Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Most of its 14 member institutions are in the Midwestern United States. The conference footprint will expand to the country's Pacific coast in 2024.
Members
[change | change source]Institution | Location | Founded | Joined Conference | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Varsity Teams | NCAA Championships (as of January 1, 2014) [1] (excludes football) |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana and Champaign, Illinois | 1867 | 1896 | Public | 42,728 | Fighting Illini | 21 | 18 |
Indiana University Bloomington | Bloomington, Indiana | 1820 | 1899 (Athletics 1900) |
Public | 39,990 | Hoosiers | 24 | 24 |
University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa | 1847 | 1899 (Athletics 1900) |
Public | 30,409 | Hawkeyes | 24 | 25 |
University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, Maryland | 1856 | 2014 | Public | 37,631 | Terrapins | 20 | 25 |
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan | 1817 | 1896 Inactive 1907-1916 |
Public | 40,025 | Wolverines | 27 | 35 |
Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan | 1855 | 1950 (Athletics 1953) |
Public | 45,520 | Spartans | 25 | 19 |
University of Minnesota | Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota | 1851 | 1896 | Public | 51,194 | Golden Gophers | 23 | 17 |
University of Nebraska–Lincoln | Lincoln, Nebraska | 1869 | 2011 | Public | 24,593 | Cornhuskers | 21 | 17 |
Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois | 1851 | 1896 | Private/Non-sectarian | 13,407 | Wildcats | 19 | 8 |
Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio | 1870 | 1912 | Public | 52,568 | Buckeyes | 35 | 25 |
Pennsylvania State University | University Park, Pennsylvania | 1855 | 1990 (Athletics 1993) |
Public | 42,914*[2] | Nittany Lions (Lady Lions for women's basketball only) | 31 | 43 |
Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana | 1869 | 1896 | Public | 39,333 | Boilermakers | 18 | 3 |
Rutgers University | New Brunswick and Piscataway, New Jersey | 1766 | 2014 | Public | 41,565 | Scarlet Knights | 27 | 1 |
University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin | 1848 | 1896 | Public | 41,466 | Badgers | 23 | 28 |
Future members
[change | change source]The Big Ten will add four members after the 2023–24 school year, all from the Pac-12 Conference.
Institution | Location | Founded | Joining Conference | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Varsity Teams | NCAA Championships (as of 2022–23) [1] (excludes football) |
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University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon | 1876 | 2024 | Public | 23,202 | Ducks | 20 | 34 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California | 1919 | 2024 | Public | 45,900 | Bruins | 25 | 121 |
University of Southern California (USC) | Los Angeles, California | 1880 | 2024 | Private | 49,500 | Trojans | 23 | 112 |
University of Washington | Seattle, Washington | 1861 | 2024 | Public | 49,522 | Huskies | 22 | 9 |
Associate members
[change | change source]The Big Ten gained its first "associate member"—i.e., a school playing only a small number of sports (in this case, one) in the conference—in 2014. The same school brought a second sport into the Big Ten in 2016. A second school became an associate member in 2017.
School | Location | Founded | Joined | Type (affiliation) |
Enrollment | Nickname | Big Ten sports |
Main Conference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland | 1876 | 2014 | Private (nonsectarian) |
5,066 | Blue Jays | Men's lacrosse | Centennial Conference (Div. III) |
2016 | Women's lacrosse | |||||||
University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, Indiana | 1842 | 2017 | Private (Catholic) |
11,773 | Fighting Irish | Men's ice hockey | ACC |
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "How many NCAA Division I championships has your school won?". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
- ↑ Includes only University Park campus. "Undergraduate Enrollment by Level". Penn State Bursar. Archived from the original on 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2008-07-04.