Big Ten Conference
FormerlyIntercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives
(officially, 1896–1987)
Western Conference
(1896–1899)
Big Nine
(1899–1917, 1946–1950)
AssociationNCAA
Founded1896 (1896)
CommissionerTony Petitti
Sports fielded
  • 28
    • men's: 14
    • women's: 14
DivisionDivision I
SubdivisionFBS
No. of teams14 (18 in 2024)
HeadquartersRosemont, Illinois, U.S.
Region
Official websitebigten.org
Locations
Location of teams in

The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1896, it predates the founding of its regulating organization, the NCAA. It is based in the Chicago area in Rosemont, Illinois. For many decades the conference consisted of 10 prominent universities, which accounts for its name. As of 2014, it consists of 14 member institutions and 2 affiliate institutions, with 4 new member institutions scheduled to join in 2024.[1][2] The conference competes in the NCAA Division I and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport.

Big Ten member institutions are major research universities with large financial endowments and strong academic reputations. A large student body is a hallmark of its universities, as 12 of the 14 members enroll more than 30,000 students. They are all public universities except founding member Northwestern University as the lone private university, but will be joined by private University of Southern California at the beginning of the 2024–25 collegiate athletic year. Collectively, Big Ten universities educate more than 520,000 total students and have 5.7 million living alumni.[1] The members engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year;[2] 13 out of 14 are members of the Association of American Universities and all are members of the Universities Research Association (URA). All Big Ten universities are also members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.[3]

Although the Big Ten has primarily been a Midwestern conference for nearly a century, the conference's geographic footprint has extended from the Mid-Atlantic to the Great Plains since 2014, and will also have a presence in the West Coast with the addition of four former PAC-12 schools in 2024.[4]

Member universities

Current full members

Institution Location Founded Joined Type Enrollment[5] Endowment (millions) Nickname Colors
East Division
Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington, Indiana 1820 1899[lower-alpha 1] Public 47,005 $3,317 Hoosiers    
University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland 1856 2014 Public (land-grant) 40,792 $1,993 Terrapins        
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 1817 1896,
1917[lower-alpha 2]		 Public 51,225 $17,022 Wolverines    
Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 1855 1950[lower-alpha 3] Public (land-grant) 50,023 $4,338 Spartans    
Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 1870 1912 60,540 $6,814 Buckeyes    
Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania 1855 1990[lower-alpha 4] 50,028 $4,613 Nittany Lions    
Rutgers University–New Brunswick New Brunswick–Piscataway, New Jersey 1766 2014 50,637 $2,000 Scarlet Knights  
West Division
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois[lower-alpha 5] 1867 1896 Public (land-grant) 56,916 $3,380 Fighting Illini    
University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 1847 1899[lower-alpha 6] Public 30,015 $3,137 Hawkeyes    
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota 1851 1896 Public (land-grant) 54,955 $5,443 Golden Gophers    
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska 1869 2011 23,805 $2,310 Cornhuskers    
Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 1851 1896 Private not-for-profit (non-sectarian) 23,161 $14,958 Wildcats    
Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 1869 Public (land-grant) 45,869 $3,584 Boilermakers    
University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin 1848 51,528 $3,981 Badgers    
Notes
  1. ↑ Athletic teams started competing in the conference effective the 1900–01 school year.
  2. ↑ In April 1907, Michigan was voted out of the conference for refusing to adhere to league rules limiting football teams to no more than five games and players to three years of eligibility. Consequently, its athletic teams were independent from 1907–08 to 1916–17.
  3. ↑ Athletic teams started competing in the conference effective with the 1953–54 school year.
  4. ↑ Most sports teams started competing in the conference in the 1991–92 school year; football started Big Ten play in 1993.
  5. ↑ The overall university administration is in Urbana; the athletic administration is in Champaign.
  6. ↑ Athletic teams started competing in the conference effective the 1900–01 school year.

Membership map

Big Ten Conference (Midwest and Mid-Atlantic)
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Location of Big Ten Full members:
1
Rutgers
2
Maryland
3
Penn State
4
Ohio State
5
Michigan
6
Michigan State
7
Indiana
8
Purdue
9
Illinois
10
Northwestern
11
Wisconsin
12
Iowa
13
Minnesota
14
Nebraska
Big Ten Conference (Western)
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Location of Big Ten Future Full members:
29
USC
30
UCLA
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Oregon
32
Washington
Big Ten Conference affiliate members
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Location Big Ten affiliate members:
37
Johns Hopkins
38
Notre Dame

Future members

On June 30, 2022, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) announced plans to withdraw from the Pac-12 Conference to join the Big Ten in 2024 as full members.[6] On August 4, 2023, the University of Oregon and the University of Washington also announced their withdrawal from the Pac-12 to join the Big Ten in 2024.[7]

Institution Location Founded Join Date Type Enrollment Endowment
(millions)		 Nickname Colors Existing
affiliation
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California 1919 2024 Public 45,900 $3,892 Bruins     Pac-12
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 1876 Public 23,202 $1,405 Ducks    
University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, California 1880 Private not-for-profit (non-sectarian) 49,500 $8,120 Trojans    
University of Washington Seattle, Washington 1861 Public 49,522 $4,678 Huskies    

Affiliate members

Institution Location Founded Joined Type Enrollment Nickname Colors Big Ten sport(s) Primary conference
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 1876 2014 Private not-for-profit (Non-sectarian) 29,094 Blue Jays     men's lacrosse[lower-alpha 1] Centennial (NCAA D-III)
women's lacrosse[lower-alpha 2]
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 1842 2017 Private not-for-profit (Catholic) 12,472 Fighting Irish     men's ice hockey ACC
Notes
  1. ↑ On July 1, 2014, Johns Hopkins University joined the conference as an affiliate member in men's lacrosse.
  2. ↑ On July 1, 2016, Johns Hopkins University became an affiliate member in women's lacrosse.

Former member

The University of Chicago was the only full member to have left the Big Ten Conference.[lower-alpha 1]

Institution Location Founded Joined Left Type Enrollment Nickname Colors Current
conference
University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 1890 1896 1946[lower-alpha 2] Private not-for-profit (Non-sectarian) 17,470 Maroons     UAA (NCAA D-III)
Notes
  1. ↑ Lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but never participated in athletics or any other activities.
  2. ↑ The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference. The school dropped football after the 1939 fall season (1939–40 school year), but remained a member in other sports until the end of the 1945–46 academic year.[8]

Membership timeline

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Full members  Full members (non-football)  Sport affiliate  Other conference  Other conference 


History

Early history

As intercollegiate football rapidly increased during the 1890s, so did the ruthless nature of the game. Tempers flared, fights erupted, and injuries soared. Between 1880 and 1905, college football players suffered more than 325 deaths and 1,149 injuries. To deal with mounting criticism of the game, Purdue University president James Henry Smart[9] invited the presidents of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Lake Forest College, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and University of Wisconsin to a meeting in Chicago on January 11, 1895, to create policies aimed at regulating intercollegiate athletics. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the main topics of discussion.[10] The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a second meeting on February 8, 1896.[11] Lake Forest was not at the 1896 meeting and was replaced by the University of Michigan. At the time, the organization was more commonly known as the Western Conference, consisting of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Chicago, Purdue, and Northwestern. These schools were the original seven members.

The conference is one of the nation's oldest, predating the founding of the NCAA by a decade and was one of the first collegiate conferences to sponsor men's basketball. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was also established in 1895; its successor, the Southern Conference, eventually spawned the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The first reference to the conference as the Big Nine was in 1899 after Iowa and Indiana had joined. Nebraska first petitioned to join the league in 1900 and again in 1911,[12] but was turned away both times.

In 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the "Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives".[9]

In April 1907, Michigan was voted out of the conference for refusing to adhere to league rules limiting football teams to no more than five games and players to three years of eligibility.[13] Ohio State joined in 1912. The first known references to the conference as the Big Ten were in December 1916, when Michigan rejoined the conference after a nine-year absence.[14][15]

1940s: Chicago Leaves and Michigan State Joins

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. In 1939 UChicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins made the decision to abolish the football program, based on his negative views of big-time college football's excesses and associated problems of the time.[16] and withdrew from the conference in 1946 after struggling to obtain victories in many conference matchups. It was believed that one of several schools, notably Iowa State, Marquette, Michigan State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Pittsburgh would replace Chicago at the time.[17] On May 20, 1949,[11] Michigan State ended the speculation by joining 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.

1990 expansion: Penn State

Big Ten logo (1990–2011). To reflect the addition of the 11th school, Penn State, the number 11 was placed in the negative space of the "Big Ten" lettering.

In 1990, the Big Ten universities voted to expand the conference to 11 teams and extended an invitation to Atlantic 10 member and football independent Pennsylvania State University, which accepted it.[18] When Penn State joined in 1990, it was decided the conference would continue to be called the Big Ten, but its logo was modified to reflect the change; the number 11 was disguised in the negative space of the traditionally blue "Big Ten" lettering.

Missouri showed interest in Big Ten membership after Penn State joined.[19] Around 1993, the league explored adding Kansas, Missouri and Rutgers or other potential schools, to create a 14-team league with two football divisions.[20] These talks died when the Big Eight Conference merged with former Southwest Conference members to create the Big 12.

Following the addition of Penn State, efforts were made to encourage the University of Notre Dame, at that time the last remaining non-service academy independent, to join the league. In 1999, Notre Dame and the Big Ten entered into private negotiations concerning a possible membership that would include Notre Dame. Although Notre Dame's faculty senate endorsed the idea with a near-unanimous vote, the school's board of trustees decided against joining the conference.[21] (In 1926, Notre Dame had briefly considered official entry into the Big Ten but chose to retain its independent status.[22]) Notre Dame subsequently joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports except football, in which Notre Dame maintains its independent status as long as it plays at least five games per season against ACC opponents. This was believed to be the major stumbling block to Notre Dame joining the Big Ten, as Notre Dame wanted to retain its independent home game broadcasting contract with NBC Sports, while the Big Ten insisted upon a full membership with no special exemptions.

2010–2014 expansion: Nebraska, Maryland, Rutgers

In December 2009, Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany announced that the league was looking to expand in what would later be part of a nationwide trend as part of the 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment.[23] On June 11, 2010, the University of Nebraska applied for membership in the Big Ten and was unanimously approved as the conference's 12th school, which became effective July 1, 2011.[24] The conference retained the name "Big Ten". This briefly led to the interesting and ironic result of the Big Ten consisting of twelve teams, and the Big 12 consisting of ten teams (with fellow former Big 12 member Colorado's move to the Pac-12 Conference). As part of the agreement to join the Big Ten, Nebraska would not receive a full share of the media revenue for the first six years of its membership, until fall 2017.[25]

Legends and Leaders divisions

Big Ten Conference is located in the United States
Indiana
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan State
Michigan State
OhioState
Ohio
State
PennState
Penn
State
Illinois
Illinois
Iowa
Iowa
Minnesota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Nebraska
Northwestern
Northwestern
Purdue
Purdue
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Big Ten (2011-2013): Legends Division, Leaders Division

On September 1, 2010, Delany revealed the conference's football divisional split, but noted that the division names would be announced later. Those division names, as well as the conference's new logo, were made public on December 13, 2010. For its new logo, the conference replaced the "hidden 11" logo with one that uses the "B1G" character combination in its branding. Delany did not comment on the logo that day, but it was immediately evident that the new logo would "allow fans to see 'BIG' and '10' in a single word."[26]

For the new football division names, the Big Ten was unable to use geographic names, because they had rejected a geographic arrangement. Delany announced that the new divisions would be known as the "Legends Division" and "Leaders Division". In the Legends division were Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern. The Leaders division was composed of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin. Conference officials stated they had focused on creating competitive fairness rather than splitting by geographical location.[27] However, the new "Legends" and "Leaders" divisions were not met with enthusiasm. Some traditional rivals, including Ohio State and Michigan, were placed in separate divisions.[28]

For the football season, each team played the others in its division, one "cross-over" rivalry game, and two rotating cross-divisional games. At the end of the regular season the two division winners met in a new Big Ten Football Championship Game.[29] The Legends and Leaders divisional alignment was in effect for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 football seasons.

Maryland and Rutgers join

On November 19, 2012, the University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC and join the Big Ten as its 13th member effective on July 1, 2014.[30] The Big Ten's Council of Presidents approved the move later that day.[31] One day later, Rutgers University of the Big East also accepted an offer for membership from the Big Ten as its 14th member school.[32] Like Nebraska, both schools would not receive full shares of the media revenue until six years after they joined. However, both schools took loans from the conference, thus pushing back the date they would receive full shares.[25]

West and East divisions

Big Ten Conference is located in the United States
Indiana
Indiana
Maryland
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan
Michigan State
Michigan State
OhioState
Ohio
State
PennState
Penn
State
Rutgers
Rutgers
Illinois
Illinois
Iowa
Iowa
Minnesota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Nebraska
Northwestern
Northwestern
Purdue
Purdue
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
USC
USC
UCLA
UCLA
Oregon
Oregon
Washington
Washington
Location of Big Ten members: Full Member – East Division, Full Member – West Division, Future Members

On April 28, 2013, the Big Ten presidents and chancellors unanimously approved a football divisional realignment that went into effect when Maryland and Rutgers joined in 2014.[33] Under the new plan, the Legends and Leaders divisions were replaced with geographic divisions.[33] The West Division includes Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin (of which all but Purdue are in the Central Time Zone), while the East Division includes Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers (all of which are in the Eastern Time Zone). The final issue in determining the new divisions was which of the two Indiana schools would be sent to the West; Purdue was chosen because its West Lafayette campus is geographically west of Indiana's home city of Bloomington.[34] The divisional alignment permanently protected the cross-divisional football rivalry Indiana–Purdue.[33] As before, the two division winners play each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game.

Affiliate members join

On June 3, 2013, the Big Ten announced the sponsorship of men's and women's lacrosse. For any conference to qualify for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, at least six member schools must play the sport. In women's lacrosse, the addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten brought the conference up to the requisite six participants, joining programs at Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State and Penn State.[35] In men's lacrosse, Ohio State and Penn State were the only existing participants. Coincident with the addition of Maryland and Rutgers, Michigan agreed to upgrade its successful club team to varsity status, giving the Big Ten five sponsoring schools, one short of the minimum six for an automatic bid. Johns Hopkins University opted to join the conference as its first affiliate member beginning in 2014. Johns Hopkins had been independent in men's lacrosse for 130 years, claiming 44 national championships.[36] As long-time independents joined conferences (for example, Syracuse joining the Atlantic Coast Conference), other schools competing as independents in some cases concluded that the inability to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament was becoming a more serious competitive disadvantage in scheduling and recruiting.

On March 23, 2016, the Big Ten Conference and Notre Dame announced the Fighting Irish would become a men's ice hockey affiliate beginning with the 2017–18 season.[37] Notre Dame had been a member of Hockey East, and the move would save travel time and renew rivalries with former CCHA and WCHA members.

The conference's headquarters in Rosemont, Illinois

In 2013, the conference moved its headquarters from its location in Park Ridge, Illinois to neighboring Rosemont. The office building is situated within Rosemont's Parkway Bank Park Entertainment District (then named MB Financial Park Entertainment District), alongside Interstate 294.[38][39][40]

2021–2024 Pacific Expansion

On June 30, 2022, UCLA and USC announced that they will be joining the Big Ten Conference effective August 2, 2024, enabling both schools to remain in the Pac-12 Conference for the duration of the Pac-12's existing media rights agreements.[6][41] Unlike the prior expansion with Nebraska, Rutgers, and Maryland, USC and UCLA would join with a full share of the media revenue from the start of their Big Ten tenure.[25]

In August 2022, the conference reached new media rights deals with CBS, Fox, and NBC totaled at an estimated $7 billion.[42][43][44][45]

On August 4, 2023, Oregon and Washington announced that they would join the Big Ten Conference alongside UCLA and USC.[46] Unlike UCLA and USC, the two schools would receive a reduced media revenue share of $30 million each, with the share increasing by $1 million for each school each year, through the 2029-30 season. Rather than reducing the other conference members' revenue shares, Fox is contributing the necessary money.[47] The schools will receive a full share with the next media deal.[48]

Football: the return of no divisions

In June 2023 – after UCLA and USC were confirmed as incoming members but before Oregon and Washington were added – the conference announced that starting in 2024, the East and West divisions for football would be eliminated. Each team would play nine conference games and three non-conference games, as before. Within a four-year period, each team would play at least two games against every other team – one at home and one away. This plan called for 11 protected matchups to take place every year; these included Michigan–Ohio State and ten other regional rivalries. At the end of each season, the top two teams in the conference standings would oppose each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game.[49]

The addition of Oregon and Washington added one more protected matchup to this count, bringing the total to 12 protected matchups: Illinois-Northwestern, Illinois-Purdue, Indiana-Purdue, Iowa-Minnesota, Iowa-Nebraska, Iowa-Wisconsin, Maryland-Rutgers, Michigan-Michigan State, Michigan-Ohio State, Minnesota-Wisconsin, Oregon-Washington and UCLA-USC, leaving Penn State as the lone school with no protected matchups. The schedule was also updated so that teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.[50]

Academics

All current and future members of the Big Ten are doctorate-granting universities.

Former conference commissioner Jim Delany said in 2010 that membership in the Association of American Universities is "an important part of who we are."[51] All current and future members of the Big Ten, other than the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are members of the AAU. Nebraska was a member of the AAU when it was admitted to the Big Ten, but lost this status shortly afterwards.[51]

The following table shows National University rank by U.S. News & World Report as of 2023.[52]

Also indicated is membership in the Association of American Universities.[53]

  Members joining in 2024.

Institution National University Rank AAU Member Academic Term
Northwestern University 9 Yes Quarter
University of California, Los Angeles 15 Yes Quarter
University of Michigan 21 Yes Semester
University of Southern California 28 Yes Semester
University of Wisconsin-Madison 35 Yes Semester
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 35 Yes Semester
Ohio State University 43 Yes Semester
Purdue University 43 Yes Semester
University of Maryland, College Park 46 Yes Semester
Rutgers University–New Brunswick 40 Yes Semester
University of Washington 40 Yes Quarter
University of Minnesota 53 Yes Semester
Indiana University Bloomington 73 Yes Semester
Pennsylvania State University 60 Yes Semester
Michigan State University 60 Yes Semester
University of Iowa 93 Yes Semester
University of Oregon 98 Yes Quarter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 159 No Semester

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."[10]

Name Years Notes
John L. Griffith 1922–1944 Died in office
Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson 1945–1961 Retired
William R. Reed 1961–1971 Died in office
Wayne Duke 1971–1989 Retired
Jim Delany 1989–2020 Retired
Kevin Warren 2020–2023 Resigned to become president of the Chicago Bears; shortest-tenured commissioner in conference history
Tony Petitti 2023–present

All Big Ten members are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, formerly known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.[54][55][56] The University of Chicago, a former Big Ten Conference member, was a member of the CIC from 1958 to June 29, 2016.[57][58][59][60]

Athletic department revenue by school

Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights and licensing, student fees, school funds and all other sources including TV income, camp income, concessions, and novelties.

Total expenses includes coach and staff salaries, scholarships, buildings and grounds, maintenance, utilities and rental fees, recruiting, team travel, equipment and uniforms, conference dues, and insurance.

The following table shows institutional reporting to the United States Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2021–22 academic year.[61]

  Members joining in 2024.

Institution 2021–22 Total Revenue from Athletics 2021–22 Total Expenses on Athletics
Ohio State University $246,605,307 $209,874,565
University of Michigan $210,652,287 $176,070,866
Pennsylvania State University $193,624,925 $174,110,034
USC $187,650,353 $187,650,353
Indiana University Bloomington $165,475,544 $113,738,066
University of Iowa $150,428,705 $126,680,448
University of Washington $145,184,864 $136,494,743
University of Wisconsin-Madison $143,998,339 $132,104,285
Michigan State University $143,656,649 $128,196,083
University of Nebraska-Lincoln $136,303,218 $124,061,227
UCLA $131,106,913 $131,106,913
Rutgers University–New Brunswick $130,891,215 $130,891,215
University of Minnesota $125,192,956 $113,686,733
University of Oregon $121,317,887 $121,162,341
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign $115,544,276 $113,652,548
Purdue University $115,139,432 $97,361,750
University of Maryland, College Park $114,385,462 $114,385,462
Northwestern University $105,383,998 $105,383,998

The following table shows revenue specifically from NCAA / Conference Distributions, Media Rights, and Post-Season Football reported by the Knight Commission for the 2021–22 academic year.[62]

Institution 2021–22 Distribution (Millions of dollars)
Ohio State University $71.92
Michigan State University $64.86
University of Iowa $64.60
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign $63.97
Indiana University Bloomington $63.88
University of Minnesota $63.37
University of Michigan $62.97
University of Wisconsin-Madison $62.78
Purdue University $62.25
Pennsylvania State University $56.62
University of Maryland, College Park $52.25
University of Nebraska-Lincoln $56.50
Rutgers University–New Brunswick $49.21
Northwestern University Not Reported


Broadcasting and media rights

Fall 2007–Spring 2017

Commissioner Jim Delany began to explore the formation of a Big Ten-specific channel in 2004 after a failed attempt to seek a significantly larger rights fee from ESPN to renew its existing agreements. This came to fruition in 2006, when the conference announced the formation of a dedicated cable network, Big Ten Network, in partnership with Fox Sports, which would officially launch in 2007. The network carries coverage of Big Ten athletics (including events not carried by the Big Ten's other media partners), studio shows, as well as other original programs and documentaries profiling the conference and its members.[63] The impact of Big Ten Network influenced the conference's expansion in the 2010's, with some of its newer members being located in proximity to major media markets such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C. (Maryland) and the New York metropolitan area (Rutgers).[64][65]

Accompanying the new network announcement was a new ten-year media rights agreement beginning with the 2007–08 season and ending with the 2016–17 season that would split Big Ten coverage among the ESPN networks, CBS Sports, and Big Ten Network, thus ending Comcast Chicago's regional coverage of the conference.[66][67]

In 2010, the Big Ten announced the creation of the Big Ten Football Championship game starting with the 2011 season and signed a broadcast deal with Fox to broadcast the game from 2011 through 2016.[68]

Fall 2017–Spring 2023

In 2016, the conference announced a new six-year media rights deal worth $2.64 billion with Fox Sports, CBS Sports, and ESPN to take effect with the start of the 2017–18 season and ending with the 2022–23 season. The size of the deal translated to a near tripling of the per-school media revenue share.[69]

The new deal would see regular season Big Ten football games airing on Fox and Fox Sports 1 for the first time. As part of the deal, Fox would retain its coverage of the Big Ten Championship as well as obtain priority over ESPN when drafting regular season football games prior to each season. It would also put an end to ESPN's coverage of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament.

Fall 2023–Spring 2030

On August 18, 2022, the Big Ten announced that it had reached seven-year broadcast rights deals with Fox, CBS, and for the first time, NBC Sports, beginning in the 2023–24 academic year, ending an association between the conference and ESPN dating back to the 1980s. A major goal for the new contracts was to establish specific broadcast windows for Big Ten football games across its three partners, with Fox, CBS, and NBC primarily holding rights to Noon ET, 3:30 p.m. ET, and primetime games, respectively,[43][44][45] and the three broadcasters alternating first pick of games.[70] The contracts were estimated to be worth at least $7 billion,[43][71] but also reportedly includes an "escalator clause" that will raise the value of the contracts if the Notre Dame Fighting Irish were to specifically join the Big Ten.[72]

  • Fox Sports:
    • 24 to 32 football games per season:
      • Will primarily air in a Noon ET window (Big Noon Saturday), but with the option for games in other windows after the West Coast schools join in 2024.
      • Rights to the Big Ten championship game in 2023, 2025, 2027, and 2029.
    • At least 45 men's basketball games per-season on Fox and FS1.
    • Selected women's basketball games and Olympic sport events.
  • CBS Sports:
  • NBC Sports:
    • 14 to 16 football games per season on NBC and Peacock:
      • Games will primarily air in a primetime window on NBC
      • Eight games will stream exclusively on Peacock, including four intraconference games.
      • Rights to the Big Ten championship game in 2026
    • Up to 77 basketball games per-season on Peacock:
      • Up to 47 men's basketball games, including 32 intraconference games.
      • Up to 30 women's basketball games, including 20 intraconference games.
      • Rights to the opening night doubleheaders of the men's and women's basketball tournaments.
    • Up to 40 live Olympic sports events per-season on Peacock.
  • Big Ten Network:
    • Up to 50 football games per season
    • At least 126 men's basketball games per season
      • Second round and quarter-final games of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament
    • At least 40 women's basketball games per season
      • Coverage of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament (outside of the first round and championship game)
    • Coverage of Olympic sports events

Sports

The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 men's and 14 women's NCAA sanctioned sports.[73]

Teams in Big Ten Conference competition
Sport Men's Women's
Baseball 13 —
Basketball 14 14
Cross country 12 14
Field hockey — 9
Football 14 —
Golf 14 14
Gymnastics 5 10
Ice hockey 7 —
Lacrosse 6 7
Rowing — 8
Soccer 9 14
Softball — 14
Swimming & diving 10 13
Tennis 12 14
Track and field (indoor) 12 13
Track and field (outdoor) 13 13
Volleyball — 14
Wrestling 14 —

Men's sponsored sports by school

School Baseball Basketball Cross Country Football Golf Gymnastics Ice hockey Lacrosse Soccer Swimming Diving Tennis Track & Field (Indoor) Track & Field (Outdoor) Wrestling Total
Illinois Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes 10
Indiana Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
Iowa Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes Yes Yes 8
Maryland Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes 8
Michigan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 14
Michigan State Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
Minnesota Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes 9
Nebraska Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes 10
Northwestern Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes 8
Ohio State Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 14
Penn State Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 14
Purdue Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 10
Rutgers Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes 10
Wisconsin No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
Totals 13 14 12 14 14 5 6+1* 5+1° 9 8 10 11 13 14 148+2
Affiliate Members
Johns Hopkins Yes 1
Notre Dame Yes 1
Future members
Oregon Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Yes No 8
UCLA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No 9
USC Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No 8
Washington Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No 9

Notes:

    * Notre Dame joined the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in men's ice hockey.[74] It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent.

    ° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in men's lacrosse, with women's lacrosse following in 2016. It continues to field its other sports in the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference.[75]

    Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Big Ten Conference that are played by Big Ten schools
    School Fencing[lower-alpha 1] Lightweight Rowing[lower-alpha 2] Pistol[lower-alpha 3] Rifle[lower-alpha 4] Rowing[lower-alpha 2] Volleyball Water Polo
    Ohio State Independent No Independent PRC No MIVA No
    Penn State Independent No No No No EIVA No
    Rutgers No EARC No No EARC No No
    Wisconsin No No No No EARC No No
    Future Members
    UCLA No No No No No MPSF MPSF
    USC No No No No No MPSF MPSF
    Washington No No No No TBC No No
    1. ↑ Fencing is officially a coeducational team sport, although a few schools field only a women's team. Ohio State and Penn State, like most NCAA fencing schools, have coed teams.
    2. 1 2 Men's rowing, whether heavyweight or lightweight, is not governed by the NCAA, but instead by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Rutgers Men's Rowing was downgraded to Club status in 2008, but remains a member of the EARC.
    3. ↑ Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. It is fully coeducational.
    4. ↑ Rifle is technically a men's sport, but men's, women's, and coed teams all compete against each other. Ohio State fields a coed team.

    Women's sponsored sports by school

    School Basketball Cross Country Field Hockey Golf Gymnastics Lacrosse Rowing Soccer Softball Swimming & Diving Tennis Track & Field (Indoor) Track & Field (Outdoor) Volleyball Total
    Illinois Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
    Indiana Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 12
    Iowa Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 13
    Maryland Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes 12
    Michigan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 14
    Michigan State Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes 12
    Minnesota Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 12
    Nebraska Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
    Northwestern Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes 10
    Ohio State Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 14
    Penn State Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 13
    Purdue Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
    Rutgers Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 14
    Wisconsin Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
    Totals 14 14 9 14 10 6+1[c 1] 8 14 14 12 14 13 13 14 172+1
    Affiliate Members
    Johns Hopkins Yes 1
    Future Members
    Oregon Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes 10
    UCLA Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 12
    USC Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
    Washington Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes 11
    Notes

      Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Big Ten Conference that are played by Big Ten schools

      School Acrobatics & Tumbling[lower-alpha 1] Bowling Fencing[lower-alpha 2] Ice Hockey Lightweight Rowing[lower-alpha 3] Pistol[lower-alpha 4] Rifle[lower-alpha 5] Synchronized Swimming[lower-alpha 6] Water Polo Beach Volleyball Wrestling[lower-alpha 7]
      Indiana No No No No No No No No MPSF No No
      Iowa No No No No No No No No No No [lower-alpha 8]
      Michigan No No No No No No No No CWPA No No
      Minnesota No No No WCHA No No No No No No No
      Nebraska No Independent No No No No PRC No No Independent No
      Northwestern No No Independent No No No No No No No No
      Ohio State No No Independent WCHA No Independent PRC Independent No No No
      Penn State No No Independent CHA No No No No No No No
      Rutgers No No No No EARC No No No No No No
      Wisconsin No No No WCHA EARC No No No No No No
      Future members
      Oregon Independent No No No No No No No No MPSF No
      UCLA No No No No No No No No MPSF MPSF No
      USC No No No No No No No No MPSF MPSF No
      Washington No No No No No No No No No MPSF No
      1. ↑ Part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program. NCAA-recognized competition is governed by the National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association.
      2. ↑ Fencing is officially a coeducational team sport, but all bouts involve members of the same sex. Most NCAA fencing schools field both men's and women's squads, although a few schools field only a women's squad. Ohio State and Penn State have both men's and women's squads, while Northwestern fields only a women's squad.
      3. ↑ The only category of rowing that the NCAA governs is women's heavyweight rowing. Women's lightweight rowing, as with all men's rowing, is governed by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association.
      4. ↑ Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. It is fully coeducational.
      5. ↑ Rifle is technically a men's sport, but men's, women's, and coed teams all compete against each other. Nebraska fields a women-only team, and Ohio State fields a coed team.
      6. ↑ Synchronized swimming is not governed by the NCAA. Collegiate competition is governed by United States Synchronized Swimming, the sport's national governing body.
      7. ↑ Women's wrestling is part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program. NCAA-recognized competition is governed by the National Wrestling Coaches Association.
      8. ↑ Iowa will add women's wrestling in the 2023–24 school year.[76]

      Rivalries

      Intra-conference football rivalries

      The members of the Big Ten have longstanding rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. Each school, except Maryland and Rutgers, has at least one traveling trophy at stake. The following is a list of active rivalries in the Big Ten Conference with totals & records through the completion of the 2022 season.

      Teams Rivalry name Trophy Meetings Record Series leader Current streak
      Illinois Michigan Illinois–Michigan football series None 97 72–23–2 Michigan Michigan won 3
      Northwestern Illinois–Northwestern football rivalry Land of Lincoln Trophy 116 57-54-5 Illinois Illinois won 2
      Ohio State Illinois-Ohio State football rivalry Illibuck Trophy 103 68-30-4 Ohio State Ohio State won 8
      Purdue Illinois–Purdue football rivalry Purdue Cannon 98 47-45-6 Purdue Purdue won 3
      Indiana Michigan State Indiana–Michigan State football rivalry Old Brass Spittoon 69 50-17-2 Michigan State Indiana won 1
      Purdue Indiana-Purdue football rivalry Old Oaken Bucket 124 76-42-6 Purdue Purdue won 2
      Iowa Minnesota Iowa–Minnesota football rivalry Floyd of Rosedale 116 62-52-2 Minnesota Iowa won 8
      Nebraska Iowa–Nebraska football rivalry Heroes Trophy 53 30-20-3 Nebraska Nebraska won 1
      Wisconsin Iowa–Wisconsin football rivalry Heartland Trophy 96 49-45-2 Wisconsin Iowa won 1
      Maryland Penn State Maryland–Penn State football rivalry None 46 42-3-1 Penn State Penn State won 2
      Michigan Illinois Illinois–Michigan football series 97 72–23–2 Michigan Michigan won 6
      Michigan State Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry Paul Bunyan Trophy 115 72-38-5 Michigan Michigan won 2
      Minnesota Michigan-Minnesota football rivalry Little Brown Jug 104 76-25-3 Michigan Michigan won 4
      Northwestern Michigan-Northwestern football rivalry George Jewett Trophy 76 59–15–2 Michigan Michigan won 7
      Ohio State The Game None 118 60-51-6 Michigan Michigan won 3
      Penn State Michigan–Penn State football rivalry 26 16-10 Michigan Michigan won 3
      Michigan State Indiana Indiana–Michigan State football rivalry Old Brass Spittoon 69 50-17-2 Michigan State Indiana won 1
      Michigan Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry Paul Bunyan Trophy 115 72-38-5 Michigan Michigan won 2
      Penn State Michigan State–Penn State football rivalry Land Grant Trophy 36 18-18-1 Tied Penn State won 1
      Minnesota Iowa Iowa–Minnesota football rivalry Floyd of Rosedale 116 62-52-2 Minnesota Iowa won 8
      Michigan Michigan-Minnesota football rivalry Little Brown Jug 104 76-25-3 Michigan Michigan won 4
      Nebraska Minnesota–Nebraska football rivalry $5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy 63 36-25-2 Minnesota Minnesota won 4
      Penn State Minnesota–Penn State football rivalry Governor's Victory Bell 16 10-6 Penn State Penn State won 1
      Wisconsin Border Battle Paul Bunyan's Axe 132 62-63-8 Wisconsin Wisconsin won 1
      Nebraska Iowa Iowa–Nebraska football rivalry Heroes Trophy 53 30-20-3 Nebraska Nebraska won 1
      Minnesota Minnesota–Nebraska football rivalry $5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy 63 36-25-2 Minnesota Minnesota won 4
      Wisconsin Nebraska–Wisconsin football rivalry Freedom Trophy 16 12-4 Wisconsin Wisconsin won 9
      Northwestern Illinois Illinois–Northwestern football rivalry Land of Lincoln Trophy 116 57-54-5 Illinois Illinois won 2
      Michigan Michigan-Northwestern football rivalry George Jewett Trophy 76 59–15–2 Michigan Michigan won 7
      Ohio State Illinois Illinois-Ohio State football rivalry Illibuck Trophy 103 68-30-4 Ohio State Ohio State won 8
      Michigan The Game None 118 60-51-6 Michigan Michigan won 2
      Penn State Ohio State–Penn State football rivalry 38 23-14 Ohio State Ohio State won 6
      Oregon Washington Oregon–Washington football rivalry 114 63-48-5 Washington Washington won 3
      Penn State Maryland Maryland–Penn State football rivalry 46 42-3-1 Penn State Penn State won 2
      Michigan Michigan–Penn State football rivalry 26 16-10 Michigan Michigan won 2
      Michigan State Michigan State–Penn State football rivalry Land Grant Trophy 36 18-18-1 Tied Penn State won 1
      Minnesota Minnesota–Penn State football rivalry Governor's Victory Bell 16 10-6 Penn State Penn State won 1
      Ohio State Ohio State–Penn State football rivalry None 38 23-14 Ohio State Ohio State won 6
      Purdue Illinois Illinois–Purdue football rivalry Purdue Cannon 98 47-45-6 Purdue Purdue won 3
      Indiana Indiana-Purdue football rivalry Old Oaken Bucket 124 76-42-6 Purdue Purdue won 2
      UCLA USC UCLA-USC football rivalry Victory Bell 92 50-33-7 USC USC won 1
      USC UCLA USC-UCLA football rivalry Victory Bell 92 50-33-7 USC USC won 1
      Washington Oregon Oregon–Washington football rivalry None 114 63-48-5 Washington Washington won 3
      Wisconsin Iowa Iowa–Wisconsin football rivalry Heartland Trophy 96 49-45-2 Wisconsin Iowa won 1
      Minnesota Border Battle Paul Bunyan's Axe 132 63-62-8 Wisconsin Wisconsin won 1
      Nebraska Nebraska–Wisconsin football rivalry Freedom Trophy 16 12-4 Wisconsin Wisconsin won 9

      Extra-conference football rivalries

      Teams Rivalry name Trophy Meetings Record Series leader Existing streak
      Illinois Missouri Arch Rivalry — 24 7–17 Missouri Illinois lost 6
      Indiana Kentucky Indiana–Kentucky rivalry — 36 18–17–1 Indiana Indiana won 1
      Iowa Iowa State Iowa–Iowa State football rivalry Cy-Hawk Trophy 69 46–23 Iowa Iowa lost 1
      Maryland Navy Maryland–Navy rivalry Crab Bowl Trophy 21 7–14 Navy Maryland won 2
      Virginia Maryland–Virginia football rivalry Tydings Trophy 78 44–32–2 Maryland Maryland won 2
      West Virginia Maryland–West Virginia football rivalry — 53 23–28–2 West Virginia Maryland won 1
      Michigan Chicago Chicago–Michigan football rivalry — 26 19–7 Michigan Michigan won 3
      Notre Dame Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry — 44 25–17–1 Michigan Michigan won 1
      Michigan State Notre Dame Michigan State–Notre Dame football rivalry Megaphone Trophy 79 29–47–1 Notre Dame Michigan State lost 1
      Nebraska Colorado Colorado–Nebraska football rivalry — 71 49–20–2 Nebraska Nebraska lost 2
      Kansas Kansas–Nebraska football rivalry — 117 91–23–3 Nebraska Nebraska won 3
      Kansas State Kansas State–Nebraska football rivalry - 95 78-15-2 Nebraska Nebraska won 6
      Miami (FL) Miami–Nebraska football rivalry — 12 6–6 Tied Nebraska lost 1
      Missouri Missouri–Nebraska football rivalry Victory Bell 104 65–36–3 Nebraska Nebraska won 2
      Oklahoma Nebraska–Oklahoma football rivalry — 88 38-47-3 Oklahoma Nebraska lost 3
      Northwestern Notre Dame Northwestern–Notre Dame football rivalry — 49 9-38-2 Notre Dame Northwestern lost 1
      Oregon Oregon State Oregon–Oregon State football rivalry Platypus Trophy 127 68-49-10 Oregon Oregon won 1
      Penn State Alabama Alabama–Penn State football rivalry — 15 5-10 Alabama Penn State lost 2
      Pittsburgh Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry — 100 53–43–4 Penn State Penn State won 3
      Syracuse Penn State–Syracuse football rivalry — 71 43–23–5 Penn State Penn State won 5
      West Virginia Penn State–West Virginia football rivalry — 59 48–9–2 Penn State Penn State won 4
      Purdue Chicago Chicago–Purdue football rivalry — 42 14–27–1 Chicago Purdue won 9
      Notre Dame Notre Dame–Purdue football rivalry Shillelagh Trophy 87 26–57–2 Notre Dame Purdue lost 6
      Rutgers Princeton Princeton–Rutgers rivalry — 71 17-53-1 Princeton Rutgers won 5
      UCLA California California-UCLA football rivalry — 93 57–34–1 UCLA UCLA won 3
      USC Notre Dame Notre Dame–USC football rivalry Jeweled Shillelagh 93 38–50–5 Notre Dame USC won 1
      Stanford Stanford–USC football rivalry — 101 63–34–3 USC USC won 1
      Washington Washington State Apple Cup Apple Cup Trophy 114 75-33-6 Washington Washington won 1

      [77]

      Protected matchups

      Beginning in 2024, the conference will eliminate divisions but will protect certain matchups. The following are the conference's 12 protected matchups.[78]

      • Illinois: Northwestern, Purdue
      • Indiana: Purdue
      • Iowa: Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin
      • Maryland: Rutgers
      • Michigan: Michigan State, Ohio State
      • Michigan State: Michigan
      • Minnesota: Iowa, Wisconsin
      • Nebraska: Iowa
      • Northwestern: Illinois
      • Ohio State: Michigan
      • Oregon: Washington
      • Purdue: Illinois, Indiana
      • Rutgers: Maryland
      • UCLA: USC
      • USC: UCLA
      • Washington: Oregon
      • Wisconsin: Minnesota, Iowa

      From 1993 through 2010, the Big Ten football schedule was set up with each team having two permanent matches within the conference, with the other eight teams in the conference rotating out of the schedule in pairs for two-year stints. Permanent matches were 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

      This system was discontinued after the 2010 season, as teams became grouped into two divisions, and would play all teams in their division once, with one protected cross-over game, and two games rotating against the other five opponents from the opposing division.

      Most of the above permanent rivalries were maintained. By virtue of the new alignment, a handful of new permanent divisional opponents were created, as all pairs of teams within the same division would face off each season. Furthermore, three new permanent inter-divisional matches resulted from the realignment: Purdue–Iowa, Michigan State–Indiana, and Penn State–Nebraska. The following past permanent matches were maintained across divisions: Minnesota–Wisconsin, Michigan–Ohio State, and Illinois–Northwestern.

      The new alignment, however, caused some of the above permanent rivalries to be discontinued. These were: Iowa–Wisconsin, Northwestern–Purdue, and Michigan State–Penn State. These matchups would continue to be played, but only twice every five years on average. More rivalries were disrupted, and some resumed on a yearly basis, when the league realigned into East and West Divisions for the 2014 season with the addition of Maryland and Rutgers. The two new schools were placed in the new East Division with Penn State, and the two Indiana schools were divided (Indiana to the East and Purdue to the West). With the move to a nine-game conference schedule in 2016, all cross-division games will be held at least once in a four-year cycle except for Indiana–Purdue, which is the only protected cross-division game.[33] The conference later announced that once the new scheduling format takes effect in 2016, members will be prohibited from playing FCS teams, and required to play at least one non-conference game against a team in the Power Five conferences (ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC; presumably, this would also allow for non-conference games against Big Ten opponents that are not on the conference schedule). Games against independents Notre Dame (an ACC member in non-football sports) also count toward the Power Five requirement, as did games against BYU before it joined the Big 12 in 2023.[79]

      Intra-conference basketball rivalries

      Extra-conference basketball rivalries

      * Indicates team not yet member of conference.

      Other sports

      Men's ice hockey

      Men's lacrosse

      Men's soccer

      Wrestling

      • Penn State–Lehigh
      • Iowa-Penn State
      • Iowa–Iowa State
      • Iowa–Oklahoma State
      • Rutgers–Princeton

      Extra-conference rivalries

      Four Big Ten teams—Purdue, Northwestern, Michigan State and Michigan—had rivalries in football with Notre Dame. After the University of Southern California with 35 wins (including a vacated 2005 win), the Michigan State Spartans have the most wins against the Irish, with 28. The Purdue Boilermakers follow with 26, and Michigan ranks fourth all-time with 24. Northwestern and Notre Dame had a yearly contest, with the winner taking home a shillelagh, much like the winner of the USC–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.[80]

      Penn State has a longstanding rivalry with Pittsburgh of the ACC, but the two schools did not meet from 2000 until renewing the rivalry with an alternating home-and-home series from 2016 to 2019. Penn State also has long histories with independent Notre Dame; Temple of The American; Syracuse, and Boston College of the ACC; and West Virginia, of the Big 12 Conference. Additionally, Penn State maintains strong intrastate rivalries with Patriot League universities Bucknell in men's basketball and men's lacrosse, and Lehigh 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 of the Big 12, with the winner getting the Cy-Hawk Trophy in football. Iowa and Iowa State also compete annually in the Cy-Hawk Series sponsored by Hy-Vee (as of 2011 this series is now sponsored by The Iowa Corngrowers Association), the competition includes all head-to-head regular season competitions in all sports. Iowa also holds rivalries in basketball with the state's other two Division I programs, Drake and Northern Iowa.

      Indiana has an out-of-conference rivalry with Kentucky of the SEC (see Indiana–Kentucky rivalry). While the two schools played in football for many years, the rivalry was rooted in their decades of national success in men's basketball. The two no longer play one another in football, but their basketball rivalry continued until a dispute about game sites ended the series after 2011. In the last season of the rivalry (2011–12), the teams played twice. During the regular season, then-unranked Indiana defeated then-#1 ranked Kentucky 73–72 at Assembly Hall. The Wildcats avenged the loss in the NCAA tournament, defeating Indiana 102–90 in the South Regional final in Atlanta on their way to a national title. The teams next played in the 2016 NCAA tournament, with Indiana winning.

      Illinois has a longstanding basketball rivalry with the SEC's Missouri Tigers, with the two men's teams squaring off annually in the "Braggin' Rights" game. It has been held in St. Louis since 1980, first at the St. Louis Arena and since 1994 at the Enterprise Center. This rivalry has been carried over into football as "The Arch Rivalry" with games played at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis in 2002 and 2003 and four games in 2007 through 2010.

      Wisconsin has a long-standing in-state basketball rivalry with Marquette. The series has intensified as of late with both teams having made the Final Four in recent years. The schools also played an annual football game before Marquette abandoned its football program in 1961. The school also has minor rivalries in basketball with the two other Division I members of the University of Wisconsin System, which include the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.

      Similarly, Nebraska has an in-state rivalry with another Big East school in Creighton, mostly in basketball and baseball.

      Minnesota men's ice hockey has a prolific and fierce border rivalry with the University of North Dakota. The two teams played annually between 1948 and 2013 as members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association prior to the inception of the Big Ten Conference. The rivalry resumed in 2016 in non-conference action.

      Maryland has many rivalries outside of the conference, most notably Duke, Virginia, West Virginia, and Navy. Maryland left the Duke and Virginia rivalries behind in the ACC when it joined the Big Ten.

      In the early days of the Big Ten, the Chicago-Michigan game was played on Thanksgiving, usually with conference championship implications. It was considered one of the first major rivalries of the conference.

      Facilities

      Three Big Ten football stadiums seat over 100,000 spectators: Michigan Stadium (Michigan), Beaver Stadium (Penn State), and Ohio Stadium (Ohio State). Only five other college football stadiums have a capacity over 100,000 (four in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and one in the Big 12 Conference).[81] Michigan Stadium and Beaver Stadium, respectively, are the two largest American football stadiums by capacity in the United States,[81][82] and all three of the Big Ten's largest venues rank among the ten largest sports stadiums in the world. UCLA plays in the Rose Bowl as its home stadium, which is the location of the Rose Bowl Game for the Big Ten champion.

      Big Ten schools also play in two of the 10 largest on-campus basketball arenas in the country: Ohio State's Value City Arena and Maryland's Xfinity Center. Additionally, arenas at Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Penn State rank among the 20 largest on-campus basketball facilities in the United States. The Big Ten Conference has the most on-campus basketball arenas with seating capacities of 15,000 or more of any NCAA conference, with seven. (Of the other conferences considered "power conferences" in men's basketball, the ACC has two such arenas, the Big East none, the Big 12 three, the Pac-12 one, and the SEC five. Outside of these conferences, the Mountain West Conference has four such arenas.)

      Football, basketball, baseball, and soccer facilities

        Members joining in 2024.

      School Football stadium Capacity Opened Basketball arena Capacity Opened Baseball stadium Capacity Opened Soccer stadium Capacity Opened
      Illinois Memorial Stadium 60,670 1923 State Farm Center 15,544 1963 Illinois Field 3,000 1988 Demirjian Park
      Indiana Memorial Stadium 52,626 1960 Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall 17,222 1971 Bart Kaufman Field 2,500 2013 Bill Armstrong Stadium 6,500 1981
      Iowa Kinnick Stadium 70,585 1929 Carver–Hawkeye Arena 15,056 1983 Duane Banks Field 3,000 1974 Iowa Soccer Complex
      Maryland SECU Stadium 51,802 1950 Xfinity Center 17,950 2002 Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium 2,500 1965 Ludwig Field 7,000 1995
      Michigan Michigan Stadium 107,601 1927 Crisler Center 12,707 1967 Ray Fisher Stadium 4,000 1923 U-M Soccer Stadium 2,200 2010
      Michigan State Spartan Stadium 75,005 1923 Breslin Student Events Center 14,797 1989 McLane Stadium at Kona Field
      Jackson Field
      4,000
      13,527
      1902
      1996      		 DeMartin Soccer Complex 2,500 2008
      Minnesota Huntington Bank Stadium 52,525 2009 Williams Arena 14,625 1928 U.S. Bank Stadium
      Siebert Field      		 N/A
      1,420      		 2016
      2013      		 Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium 1,000 1999
      Nebraska Memorial Stadium 87,000 1923 Pinnacle Bank Arena 15,500 2013 Haymarket Park 8,500 2001 Barbara Hibner Soccer Stadium 2,500 2015
      Northwestern Ryan Field 47,330 1926 Welsh–Ryan Arena 7,039 1952 Rocky Miller Park 600 1944 Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium 3,000 2016
      Ohio State Ohio Stadium 104,944 1922 Value City Arena 19,500 1998 Bill Davis Stadium 4,450 1997 Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium 10,000 2001
      Oregon Autzen Stadium 54,000 1967 Matthew Knight Arena 12,364 2011 PK Park 4,000 2009 Papé Field 1,000 2012
      Penn State Beaver Stadium 106,572 1960 Bryce Jordan Center 15,261 1996 Medlar Field 5,570 2006 Jeffrey Field 5,000 1966
      Purdue Ross–Ade Stadium 65,000 1924 Mackey Arena 14,876 1967 Alexander Field 1,500 2013 Folk Field
      Rutgers SHI Stadium 52,454 1994 Jersey Mike's Arena 8,000 1977 Bainton Field 1,250 2007 Yurcak Field 5,000 1994
      UCLA Rose Bowl 92,542 1922 Pauley Pavilion 13,800 1965 Jackie Robinson Stadium 1,820 1981 Wallis Annenberg Stadium 2,145 2018
      USC Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 77,500 1923 Galen Center 10,258 2006 Dedeaux Field 2,500 1974 Soni McAlister Field 1,000 1998
      Washington Husky Stadium 70,083 1920 Hec Edmundson Pavilion 10,000 1927 Husky Ballpark 2,200 1998 Husky Soccer Stadium 2,200 1997
      Wisconsin Camp Randall Stadium 80,321 1917 Kohl Center 17,287 1998 Non-baseball school McClimon Soccer Complex 1,611 1959

        Ice hockey arenas

        School Men's arena Capacity Women's arena Capacity
        Michigan Yost Ice Arena 5,800 No varsity team
        Michigan State Munn Ice Arena 6,470 No varsity team
        Minnesota 3M Arena at Mariucci 10,000 Ridder Arena 3,400
        Notre Dame Compton Family Ice Arena 5,022 No varsity team
        Ohio State Value City Arena 17,500 OSU Ice Rink 1,415
        Penn State Pegula Ice Arena 5,782 Pegula Ice Arena 5,782
        Wisconsin Kohl Center 15,359 LaBahn Arena 2,273

        Apparel

          Members joining in 2024.

        School Provider
        Illinois Nike
        Indiana Adidas
        Iowa Nike
        Maryland Under Armour
        Michigan Air Jordan (Nike)
        Michigan State Nike
        Minnesota Nike
        Nebraska Adidas
        Northwestern Under Armour
        Ohio State Nike
        Oregon Nike
        Penn State Nike
        Purdue Nike
        Rutgers Adidas
        UCLA Air Jordan (Nike)
        USC Nike
        Washington Adidas
        Wisconsin Under Armour

        Football

        When Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big Ten in 2014, the division names were changed to "East" and "West", with Purdue and the six schools in the Central Time Zone in the West and Indiana joining the remaining six Eastern Time Zone schools in the East. The only protected cross-division game is Indiana–Purdue. Beginning in 2016, the Big Ten adopted a nine-game conference schedule.[34][83] All teams have one cross-division opponent they play annually that changes every six years except for Indiana and Purdue, whose crossover is permanent. The other six opponents are played every three years during that cycle. For 2016–2021, the pairings are Maryland-Minnesota, Michigan-Wisconsin, Michigan State-Northwestern, Ohio State-Nebraska, Penn State-Iowa, and Rutgers-Illinois, and for 2022–2023 the pairings are Maryland-Northwestern, Michigan-Nebraska, Michigan State-Minnesota, Ohio State-Wisconsin, Penn State-Illinois, and Rutgers-Iowa.[84] In 2016, the Big Ten no longer allowed its members to play Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams and also requires at least one non-conference game against a school in the Power Five conferences (ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC). Contracts for future games already scheduled against FCS teams would be honored. However, in 2017, the Big Ten started to allow teams to schedule an FCS opponent during years in which they only have four conference home games (odd-numbered years for East division teams, even-numbered years for West division teams).[85] At the time this policy was first announced, games against FBS independents Notre Dame and BYU would count toward the Power Five requirement.[79] ESPN, citing a Big Ten executive, reported in 2015 that the Big Ten would allow exceptions to the Power Five rule on a case-by-case basis, and also that the other FBS independent at that time, Army, had been added to the list of non-Power Five schools that would be counted as Power Five opponents.[86]

        When the Big Ten expands to 18 teams in 2024 with the arrival of Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington, the football divisions will be eliminated. A schedule of nine conference games and three non-conference games will be maintained. At the end of the season, the top two teams in the conference standings will play each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game. For at least 2024 and 2025, the conference was to adopt what it called the "Flex Protect Plus" model, which called for each conference member to play all the others at home and away at least once during a four-year cycle. Initially, the 11 "protected" matchups were to be played each season. The announcement was made before Oregon and Washington were announced as incoming members.[87][88] After the expansion to 18 teams was announced, the scheduling model was tweaked into the "Flex Protect XVIII" model, which will maintain the original 11 protected rivalries while adding Oregon–Washington. This model is planned to operate from 2024–2028.[89]

        All-time school records

        This list goes through January 9, 2024.

          Members joining in 2024.

        Future conference members in gray.

        # Team Won Loss Tied Pct. Division
        Championships        		 Big Ten
        Championships        		 Claimed National
        Championships
        1 Michigan 1004 353 36 .734 4 45 12
        2 Ohio State 964 333 53 .734 10 39† 8
        3 USC†† 875 368 54 .695 0 0 11
        4 Penn State 930 409 41 .689 2 4 2
        5 Nebraska†† 917 424 40 .678 1 0 5
        6 Washington†† 775 465 50 .620 0 0 2
        7 Michigan State 730 487 44 .596 3 9 6
        8 Wisconsin 742 518 53 .585 5 14 1
        9 UCLA†† 637 446 37 .585 0 0 1
        10 Oregon†† 705 511 46 .577 0 0 0
        11 Minnesota 733 543 44 .572 1 18 7
        12 Iowa 693 576 39 .545 2 11 5
        13 Maryland†† 677 624 43 .520 0 0 1
        14 Purdue 641 597 48 .517 1 8 0
        15 Illinois 632 625 50 .503 0 15 5
        16 Rutgers†† 671 695 42 .491 0 0 1
        17 Northwestern 566 702 44 .448 2 8 0
        18 Indiana 507 713 44 .419 0 2 0

        † Ohio State vacated 12 wins and its Big Ten title in 2010 due to NCAA sanctions.

        †† Numbers of division and conference championships shown reflect Big Ten history only and do not include division and conference championships in former conferences. Washington, Oregon, USC and UCLA join the Big Ten in 2024, Maryland and Rutgers joined in 2014, and Nebraska joined in 2011.

        Number of Claimed National Championships, as well as win–loss–tie records, include all seasons played, regardless of conference membership.

        Big Ten Conference champions

        Bowl games

        Since 1946, the Big Ten champion has had a tie-in with the Rose Bowl game. Michigan appeared in the first bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl. After that, the Big Ten did not allow their schools to participate in bowl games, until the agreement struck with the Pacific Coast Conference for the 1947 Rose Bowl. 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 after playing in the 1961 Rose Bowl due to Ohio State declining the bid because of Ohio State faculty concerns about academics.

        It was not until the 1975 season that the Big Ten allowed teams to play in bowl games other than the Rose Bowl. Michigan, which had been shut out of the postseason the previous three years, was the first beneficiary of the new rule when it played in the Orange Bowl vs. Oklahoma. Due to the pre-1975 rules, Big Ten teams such as Michigan and Ohio State have lower numbers of all-time bowl appearances than powerhouse teams from the Big 12 Conference (previously Big Eight and Southwest Conferences) and Southeastern Conference, which always placed multiple teams in bowl games every year.

        Since the 2020–21 season, a new slate of bowl game selections has included several new bowl games.[90]

        Pick Name Location Opposing
        Conference
        1 Rose Bowl* Pasadena, California Pac-12
        2 Citrus Bowl or Orange Bowl^ Orlando, Florida or Miami Gardens, Florida SEC or ACC
        3 ReliaQuest Bowl[91] Tampa, Florida SEC
        4 Las Vegas Bowl or Duke's Mayo Bowl† Paradise, Nevada or Charlotte, North Carolina Pac-12 or ACC
        5 Music City Bowl[91] Nashville, Tennessee SEC
        6 Pinstripe Bowl[91] New York City ACC
        7 Guaranteed Rate Bowl[91] Phoenix, Arizona Big 12
        8 San Francisco Bowl[91] Santa Clara, California Pac-12
        9 Quick Lane Bowl[91] Detroit, Michigan MAC

        * If the conference champion is picked for the College Football Playoff in years the Rose Bowl does not host a semifinal, the next highest-ranked team in the committee rankings, or runner-up, shall take its place at the Rose Bowl.

        ^ The Big Ten, along with the SEC, will be eligible to face the ACC representative in the Orange Bowl at least three out of the eight seasons that it does not host a semifinal for the Playoff over a 12-year span. Notre Dame will be chosen the other two years if eligible.

        † The Big Ten will switch between the Las Vegas Bowl and Duke's Mayo Bowl on odd-numbered and even-numbered years, respectively.

        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 win–loss records; many factors influence bowl selections, especially the likely turnout of the team's fans. Picks are made after CFP selections; the bowl with the #2 pick will have the first pick of the remaining teams in the conference.

        For all non-College Football Playoff partners, the bowl partner will request a Big Ten team. The Big Ten will approve or assign another team based on internal selection parameters.

        When not hosting a semifinal, the Orange Bowl will select the highest-ranked team from the Big Ten, SEC or Notre Dame to face an ACC opponent. (However, in an 8-game cycle [12 years due to not counting when the Orange Bowl is a semifinal], the Big Ten must be selected at least three times and no more than four times; the SEC similarly will be selected between three and four times while Notre Dame may be selected up to two times.)[92] The Big Ten Champion cannot play in the Orange Bowl. If a Big Ten team is not selected by the Orange Bowl, the Citrus Bowl will submit a request for a Big Ten team.

        Head coach compensation

        Guaranteed compensation is due to the coaches regardless of performance. Though most of the pay is directed from the university, some also comes in the form of guaranteed endorsements and other income streams. Most coaches also have performance-based bonuses that can significantly raise their salaries.[93]

        Two Big Ten member schools—Northwestern, a private institution, and Penn State, exempt from most open records laws due to its status as what Pennsylvania calls a "state-related" institution—are not obligated to provide salary information for their head coaches. Both typically choose to provide this information, although Northwestern has not announced the salary of its current interim coach.

        Conf. Rank Institution Head coach 2023 guaranteed pay
        1 Ohio State University Ryan Day $9,960,000
        2 Michigan State University Mel Tucker $9,500,000
        3 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Matt Rhule $7,800,000
        T-4 University of Wisconsin–Madison Luke Fickell $7,500,000
        T-4 Pennsylvania State University James Franklin $7,500,000
        6 University of Michigan Jim Harbaugh $7,050,000
        7 University of Iowa Kirk Ferentz $7,000,000
        8 University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Bret Bielema $6,000,000
        9 Northwestern University David Braun (interim) TBD
        10 University of Minnesota P. J. Fleck $5,100,000
        11 Indiana University Bloomington Tom Allen $4,700,000
        12 Purdue University Ryan Walters $4,100,000
        T-13 Rutgers University–New Brunswick Greg Schiano $4,000,000
        T-13 University of Maryland, College Park Mike Locksley $4,000,000

        Marching bands

        All Big Ten member schools have marching bands which perform regularly during the football season. Ten of the member schools, as well as future member UCLA, have won the Sudler Trophy,[94] generally considered the most prestigious honor a collegiate marching band can receive.[95] The first three Sudler trophies were awarded to Big Ten marching bands—Michigan (1982), Illinois (1983) and Ohio State (1984).[94] The Big Ten has more Sudler Trophy recipients than any other collegiate athletic conference.[94]

        Conference individual honors

        Coaches and media of the Big Ten Conference award individual honors at the end of each football season.

        Men's basketball

        The Big Ten has participated in basketball since 1904, and has led the nation in attendance every season since 1978.[96] It has been a national powerhouse in men's basketball, having multiple championship winners and often sending four or more teams to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Previous NCAA champions include Indiana with five titles, Michigan State with two, and Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio State with one each. Maryland, which joined the Big Ten in 2014, won one NCAA championship as a member of the ACC.[97][98] 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 MVPs 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. Since 1974, 13 Big Ten teams have played in the championship game, winning nine championships. Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and Minnesota have won two NIT championships, while Indiana and Purdue have won one each. Two other members, Maryland and Nebraska, won NIT titles before they joined the Big Ten. In addition, in 1943 the defunct Helms Athletic Foundation retrospectively awarded national titles to Northwestern for 1931 and Purdue for 1932; then in 1957, it selected Illinois for 1915, Minnesota for 1902 and 1919, and Wisconsin for 1912, 1914 and 1916.[99] Former member Chicago won a post-season national championship series in 1908.

        Conference Challenges

        From 1999 to 2022, the Big Ten took part in the ACC–Big Ten Challenge with the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC held a 13–8–3 record against the Big Ten; Minnesota, Nebraska, Penn State, Purdue, and Wisconsin are the only Big Ten schools without losing records in the challenge.

        From 2015 to 2023, the Big Ten took part in the Gavitt Tipoff Games with the Big East Conference. The Big Ten did well in the challenge, holding a 3-1-4 record against the Big East, only losing the challenge in 2021.

        All-time school records

        This list is updated through March 1, 2022 and is listed by win percentage in NCAA Division I men's college basketball.

          Members joining in 2024.

        # Big Ten Overall
        record        		 Pct. Big Ten
        Tournament
        Championships        		 Big Ten
        Regular Season
        Championships        		 NCAA National
        Championships        		 Claimed
        Pre-Tournament
        Championships
        1 UCLA 1968–888 .689 0 0 11 0
        2 Purdue 1855–1045 .640 2 25 0 1
        3 Illinois 1833–1031 .640 3 17 0 1
        4 Indiana 1865–1080 .635 0 22 5 0
        5 Ohio State 1810–1138 .614 4† 20† 1 0
        6 Michigan State 1754–1114 .612 6 16 2 0
        7 Michigan 1659–1060 .610 2† 15 1 0
        8 Maryland 1604–1056 .603 0 1 1 0
        9 Washington 1812–1203 .601 0 0 0 0
        10 Iowa 1695–1193–1 .587 2 8 0 0
        11 USC 1701–1241 .578 0 0 0 0
        12 Minnesota 1677–1248–2 .573 0 8† 0 3†
        13 Wisconsin 1653–1237 .572 3 20 1 3
        14 Penn State 1508–1211–1 .555 0 0 0 0
        15 Oregon 1753–1408 .554 0 0 1 0
        16 Nebraska 1529–1410 .520 0 0 0 0
        17 Rutgers 1276–1235 .508 0 0 0 0
        18 Northwestern 1105–1557–1 .415 0 2 0 1

        † Minnesota vacated its 1997 Big Ten Conference regular season title, Michigan vacated its 1998 Big Ten tournament title, and Ohio State vacated its 2002 Big Ten tournament, as well as 2000 and 2002 regular season titles, due to NCAA sanctions. Minnesota was the champion for both the Premo-Porretta Power Poll and the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1902, but was only the Premo-Porretta champion in 1903 and only the Helms champion in 1919.

        National championships, Final Fours, and NCAA tournament appearances

        Big Ten Conference basketball programs have combined to win 10 NCAA men's basketball championships as Big Ten members, with another current member having won a national championship before joining the conference. Indiana has won five, Michigan State has won two, while Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin have won one national championship each as Big Ten members. Maryland won one national championship while a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Two future members have won at least one national championship—UCLA has won 11 championships, matching the total of all existing Big Ten members, and Oregon won the first NCAA tournament in 1939. Eleven teams have advanced to the Final Four at least once in their history, as have all four future members. Nine Big Ten schools (Indiana, Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio State, Maryland, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin) plus future member UCLA are among the national top 50 in all-time NCAA tournament appearances.

          Members joining in 2024.

        School Men's NCAA Championships Men's NCAA
        Final Fours        		 Men's NCAA
        Elite Eights        		 Men's NCAA
        Sweet Sixteens        		 Men's NCAA tournament appearances
        Illinois 5
        (1949, 1951, 1952, 1989, 2005)        		 9
        (1942, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1984, 1989, 2001, 2005)        		 11
        (1951, 1952, 1963, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1989, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005)        		 33
        (1942, 1949, 1951–52, 1963, 1981, 1983–90, 1993–95, 1997, 1998, 2000–07, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2021, 2022, 2023)
        Indiana 5
        (1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987)        		 8
        (1940, 1953, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 2002)        		 11
        (1940, 1953, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1993, 2002)        		 22
        (1953, 1954, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991–94, 2002, 2012, 2013, 2016)        		 41
        (1940, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980–84, 1986–2003, 2006–08, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023)
        Iowa 3
        (1955, 1956, 1980)        		 4
        (1955, 1956, 1980, 1987)        		 8
        (1955, 1956, 1970, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1999)        		 29
        (1955, 1956, 1970, 1979–83, 1985–89, 1991–93, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2014–16, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
        Maryland 1
        (2002)        		 2
        (2001, 2002)        		 4
        (1973, 1975, 2001, 2002)        		 14
        (1958, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001–03, 2016)        		 29
        (1958, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1983–86, 1994–2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015–17, 2019, 2021, 2023)
        Michigan 1
        (1989)        		 6
        (1964, 1965, 1976, 1989, 2013, 2018)        		 14
        (1948, 1964–66, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021)        		 17
        (1964–66, 1974, 1976–77, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2013, 2014, 2017–19, 2021, 2022)        		 28
        (1948, 1964–66, 1974–77, 1985–90, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2009, 2011–14, 2016–19, 2021, 2022)
        Michigan State 2
        (1979, 2000)        		 10
        (1957, 1979, 1999–01, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2019)        		 14
        (1957, 1959, 1978, 1979, 1999–01, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2019)        		 21
        (1957, 1959, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1990, 1998–2001, 2003, 2005, 2008–10, 2012–15, 2019, 2023)        		 36
        (1957, 1959, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1990–92, 1994, 1995, 1998–2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
        Minnesota 1
        (1990)        		 3
        (1982, 1989, 1990)        		 10
        (1982, 1989, 1990, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2019)
        Nebraska 7
        (1986, 1991–94, 1998, 2014)
        Northwestern 2
        (2017, 2023)
        Ohio State 1
        (1960)        		 10
        (1939, 1944–46, 1960–62, 1968, 2007, 2012)        		 14
        (1939, 1944–46, 1950, 1960–62, 1968, 1971, 1992, 2007, 2012, 2013)        		 14
        (1960–62, 1968, 1971, 1980, 1983, 1991, 1992, 2007, 2010–13)        		 31
        (1939, 1944–46, 1950, 1960–62, 1968, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990–92, 2006, 2007, 2009–15, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
        Oregon 1
        (1939)        		 2
        (1939, 2017)        		 7
        (1939, 1945, 1960, 2002, 2007, 2016, 2017)        		 8
        (1960, 2002, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021)        		 17
        (1939, 1945, 1960, 1961, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021)
        Penn State 1
        (1954)        		 2
        (1942, 1954)        		 4
        (1952, 1954, 1955, 2001)        		 10
        (1942, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1965, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2011, 2023)
        Purdue 2
        (1969, 1980)        		 5
        (1969, 1980, 1994, 2000, 2019)        		 13
        (1969, 1980, 1988, 1994, 1998–2000, 2009, 2010, 2017–19, 2022)        		 33
        (1969, 1977, 1980, 1983–88, 1990, 1991, 1993–95, 1997–2000, 2003, 2007–12, 2015–19, 2021, 2022, 2023)
        Rutgers 1
        (1976)        		 1
        (1976)        		 2
        (1976, 1979)        		 8
        (1975, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1989, 1991, 2021, 2022)
        UCLA 11
        (1964–1965, 1967–1973, 1975, 1995)        		 19
        (1962, 1964–1965, 1967–1976, 1976, 1980*, 1995, 2006–2008, 2021)        		 23
        (1950, 1962, 1964–1965, 1967–1976, 1979–1980*, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2006–2008, 2021)        		 36
        (1952, 1956, 1962–1965, 1967–1980*, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997–1998, 2000–2002, 2006–2008, 2014–2015, 2017, 2021–2022)        		 46
        (1950, 1952, 1956, 1962–1965, 1967–1981, 1983, 1987, 1989–2002, 2005–2009, 2011, 2013–2015 , 2017–2018, 2021–2022, 2023)
        USC 2
        (1940, 1954)        		 4
        (1940, 1954, 2001, 2021)        		 5
        (1954, 1961, 2001, 2007*, 2021)        		 21
        (1940, 1954, 1960–1961, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1991–1992, 1997, 2001–2002, 2007*–2009, 2011, 2016–2017, 2021–2022, 2023)
        Washington 1
        (1953)        		 4
        (1943, 1948, 1951, 1953)        		 6
        (1951, 1953, 1984, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2010)        		 17
        (1943, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019)
        Wisconsin 1
        (1941)        		 4
        (1941, 2000, 2014, 2015)        		 6
        (1941, 1947, 2000, 2005, 2014, 2015)        		 10
        (2000, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014–17)        		 26
        (1941, 1947, 1994, 1997, 1999–2017, 2019, 2021, 2022)

        Seasons are listed by the calendar years in which they ended. Italics indicate honors earned before the school competed in the Big Ten.

        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 Oregon 46 Ohio State 33 Patten Gymnasium Evanston, Illinois
        1940 Indiana 60 Kansas 42 Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri
        1941 Wisconsin 39 Washington State 34 Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri (2)
        1953 Indiana (2) 69 Kansas 68 Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri (4)
        1956 San Francisco (2) 83 Iowa 71 McGaw Hall Evanston, Illinois (2)
        1960 Ohio State 75 California 55 Cow Palace Daly City, California
        1961† Cincinnati 70 Ohio State 65 Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri (8)
        1962 Cincinnati (2) 71 Ohio State 59 Freedom Hall Louisville, Kentucky (3)
        1965 UCLA (2) 91 Michigan 80 Memorial Coliseum Portland, Oregon
        1969 UCLA (5) 92 Purdue 72 Freedom Hall Louisville, Kentucky (6)
        1976 Indiana (3) 86 Michigan 68 The Spectrum Philadelphia
        1979 Michigan State 75 Indiana State 64 Special Events Center Salt Lake City
        1981 Indiana (4) 63 North Carolina 50 Spectrum Philadelphia (2)
        1987 Indiana (5) 74 Syracuse 73 Louisiana Superdome New Orleans (2)
        1989† Michigan 80 Seton Hall 79 Kingdome Seattle (4)
        1992 Duke (2) 71 Michigan[a 1] 51 Metrodome Minneapolis
        1993 North Carolina (3) 77 Michigan[a 1] 71 Louisiana Superdome New Orleans (3)
        2000 Michigan State (2) 89 Florida 76 RCA Dome Indianapolis (4)
        2002 Maryland 64 Indiana 52 Georgia Dome Atlanta (2)
        2005 North Carolina (4) 75 Illinois 70 Edward Jones Dome St. Louis (3)
        2007 Florida (2) 84 Ohio State 75 Georgia Dome Atlanta (3)
        2009 North Carolina (5) 89 Michigan State 72 Ford Field Detroit
        2013 Louisville[a 2] 82 Michigan 76 Georgia Dome Atlanta (4)
        2015 Duke (5) 68 Wisconsin 63 Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis (7)
        2018 Villanova (3) 79 Michigan 62 Alamodome San Antonio (4)
        1. 1 2 Participation vacated due to major NCAA violations.
        2. ↑ Participation and title vacated due to major NCAA violations.

        Post-season NIT championships and runners-up

        Year Champion Runner-up MVP Venue and city
        1972 Maryland 100 Niagara 69 Tom McMillen, Maryland Madison Square Garden New York City
        1974 Purdue 87 Utah 81 Mike Sojourner, Utah Madison Square Garden New York City
        1979 Indiana 53 Purdue 52 Butch Carter and Ray Tolbert, Indiana Madison Square Garden New York City
        1980 Virginia 58 Minnesota 55 Ralph Sampson, Virginia Madison Square Garden New York City
        1982 Bradley 68 Purdue 61 Mitchell Anderson, Bradley Madison Square Garden New York City
        1984 Michigan 83 Notre Dame 63 Tim McCormick, Michigan Madison Square Garden New York City
        1985 UCLA 65 Indiana 62 Reggie Miller, UCLA Madison Square Garden New York City
        1986 Ohio State 73 Wyoming 63 Brad Sellers, Ohio State Madison Square Garden New York City
        1988 Connecticut 72 Ohio State 67 Phil Gamble, UConn Madison Square Garden New York City
        1993 Minnesota 62 Georgetown 61 Voshon Lenard, Minnesota Madison Square Garden New York City
        1996 Nebraska 60 Saint Joseph's 56 Erick Strickland, Nebraska Madison Square Garden New York City
        1997 Michigan[b 1] 82 Florida State 73 Robert Traylor, Michigan Madison Square Garden New York City
        1998 Minnesota[b 2] 79 Penn State 72 Kevin Clark, Minnesota Madison Square Garden New York City
        2004 Michigan 62 Rutgers 55 Daniel Horton, Michigan Madison Square Garden New York City
        2006 South Carolina 76 Michigan 64 Renaldo Balkman, South Carolina Madison Square Garden New York City
        2008 Ohio State 92 Massachusetts 85 Kosta Koufos, Ohio State Madison Square Garden New York City
        2009 Penn State 69 Baylor 63 Jamelle Cornley, Penn State Madison Square Garden New York City
        2012 Stanford 75 Minnesota 51 Aaron Bright, Stanford Madison Square Garden New York City
        2013 Baylor 74 Iowa 54 Pierre Jackson, Baylor Madison Square Garden New York City
        2014 Minnesota 65 SMU 63 Austin Hollins, Minnesota Madison Square Garden New York City
        2018 Penn State 82 Utah 66 Lamar Stevens, Penn State Madison Square Garden New York City
        1. ↑ Participation and title vacated due to major NCAA violations.
        2. ↑ Participation and title vacated due to major NCAA violations.
        1. ↑ Affiliate member: Johns Hopkins

        Women's basketball

        Women's basketball teams have played a total of ten times in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament (since 1982) and Women's National Invitation Tournament Championship (since 1998). Purdue is the only Big Ten member to have won the NCAA women's basketball national title while a member of the conference. Both schools that joined in 2014, Maryland and Rutgers, won national titles before joining the Big Ten—Rutgers won the final AIAW championship in 1982, when it was a member of the Eastern 8, and Maryland won the NCAA title in 2006 as a member of the ACC. Big Ten women's basketball led conference attendance from 1993 to 1999.[100]

        Like the men's teams, the women's basketball teams in the Big Ten participated in the Big Ten–ACC Women's Challenge, which was founded in 2007 and ended in 2022. The Big Ten's record in the challenge was 1-11-3, with Indiana, Maryland, and Michigan being the only Big Ten teams without a losing record in the challenge.

        National championships, Final Fours, and NCAA tournament appearances

        Seasons are listed by the calendar years in which they ended. Italics indicate seasons before the school competed in the Big Ten.

        School Women's AIAW/NCAA
        Championships        		 Women's AIAW/NCAA
        Final Fours        		 Women's AIAW/NCAA
        Elite Eights        		 Women's AIAW/NCAA
        Sweet Sixteens        		 Women's AIAW/NCAA
        Tournament Appearances
        Illinois 2
        (1997, 1998)        		 8
        (1982, 1986, 1987, 1997–2000, 2003)
        Indiana 1
        (1973)        		 3
        (1972, 1974, 2021)        		 2
        (2021, 2022)        		 8
        (1983, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022)
        Iowa 2
        (1993, 2023)        		 5
        (1987, 1988, 1993, 2019, 2023)        		 9
        (1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023)        		 29
        (1986–94, 1996–98, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010–15, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
        Maryland 1
        (2006)        		 6
        (1978, 1982, 1989, 2006, 2014, 2015)        		 15
        (1978–82, 1988, 1989, 1992, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2023)        		 20
        (1978–83, 1988, 1989, 1992, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012–14, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023)        		 34
        (1978–84, 1986, 1988–93, 1997, 2001, 2004–09, 2011–14, 2015–19, 2021, 2022, 2023)
        Michigan 1
        (2022)        		 2
        (2021, 2022)        		 9
        (1990, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
        Michigan State 1
        (2005)        		 1
        (2005)        		 3
        (2005, 2006, 2009)        		 19
        (1977, 1991, 1996, 1997, 2003–07, 2009–14, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021)
        Minnesota 1
        (2004)        		 1
        (2004)        		 4
        (1977, 2003, 2004, 2005)        		 13
        (1977, 1981, 1982, 1994, 2002–06, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2018)
        Nebraska 2
        (2010, 2013)        		 15
        (1988, 1993, 1996, 1998–2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012–15, 2018, 2022)
        Northwestern 1 8
        (1982, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2015, 2021)
        Ohio State 1
        (1993)        		 5
        (1975, 1985, 1987, 1993, 2023)        		 13
        (1985–89, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023)        		 28
        (1975, 1978, 1984–90, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003–12, 2015–18, 2022, 2023)
        Penn State 1
        (2000)        		 4
        (1983, 1994, 2000, 2004)        		 13
        (1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002-04, 2012, 2014)        		 26
        (1976, 1982-88, 1990, 1991, 1992–96, 1999–2005, 2011–14)
        Purdue 1
        (1999)        		 3
        (1994, 1999, 2001)        		 8
        (1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009)        		 12
        (1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009)        		 26
        (1989–92, 1994–2009, 2011–14, 2016, 2017)
        Rutgers 1
        (1982)        		 3
        (1982, 2000, 2007)        		 7
        (1986, 1987, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008)        		 11
        (1986–88, 1998–2000, 2005–09)        		 27
        (1982, 1986–94, 1998–2001, 2003–12, 2015, 2019, 2021)
        Wisconsin 8
        (1982, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2010)

        NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

        Year Champion Runner-up Venue and city
        1993 Texas Tech 84 Ohio State 82 The Omni Atlanta
        1999 Purdue 62 Duke 45 San Jose Arena San Jose, California
        2001 Notre Dame 68 Purdue 66 Savvis Center St. Louis
        2005 Baylor 84 Michigan State 62 RCA Dome Indianapolis
        2006 Maryland 78 Duke 75 TD Banknorth Garden Boston
        2007 Tennessee 59 Rutgers 46 Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland
        2023 LSU 102 Iowa 85 American Airlines Center Dallas

        Women's National Invitation Tournament championship games

        Year Champion Runner-up Venue City
        1998 Penn State 59 Baylor 56 Ferrell Center Waco, Texas
        1999 Arkansas 67 Wisconsin 64 Bud Walton Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas
        2000 Wisconsin 75 Florida 74 Kohl Center Madison, Wisconsin
        2001 Ohio State 62 New Mexico 61 University Arena Albuquerque, New Mexico
        2007 Wyoming 72 Wisconsin 56 Arena-Auditorium Laramie, Wyoming
        2008 Marquette 81 Michigan State 66 Breslin Center East Lansing, Michigan
        2014 Rutgers 56 UTEP 54 Don Haskins Center El Paso, Texas
        2017 Michigan 89 Georgia Tech 79 Calihan Hall Detroit, Michigan
        2018 Indiana 65 Virginia Tech 57 Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall Bloomington, Indiana
        2019 Arizona 56 Northwestern 42 McKale Center Tucson, Arizona

        Field hockey

        Big Ten field hockey programs have won 11 NCAA Championships, although only three of these titles were won by schools as Big Ten members. Maryland won eight national championships as a member of the ACC, second most in the sport all-time. Penn State's two AIAW championships were also won before it became a Big Ten member and before the NCAA sponsored women's sports.

        School NCAA national championship NCAA runner-up NCAA Final Fours NCAA tournament appearances
        Indiana 2
        (2002, 2007)
        Iowa 1
        (1986)        		 3
        (1984, 1988, 1992)        		 12
        (1984, 1986–90, 1992-94, 1999, 2008, 2020)        		 28
        (1982–96, 1999, 2004, 2006–08, 2011, 2012, 2018–23)
        Maryland 8
        (1987, 1993, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011)        		 4
        (1995, 2001, 2009, 2017, 2018)        		 21
        (1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999–2001, 2003–06, 2008–13, 2017–18, 2021, 2022)        		 34
        (1985, 1987, 1988, 1990–93, 1995–2019, 2021, 2022)
        Michigan 1
        (2001)        		 2
        (1999, 2020)        		 5
        (1999, 2001, 2003, 2017, 2020)        		 19
        (1999–2005, 2007, 2010–12, 2015–22)
        Michigan State 2
        (2002, 2004)        		 9
        (2001–04, 2007–10, 2013)
        Northwestern 1
        (2021)        		 2
        (2022, 2023)        		 7
        (1983, 1985, 1989, 1994, 2021–23)        		 18
        (1983–91, 1993, 1994, 2014, 2017, 2019–23)
        Ohio State 1
        (2010)        		 7
        (1994, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2009–11)
        Penn State 2
        (2002, 2007)        		 8
        (1982, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2007, 2022)        		 35
        (1982–2000, 2002, 2003, 2005–08, 2010–14, 2016–18, 2021, 2022)
        Rutgers 5
        (1984, 1986, 2018, 2021, 2023)

        Men's gymnastics

        The Big Ten fields five of the remaining 13 Division I men's gymnastics team. In 2014, Michigan edged out Oklahoma for their 6th NCAA men's gymnastics championship, the school's third in five years.[101]

        NCAA championships and runners-up

        Year Champion Runner-up Host
        1938 Chicago† Illinois Chicago
        1939 Illinois Army Chicago
        1940 Illinois Navy/Temple Chicago
        1941 Illinois Minnesota Chicago
        1942 Illinois Penn State†† Navy
        1948 Penn State†† Temple Chicago
        1949 Temple Minnesota California
        1950 Illinois Temple Army
        1951 Florida State Illinois/Southern Cal Michigan
        1953 Penn State†† Illinois Syracuse
        1954 Penn State†† Illinois Illinois
        1955 Illinois Penn State†† UCLA
        1956 Illinois Penn State†† North Carolina
        1957 Penn State†† Illinois Navy
        1958 Michigan State†††/Illinois Michigan State
        1959 Penn State†† Illinois California
        1960 Penn State†† Southern Cal Penn State
        1961 Penn State†† Southern Illinois Illinois
        1963 Michigan Southern Illinois Pittsburgh
        1965 Penn State†† Washington Southern Illinois
        1967 Southern Illinois Michigan Southern Illinois
        1969 Iowa Penn State††/Colorado State Washington
        1970 Michigan Iowa State/New Mexico state Temple
        1973 Iowa State Penn State†† Oregon
        1976 Penn State†† LSU Temple
        1979 Nebraska†† Oklahoma LSU
        1980 Nebraska†† Iowa State Nebraska
        1981 Nebraska†† Oklahoma Nebraska
        1982 Nebraska†† UCLA Nebraska
        1983 Nebraska†† UCLA Penn State
        1984 UCLA Penn State†† UCLA
        1985 Ohio State Nebraska†† Nebraska
        1986 Arizona State Nebraska†† Nebraska
        1987 UCLA Nebraska†† UCLA
        1988 Nebraska†† Illinois Nebraska
        1989 Illinois Nebraska†† Nebraska
        1990 Nebraska†† Minnesota Minnesota
        1991 Oklahoma Penn State†† Penn State
        1992 Stanford Nebraska†† Nebraska
        1993 Stanford Nebraska†† New Mexico
        1994 Nebraska†† Stanford Nebraska
        1995 Stanford Nebraska†† Ohio State
        1996 Ohio State California Stanford
        1998 California Iowa Penn State
        1999 Michigan Ohio State Nebraska
        2000 Penn State Michigan Iowa
        2001 Ohio State Oklahoma Ohio State
        2002 Oklahoma Ohio State Oklahoma
        2003 Oklahoma Ohio State Temple
        2004 Penn State Oklahoma Illinois
        2005 Oklahoma Ohio State Army
        2006 Oklahoma Illinois Oklahoma
        2007 Penn State Oklahoma Penn State
        2009 Stanford Michigan Minnesota
        2010 Michigan Stanford Army
        2012 Illinois Oklahoma Oklahoma
        2013 Michigan Oklahoma Penn State
        2014 Michigan Oklahoma Michigan
        2017 Oklahoma Ohio State Army
        2018 Oklahoma Minnesota UIC

        †–Chicago left the Big Ten in 1946.

        ††–Finishes prior to Penn State and Nebraska joining the Big Ten.

        †††–Michigan State no longer competes in gymnastics.

        Men's ice hockey

        The Big Ten began sponsoring men's ice hockey in the 2013–14 season, the only Power Five conference to do so.[102][103] The inaugural season included six schools: Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State joined from the disbanded CCHA; Minnesota and Wisconsin joined from the WCHA; and Penn State joined after playing its first NCAA Division I season (2012–13) as an independent.[102][103] Notre Dame joined the league as an affiliate member beginning with the 2017–18 season.[104] Arizona State had a scheduling agreement with the conference for the 2020–21 season as an all-away game team, playing all seven Big Ten squads four times, but was not part of the conference and therefore was ineligible for the conference tournament or associated NCAA tournament automatic berth.[105] ASU has since been announced as a future member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference effective in 2024–25.[106]

        All-time school records

        This list is updated through the 2022–23 season. Totals for conference regular-season and tournament championships include those won before the schools played Big Ten hockey.

        # Team Overall record Pct. NCAA
        championships        		 NCAA
        Frozen Fours        		 NCAA tournament
        appearances        		 Tournament
        championships        		 Regular season
        championships
        1 Minnesota 1,909–1,078–201[lower-alpha 1] .630 5 23 40 16 20
        2 Michigan 1,777–1,130–171[lower-alpha 1] .605 9 27 40 12 14
        3 Wisconsin 1,314–947–173[lower-alpha 1] .575 6 12 26 13 4
        4 Michigan State 1,358–1,128–167[lower-alpha 1] .543 3 11 27 13 8
        5 Penn State 207–183–26[lower-alpha 1] .529 0 0 3 1 1
        6 Notre Dame 955–933–171[lower-alpha 1] .505 0 4 13 5 3
        7 Ohio State 986–970–174[lower-alpha 1] .504 0 2 10 2 2
        1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Includes all seasons of collegiate play, including those prior to the first season of NCAA-sponsored men's ice hockey in 1947–48.

        Conference records

        Team's records against conference opponents (as of the end of the 2018–19 season).

        School Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Notre Dame Ohio State Penn State Wisconsin Total
        W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T Win%
        Michigan 165 135 24 128 143 16 79 59 5 83 44 14 15 12 0 75 61 13 544 456 72 .541
        Michigan State 135 165 24 48 118 16 63 48 12 89 45 13 9 13 4 55 53 3 400 444 73 .476
        Minnesota 143 128 16 118 48 16 30 20 3 29 7 4 15 12 0 170 96 23 502 309 63 .610
        Notre Dame 61 78 5 48 63 12 20 30 3 35 37 10 8 4 2 23 41 8 193 254 40 .437
        Ohio State 44 83 14 45 89 13 7 29 4 37 35 10 15 10 2 16 18 3 164 264 46 .395
        Penn State 12 15 0 13 9 4 12 15 0 4 8 2 10 15 2 17 12 3 68 74 11 .480
        Wisconsin 61 75 13 55 56 4 96 170 23 41 23 8 18 16 3 12 17 3 281 356 53 .446

        Note: games where one or more of the programs was not a varsity team are not included.

        Conference champions

        Season School Conference record
        2013–14 Minnesota 14–3–3–0
        2014–15 Minnesota 12–5–3–0
        2015–16 Minnesota 14–6–0–0
        2016–17 Minnesota 14–5–1–0
        2017–18 Notre Dame 17–6–1–1
        2018–19 Ohio State 13–7–4–3
        2019–20 Penn State 12–8–4–1
        2020–21 Wisconsin 17–6–1–0
        2021–22 Minnesota 18–6–1–2
        2022–23 Minnesota 19–4–2–1

        Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champions

        Year Winning team Coach Losing team Coach Score Location Venue
        2014 Wisconsin Mike Eaves Ohio State Steve Rohlik 5–4 (OT) Saint Paul, Minnesota Xcel Energy Center
        2015 Minnesota Don Lucia Michigan Red Berenson 4–2 Detroit, Michigan Joe Louis Arena
        2016 Michigan Red Berenson Minnesota Don Lucia 5–3 Saint Paul, Minnesota Xcel Energy Center
        2017 Penn State Guy Gadowsky Wisconsin Tony Granato 2–1 (2OT) Detroit, Michigan Joe Louis Arena
        2018 Notre Dame Jeff Jackson Ohio State Steve Rohlik 3–2 (OT) Notre Dame, Indiana Compton Family Ice Arena
        2019 Notre Dame Jeff Jackson Penn State Guy Gadowsky 3–2 Notre Dame, Indiana Compton Family Ice Arena
        2020 Canceled in progress due to COVID-19
        2021 Minnesota Bob Motzko Wisconsin Tony Granato 6–4 Notre Dame, Indiana Compton Family Ice Arena
        2022 Michigan Mel Pearson Minnesota Bob Motzko 4–3 Minneapolis, Minnesota 3M Arena at Mariucci
        2023 Michigan Brandon Naurato Minnesota Bob Motzko 4-3 Minneapolis, Minnesota 3M Arena at Mariucci

        NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations

        Year Winning team Coach Losing team Coach Score Location Finals venue
        1948 Michigan Vic Heyliger Dartmouth Eddie Jeremiah 8–4 Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1951 Michigan (2) Vic Heyliger Brown Westcott Moulton 7–1 Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1952 Michigan (3) Vic Heyliger Colorado College Cheddy Thompson 4–1 Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1953 Michigan (4) Vic Heyliger Minnesota John Mariucci 7–3 Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1954 Rensselaer Ned Harkness Minnesota John Mariucci 5–4 (OT) Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1955 Michigan (5) Vic Heyliger Colorado College Cheddy Thompson 5–3 Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1956 Michigan (6) Vic Heyliger Michigan Tech Al Renfrew 7–5 Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1957 Colorado College (2) Tom Bedecki Michigan Vic Heyliger 13–6 Colorado Springs, Colorado Broadmoor Ice Palace
        1959 North Dakota Bob May Michigan State Amo Bessone 4–3 (OT) Troy, New York RPI Field House
        1964 Michigan (7) Al Renfrew Denver Murray Armstrong 6–3 Denver University of Denver Arena
        1966 Michigan State Amo Bessone Clarkson Len Ceglarski 6–1 Minneapolis Williams Arena
        1971 Boston University Jack Kelley Minnesota Glen Sonmor 4–2 Syracuse, New York Onondaga War Memorial
        1973 Wisconsin Bob Johnson Denver [a 1] Murray Armstrong 4–2 Boston Boston Garden
        1974 Minnesota Herb Brooks Michigan Tech John MacInnes 4–2 Boston Boston Garden
        1975 Michigan Tech (3) John MacInnes Minnesota Herb Brooks 6–1 St. Louis St. Louis Arena
        1976 Minnesota (2) Herb Brooks Michigan Tech John MacInnes 6–4 Denver University of Denver Arena
        1977 Wisconsin (2) Bob Johnson Michigan Dan Farrell 6–5 (OT) Detroit Olympia Stadium
        1979 Minnesota (3) Herb Brooks North Dakota Gino Gasparini 4–3 Detroit Olympia Stadium
        1981 Wisconsin (3) Bob Johnson Minnesota Brad Buetow 6–3 Duluth, Minnesota Duluth Entertainment Center
        1982 North Dakota (4) Gino Gasparini Wisconsin Bob Johnson 5–2 Providence, Rhode Island Providence Civic Center
        1983 Wisconsin (4) Jeff Sauer Harvard Bill Cleary 6–2 Grand Forks, North Dakota Ralph Engelstad Arena
        1986 Michigan State (2) Ron Mason Harvard Bill Cleary 6–5 Providence, Rhode Island Providence Civic Center
        1987 North Dakota (5) Gino Gasparini Michigan State Ron Mason 5–3 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
        1989 Harvard Bill Cleary Minnesota Doug Woog 4–3 (OT) Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Paul Civic Center
        1990 Wisconsin (5) Jeff Sauer Colgate Terry Slater 7–3 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
        1992 Lake Superior State (2) Jeff Jackson Wisconsin1 Jeff Sauer 5–3 Albany, New York Knickerbocker Arena
        1996 Michigan (8) Red Berenson Colorado College Don Lucia 3–2 (OT) Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum
        1998 Michigan (9) Red Berenson Boston College Jerry York 3–2 (OT) Boston FleetCenter
        2002 Minnesota (4) Don Lucia Maine Tim Whitehead 4–3 (OT) Saint Paul, Minnesota Xcel Energy Center
        2003 Minnesota (5) Don Lucia New Hampshire Dick Umile 5–1 Buffalo, New York HSBC Arena
        2006 Wisconsin (6) Mike Eaves Boston College Jerry York 2–1 Milwaukee Bradley Center
        2007 Michigan State (3) Rick Comley Boston College Jerry York 3–1 St. Louis Scottrade Center
        2010 Boston College (4) Jerry York Wisconsin Mike Eaves 5–0 Detroit Ford Field
        2011 Minnesota–Duluth Scott Sandelin Michigan Red Berenson 3–2 (OT) Saint Paul, Minnesota Xcel Energy Center
        2014 Union Rick Bennett Minnesota Don Lucia 7–4 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
        2018 Minnesota–Duluth (2) Scott Sandelin Notre Dame Jeff Jackson 2–1 Saint Paul, Minnesota Xcel Energy Center
        2023 Quinnipiac Rand Pecknold Minnesota Bob Motzko 3–2 (OT) Tampa, Florida Amalie Arena
        1. ↑ Participation vacated due to major NCAA violations.

        Awards

        At the conclusion of each regular season schedule the coaches of each Big Ten team, as well as a media panel, vote which players they choose to be on the three All-Conference Teams:[107] first team, second team and rookie team. Additionally they vote to award the 5 individual trophies to an eligible player at the same time. The Big Ten also awards a Tournament Most Outstanding Player which is voted on after the conclusion of the conference tournament. Each team also names one of their players to be honored for the conference Sportsmanship Award. All of the awards were created for the inaugural season (2013–14).

        Men's lacrosse

        The Big Ten began sponsoring men's lacrosse in the 2015 season. The Big Ten lacrosse league includes Maryland, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, and Johns Hopkins, which joined the Big Ten conference as an affiliate member in 2014. The teams that compete in Big Ten men's lacrosse have combined to win 13 NCAA national championships.[108]

        With the addition of Johns Hopkins and Maryland to the league, Big Ten men's lacrosse boasts two of the top programs and most heated rivals in the history of the sport. Johns Hopkins (29) and Maryland (26) combine for 55 NCAA men's lacrosse Final Four appearances. The media and both schools have called Johns Hopkins–Maryland rivalry the greatest and most historic rivalry in men's lacrosse. Since 1895, the two teams have matched up more than 100 times.[109][110][111]

        All-time school records

        This list goes through the 2022 season.

        # Team Overall
        record        		 Pct. Big Ten tournament
        Championships        		 Big Ten
        Regular Season
        Championships        		 NCAA National
        Championships
        1 Maryland 862–277–4 .756 4 7 4
        2 Johns Hopkins 966–325–15 .735 2 2 9
        3 Rutgers 623–522–14 .544 0 0 0
        4 Ohio State 498–426–5 .537 0 0 0
        5 Penn State 553–533–8 .509 1 1 0
        6 Michigan 42–88 .323 1 0 0

        National championships, Final Fours, and NCAA tournament appearances

        School Men's NCAA Championships Men's NCAA
        Runner-Up        		 Men's NCAA
        Final Fours        		 Men's NCAA
        Quarterfinals        		 Men's NCAA
        Tournament Appearances
        Johns Hopkins 9
        (1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2007)        		 9
        (1972, 1973, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, 2003, 2008)        		 29
        (1972–74, 1976–87, 1989, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1999–2000, 2002–05, 2007–08, 2015)        		 41
        (1972–89, 1991–2009, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2018)        		 46
        (1972–2012, 2014–18)
        Maryland 4
        (1973, 1975, 2017, 2022)        		 12
        (1971, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1995, 1997–98, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2021)        		 28
        (1971–79, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997–98, 2003, 2005–06, 2011–12, 2014–18, 2021-22)        		 40
        (1971–79, 1981–83, 1986–87, 1989, 1991–92, 1995–98, 2000–01, 2003–06, 2008–12, 2014–22)        		 44
        (1971–79, 1981–83, 1986–87, 1989, 1991–98, 2000–01, 2003–22)
        Michigan 1

        (2023)

        Ohio State 1
        (2017)        		 1
        (2017)        		 4
        (2008, 2013, 2015, 2017)        		 7
        (2003, 2004, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2022)
        Penn State 1
        (2019)        		 1
        (2019)        		 4
        (2003, 2005, 2013, 2017)
        Rutgers 1
        (2022)        		 4
        (1986, 1990, 2021, 2022)        		 11
        (1972, 1974, 1975, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 2003, 2004, 2021, 2022)

        Big Ten Conference champions

        Season School Conference
        Record
        2015 Maryland
        Johns Hopkins        		 4–1
        4–1
        2016 Maryland 5–0
        2017 Maryland 4–1
        2018 Maryland 4–1
        2019 Penn State 5–0
        2020 Season canceled and no champion crowned
        2021 Maryland 10–0
        2022 Maryland 5–0
        2023 Penn State
        Johns Hopkins        		 4–1
        4–1

        Big Ten men's lacrosse tournament champions

        Year Winning team Coach Losing team Coach Score Location Venue
        2015 Johns Hopkins Dave Pietramala Ohio State Nick Myers 13–6 College Park, Maryland Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium
        2016 Maryland John Tillman Rutgers Brian Brecht 14–8 Baltimore, Maryland Homewood Field
        2017 Maryland John Tillman Ohio State Nick Myers 10–9 Columbus, Ohio Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium
        2018 Johns Hopkins David Pietramala Maryland John Tillman 13–10 Ann Arbor, Michigan U-M Lacrosse Stadium
        2019 Penn State Jeff Tambroni Johns Hopkins David Pietramala 18–17 (OT) Piscataway, New Jersey HighPoint.com Stadium
        2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
        2021 Maryland John Tillman Johns Hopkins Peter Milliman 12–10 University Park, Pennsylvania Panzer Stadium
        2022 Maryland John Tillman Rutgers Brian Brecht 17–7 College Park, Maryland Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium
        2023 Michigan Kevin Conry Maryland John Tillman 14–5 Baltimore, Maryland Homewood Field

        Women's lacrosse

        Women's lacrosse became a Big Ten-sponsored sport in the 2015 season. The Big Ten women's lacrosse league includes Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, and Rutgers. Big Ten women's lacrosse programs have 23 of the 38 all-time NCAA championships, including 12 of the last 15. Maryland has earned one pre-NCAA national title and has won 14 NCAA national championships, including seven straight from 1995 to 2001 and most recently in 2019. Northwestern has claimed seven NCAA titles, including five straight from 2005 to 2009. Penn State has earned three pre-NCAA national titles and two NCAA titles in 1987 and 1989. Johns Hopkins became the seventh women's lacrosse program in the Big Ten as of July 1, 2016.

        All-time school records

        This list goes through the 2021 season.

        # Team Overall
        record        		 Pct. NCAA National
        championships        		 NCAA Tournament
        runner-up        		 NCAA Tournament
        Final Fours        		 NCAA Tournament
        appearances        		 Big Ten tournament
        championships        		 Big Ten
        Regular-season
        championships
        1 Maryland 742–146–3 .834 14 8 27 36 3 5
        2 Northwestern 379–139 .732 7 1 12 22 2 1
        3 Penn State 537–263–5 .670 2 2 7 24 1 0
        4 Johns Hopkins 445–285–4 .609 0 0 0 8 0 0
        5 Ohio State 217–194 .528 0 0 0 4 0 0
        6 Rutgers 320–365–6 .467 0 0 0 3 0 0
        7 Michigan 49–71 .408 0 0 0 1 0 0

        Men's soccer

        The Big Ten men's soccer league includes Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, and Wisconsin. Big Ten men's soccer programs have combined to win 15 NCAA national championships.

        All-time school records

        This list goes through the 2013–14 season.

        # Team Total
        seasons        		 Overall
        record        		 NCAA national
        championships        		 NCAA tournament
        runner-up        		 NCAA tournament
        college cups        		 NCAA tournament
        appearances
        1 Indiana 41 677–162–76 8 7 19 39
        2 Maryland 67 681–316–91 4 3 13 33
        3 Michigan 14 141–115–26 0 0 1 5
        4 Michigan State 58 540–295–92 2 2 4 15
        5 Northwestern 34 268–370–87 0 0 0 8
        6 Ohio State 61 406–439–104 0 1 0 8
        7 Penn State 103 776–359–121 0 0 1 31
        8 Rutgers 41 541–391–108 0 1 3 5
        9 Wisconsin 37 381–271–74 1 0 1 6

        Awards and honors

        Big Ten Athlete of the Year

        The Big Ten Athlete of the Year award is given annually to the athletes voted as the top male and female athlete in the Big Ten Conference.

        Big Ten Medal of Honor

        Big Ten Medal of Honor (annual; at each school; one male scholar-athlete and one female scholar-athlete)[112]

        • Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (annual; at each school; one male student-athlete and one female student-athlete)[113]

        NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup rankings

        The NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup is an annual award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the U.S. colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics. Big Ten universities typically finish ranked in the top-50 of the final Directors' Cup annual rankings.

          Members joining in 2024.

        Institution 2022–
        23        		 2021–
        22        		 2020–
        21        		 2019–
        20        		 2018–
        19        		 2017–
        18        		 2016–
        17        		 2015–
        16        		 2014–
        15        		 2013–
        14        		 10-yr
        Average
        Illinois Fighting Illini 54 52 47 N/A 43 36 38 54 31 47 45
        Indiana Hoosiers 40 64 34 N/A 32 52 47 41 61 36 45
        Iowa Hawkeyes 48 55 30 N/A 38 51 52 62 44 78 51
        Maryland Terrapins 44 46 46 N/A 40 50 49 59 33 32 44
        Michigan Wolverines 11 3 3 N/A 2 5 4 3 19 13 7
        Michigan State Spartans 53 41 61 N/A 47 48 50 53 34 29 46
        Minnesota Golden Gophers 31 28 28 N/A 20 19 30 18 26 21 25
        Nebraska Cornhuskers 29 49 35 N/A 48 31 38 27 39 23 35
        Northwestern Wildcats 30 36 31 N/A 45 31 36 50 50 50 40
        Ohio State Buckeyes 3 4 9 N/A 12 6 2 2 7 25 8
        Oregon Ducks 38 31 25 N/A 27 24 8 10 13 15 21
        Penn State Nittany Lions 15 43 39 N/A 13 10 7 20 8 5 18
        Purdue Boilermakers 72 53 38 N/A 55 41 41 45 60 48 50
        Rutgers Scarlet Knights 130 48 60 N/A 82 103 113 83 104 91 90
        UCLA Bruins 14 15 13 N/A 6 2 9 6 2 7 8
        USC Trojans 10 12 6 N/A 5 4 3 4 3 8 6
        Washington Huskies 21 30 33 N/A 24 29 20 14 24 33 25
        Wisconsin Badgers 27 24 37 N/A 16 22 16 27 18 18 23
        University Top 10
        rankings
        UCLA 23
        Michigan 22
        USC 19
        Ohio State 15
        Penn State 9
        Nebraska 5
        Oregon 2
        Washington 2
        Minnesota 1

        2022–23 Capital One Cup standings

        The Capital One Cup is an award given annually to the best men's and women's Division I college athletics programs in the United States. Points are earned throughout the year based on final standings of NCAA Championships and final coaches' poll rankings.

          Members joining in 2024.

        Institution Men's
        Ranking        		 Women's
        Ranking
        Illinois 39 NR
        Indiana 17 42
        Iowa 47 22
        Maryland 68 29
        Michigan 6 46
        Michigan State NR 81
        Minnesota 47 46
        Nebraska 47 11
        Northwestern 47 35
        Ohio State 13 10
        Oregon NR 36
        Penn State 4 48
        Purdue NR NR
        Rutgers NR NR
        UCLA 19 4
        USC 45 12
        Washington 34 26
        Wisconsin 78 19

        Conference records

        For Big Ten records, by sport (not including football), see footnote[114]

        NCAA national titles

        Totals are per NCAA annual list published every July[115] and NCAA-published gymnastics history,[116] with subsequent results as of June 27, 2023, obtained from NCAA.org, which provides intermittent updates throughout the year.

        Excluded from this list are all national championships earned outside the scope of NCAA competition, including Division I FBS football titles, women's AIAW championships (34), men's rowing (27), and retroactive Helms Athletic Foundation titles.

          Members joining in 2024.

        Institution Total Men's Women's Co-ed Nickname Most successful sport (Titles)
        University of California, Los Angeles 121 77 44 0 Bruins Men's volleyball (19)
        University of Southern California 112 85 27 0 Trojans Men's outdoor track and field (26)
        Pennsylvania State University 53 29 11 13 Nittany Lions Fencing (14)
        University of Michigan 39[117][116] 36 3 0 Wolverines Men's swimming (12) (plus 7 unofficial titles)
        University of Oregon 34 20 14 0 Ducks Men's outdoor track & field (7), Women's indoor track & field (7)
        University of Maryland 32 9 23 0 Terrapins Women's lacrosse (14)
        University of Wisconsin 32 22 10 0 Badgers Men's boxing (8) (including 4 unofficial titles)
        Ohio State University 31 24 4 3 Buckeyes Men's swimming (11)
        University of Iowa 25 24 1 0 Hawkeyes Men's wrestling (24)
        Indiana University 24 24 0 0 Hoosiers Men's soccer (8)
        University of Nebraska 21 8 13 0 Cornhuskers Men's gymnastics (8)
        Michigan State University 20 19 1 0 Spartans Men's cross country (8)
        University of Minnesota 19 13 6 0 Golden Gophers Women's ice hockey (6)
        University of Illinois 18 18 0 0 Fighting Illini Men's gymnastics (10)
        Northwestern University 10 1 9 0 Wildcats Women's lacrosse (8)
        University of Washington 9 0 9 0 Huskies Women's rowing (5)
        Purdue University 3 1 2 0 Boilermakers Men's golf (1), Women's golf (1), Women's basketball (1)
        Rutgers University 1 1 0 0 Scarlet Knights Fencing (1)
        Total 604 411 177 16

        See also: List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships and List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships

        Conference titles

        For Big Ten championships, by year, see footnote.[118] Totals do not include Big Ten tournament championships.

        Institution # of[119]
        University of Chicago7 73
        University of Illinois 250
        Indiana University 184
        University of Iowa 117
        University of Maryland2 30
        University of Michigan 413
        Michigan State University 110
        University of Minnesota 178
        University of Nebraska3 16
        Northwestern University 81
        University of Notre Dame4 1
        Ohio State University 251
        Pennsylvania State University5 92
        Purdue University 83
        Rutgers University6 1
        Johns Hopkins University1 1
        University of Wisconsin 210
        1. ^ Johns Hopkins was added in 2014 as an affiliate member that competed in men's lacrosse only. Johns Hopkins also began competing as an affiliate member in women's lacrosse in the 2016–17 school year.
        2. ^ Maryland won 196 conference championships as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), second most in ACC history.
        3. ^ Nebraska won 80 conference championships as a member of the Big 12 Conference, second most in Big 12 history. Nebraska also won 230 conference championships as a member of the Big Eight Conference, the most in Big Eight history.
        4. ^ Notre Dame was added in 2017 as an affiliate member that competed in men's ice hockey only.
        5. ^ Penn State won or shared 70 conference championships as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (1982–91) and earlier when it was known as the Eastern 8 Conference (1976–79).
        6. ^ Rutgers won six conference championships as a member of the Middle Three Conference, the Middle Atlantic Conference, the Atlantic 10 Conference, the original Big East Conference, and both of its offshoots, the non-football Big East Conference and the American Athletic Conference.
        7. ^ Chicago won 73 conference championships as a member of the Big Ten from 1896 to 1946.

        2023–2024 champions

        Sport Champion Tournament
        champion
        Men's cross country Wisconsin (2023) —
        Women's cross country Michigan State (2023) —
        Field hockey Northwestern (2023) Northwestern (2023)
        Football Michigan (2023) —
        Men's soccer Indiana & Penn State (2023) Indiana (2023)
        Women's soccer Michigan State & Nebraska (2023) Iowa (2023)
        Women's volleyball Nebraska (2023) —
        Men's swimming and diving —
        Women's swimming and diving —
        Men's indoor track and field —
        Women's indoor track and field —
        Women's basketball
        Wrestling
        Men's basketball
        Men's ice hockey
        Men's gymnastics
        Women's gymnastics
        Men's tennis
        Women's tennis
        Men's golf —
        Women's golf —
        Men's lacrosse
        Women's lacrosse
        Softball
        Men's outdoor track and field —
        Women's outdoor track and field —
        Women's rowing —
        Baseball

        ‡ Denotes national champion

        See also

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