnesota, Northwestern
Michigan State: Indiana, Ohio State
Minnesota: Indiana, Michigan
Northwestern: Michigan, Ohio State
Ohio State: Michigan State, Northwestern
Penn State: Purdue, Wisconsin
Purdue: Iowa, Penn State
Wisconsin: Illinois, Penn State

The pair of Big Ten teams that conference teams will not play during the 2011 and 2012 seasons are as follows:

Illinois: Minnesota, Ohio State
Indiana: Penn State, Wisconsin
Iowa: Michigan State, Northwestern
Michigan: Penn State, Purdue
Michigan State: Iowa, Northwestern
Minnesota: Illinois, Purdue
Northwestern: Iowa, Michigan State
Ohio State: Illinois, Wisconsin
Penn State: Indiana, Michigan
Purdue: Minnesota, Michigan
Wisconsin: Indiana, Ohio State

Big Ten football games are also well known for the participation and excellence of the Big Ten Conference universities' marching bands. Nine of the eleven participating Big Ten Conference universities have won the Sudler Trophy, the most prestigious award a collegiate marching band can receive. The first three trophies were all awarded to Big Ten conference members, starting with the Michigan Marching Band in 1982, and the Big Ten boasts more Sudler Trophy award winners than any other conference.

During the pre-game show performance, the marching band of a Big Ten Conference university has the tradition of playing the opposing team's fight song.

Big Ten Basketball

Indiana and Purdue have a heated rivalry in college basketball between the two schools with the most Big Ten basketball championships, winning 41 times between the two schools. Michigan and Michigan State also have a heated in-state rivalry. Michigan State and Wisconsin also have a long standing rivalry, as do Illinois and Indiana.

Extra-conference rivalries

Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan are among the Big Ten football teams that have rivalries with Notre Dame

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football rivalries

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football rivalries refers to College_rivalry#United_Statesries of the University of Notre Dame in the sport of college football....
. After the University of Southern California with 28 wins, the Michigan State Spartans have the winningest record against the Irish, with 27. The Purdue Boilermakers follow with 26.

Penn State had a longstanding rivalry with Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States....
of the Big East, but the two schools have not met since 2000. Penn State also had long histories with independent Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

West Virginia University

West Virginia University is a public university research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia, United States of America. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg, West Virginia; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia; Potomac State College of West...
, Syracuse

Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, New York. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College....
, and Rutgers

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the Colonial colleges in the United States....
of the Big East; Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C....
and Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States, rendering it neither in Boston nor a college....
of the ACC

Atlantic Coast Conference

Temple University

Temple University is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr....
, of the Mid-American Conference (MAC)

Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I List of college athletic conferences with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from New York to Illinois....
. Penn State also has strong intrastate rivalries with Patriot League

Patriot League

The Patriot League is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; in American football, it participates in the Division I#Football Championship Subdivision ....
universities Bucknell

Bucknell University

Bucknell University is a private university located along the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 60 miles north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
in men's basketball and men's lacrosse, and Lehigh

Lehigh University

Lehigh University is a private university, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States....
in wrestling. Most of these rivalries were cultivated while Penn State operated independent of conference affiliation; the constraints of playing a full conference schedule, especially in football, have reduced the number of meetings between Penn State and its non-Big Ten rivals.

Iowa has an in-state rivalry with Iowa State

Iowa State University

The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant university and Space grant colleges university located in Ames, Iowa, United States....
, with the winner getting the Cy-Hawk Trophy

Cy-Hawk Trophy

The Cy-Hawk Trophy is awarded to the winner of the University of Iowa-Iowa State University American football game. It was first presented in 1977 when the Des Moines, Iowa Athletic Club donated the trophy as a prize for the rivalry game's winner....
. Iowa also holds rivalries in basketball with Drake

Drake University

Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The institution offers a number of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and pharmacy....
and Northern Iowa

University of Northern Iowa

The University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is a state-supported university that offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Administration , Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college....
.

Indiana has an out-of conference rivalry with Kentucky

University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a state university , co-educational, university, and is also the state's land-grant university, located in Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky....
, but the rivalry has a much higher profile in basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet high hoop under organized rules....
than in football.

Illinois has a longstanding basketball rivalry with Missouri, with the two men's teams squaring off annually in the "Braggin' Rights

Braggin' Rights

Braggin' Rights is the annual men's college basketball contest between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball of the Big Ten Conference and the University of Missouri Missouri Tigers of the Big 12 Conference....
" game in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
. This rivalry has been carried over into football as "The Arch Rivalry" with games played at the Edward Jones Dome

Edward Jones Dome

The Edward Jones Dome is a multi purpose stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, and home of the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. It was constructed largely to lure an NFL team back to St....
in St. Louis in 2002 and 2003 and four games scheduled from 2007 to 2010.

Wisconsin has a long-standing, in-state basketball rivalry with Marquette

Marquette University

Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities....
. The series has intensified as of late with both teams having made the Final Four

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a Single-elimination tournament tournament held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States....
in recent years. The schools also played an annual football game before Marquette abandoned its football program in 1961.

In the early days of the Big Ten, the Chicago

University of Chicago

University of Michigan

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving may refer to:*Thanksgiving , the holiday on the fourth Thursday in November.*Thanksgiving , the holiday on the second Monday in October....
, usually with conference championship implications and was considered one of the first major rivalries of the conference. Also in the early days of the conference, and at Knute Rockne

Knute Rockne

Knute Kenneth Rockne was a Norwegian-born American football player and is regarded as one of the greatest coach in college football history....
's insistence, Northwestern

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
and Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Roman Catholic Church University located in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. It was founded by Father Edward Sorin, Congregation of Holy Cross, who was also the school's first president....
had a yearly contest, with the winner taking home a shillelagh, much like the winner of the USC

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
-Notre Dame and Purdue-Notre Dame contests now receive. The Northwestern-Notre Dame shillelagh was largely forgotten by the early 1960s and is now solely an element of college football's storied past.

Conference facilities

The Big Ten has the distinction of being the conference with the most stadiums seating over 100,000, at three (Michigan Stadium, Ohio Stadium, and Beaver Stadium). The only other stadium of that size in college football is Neyland Stadium

Neyland Stadium

Neyland Stadium is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several NFL exhibition games with the last between the Washington Redskins and Houston Oilers during the Oilers transition to Nash...
at the University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee , sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant university University of Tennessee system public school system in Tennessee....
in the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in , which operates in the Southern United States part of the United States....
.

The three stadiums rank third, fourth, and sixth in the list of the largest sports stadiums in the world.

List of stadiums by capacity

The following is a list of sports stadiums ordered by their seating capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the stadium can accommodate....

School	Football stadium	Stadium capacity	Basketball arena	Arena capacity	Baseball stadium	Stadium capacity
Illinois	Memorial Stadium Memorial Stadium (Champaign) Memorial Stadium is a American football stadium located in Champaign, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....	62,872	Assembly Hall Assembly Hall (Champaign) Assembly Hall is a large dome-shaped indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, and is part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....	16,618	Illinois Field Illinois Field Illinois Field is a baseball stadium that is home to the University of Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team. It is located in the sports complex at the University of Illinois and is south of Kirby Avenue, just west of where Kirby Avenue becomes Florida Avenue ....	3,000
Indiana	Memorial Stadium Memorial Stadium, Bloomington Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Indiana Hoosiers football....	52,180	Assembly Hall Assembly Hall (Bloomington) Assembly Hall is a 17,456-seat arena on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the home of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball teams....	17,456	Sembower Field Sembower Field Sembower Field is a baseball stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the home field of the Indiana University Hoosiers college baseball team. The stadium holds 2,250 people and opened in 1958....	2,250
Iowa	Kinnick Stadium Kinnick Stadium Kinnick Stadium, formerly known as Iowa Stadium, is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa. Primarily used for American football, it is the home stadium of the University of Iowa Iowa Hawkeyes football, in the sport of college football....	70,585	Carver-Hawkeye Arena Carver-Hawkeye Arena Carver-Hawkeye Arena is a 15,500-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa. Opened in 1983, it is the home court for the Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball and women's basketball teams, as well as the university's Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling, gymnastics, and volleyball teams....	15,500	Duane Banks Field Duane Banks Field Duane Banks Field is a baseball stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. It is the home field of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes college baseball team. The stadium holds 3,000 people and opened in 1974....	3,000
Michigan	Michigan Stadium Michigan Stadium Michigan Stadium, nicknamed The Big House, is the American football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan....	107,501	Crisler Arena Crisler Arena Crisler Arena, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan, United States, is the home arena for the University of Michigan men's and women's college basketball teams....	13,751	Ray Fisher Stadium Ray Fisher Stadium Ray Fisher Stadium is a baseball stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the home field of the University of Michigan Wolverines college baseball teams....	4,000
Michigan State	Spartan Stadium Spartan Stadium (East Lansing) Spartan Stadium opened in 1923 in East Lansing, Michigan. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Michigan State University Michigan State Spartans....	75,005	Breslin Student Events Center Breslin Student Events Center The Jack Breslin Student Events Center is a multi-purpose arena at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. The arena opened in 1989, and is named for Jack Breslin, MSU alumnus, former athlete and administrator, who first began pushing for the arena in 1969....	16,280	John H. Kobs Field/Oldsmobile Park Oldsmobile Park Oldsmobile Park is a baseball stadium in Lansing, Michigan, and home field of the Lansing Lugnuts minor league baseball team. The Michigan State University college baseball team also plays select home games at Oldsmobile Park....	4,000/11,000
Minnesota	TCF Bank Stadium TCF Bank Stadium TCF Bank Stadium is the future American football stadium for the Minnesota Golden Gophers college football team at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.... *	50,300	Williams Arena Williams Arena Williams Arena, located on the University of Minnesota of the University of Minnesota system is the home of the University of Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball and women's basketball teams....	14,321	Siebert Field Siebert Field Siebert Field is the baseball stadium at the University of Minnesota where the Minnesota Golden Gophers college baseball team currently plays portions of their seasons.... /Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, often simply called The Metrodome, is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus....	1,500/46,564
Northwestern	Ryan Field	49,256	Welsh-Ryan Arena Welsh-Ryan Arena Welsh-Ryan Arena is an 8,117-seat multi-purpose arena in Evanston, Illinois. The arena opened in 1952 as McGaw Memorial Hall. It is home to the Northwestern University Northwestern Wildcats basketball, volleyball and wrestling teams....	8,117	Rocky Miller Park Rocky Miller Park Rocky Miller Park is a baseball stadium in Evanston, Illinois. It is the home field of the Northwestern University Wildcats college baseball team. The stadium holds 1,000 people and opened for baseball in 1943....	1,000
Ohio State	Ohio Stadium Ohio Stadium Ohio Stadium , is the home of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The stadium was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on March 22, 1974....	102,329	Value City Arena Jerome Schottenstein Center The Jerome Schottenstein Center, commonly known as Schottenstein Center, is a multi-purpose arena located on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio....	19,500	Bill Davis Stadium Bill Davis Stadium Bill Davis Stadium is a baseball stadium located in Columbus, Ohio. The stadium is home to the Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, and bears the name of William C....	4,450
Penn State	Beaver Stadium Beaver Stadium Beaver Stadium is an outdoor American football stadium located on the campus of The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania....	107,282	Bryce Jordan Center Bryce Jordan Center Bryce Jordan Center is a 15,261-seat multi-purpose arena in University Park, Pennsylvania. The arena opened in 1995 and is the largest such venue between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....	15,261	Medlar Field at Lubrano Park Medlar Field at Lubrano Park Medlar Field at Lubrano Park is a 5,406-seat baseball-only stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania that hosted its first regular season baseball game on June 20, 2006, when the secondary tenant of the facility, the State College Spikes, lost to the Williamsport Crosscutters, 5-3....	5,406
Purdue	Ross-Ade Stadium Ross-Ade Stadium Ross-Ade Stadium is a stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. It is the home of the Purdue University Purdue Boilermakers football team....	62,500	Mackey Arena Mackey Arena Mackey Arena is a multi-purpose arena located in West Lafayette, Indiana. Part of the Purdue University campus, it is home to the university's basketball teams, and occasionally hosts home games for the volleyball and wrestling teams....	14,123	Lambert Field Lambert Field (Purdue) Lambert Field is a baseball stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. It is the home field of the Purdue University's Purdue Boilermakers college baseball team....	1,100
Wisconsin	Camp Randall Stadium Camp Randall Stadium Camp Randall Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin. The home of the Wisconsin Badgers football team and the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, it is located on the center-southern region of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus....	80,321	Kohl Center Kohl Center The Kohl Center opened in 1998 in Madison, Wisconsin. It is the home of the UW-Madison Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball and women's basketball teams and the men's and women's ice hockey teams....	17,190	No baseball team	N/A

*Opens in the fall of 2009

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See also

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