Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

Formerly	Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (officially, 1896–1987) Western Conference (1896–1899) Big Nine (1899–1917, 1946–1950)
Association	NCAA
Founded	1896; 128 years ago (1896)
Commissioner	Tony Petitti (since 2023)
Sports fielded	28 men's: 18 women's: 18
Division	Division I
Subdivision	FBS
No. of teams	18
Headquarters	Rosemont, Illinois, U.S.
Region	Midwest East North Central West North Central Northeast Mid-Atlantic West Pacific
Official website	bigten.org
Locations

The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA 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 ten prominent universities, which accounts for its name. On August 2, 2024, the conference expanded to 18 member institutions and 2 affiliate institutions.^[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 15 of the 18 members enroll more than 30,000 students. They are all public universities except Northwestern University and the University of Southern California, both private universities. 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] 17 out of 18 are members of the Association of American Universities (except Nebraska) and the Universities Research Association (except USC). All Big Ten universities are also members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.^[3]

Although the Big Ten was primarily a Midwestern conference for nearly a century, the conference's geographic footprint has extended from the Mid-Atlantic to the Great Plains since 2014. In 2024, the conference gained a presence in the West Coast with the addition of four former Pac-12 Conference schools.^[4]

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment (Fall 2023)[5]	Endowment (billions)[6]	Nickname	Colors
University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	1919	2024	Public	48,048	$3.873	Bruins
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Champaign-Urbana, Illinois[a]	1867	1896	Public	56,403	$3.383 (system-wide)	Fighting Illini
Indiana University Bloomington	Bloomington, Indiana	1820	1899[b]	Public	47,527	$3.558 (system-wide)	Hoosiers
University of Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	1847	1899[b]	Public	31,452	$3.258	Hawkeyes
University of Maryland, College Park	College Park, Maryland	1856	2014	Public	40,813	$2.095 (system-wide)	Terrapins
University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Michigan	1817	1896, 1917[c]	Public	52,065	$17.876	Wolverines
Michigan State University	East Lansing, Michigan	1855	1950[d]	Public	51,316	$4.054	Spartans
University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota	1851	1896	Public	54,890	$5.501	Golden Gophers
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Lincoln, Nebraska	1869	2011	Public	23,600	$2.266 (system-wide)	Cornhuskers
Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois	1851	1896	Private	22,801	$13.700	Wildcats
The Ohio State University	Columbus, Ohio	1870	1912	Public	60,046	$7.384	Buckeyes
University of Oregon	Eugene, Oregon	1876	2024	Public	23,834	$1.490	Ducks
Pennsylvania State University	University Park, Pennsylvania	1855	1990[e]	Public	48,535	$4.444	Nittany Lions
Purdue University	West Lafayette, Indiana	1869	1896	Public	52,211	$3.794 (system-wide)	Boilermakers
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	New Brunswick-Piscataway, New Jersey	1766	2014	Public	50,617	$1.988 (system-wide)	Scarlet Knights
University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	1880	2024	Private	47,147	$7.463	Trojans
University of Washington	Seattle, Washington	1861	2024	Public	60,692	$4.941	Huskies
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, Wisconsin	1848	1896	Public	50,662	$3.838	Badgers

Notes:

Overview of affiliate members of the Big Ten Conference

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[a]	Centennial[b]
			2016					women's lacrosse[c]
University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Indiana	1842	2017	Private not-for-profit (Catholic)	12,472	Fighting Irish		men's ice hockey	ACC

Notes

The University of Chicago is the only full member to have permanently left the Big Ten Conference.^[a]

Overview of former member of the Big Ten Conference

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Colors	Current conference
University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	1890	1896	1946[b]	Private not-for-profit (Non-sectarian)	17,470	Maroons		UAA[c]

Notes

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

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.^{[citation needed]} To deal with mounting criticism of the game, Purdue University president James Henry Smart^[8] 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.^[9] The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a second meeting on February 8, 1896.^[10] 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 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,^[11] but was turned away both times.

In 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the "Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives".^[8]

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.^[12] 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.^[13][14]

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.^[15] Chicago 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.^[16] On May 20, 1949,^[10] Michigan State ended the speculation by joining and the conference was again known as the Big Ten.^{[clarification needed]} The Big Ten's membership would remain unchanged for the next 40 years. The conference's official name throughout this period remained the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. It did not formally adopt the name Big Ten until 1987, when it was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation.

In 1990, the Big Ten universities voted to expand the conference to 11 teams and extended an invitation to Atlantic 10 Conference member and football independent Pennsylvania State University, which accepted it.^[17] 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.^[18] Around 1993, the league explored adding Kansas, Missouri and Rutgers or other potential schools, to create a 14-team league with two football divisions.^[19] 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.^[20] (In 1926, Notre Dame had briefly considered official entry into the Big Ten but chose to retain its independent status.^[21]) Notre Dame subsequently joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports except football (and hockey), 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.

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.^[22] 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.^[23] 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.^[24]

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."^[25]

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.^[26] 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.^[27]

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.^[28] The Legends and Leaders divisional alignment was in effect for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 football seasons.

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.^[29] The Big Ten's Council of Presidents approved the move later that day.^[30] One day later, Rutgers University of the Big East also accepted an offer for membership from the Big Ten as its 14th member school.^[31] 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.^[24]

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.^[32] Under the new plan, the Legends and Leaders divisions were replaced with geographic divisions.^[32] The West Division included Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin (of which all but Purdue are in the Central Time Zone), while the East Division included 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.^[33] The divisional alignment permanently protected the cross-divisional football rivalry Indiana–Purdue.^[32] As before, the two division winners played each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game. The West and East divisional alignment was in effect for ten football seasons, from 2014 through 2023.

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.^[34] 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.^[35] 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.^[36] 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.

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.^[37][38][39]

On June 30, 2022, UCLA and USC announced that they would 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.^[40][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.^[24]

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]

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]

All current 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 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^[update].^[52]

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

Academics at members of the Big Ten Conference

Institution	National university rank	AAU member
Northwestern University	6	Yes
University of California, Los Angeles	15	Yes
University of Michigan	21	Yes
University of Southern California	28	Yes
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	35	Yes
University of Wisconsin-Madison	35	Yes
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	40	Yes
University of Washington	40	Yes
Ohio State University	43	Yes
Purdue University	43	Yes
University of Maryland, College Park	46	Yes
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	53	Yes
Michigan State University	60	Yes
Pennsylvania State University	60	Yes
Indiana University Bloomington	73	Yes
University of Iowa	93	Yes
University of Oregon	98	Yes
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	159	No

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."^[9]

Commissioners of the Big Ten Conference

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]}

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 2022–23 academic year.^[61]

Revenue from athletic programs of Big Ten Conference members

Institution	2022–23 Total Revenue from Athletics	2022–23 Total Expenses on Athletics
Ohio State	$249,698,974	$234,409,941
Michigan	$206,514,688	$202,501,688
Penn State	$201,533,972	$156,921,693
USC	$212,013,703	$212,013,703
Indiana	$143,221,485	$126,886,128
Iowa	$166,886,577	$140,482,011
Washington	$154,849,477	$140,259,588
Wisconsin	$190,554,690	$173,758,101
Michigan State	$149,254,610	$149,254,610
Nebraska	$197,009,548	$160,904,566
UCLA	$141,964,728	$141,964,728
Rutgers	$130,221,793	$130,221,793
Minnesota	$136,614,891	$128,573,351
Oregon	$132,359,145	$128,532,281
Illinois	$134,767,269	$134,767,269
Purdue	$124,290,313	$105,239,251
Maryland	$121,183,392	$121,160,348
Northwestern	$117,587,514	$117,587,514

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]

Knight Commission reporting on Big Ten Conference members

Institution	2021–22 Distribution (Millions of dollars)
Ohio State	$71.92
Michigan State	$64.86
Iowa	$64.60
Illinois	$63.97
Indiana	$63.88
Minnesota	$63.37
Michigan	$62.97
Wisconsin	$62.78
Purdue	$62.25
Penn State	$56.62
Maryland	$52.25
Nebraska	$56.50
Rutgers	$49.21
Northwestern	Not Reported

Senior personnel of Big Ten Conference athletic programs

School	Athletic director	Football coach	Men's basketball coach	Women's basketball coach	Baseball coach	Softball coach	Volleyball coach
Illinois	Josh Whitman	Bret Bielema	Brad Underwood	Shauna Green	Dan Hartleb	Tyra Perry	Chris Tamas
Indiana	Scott Dolson	Curt Cignetti	Mike Woodson	Teri Moren	Jeff Mercer	Shonda Stanton	Steve Aird
Iowa	Beth Goetz	Kirk Ferentz	Fran McCaffery	Jan Jensen	Rick Heller	Renee Luers-Gillispie	Jim Barnes
Maryland	Damon Evans	Mike Locksley	Kevin Willard	Brenda Frese	Matt Swope	Lauren Karn	Adam Hughes
Michigan	Warde Manuel	Sherrone Moore	Dusty May	Kim Barnes Arico	Tracy Smith	Bonnie Tholl	Erin Virtue
Michigan State	Alan Haller	Jonathan Smith	Tom Izzo	Robyn Fralick	Jake Boss	Sharonda McDonald-Kelley	Leah Johnson
Minnesota	Mark Coyle	P.J. Fleck	Ben Johnson	Dawn Plitzuweit	John Anderson	Piper Ritter	Keegan Cook
Nebraska	Troy Dannen	Matt Rhule	Fred Hoiberg	Amy Williams	Will Bolt	Rhonda Revelle	John Cook
Northwestern	Mark Jackson	David Braun	Chris Collins	Joe McKeown	Ben Greenspan	Kate Drohan	Tim Nollan
Ohio State	Ross Bjork	Ryan Day	Jake Diebler	Kevin McGuff	Justin Haire	Kirin Kumar	Jen Flynn Oldenburg
Oregon	Rob Mullens	Dan Lanning	Dana Altman	Kelly Graves	Mark Wasikowski	Melyssa Lombardi	Matt Ulmer
Penn State	Patrick Kraft	James Franklin	Mike Rhoades	Carolyn Kieger	Mike Gambino	Clarisa Crowell	Katie Schumacher-Cawley
Purdue	Mike Bobinski	Vacant	Matt Painter	Katie Gearlds	Greg Goff	Magali Frezzotti	Dave Shondell
Rutgers	Patrick E. Hobbs	Greg Schiano	Steve Pikiell	Coquese Washington	Steve Owens	Kristen Butler	Caitlin Schweihofer
UCLA	Martin Jarmond	DeShaun Foster	Mick Cronin	Cori Close	John Savage	Kelly Inouye-Perez	Alfredo Reft
USC	Jennifer Cohen	Lincoln Riley	Eric Musselman	Lindsay Gottlieb	Andy Stankiewicz	No Team	Brad Keller
Washington	Patrick Chun	Jedd Fisch	Danny Sprinkle	Tina Langley	Eddie Smith	Heather Tarr	Leslie Gabriel
Wisconsin	Chris McIntosh	Luke Fickell	Greg Gard	Marisa Moseley	No Team	Yvette Healy	Kelly Sheffield

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 a 20-year partnership with Fox Sports, which would officially launch in 2007.^[63] 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.^[64] The impact of Big Ten Network influenced the conference's expansion in the 2010s, 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).^[65][66]

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.^[67][68]

• ABC Sports:
  • 17 football games per season
• ESPN/ESPN2:
  • 24 football games per season
  • 43 men's basketball games per season
    • Rights to the first three rounds of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament, to be shared with Big Ten Network
  • 5 women's basketball games per season
• ESPN Other (U,360):
  • 13 men's basketball games per season
• CBS Sports:
  • 15 men's basketball games per-season
    • Rights to the semi-finals and championship game of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament
  • 2 women's basketball games per-season
• Big Ten Network:
  • 35 football games per season
  • 105 men's basketball games per season
    • Rights to the first three rounds of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament, to be shared with ESPN/ESPN2
  • 55 women's basketball games per season
  • Coverage of Olympic sports events

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.^[69]

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.^[70]

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.

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.^[71] The contracts were estimated to be worth at least $7 billion,^[43][72] 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.^[73]

• 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:
  • 14 to 15 football games per season on CBS and Paramount+:
    • Will primarily air in a 3:30 p.m. ET window beginning in 2024, once CBS's contract with the SEC expires (CBS will air seven games in other timeslots during the 2023 season).
    • Includes one Friday afternoon game on Thanksgiving weekend.
    • Rights to the Big Ten championship game in 2024 and 2028.
  • Up to 15 men's basketball games per-season:
    • Rights to the semi-finals and championship game of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament
    • Rights to the championship game of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament
• 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

Following the deal's signing, it was later revealed that several schools had issues with playing football games at night in November, with some having formal clauses allowing them to veto games in that timeslot.^[74] The conference would also have to compensate Fox $40 million for the 2026 Big Ten championship game, as the conference did not actually have the right to offer the game to NBC. Instead, under the terms of the agreement regarding the operation of Big Ten Network, the channel officially owns the conference's TV rights and then sublicenses them out to other channels, thus Fox has a stake in any content BTN sublicenses.^[75]

The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 men's and 14 women's NCAA sanctioned sports.^[76]

Teams in Big Ten Conference competition

Sport	Men's	Women's
Baseball	17	–
Basketball	18	18
Cross country	15	18
Field hockey	–	9
Football	18	–
Golf	18	18
Gymnastics	5	12
Ice hockey	7	–
Lacrosse	6	9
Rowing	–	11
Soccer	11	18
Softball	–	17
Swimming & diving	9	14
Tennis	14	18
Track and field (indoor)	15	17
Track and field (outdoor)	17	17
Volleyball	–	18
Wrestling	14	–

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
Oregon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	8
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
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
Wisconsin	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Totals	17	18	15	18	18	5	6+1*	5+1°	11	9	14	15	17	14	148+2
Affiliate Members
Johns Hopkins								Yes							1
Notre Dame							Yes								1

Notes:

* Notre Dame joined the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in men's ice hockey.^[77] 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.^[78]

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

School	Fencing[a]	Pistol[b]	Rifle[c]	Rowing[d]	Volleyball	Water Polo
Ohio State	Independent	Independent	PRC	No	MIVA	No
Penn State	Independent	No	No	No	EIVA	No
Rutgers	No	No	No	No[e]	No	No
UCLA	No	No	No	No	MPSF	MPSF
USC	No	No	No	No	MPSF	MPSF
Washington	No	No	No	MPSF	No	No
Wisconsin	No	No	No	EARC	No	No

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
Oregon	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
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
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
Wisconsin	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Totals	18	18	9	18	12	8+1[c 1]	11	18	17	14	18	17	17	18	172+1
Affiliate Members
Johns Hopkins						Yes									1

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

School	Acrobatics & Tumbling[a]	Bowling	Fencing[b]	Ice Hockey	Lightweight Rowing[c]	Pistol[d]	Rifle[e]	Synchronized Swimming[f]	Water Polo	Beach Volleyball	Wrestling[g]
Indiana	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	MPSF	No	No
Iowa	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	[h]
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	Central Collegiate Fencing Conference	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Ohio State	No	No	Central Collegiate Fencing Conference	WCHA	No	Independent	PRC	Independent	No	No	No
Oregon	Independent	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	MPSF	No
Penn State	No	No	Independent	AHA	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rutgers	No	No	No	No	EARC	No	No	No	No	No	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
Wisconsin	No	No	No	WCHA	EARC	No	No	No	No	No	No

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 rivalry	None	98	72–24–2	Michigan	Illinois won 1
	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	125	76–43–6	Purdue	Indiana won 1
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	47	43–3–1	Penn State	Penn State won 3
Michigan	Illinois	Illinois–Michigan football rivalry	None	98	72–24–2	Michigan	Illinois won 1
	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	Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry	None	120	62–51–6	Michigan	Michigan won 4
	Penn State	Michigan–Penn State football rivalry		27	17–10	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	37	19–18–1	Penn State	Penn State won 2
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	17	11–6	Penn State	Penn State won 2
	Wisconsin	Minnesota–Wisconsin football rivalry	Paul Bunyan's Axe	133	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	4–12	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	Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry	None	120	62–51–6	Michigan	Michigan won 4
	Penn State	Ohio State–Penn State football rivalry		40	25–14	Ohio State	Ohio State won 8
Oregon	Washington	Oregon–Washington football rivalry		114	63–48–5	Washington	Washington won 3
Penn State	Maryland	Maryland–Penn State football rivalry		47	43–3–1	Penn State	Penn State won 3
	Michigan	Michigan–Penn State football rivalry		27	17–10	Michigan	Michigan won 3
	Michigan State	Michigan State–Penn State football rivalry	Land Grant Trophy	37	19–18–1	Penn State	Penn State won 2
	Minnesota	Minnesota–Penn State football rivalry	Governor's Victory Bell	17	11–6	Penn State	Penn State won 2
	Ohio State	Ohio State–Penn State football rivalry	None	40	25–14	Ohio State	Ohio State won 8
Purdue	Illinois	Illinois–Purdue football rivalry	Purdue Cannon	98	47–45–6	Purdue	Purdue won 3
	Indiana	Indiana–Purdue football rivalry	Old Oaken Bucket	125	76–43–6	Purdue	Indiana won 1
UCLA	USC	UCLA–USC football rivalry	Victory Bell	92	50-–33-7	USC	UCLA won 1
USC	UCLA	UCLA–USC football rivalry		92	50–33–7	USC	UCLA 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	Minnesota–Wisconsin football rivalry	Paul Bunyan's Axe	133	63–62–8	Wisconsin	Wisconsin won 1
	Nebraska	Nebraska–Wisconsin football rivalry	Freedom Trophy	16	12–4	Wisconsin	Wisconsin won 9

Teams		Rivalry name	Trophy	Meetings	Record	Series leader	Existing streak
Illinois	Missouri	Illinois–Missouri football 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	–	73	50–21–2	Nebraska	Nebraska won 1
	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	128	69–49–10	Oregon	Oregon won 2
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	–	60	50–9–2	Penn State	Penn State won 6
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 State won 1

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Beginning in 2024, the conference will eliminate divisions but will protect certain matchups. The following are the conference's 12 protected matchups.^[81]

• 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:^{[citation needed]}

• 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.^[32] 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.^[82]

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

• Illinois: Missouri
• Indiana: Kentucky
• Iowa: Iowa State, Iowa Big Four
• Maryland: Duke, Georgetown, Virginia
• Michigan: Duke
• Michigan State: Duke, Oakland
• Nebraska: Creighton
• Penn State: Bucknell, Pittsburgh
• Oregon: Oregon State
• Rutgers: Princeton, Seton Hall
• UCLA: Arizona, Notre Dame
• Washington: Gonzaga, Washington State
• Wisconsin: Green Bay, Marquette, Milwaukee

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• Michigan-Michigan State
• Minnesota-Wisconsin
• Minnesota-North Dakota
• Minnesota-Minnesota Duluth
• Minnesota-St. Cloud State
• Michigan-Notre Dame

• Maryland-Johns Hopkins
• Penn State-Bucknell
• Rutgers-Princeton

• Michigan-Michigan State (Big Bear Trophy)

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

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.^[83]

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.[1]

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.

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 (as of the 2024 season, all in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)).^[84] Michigan Stadium and Beaver Stadium, respectively, are the two largest American football stadiums by capacity in the United States,^[84][85] 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. USC plays in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a publicly owned stadium that is managed and operated by the university, which has hosted two summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984, and will again in 2028.

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. As of the upcoming 2024–25 season, 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 four, and the SEC five. Outside of these conferences, the Mountain West Conference has four such arenas.)

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	700	2021
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	Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium	12,000[86]	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	76,057[87]	1917	Kohl Center	17,287	1998	Non-baseball school			McClimon Soccer Complex	1,611	1959

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	6,014	Pegula Ice Arena	6,014
Wisconsin	Kohl Center	15,359	LaBahn Arena	2,273

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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

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.^[33][88] 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.^[89] 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).^[90] At the time this policy was first announced, games against FBS independents Notre Dame and BYU would count toward the Power Five requirement.^[82] 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.^[91]

In 2024, the addition of Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington expanded the Big Ten to 18 teams, resulting in the elimination of football divisions.A schedule consisting of nine conference games and three non-conference games was 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.^[92][93] 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 to 2028.^[94]

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

This list goes through December 8, 2024.

#	Team	Won	Loss	Tied	Pct.	Division Championships	Big Ten Championships	Claimed National Championships
1	Ohio State	974	335	53	.735	10	39†	8
2	Michigan	1,011	358	36	.732	4	45	12
3	USC††	881	374	54	.694	0	0	11
4	Penn State	938	409	41	.690	2	4	2
5	Nebraska††	924	430	40	.677	1	0	5
6	Washington††	778	468	50	.620	0	0	2
7	Michigan State	733	490	44	.596	3	9	6
8	Wisconsin	745	524	53	.584	5	14	1
9	UCLA††	638	446	37	.586	0	0	1
10	Oregon††	720	511	46	.582	0	1	0
11	Minnesota	744	549	44	.573	1	18	7
12	Iowa	702	580	39	.546	2	11	5
13	Maryland††	682	627	43	.520	0	0	1
14	Purdue	642	608	48	.513	1	8	0
15	Illinois	644	625	50	.507	0	15	5
16	Rutgers††	676	791	42	.491	0	0	1
17	Northwestern	561	703	44	.448	2	8	0
18	Indiana	506	704	45	.421	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.

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 only allowed one other team to participate in the Rose Bowl (the 1920 Ohio State Buckeyes football team), until the agreement struck with the Pacific Coast Conference for the 1947 Rose Bowl. The spread of civilian air travel plus the fact that the US military had publicly encouraged college football during World War II were primary causes of the Big Ten finally allowing the Rose Bowl.^[95] 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.^[96]

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[97]	Tampa, Florida	SEC
4	Las Vegas Bowl	Paradise, Nevada	Pac-12
5	Music City Bowl[97]	Nashville, Tennessee	SEC
6	Pinstripe Bowl[97]	New York City	ACC
7	Rate Bowl[97]	Phoenix, Arizona	Big 12
8	GameAbove Sports Bowl[97]	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.

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.)^[98] 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.

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.^[99]

In 2024, three Big Ten member schools—Northwestern and USC, private institutions, 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 Penn State and Northwestern typically choose to provide this information, although Northwestern has not announced the salary of its current coach.

Institution	Head coach	2024 guaranteed pay
Ohio State	Ryan Day	$9,960,000
Oregon	Dan Lanning	$8,000,000
Nebraska	Matt Rhule	$7,800,000
Washington	Jedd Fisch	$7,750,000
Wisconsin	Luke Fickell	$7,500,000
Penn State	James Franklin	$7,500,000
Iowa	Kirk Ferentz	$7,000,000
Michigan	Sherrone Moore	$6,000,000
Michigan State	Jonathan Smith	$6,000,000
Illinois	Bret Bielema	$6,000,000
Minnesota	P. J. Fleck	$5,100,000
Purdue	Ryan Walters	$4,100,000
Indiana	Curt Cignetti	$4,000,000
Rutgers	Greg Schiano	$4,000,000
Maryland	Mike Locksley	$4,000,000
Northwestern	David Braun	NA
USC	Lincoln Riley	NA
UCLA	DeShaun Foster	TBA

All Big Ten member schools have marching bands which perform regularly during the football season. Eleven of the member schools have won the Sudler Trophy,^[100] generally considered the most prestigious honor a collegiate marching band can receive.^[101] The first three Sudler trophies were awarded to Big Ten marching bands—Michigan (1982), Illinois (1983) and Ohio State (1984).^[100] The Big Ten has more Sudler Trophy recipients than any other collegiate athletic conference.^[100]

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

The Big Ten has participated in basketball since 1904, and has led the nation in attendance every season since 1978.^[102] Although, they have slightly higher average capacity basketball venues, the attendance edge is largely because Big Ten Conference fans fill a higher percentage of seats than other conferences.^[103] 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.^[104][105] 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 National Invitation Tournament (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.^[106] Former member Chicago won a post-season national championship series in 1908.

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.

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

#	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	26	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.

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. UCLA has won eleven, 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, and Oregon won the first NCAA tournament in 1939. Fifteen teams have advanced to the Final Four at least once in their history. Ten Big Ten schools (Indiana, Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio State, Maryland, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, and UCLA) are among the national top 50 in all-time NCAA tournament appearances.

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)	10 (1942, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1984, 1989, 2001, 2005, 2024)	12 (1951, 1952, 1963, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1989, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2024)	34 (1942, 1949, 1951–52, 1963, 1981, 1983–90, 1993–95, 1997, 1998, 2000–07, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
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)	18 (1939, 1945, 1960, 1961, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021,2024)
Penn State		1 (1954)	2 (1942, 1954)	4 (1952, 1954, 1955, 2001)	10 (1942, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1965, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2011, 2023)
Purdue		3 (1969, 1980, 2024)	6 (1969, 1980, 1994, 2000, 2019, 2024)	14 (1969, 1980, 1988, 1994, 1998–2000, 2009, 2010, 2017–19, 2022, 2024)	34 (1969, 1977, 1980, 1983–88, 1990, 1991, 1993–95, 1997–2000, 2003, 2007–12, 2015–19, 2021–24)
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.

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

Teams in bold represented the Big Ten at the time of their appearance. Those in bold italics made appearances before joining the conference.

Year	Champion		Runner-up		Venue and city[a 1]
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)
1964	UCLA	98	Duke	83	Municipal Auditorium	Kansas City, Missouri (9)
1965	UCLA (2)	91	Michigan	80	Memorial Coliseum	Portland, Oregon
1967	UCLA (3)	79	Dayton	64	Freedom Hall	Louisville, Kentucky (6)
1968	UCLA (4)	78	North Carolina	55	Los Angeles Sports Arena	Los Angeles
1969	UCLA (5)	92	Purdue	72	Freedom Hall	Louisville, Kentucky (6)
1970	UCLA (6)	80	Jacksonville	69	Cole Field House	College Park, Maryland (2)
1971	UCLA (7)	68	Villanova[a 2]	62	Astrodome	Houston
1972	UCLA (8)	81	Florida State	76	Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena	Los Angeles (2)
1973	UCLA (9)	87	Memphis State	66	St. Louis Arena	St. Louis
1975	UCLA (10)	92	Kentucky	85	San Diego Sports Arena	San Diego
1976	Indiana (10)	86	Michigan	68	The Spectrum	Philadelphia
1979	Michigan State	75	Indiana State	64	Special Events Center	Salt Lake City
1980	Louisville	59	UCLA[a 2]	54	Market Square Arena	Indianapolis
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 3]	51	Metrodome	Minneapolis
1993	North Carolina (3)	77	Michigan[a 3]	71	Louisiana Superdome	New Orleans (3)
1995	UCLA (11)	89	Arkansas	78	Kingdome	Seattle (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)
2006	Florida	73	UCLA	57	RCA Dome	Indianapolis (5)
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 4]	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)
2024	UConn (5)	75	Purdue	60	State Farm Stadium	Glendale (2)

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	UConn[b 1]	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 2]	82	Florida State	73	Robert Traylor, Michigan	Madison Square Garden	New York City
1998	Minnesota[b 3]	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	UMass	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

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.^[99]

In 2024, three Big Ten member schools—Northwestern and USC, private institutions, 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. Despite this, both Penn State and Northwestern typically choose to provide this information.

Institution	Head coach	2023–2024 guaranteed pay
Michigan State	Tom Izzo	$6,200,000
Illinois	Brad Underwood	$4,600,000
Indiana	Mike Woodson	$4,200,000
UCLA	Mick Cronin	$4,100,000
Maryland	Kevin Willard	$4,000,000
Oregon	Dana Altman	$3,775,000
Purdue	Matt Painter	$3,550,000
Wisconsin	Greg Gard	$3,550,000
Ohio State	Jake Diebler	$2,500,000
Michigan	Dusty May	$3,750,000
Rutgers	Steve Pikiell	$3,250,000
Nebraska	Fred Hoiberg	$3,250,000
Iowa	Fran McCaffery	$3,200,000
Washington	Danny Sprinkle	$3,600,000
Penn State	Mike Rhoades	$2,900,000
Minnesota	Ben Johnson	$1,950,000
Northwestern	Chris Collins	$2,893,064
USC	Eric Musselman	NA

Big Ten women's basketball teams have played a total of 17 championship games of the three most prominent national postseason tournaments—six in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament (since 1982), one in the Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (since 2024), and 10 in the Women's National Invitation Tournament (since 1998). Three other championship game appearances (two in the NCAA, one in the WNIT) were made by current Big Ten members before they joined the conference, and the 2024 arrivals have combined for five championship game appearances (three in the NCAA and two in the WNIT). 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.^[107]

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.

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		3 (1993, 2023–24)	6 (1987, 1988, 1993, 2019, 2023–24)	10 (1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023–24)	29 (1986–94, 1996–98, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010–15, 2018–19, 2021–24)
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)