Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball regular season champions

Big Ten Conference

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regular season champions:

Year	Champion	National Championship	Notes
1906	Minnesota Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball The Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represents the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Golden Gophers have played in the Big Ten since the conference began sponsoring basketball in 1905...
1907	Chicago Chicago Maroons The Maroons are the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Chicago. They are named after the color maroon, one of the school's colors. 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... Minnesota Wisconsin Wisconsin Badgers The Wisconsin Badgers are the collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This NCAA Division I athletic program has teams in football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country, tennis, swimming, wrestling, track and field, rowing, golf, and softball...	Helms Foundation Helms Athletic Foundation The Helms Athletic Foundation was an athletic foundation based in Los Angeles, 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 team selections in a number of college sports including football and basketball... (Chicago)	Indiana does not play during the season
1908	Chicago Wisconsin	Helms Foundation (Chicago)	Indiana does not play during the season
1909	Chicago	Helms Foundation	Iowa begins conference play in basketball
1910	Chicago
1911	Minnesota Purdue Purdue Boilermakers Boilermakers is the official nickname 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....
1912	Purdue Wisconsin	Helms Foundation (Wisconsin)
1913	Wisconsin		Ohio State joins conference
1914	Wisconsin	Helms Foundation
1915	Illinois 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....	Helms Foundation
1916	Wisconsin	Helms Foundation
1917	Illinois Minnesota
1918	Wisconsin		Michigan returns to the Big Ten at the start of the season
1919	Minnesota	Helms Foundation
1920	Chicago
1921	Michigan Michigan Wolverines The Michigan Wolverines comprise 27 varsity sports teams at the University of Michigan. These teams compete in the NCAA'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... Purdue Wisconsin
1922	Purdue
1923	Iowa Iowa Hawkeyes The Iowa Hawkeyes are the athletics teams that represent the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The Hawkeyes have varsity teams in 24 sports, 11 for men and 13 for women. The teams participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and are members of the... Wisconsin
1924	Chicago Illinois Wisconsin
1925	Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of The Ohio State University, named after the state tree, the Buckeye. The Buckeyes participate in the NCAA's Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports...
1926	Indiana Indiana Hoosiers The Indiana Hoosiers are the athletic teams for the Bloomington campus of Indiana University . Athletic teams sponsored by IU Bloomington include cross country, track, baseball, golf, tennis, rowing, volleyball, soccer, football and basketball... Iowa Michigan Purdue
1927	Michigan
1928	Indiana Purdue
1929	Michigan Wisconsin
1930	Purdue		Iowa did not play basketball this season
1931	Northwestern Northwestern Wildcats The Northwestern Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northwestern University, a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and the only private university in the conference. Northwestern has eight men's and eleven women's Division I sports teams. The mascot is Willie the Wildcat...	Helms Foundation
1932	Purdue	Helms Foundation
1933	Northwestern Ohio State
1934	Purdue
1935	Illinois Purdue Wisconsin
1935	Indiana Purdue
1937	Illinois Minnesota
1938	Purdue
1939	Ohio State		First National Championship Tournament conducted by the National Association of Basketball Coaches National Association of Basketball Coaches The National Association of Basketball Coaches , headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American organization of college men's basketball coaches...
1940	Purdue	NCAA (Indiana)	First NCAA NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball... Tournament
1941	Wisconsin	Helms Foundation NCAA
1942	Illinois
1943	Illinois
1944	Ohio State
1945	Iowa		Chicago did not play during this season
1946	Ohio State
1947	Wisconsin		First season without University of Chicago in the Big Ten Conference
1948	Michigan
1949	Illinois
1950	Ohio State		Michigan State Michigan State Spartans The Michigan State Spartans are the athletic team that represent Michigan State University. The school's athletic program includes 25 varsity sports teams. Their mascot is a Spartan warrior named Sparty, and the school colors are green and white... athletics joins Big Ten Conference
1951	Illinois
1952	Illinois
1953	Indiana	Helms Foundation NCAA (Indiana)
1954	Indiana
1955	Iowa
1956	Iowa
1957	Indiana Michigan State
1958	Indiana
1959	Michigan State
1960	Ohio State	Helms Foundation NCAA
1961	Ohio State
1962	Ohio State
1963	Illinois Ohio State
1964	Michigan Ohio State
1965	Michigan
1966	Michigan
1967	Indiana Michigan State
1968	Iowa Ohio State
1969	Purdue
1970	Iowa
1971	Ohio State
1972	Minnesota
1973	Indiana
1974	Indiana Michigan
1975	Indiana
1976	Indiana	Helms Foundation NCAA (Indiana)
1977	Michigan
1978	Michigan State
1979	Iowa Michigan State Purdue	Helms Foundation (Michigan State) NCAA (Michigan State)
1980	Indiana
1981	Indiana	Helms Foundation NCAA (Indiana)
1982	Minnesota		Final year National Champion selected by Helms Foundation
1983	Indiana
1984	Illinois Purdue
1985	Michigan
1986	Michigan
1987	Indiana Purdue	NCAA (Indiana)
1988	Purdue
1989	Indiana	NCAA (Michigan)
1990	Michigan State
1991	Indiana Ohio State
1992	Ohio State
1993	Indiana
1994	Purdue
1995	Purdue
1996	Purdue
1997	Vacated		Minnesota forfeited its title in 1997 due to NCAA sanctions.
1998	Illinois Michigan State
1999	Michigan State
2000	Michigan State	NCAA (Michigan State)	Ohio State forfeited its share of the title in 2000 due to NCAA sanctions.
2001	Illinois Michigan State
2002	Illinois Indiana Wisconsin		Ohio State forfeited its share of the title in 2002 due to NCAA sanctions.
2003	Wisconsin
2004	Illinois
2005	Illinois
2006	Ohio State
2007	Ohio State
2008	Wisconsin
2009	Michigan State
2010	Michigan State Ohio State Purdue
2011	Ohio State
2012			Nebraska joins conference

Championships by school

School	Big Ten Championships	Last Big Ten Championship
Chicago* University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...	6	1924
Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...	17	2005
Indiana Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...	20	2002
Iowa University of Iowa The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...	8	1979
Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...	12	1986
Michigan State Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. 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 Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...	12	2010
Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...	9	1982
Northwestern Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....	2	1933
Ohio State Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...	19**	2011
Penn State Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...	0	---
Purdue Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...	22	2010
Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...	17	2008

* Chicago withdrew from the conference in 1946.

** Due to NCAA sanctions, Ohio State has vacated the records of 34 games in 1998-99, 16 games in ‘99-00 and the entire ‘00-01 and ‘01-02 seasons.

Championships by school

See also