Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference is a college athletic conference located in the northern United States, stretching from Iowa in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I-A. Member schools of the Big Ten conference are also members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium. Despite the conference's name, since 1990, there have been eleven schools in the conference.

Related Topics:
College athletic conference - United States - Iowa - Pennsylvania - NCAA - Committee on Institutional Cooperation

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The conference's member schools, ordered by length of continuous membership and alphabetically by each university's common name, are:

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• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (joined 1895)
• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (joined 1895)
• Northwestern University (joined 1895)
• Purdue University (joined 1895)
• University of Wisconsin–Madison (joined 1895)
• Indiana University, Bloomington (joined 1899)
• University of Iowa (joined 1899)
• The Ohio State University at Columbus (joined 1912)
• University of Michigan (joined 1895, left 1908, rejoined 1917)
• Michigan State University (joined 1950, began play 1953)
• Pennsylvania State University (joined 1990, began play 1993)

Member schools participate in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, rowing, men's and women's soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball and wrestling.

Related Topics:
Baseball - Basketball - Cross country - Field hockey - Football - Golf - Gymnastics - Track - Rowing - Soccer - Softball - Swimming - Diving - Tennis - Volleyball - Wrestling

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