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119-498: The IIAA was founded on March 1, 1890, in a meeting held at the Indianapolis YMCA. The seven charter member institutions were Indiana , Purdue , Butler , Wabash , DePauw , Hanover , and Franklin . Initial officers included W. H. Bliss of Indiana (president), R. D. Meeker of Butler (vice president), and A. H. Bradshaw of Franklin (secretary). The IIAA existed at a time of transition for intercollegiate athletics. When it

238-672: A 14-team league with two football divisions. 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

357-509: 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. 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

476-556: A feat that had never happened before in the sport, and has never happened since. The Indiana Hoosiers Wrestling began in 1909, with accomplishments such as: 50 individual All-Americans, 12 individual NCAA National Champions from 1932 to 2008, and 1 team NCAA National title in 1932. In 1946 Indiana took 2nd in the Big Ten Championships and 4th in the NCAA Championships. In recent years better seasons included

595-606: A former Big Ten Conference member, was a member of the CIC from 1958 to June 29, 2016. 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

714-637: A four-time NCAA All-American. After three consecutive second-place finishes, he won the NCAA Championships in his final season at 190 pounds. The Hoosiers have seen a tremendous amount of success during Goldman's tenure when he took the team to a top ten finish in the NCAA tournament in 2005. On September 5, 2009, Goldman was officially inducted into the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame. During his tenure, Goldman coached Joe Dubuque (2005, 2006) and Angel Escobedo (2008) to national championships. Escobedo

833-739: A full schedule planned for next season. The team plays their home games at the Frank Southern Ice Arena, south of campus in Bloomington. The men's lacrosse team competes in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) Division 1. The Hoosiers are a part of the Upper Midwest Lacrosse Conference (UMLC) and compete with Miami Ohio, Michigan State, Purdue, Western Michigan, Illinois, Iowa State, Minnesota, and Nebraska. The Hoosiers previously competed in

952-532: A full-time employee of the institution, on the model of Amos Alonzo Stagg , whom the University of Chicago had hired for such a role in 1892. Nevertheless, as late as 1903–4, the IIAA was still a student-run organization. That year, C. L. Peck, "an Indianapolis student at Purdue," was elected IIAA president at the association's annual December meeting. The constitution drafted by the founders stipulated that every participant in an IIAA contest must be "an active member of

1071-479: A higher winning percentage in both regular season and post-season play than any other school in Division I soccer. The Hoosiers have also dominated conference play. Since the Big Ten began sponsoring men's soccer in 1991, Indiana has won 11 Big Ten tournament titles. Indiana has also been crowned regular season champion 14 times, including nine-straight seasons from 1996 to 2004. A league-record 11 Big Ten Players of

1190-566: A mascot, but student-athletes are known as " Hoosiers ", a nickname for natives or residents of Indiana . A bulldog named Ox served as the football team's mascot from 1959 to 1965. Indiana had a bison as its mascot in the late 1960s and introduced a mascot named Mr. Hoosier Pride in 1979. The mascot didn't go over well with fans and was quickly abandoned. The Indiana Hoosiers have two fight songs – " Indiana, Our Indiana " and "Indiana Fight!" – along with an alma mater song, "Hail to Old IU". Indiana's most recognized fight song, "Indiana, Our Indiana",

1309-459: 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. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a second meeting on February 8, 1896. Lake Forest was not at the 1896 meeting and was replaced by the University of Michigan . At the time,

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1428-608: 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 . On June 30, 2022, UCLA and USC announced that they would be joining

1547-480: A nationally ranked squad at Indiana. A 2012 study listed Indiana as the third most valuable collegiate basketball program in the country. Indiana has ranked in the top 15 nationally in men's basketball attendance every season since Assembly Hall opened in 1972, and often in the top five. When asked if Indiana basketball fans were the most passionate in the country, ESPN commentator Dick Vitale said, "I don't think there's any doubt about it. They eat, sleep and drink

1666-405: A nationwide trend as part of the 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment . 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. 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

1785-632: 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. (In 1926, Notre Dame had briefly considered official entry into the Big Ten but chose to retain its independent status. ) Notre Dame subsequently joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports except football, in which Notre Dame maintains its independent status as long as it plays at least five games per season against ACC opponents. This

1904-451: A professional pitcher in their conference contest, sparking another crisis. Protested games became common enough to pose a serious burden on the conference, at a time when there was no such thing as a commissioner or conference office. A committee of the membership had to be assembled to adjudicate every protest, and to cover the cost, the IIAA began charging a fee to the losing party in a disputed contest. The conference that eventually became

2023-440: A round-robin schedule in baseball and football had broken down, the victim of too many disputed contests and (especially among the smallest schools) teams not being fielded in some sports in some years, or not completing their schedules. While basketball was recognized as a conference sport, nothing like a coherent schedule was ever attempted. Ultimately, the IIAA was able to declare definitive champions only in track and tennis, where

2142-475: A rule barring freshmen from varsity competition. This decision dealt a severe blow to the IIAA. In the constitution it adopted in 1900, the association committed its members to follow the eligibility rules of the Western Conference, but it had not enforced the freshman rule, and prior to 1907, the Western Conference had not pressed the issue. Now it did, and Wabash led the way in refusing to comply. At

2261-440: A scheduled home game against Wabash, "standing on their principles on the color line," and offered to pay the requisite IIAA forfeit fee. Wabash filled the gap in their schedule with a game at Culver Academy on the same day, but did not take Gordon because he was injured. Rose Polytechnic then refused to pay the forfeit money, arguing that they did not owe Wabash anything because Gordon would not have been fit to play against them on

2380-586: Is Jeff Mercer . Beginning in 2013, the Hoosiers play in Bart Kaufman Field . The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing Indiana University . The Hoosiers play on Branch McCracken Court at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on the IU campus. Indiana has won five NCAA Championships in men's basketball ( 1940 , 1953 , 1976 , 1981 , 1987 ) —

2499-593: Is Tom Allen . The team has won the Big Ten Championship twice, once in 1945 and again in 1967. It has appeared in twelve bowl games, including the 1968 Rose Bowl : By a number of indicators, the Hoosiers are one of the greatest soccer programs in the history of the sport. The Hoosiers have won eight national championships in men's soccer ( 1982 , 1983 , 1988 , 1998 , 1999 , 2003 , 2004 and 2012 ), second only to St. Louis ' 10. Indiana owns more wins, has appeared in more College Cups (22) and has

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2618-628: Is membership in the Association of American Universities . 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." All Big Ten members are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance , formerly known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. The University of Chicago ,

2737-467: Is the case with the baseball team's jackets being a different color than their caps and uniforms. Athletic Director Fred Glass said, "My view is that we're an awfully big and diverse place. I think cream and crimson and 'Go Big Red' can survive in one place." Only four other major college programs claim crimson as their dominant color: Alabama , Harvard , Oklahoma and Washington State , and only Oklahoma pairs crimson with cream. The school does not have

2856-561: 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. 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

2975-471: The Association of American Universities is "an important part of who we are." 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. The following table shows National University rank by U.S. News & World Report as of 2023 . Also indicated

3094-712: The Big Ten was founded in February 1896 and overshadowed the IIAA for the remainder of its existence. Organized as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, but popularly known as the Western Conference, it counted Purdue among its charter members and added Indiana in December 1899. To enable the state's two flagship universities to maintain a concurrent membership in the IIAA, in March 1900

3213-610: The Big Ten Universities conference, which is part of D1A Rugby – USA Rugby 's elite division of college rugby . The Hoosiers finished the 2016–17 season ranked #7. The club was founded in 1962 and played its first game against the Notre Dame Rugby Football Club . Head Coach Sarasopa Enari arrived to the program in 1994 and has led the team to many notable achievements. IU reached its first national semifinal in 1998. In 2011 they finished

3332-769: The Crimson and Gold Cup . IU leads the series 7–6–2. Kentucky Big Ten 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,

3451-655: 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. Notes: Notes The University of Chicago is the only full member to have permanently left the Big Ten Conference. Full members  Full members (non-football)  Sport affiliate  Other conference  Other conference  As intercollegiate football rapidly increased during

3570-536: The Hoosiers men's soccer team , a record-setting six straight in men's swimming and diving, five by the Hoosiers men's basketball team , three in men's cross country, one in men's track and field and one in wrestling . The Hoosiers' athletic program is perhaps best known for its basketball program, with its five NCAA Championships tying for fourth in history. Indiana's 1976 squad remains the last undefeated NCAA men's basketball champion. A 2018 study listed Indiana as

3689-674: 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. 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,

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3808-538: The Purdue Boilermakers (see Indiana–Purdue rivalry ), and a border rivalry against the Kentucky Wildcats (see Indiana–Kentucky rivalry ). The school's official colors are cream and crimson. The official IU Crimson is Pantone 201. However, in the 1970s former basketball coach Bob Knight and football coach Lee Corso started using uniforms that were more scarlet or bright red. During

3927-555: The Purdue University and Indiana University systems, respectively. IU and Purdue have competed for the Old Oaken Bucket in football since 1925 , a series which Purdue leads 70–36–6. In basketball, IU's 22 Big Ten Championships are second only to Purdue's 24. The Boilermakers also lead the men's basketball series 115–89. Since the 2001–02 year, IU and Purdue have also competed for an all-sports trophy called

4046-677: The United States Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2022–23 academic year. 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. Commissioner Jim Delany began to explore the formation of a Big Ten-specific channel in 2004 after

4165-490: The 1890s, so did the ruthless nature of the game. Tempers flared, fights erupted, and injuries soared. Between 1880 and 1905, college football players suffered more than 325 deaths and 1,149 injuries. To deal with mounting criticism of the game, Purdue University president James Henry Smart invited the presidents of the University of Chicago , University of Illinois , Lake Forest College , University of Minnesota , Northwestern University , and University of Wisconsin to

4284-463: The 1896–97 academic year through 1903–4, the University of Indianapolis , a short-lived conglomeration of Indianapolis academic institutions (not to be confused with the present-day school of the same name), appeared in place of Butler in the IIAA membership rolls, after Butler became the new university's undergraduate college. Until it regained its independence early in the new century, Butler competed, officially, as Indianapolis, and "Butler" appeared in

4403-515: The 1971 and 2001 Big Ten Hockey League championships, 8 Midwestern Collegiate Hockey League (MCHL) championships during the 1980s and 1990s, and the 2002 Great Midwest Hockey League (GMHL). The Hoosiers men's ice hockey team was the National Championship runner-up in the 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2008 ACHA Division II National Championships, winning their first ACHA D-II national title in 2024. Home and road games are broadcast live on

4522-521: The 1971–72 season. The Hoosiers were co-Big Ten champions the 1982–83 season, won the Big Ten Tournament in the 2001–02 season, and won the WNIT in the 2017–18 season. The current head coach of the Hoosiers is Teri Moren . Indiana began playing football in 1884 and currently plays in the 52,656-seat, open-air Memorial Stadium , built in 1960 . The current head football coach of the Hoosiers

4641-406: The 1989–1990 season placed 2nd in the Big Ten Conference and 8th at the NCAA Championships, and the 2004–2005 season took 5th place at the Big Ten Conference and 9th at the NCAA Championships. Duane Goldman was head coach until he retired after the 2017–18 season after 26 years. In his four years as a Hawkeye, Goldman accumulated a 132–10 career record, won four Big Ten Championships and finished as

4760-562: 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. 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. In 2016,

4879-548: 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, and the three broadcasters alternating first pick of games. The contracts were estimated to be worth at least $ 7 billion, but also reportedly includes an "escalator clause" that will raise

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4998-575: 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. Notre Dame had been

5117-576: 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. 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

5236-535: The Big Ten Conference alongside UCLA and USC. 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. The schools will receive a full share with the next media deal. In June 2023 – after UCLA and USC were confirmed as incoming members but before Oregon and Washington were added –

5355-603: 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. 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. In August 2022, the conference reached new media rights deals with CBS, Fox, and NBC totaled at an estimated $ 7 billion. On August 4, 2023, Oregon and Washington announced that they would join

5474-453: The Big Ten as its 14th member school. 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. 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. Under

5593-578: The Big Ten. The Big Ten's membership would remain unchanged for the next 40 years. The conference's official name throughout this period remained the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. It did not formally adopt the name Big Ten until 1987, when it was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation. 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. When Penn State joined in 1990, it

5712-691: The Great Rivers Lacrosse Conference (GRLC), and in 2013 were regular season champions for the GRLC D1 East. They finished the season 11–4 with their final loss of the season in the 2013 GRLC Championship game. In 2014, they finished the season 10-4 and won the GRLC conference championship 14–6 against Illinois State, earning a bid to the MCLA tournament, where they lost 18–5 in the first round to top ranked ASU. In 2018, they finished

5831-830: The Hoosier men's and women's teams compete at the Counsilman-Billingsley Center in the Student Recreational Sports Center, a 44,651-square-foot (4,148.2 m ) aquatics center. It features an eight-lane Olympic-sized pool spanning 30,512 square feet (2,834.7 m ) with depth ranging from seven to eight feet to allow for greater speed. The Billingsley Diving Center, complete with one of the country's few indoor diving towers, features four one-meter and two three-meter springboards as well as one-, three-, five-, seven- and 10-meter platforms. The Indiana University Outdoor Pool serves as

5950-766: The Hoosiers claimed their first TSCHL Playoff Championship, after finishing the regular season as runners-up. Previously, they were members of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League conference, which is part of the ACHA Division I. The team plays most games at the historic Frank Southern Ice Arena off-campus, but some fall practices and games are hosted by the Hamilton Ice Center in Columbus, IN due to seasonal maintenance concerns at "The Frank". The team holds

6069-469: The Hoosiers, in violation of an IIAA rule requiring transfer students to sit out a year. Wade did not even inform Indiana State that he would be transferring, and the press noted that his former teammates suffered from "such demoralization that the football schedule has been canceled." The same season, the Wabash football roster included Samuel Gordon, an African American player. Rose Polytechnic refused to play

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6188-526: The IIAA for scheduling a game that competed with the conference contest, even though it had violated no rule in doing so. When Butler survived the March 1895 expulsion vote, DePauw quit the IIAA in protest (only temporarily, as it turned out). At the time, the IIAA remained at nine members by admitting Indiana State and promptly integrating the newcomers into the spring 1895 baseball schedule. The dust had barely settled when Purdue, in May 1895, accused Wabash of using

6307-575: The IIAA lifted the ban on playing against professional teams, but at the same time agreed to "clothe the professors of the colleges with power to decide who shall belong to the college clubs." This had the practical effect of preventing the conference's teams from hiring non-student "ringers" to supplement their rosters. More generally, it was an important step in extending faculty control over intercollegiate athletics in Indiana. At least one source later claimed an 1889 track meet at Butler--the year prior to

6426-517: The IIAA was founded. It was invented by James Naismith at the YMCA Training School (today Springfield College ) in the winter of 1891–92, but by 1899-90 it had joined football, baseball, and track as a sport sponsored by the IIAA. Other than tennis (which had an annual tournament every May, by 1903) it was the only sport added by the IIAA after its founding. By the turn of the century, the initial concept of crowning champions based on

6545-417: The IU program has ranked among the top three in average or total attendance. Indiana led the nation in average attendance in 2004 and 2005 and in total attendance in 2003. The Hoosiers are currently coached by Todd Yeagley , the son of former Indiana Hall of Fame coach Jerry Yeagley . On November 18, 2007, the Hoosiers defeated Purdue University in the NCAA second round to advance to the NCAA third round for

6664-488: The Year come from Indiana. Indiana players have won six Hermann Trophies (including Ken Snow twice) and three Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year awards. The Hoosiers have produced 13 United States men's national soccer team players, six Olympians and six World Cup players. In addition, Hoosier players have earned All-America honors 52 times. Every year since the NCAA began tracking men's soccer attendance in 2001,

6783-763: The annual meeting of the IIAA in Indianapolis, representatives of the smaller colleges of Indiana held their own meeting to form the Indiana College Athletic League . In the ensuing realignment of conference affiliations, Earlham and Indiana State left the IIAA to join Hanover and Franklin in the ICAL. Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, and DePauw (readmitted since its 1900 expulsion) remained in the IIAA. Wabash and Rose Polytechnic maintained active membership in both organizations, Butler in neither. After

6902-463: The association adopted a new constitution committing its members to follow the same eligibility rules as the Western Conference. By spring 1896 DePauw had returned to active membership, raising the number of IIAA schools to ten, but Franklin, Hanover, Earlham, and Indiana State did not field baseball teams. Everyone usually participated in the annual May track meet, but in 1897 Franklin and Hanover (the two least active IIAA members) missed it, too. From

7021-404: The association was welcome to send a team to the meet, as long as the roster conformed to Western Conference rules, including the ban on freshmen. The same was true of the IIAA tennis tournament. Any of the smaller current or former members of the IIAA could also continue to schedule the "big three" in football, baseball, or basketball, as long as they honored the freshman rule in those contests. But

7140-416: The best winning percentage in conference games at nearly 60 percent. No team has had more All-Big Ten selections than the Hoosiers with 53. The Hoosiers also rank seventh in all-time AP poll appearances and sixth in number of weeks spent at No 1. Every four-year men's basketball letterman since 1973 has earned a trip to the NCAA basketball tournament. Additionally, every four-year player since 1950 has played on

7259-493: The college he represents" who had never been paid for playing his sport. "Graduate instructors" were barred from competition. Five years later, amendments were added barring the practice of athletes playing under an "assumed name" and preventing members from playing against "any professional team representing so-called athletic associations." The latter rule came in response to the growing phenomenon of play-for-pay baseball and football among urban athletic clubs and YMCA teams. In 1896

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7378-457: The conference and its members. 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). Accompanying the new network announcement was a new ten-year media rights agreement beginning with

7497-421: 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. 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

7616-509: 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

7735-617: 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, but was turned away both times. In 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the "Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives". 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. Ohio State joined in 1912. The first known references to

7854-524: The conference as the Big Ten were in December 1916, when Michigan rejoined the conference after a nine-year absence. 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

7973-401: 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." For the new football division names, the Big Ten

8092-777: The country in the D1A rankings. In the 2016-17 IU won another Big Ten Rugby Championship and fell to 4-time national champions BYU in a D1A quarterfinal. Indiana has also been successful in rugby sevens , particularly in the Collegiate Rugby Championship , a tournament broadcast live by NBC every June from Subaru Park in the Philadelphia metropolitan area . Indiana has competed in the CRC on 4 occasions since 2010. IU finished tied for 5th overall in 2015 after going 3–0 in pool play. The pool play victory over Clemson

8211-482: The day of the canceled game. Later in the season, Gordon's presence on the Wabash eleven caused problems for some opponents (Hanover and DePauw) but not for others (Earlham and Notre Dame). Such disputes only served to increase animosities among members of the IIAA and further weaken the cohesion of the conference. In April 1907, the Western Conference voted to bar its members from playing any opponents that did not conform to "the conference rules of eligibility," including

8330-424: 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

8449-502: The decision was based on a single season-ending meet or tournament. In December 1900, the IIAA expelled DePauw "for failure to conform to the rules of eligibility for players." Franklin resigned the same month, reducing the conference to nine members. Hanover disappeared from the membership rolls by the end of 1902, leaving eight schools to attend the IIAA meeting that December: Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Butler, Wabash, Rose Polytechnic, Earlham, and Indiana State. In December 1902, during

8568-415: The early 1970s said, "a good case can be made for the 1971 Indiana swimming team being the best college team ever—in any sport." The Hoosiers have produced 4 individual national champions and six Big Ten championship teams in 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2019. Fourteen Hoosier women count themselves as Olympians, winning six medals in all. Men's cross country began on the Indiana campus in 1910. Since

8687-626: The end of each season, the top two teams in the conference standings would oppose each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game . 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

8806-623: The event. For its part, Notre Dame declared its intention to maintain good relations not just with Indiana colleges, but with all members of the Western Conference: "Athletics at Notre Dame shall be conducted in harmony with the regulations of both the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives." Basketball, ultimately the most popular team sport in Indiana, did not yet exist when

8925-504: The failed meeting declared the IIAA "dissolved." A year later, the term used was "practically defunct." Among the smaller colleges, only DePauw tried to abide by the freshman rule, and only until 1909, when it quit the IIAA, then joined the ICAL the following year. Nevertheless, the IIAA continued to exist, though mostly to preserve the annual track meet as a showcase for the state's emerging "big three" of athletics, Notre Dame plus Indiana and Purdue. Any other school not previously expelled from

9044-544: The fall of 1892. By the spring of 1893, Earlham had joined the IIAA as its ninth member. The IIAA faced its first crisis on Thanksgiving Day, 1894, when Butler played a home game against the eleven of the Indiana Light Artillery, cutting into the gate of the Purdue-DePauw game, slotted months earlier to be the season finale in Indianapolis. DePauw subsequently demanded that Butler be expelled from

9163-410: The first IIAA track meet, held that May. By the fall of 1891, five members (all but Hanover, Franklin, and Rose Polytechnic) were playing a four-game round robin in football, with the last game on Thanksgiving Day in Indianapolis. The IIAA drafted a six-game schedule for baseball for the spring of 1892 (with Franklin not participating) and a five-game schedule for football (without Franklin or Hanover) for

9282-403: The first time in program history. Three Indiana Hoosiers played during the inaugural WUSA season: Wendy Dillinger ( Atlanta Beat ), Tracy Grose ( Carolina Courage ), and Kelly Wilson ( Bay Area CyberRays ). The Hoosier softball team has appeared in four Women's College World Series , in 1979, 1980, 1983 and 1986. The current head softball coach of the Hoosiers is Shonda Stanton . Both

9401-687: The first two under coach Branch McCracken and the latter three under Bob Knight . The Hoosiers' five NCAA Championships are tied for fourth with Duke (5), trailing North Carolina (6), UCLA (11), and Kentucky (8). Indiana's 1976 squad remains the last undefeated NCAA men's basketball champion. The Hoosiers are also sixth in NCAA Tournament appearances (36), sixth in NCAA Tournament victories (62), seventh in Final Four appearances (8), and 11th in overall victories (1,665). The Hoosiers have won 22 Big Ten Conference Championships and have

9520-523: The founding of the IIAA--as the association's first competition, leading to long-lasting confusion over the date of its founding. The first official competition was a six-game round robin in baseball, scheduled for the spring of 1890, the results of which are lost to history. Rose Polytechnic (today Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) became the eighth conference member later in the spring of 1890, too late for baseball but in time to participate in, and win,

9639-537: The funding for club sports programs comes through organization dues and outside fundraising. Of the 40 club sports on the Bloomington campus, several are noteworthy for representing IU in high-level national competitions. The Indiana University men's ice hockey team was founded in 1967, and has played in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division II Tri-State Collegiate Hockey League since 2019. In February 2022,

9758-465: The game." Basketball sportscaster Gus Johnson called Assembly Hall, "the Carnegie Hall of basketball." Indiana has intense rivalries both in-state, against the Purdue Boilermakers (see Indiana–Purdue rivalry ), and out-of-state, against the Kentucky Wildcats (see Indiana–Kentucky rivalry ). The team is currently coached by Mike Woodson . Women's basketball began as a varsity sport in

9877-644: 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. The members engage in $ 9.3 billion in funded research each year; 17 out of 18 are members of

9996-419: The inception of cross country as an NCAA sport, Indiana is one of only nine schools in the nation to have won more than two men's national titles, and is one of seven programs to win at least three national titles. The school's three team national titles came in 1938, 1940, and 1942. Indiana's 29 NCAA men's championship team appearances are tied for ninth-most in the sport's history. Indiana has found itself in

10115-693: The individual Big Ten diving, relay and individual swimming crowns all rank second among all conference schools. The success goes well beyond the Big Ten and the NCAA Championship as is evidenced by the eight straight U.S. National Diving Championships that Indiana divers have won. Under former coaches James Counsilman and Hobie Billingsley , the men's swimming and diving program won 140 consecutive dual meets, 20 consecutive Big Ten titles and an NCAA Division I record six consecutive NCAA Championships (1968–1973), most of which were won under swimming great Mark Spitz . A writer for Sports Illustrated in

10234-854: The intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington , named after the demonym for people from the state of Indiana . The Hoosiers participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 24 sports and became a member of the Big Ten Conference on December 1, 1899. The school's official colors are cream and crimson . The Indiana Hoosiers have won 24 NCAA national championships and one Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national championship, in addition to 145 NCAA individual national championships. Titles won by teams include eight by

10353-406: 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. All current members of the Big Ten are doctorate-granting universities. Former conference commissioner Jim Delany said in 2010 that membership in

10472-466: The new "Legends" and "Leaders" divisions were not met with enthusiasm. Some traditional rivals, including Ohio State and Michigan, were placed in separate divisions. 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 . The Legends and Leaders divisional alignment

10591-583: 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 . The divisional alignment permanently protected the cross-divisional football rivalry Indiana–Purdue . As before, the two division winners played each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game. The West and East divisional alignment

10710-689: The new plan, the Legends and Leaders divisions were replaced with geographic divisions. 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

10829-481: The next annual meeting of the IIAA in December 1907, attempts to find a solution proved fruitless, as Notre Dame, for the sake of getting games with Western Conference teams, aligned with Indiana and Purdue on the freshman rule. A disappointed sportswriter summed it up: "Consequently, there will be no meetings between [Western] conference and non-conference schools in Indiana for a long time, and state titles in all branches of college athletics are ended." Press reports of

10948-537: 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. As long-time independents joined conferences (for example, Syracuse joining

11067-404: 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

11186-483: The program in 1992. Women's cross country began in Bloomington in 1978. The NCAA began sponsoring the sport in 1981. The women have had a pair of individual national champions, something only three other schools in the nation, and just one other in the Big Ten , can claim. On four occasions, the Hoosiers have competed for the NCAA crown as a team (1988, 1989, 1990, 2002). The 1988 season saw Indiana winning an individual men's and women's national cross country championship,

11305-424: The rule effectively established a barrier between major and minor programs, since the latter simply did not have enough athletic students on campus to field competitive varsity teams without freshmen, plus separate freshman teams, as the larger schools did. The annual IIAA track meet received a boost in 1915 when it was declared an "open" meet. This designation, apparently acceptable to the Western Conference, enabled

11424-424: The same time, cream gave way almost universally to white. But those colors reverted mostly to cream and crimson in the early 2000s, after then-athletics director Michael McNeely decided that the team uniforms needed to reflect the school's official colors of cream and crimson. Indiana cheerleaders still chant "Go Big Red". The changes over the years has led to some clashing of colors in some varsity sport uniforms, as

11543-479: The season 10-3 and went to the conference championship, beating Purdue 8–5, again earning them a bid to the MCLA tournament, where they lost in the first round 12–6 to first ranked Chapman. Purdue The Hoosiers' biggest traditional rival is the Purdue Boilermakers . The West Lafayette (Purdue) and Bloomington (IU) campuses are the largest in the state of Indiana and are the flagship campuses of

11662-468: The season ranked 11th. In 2013, IU won the Big Ten Championship match 58–38 over Michigan. In 2015, Indiana defeated Ohio State 34–14 to win another BTU Championship game. Following the conference championship victory, IU achieved a milestone 38–34 win over Kutztown University in the ACRC Bowl Series. This capped a perfect 12-0 Fall 2015 campaign. The Hoosiers finished the season ranked 5th in

11781-558: The second most valuable collegiate basketball program in the country. Additionally, Hoosiers' athletics is well known for its soccer program; by a number of indicators, it is one of the greatest college soccer programs in the history of the sport. Since the program began in 1973, Indiana owns more National Championships, more wins, has appeared in more College Cups (18) and has a higher winning percentage in both regular season and post-season play than any other school in Division I soccer. Indiana has two main rivalries including in-state, with

11900-486: The smaller colleges of the state to compete in the meet against Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame using ICAL eligibility rules (allowing freshmen to participate) while the "big three" adhered to Western Conference eligibility rules (still barring freshmen). The IIAA held its last track meet and tennis tournament in May 1922. Later that year, the organization was superseded by the new Indiana Intercollegiate Conference . Indiana Hoosiers The Indiana Hoosiers are

12019-501: The split, the IIAA went through the motions of expelling members that had already left. The agenda for the December 1903 meeting included officially dropping Hanover, Franklin, Earlham, and "the University of Indianapolis" (Butler) on the grounds that they "have taken little interest in the association and have not paid their dues." Eligibility issues clouded the IIAA's last years. In the fall of 1903 Charles Wade, former football captain at Indiana State, enrolled at Indiana and suited up for

12138-462: The sports pages only as colloquial shorthand for the rebranded institution. Notre Dame's "debut in Indiana athletics" came in the IIAA track meet of May 1898, shortly after it became the 11th member of the conference. It was an auspicious debut, as the Irish won the meet, albeit with Purdue protesting the results at the time, and other participants subsequently accusing them of using professionals to win

12257-640: The team's YouTube Channel, although the IU Media School's student-run radio station WIUX (formerly WIUS) broadcast select games prior to 2005. The team is led by Head Coach Andrew Weiss, who took over during the 2021–22 season. Indiana University also maintains a club hockey team that competes in the Division III Indiana Collegiate Hockey Conference of the ACHA. The IU Men's Rugby Club competes in

12376-656: The team's training facility in the summer months. It features a ten-lane Olympic-sized pool along with a diving pool that includes a 10-meter platform. The Hoosiers won six straight NCAA national championships from 1968 to 1973, giving them the fifth-most in NCAA history. Their 24 Big Ten crowns, including every Big Ten championship from 1961 to 1985, rank second in the conference's 90-year history. Indiana has produced 80 individual swimming and diving national champions, over 191 Big Ten swimming champions, 25 conference diving champions and has won 45 Big Ten relay events. The 80 national champions ranks third among Big Ten schools while

12495-402: The time. 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. On May 20, 1949, Michigan State ended the speculation by joining and the conference was again known as

12614-499: The top five at the NCAA Men's Championship on nine occasions. A Hoosier has captured the men's individual crown three times, making Indiana one of only six schools in the country, and the only Big Ten school, to have more than two individual NCAA men's cross country champions. The three individual titles rank as the fourth-most by any school. Bob Kennedy , regarded as one of the greatest U.S. distance runners in history, graduated from

12733-554: The value of the contracts if the Notre Dame Fighting Irish were to specifically join the Big Ten. 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. The conference would also have to compensate Fox $ 40 million for the 2026 Big Ten championship game, as

12852-401: 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

12971-452: Was created, college sports were only loosely controlled by the institutions they represented; most schools followed the Yale model, in which programs were run by a combination of students, alumni, and boosters. By the time of its dissolution, most larger schools (and an increasing number of smaller ones) had adopted the Chicago model, featuring an athletic director and multi-sport coach who was

13090-403: 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. Around 1993, the league explored adding Kansas , Missouri and Rutgers or other potential schools, to create

13209-509: Was first performed by the IU Band in November 1912 at a football game against Northwestern. The song has since been played at every Indiana football and basketball game.Indiana's popular fight song melody is "Indiana Fight!", though the words are rarely sung at an Indiana sporting event. The crowd usually just sings "GO! IU! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Indiana, we're all for you!" at the end of the song. Indiana's official Alma Mater song, "Hail to Old IU"

13328-405: Was first performed on March 10, 1893, in Indianapolis. J.T. Giles, who organized the IU glee club wrote the words to a Scottish song in order to give the Hoosiers a school song for a performance at a state contest. The song has been a mainstay at Indiana events since that day. An additional school song, "Chimes of Indiana," was written by alumnus Hoagy Carmichael (Class of 1925-law degree 1926), and

13447-493: Was founded in 1996, and has also represented Indiana University at a high level. In 2014, IU reached the national semifinals of the USA Rugby Women's Collegiate Championship. Despite having a men's ice hockey team since the late 1960s, the women's team was founded in 2019, and began playing during the 2021–22 season. Their inaugural game was a road trip to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in February, with

13566-531: 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. In men's lacrosse, Ohio State and Penn State were

13685-505: 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. The Big Ten's Council of Presidents approved the move later that day. One day later, Rutgers University of the Big East also accepted an offer for membership from

13804-637: Was named as Goldman's replacement in April 2018. The Wrestling team hosts most of their home matches in the 2,000-seat University Gymnasium. The Wrestling team practices in Assembly Hall but prefers the home court advantage of the more intimate University Gymnasium, also known as Intercollegiate Athletics Gym. The Indiana University Club Sports Federation operates separately from the IU Athletic Department, which means that nearly all of

13923-406: Was presented to the university in 1937 as a gift from the class of 1935. The Hoosiers have appeared eight times in the NCAA Tournament, in 1996, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 including one College World Series appearance. They have won the regular season conference championship seven times – 1925, 1932, 1938, 1949, 2013, 2014 and 2019. The current head baseball coach of the Hoosiers

14042-435: Was the first IU Rugby game played on national television ( NBCSN ). In 2017 the Hoosiers reached the CRC semifinal before losing to 5-time champions Cal 29–14. The IU Men's Rugby Club has been hailed as the top "true club rugby team" in the country for its victories over programs who offer scholarships or benefit from their athletic departments, including Kutztown, Life, Davenport, and Notre Dame. The IU Women's Rugby Club

14161-529: 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. However,

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