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51-578: Mizzou Arena also includes offices for the Men's and Women's basketball programs, the Athletic Administration and Mizzou Arena's Building Operations. For the basketball programs the arena also offers locker rooms, a 24-hour practice gym, weight and training facilities including a hydrotherapy pool, video classrooms with audio and video editing capabilities, and an academic study center. Missouri basketball coach from 1967 to 1999, Norm Stewart ,

102-754: A Supreme Court decision in 1984, the primary function of the CFA was to negotiate television broadcast rights for its member conferences and independent colleges. In February 1994, the Southeastern Conference announced that they, like the Big Ten , Pac-10 , and Notre Dame before them, would be leaving the CFA and negotiate independently for a television deal that covered SEC schools only. This led The Dallas Morning News to proclaim that "the College Football Association as

153-528: A Dallas, Texas restaurant in May 2007, Stewart had a pacemaker installed. In late July 2008 Stewart underwent successful open-heart surgery, an aortic valve replacement, at a Columbia, Missouri hospital. Norm Stewart's achievements on the basketball court and baseball diamond were recognized in 1990 as he led the inaugural class of the MU Athletics Hall of Fame. He was again given special recognition by

204-415: A hand in more than half of Missouri's all-time wins as either a player, assistant coach, or head coach. Although retired from coaching, Stewart continued to keep a busy itinerary of meetings, speaking engagements, travel, and color commentary on Mizzou basketball broadcasts. Stewart is also a member of the council of Coaches Vs. Cancer, a program he founded following his own cancer battle. After collapsing at

255-520: A middleman working for agents hoping to sign Crudup if he was selected in the 1994 NBA draft . Missouri didn't dispute that Crudup had received the payments, but contended that it didn't know about them. In 1996, the NCAA largely exonerated Stewart and the Tigers, but forced them to vacate their 1994 NCAA Tournament appearance. In 1989, Stewart was diagnosed with colon cancer , missing the final 14 games of

306-485: A record of 97 wins, 42 losses, and two conference championships. On March 10, 1967, Stewart was named head basketball coach at his alma mater. He inherited a program that had only garnered two winning seasons since 1956, his senior year. The Tigers had only finished as high as fourth in the Big Six/Seven/Eight three times since then. He didn't take long to turn the program around. In his fifth year, he led

357-524: A spot on the 1956 Helms Foundation All-American team . It was while at MU he met the love of his life, Virginia (Zimmerley) Stewart. Following graduation from Mizzou, Stewart was drafted by the St. Louis Hawks in the 1956 NBA draft , playing one season at forward . He also signed a contract with Major League Baseball 's Baltimore Orioles , pitching in 1957 for the Class C Aberdeen Pheasants , but never played at

408-850: A television entity is dead". More significantly, this change in television contracts ultimately would lead to significant realignment of college conferences, with the biggest change being the dissolution of the Big Eight and Southwest Conferences and the formation of the Big 12. After the SEC's abandonment of the CFA, the Southwest Conference and the Big Eight Conference saw potential financial benefits from an alliance to negotiate television deals, and quickly began negotiations to that end, with ABC and ESPN . On February 25, 1994, it

459-498: A term paper scandal involving that daughter shortly after the arena's dedication. The name of the arena's playing surface, Norm Stewart Court (in honor of Mizzou's longtime men's coach), was carried over from the basketball team's previous home at the Hearnes Center with the arena's opening in 2004. In September 2014, the university announced renovations to the arena including new scoreboard infrastructure, improvements to

510-475: Is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Northern Iowa (then known as State College of Iowa) from 1961 to 1967, but is best known for his career with the University of Missouri from 1967 until 1999. He retired with an overall coaching record of 731–375 in 38 seasons. The court at Mizzou Arena (and previously at the Hearnes Center ) is named in his honor. Stewart

561-502: Is the namesake of the arena's playing court. After protracted negotiations, a third of the venue's $ 75 million cost was donated by Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie and her husband Bill . It was initially named Paige Sports Arena after their daughter (who attended the University of Southern California rather than Mizzou, to much alumni and student criticism regarding the name), but the Lauries gave up their naming rights due to

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612-633: The 1974 Orange Bowl and the 1975 Orange Bowl . Instead, Big Eight representative Nebraska Cornhuskers played in the 1974 Cotton Bowl Classic and the 1974 Sugar Bowl . In the early 1990s, most of the colleges in Division I-A (now known as the Football Bowl Subdivision ) were members of the College Football Association ; this included members of the Big Eight and Southwest Conferences. Following

663-819: The University of Iowa was an original member of the MVIAA, while maintaining joint membership in the Western Conference (now the Big Ten Conference ). The conference's membership at its dissolution consisted of the University of Nebraska , Iowa State University , the University of Colorado at Boulder , the University of Kansas , Kansas State University , the University of Missouri , the University of Oklahoma , and Oklahoma State University . The Big Eight's headquarters were located in Kansas City, Missouri . In February 1994, all eight members of

714-473: The University of Kansas are the first known to have participated in organized sports for a league school: Sherman Haney played baseball for KU beginning in 1888, followed by Grant Haney and then Ed Haney, the last of whom also played football at KU in 1893. At the same time, the University of Nebraska football team had on its roster George Flippin, the son of a slave , beginning in 1891. Nebraska's football team featured three more African-American players over

765-558: The University of Oklahoma applying again and being approved in 1920. Oklahoma A&M University (now Oklahoma State University) joined in 1925, bringing conference membership to ten, an all-time high. At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska , on May 19, 1928, the conference split up. Six of the seven state schools (all except Oklahoma A&M) formed a conference that was initially known as the Big Six Conference . Just before

816-581: The Western Conference (now the Big Ten Conference). However, Iowa only participated in football and outdoor men's track and field for a brief period before leaving the conference in 1911. In 1908, Drake University and Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) joined the MVIAA, increasing the conferences membership to seven. Iowa, which was a joint member, departed the conference in 1911 to return to sole competition in

867-498: The 1960 title, but after found to be using an ineligible player they were forced to forfeit their victories over Missouri and Colorado, which meant that Missouri was awarded the 1960 Big Eight title. Oklahoma initially won the 1972 title, but after it was found that they used ineligible players, they were penalized by the NCAA , though they did not force OU to forfeit games. The Big Eight asked them to forfeit three games and awarded

918-457: The 1988–89 season. He underwent invasive surgery and chemotherapy and was able to return to coaching the following season. Stewart's assistant, Rich Daly, took over as interim coach for the rest of the season, but Missouri credits the entire season to Stewart. The 1990s were a time of both highs and lows for Mizzou basketball, with the highlight being 1994 when the Tigers went a perfect 14–0 in conference play. For that special season, Norm Stewart

969-605: The 1994 run was vacated), five NIT appearances, and one National Commissioners Invitational Tournament appearance. Stewart also was UPI Coach of the Year (1982) and Associated Press Coach of the Year (1994). In 1990, the NCAA placed Missouri's basketball program on probation for two years and banned the team from that season's post-season tournaments for major violations of rules regarding recruiting, benefits for athletes and irregularities in academics that occurred under Stewart from 1985 through 1989. The NCAA also imposed limits on

1020-571: The Big 12 the following year. The conference was founded as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MVIAA ) at a meeting on January 12, 1907, of five charter member institutions: the University of Kansas , the University of Missouri , the University of Nebraska , Washington University in St. Louis , and the University of Iowa , which also maintained its concurrent membership in

1071-478: The Big Eight Conference and four of the members of the Southwest Conference announced that the 12 schools had reached an agreement to form the Big 12 Conference . From a conventional standpoint, the Big 12 was a renamed and expanded Big Eight. But from a legal standpoint, the Big Eight ceased operations in 1996, and its members joined with the four SWC schools ( Texas , Texas A&M , Baylor , and Texas Tech ) to form

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1122-400: The Big Eight victories throughout this period, and especially in the 1971 season, the performance of the Big Eight schools’ black players was considered a deciding factor in their teams' victories. These players' performance contributed to the SEC schools recruitment of black players—the next national championship won by the SEC was by the 1973 Alabama team , which was fully integrated. This

1173-1230: The Hall for his coaching career in February 2008. In 2014 Stewart was inducted into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame. His highest honor came in November 2007 as Stewart was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame . Source        National champion          Postseason invitational champion          Conference regular season champion          Conference regular season and conference tournament champion        Division regular season champion        Division regular season and conference tournament champion        Conference tournament champion # denotes interim head coach * Selection later vacated Big Eight Conference The Big Eight Conference

1224-566: The Tigers to the National Invitation Tournament , their first postseason appearance of any sort since the 1944 NCAA basketball tournament , and only the second in school history. Four years later, the Tigers won their second outright conference title in school history and went to the NCAA tournament for only the second time ever, advancing all the way to the Elite Eight. He reached his peak from 1979 to 1983, when

1275-418: The Tigers won four straight Big Eight regular season titles. In 32 seasons as Missouri head coach, Stewart had a 634–333 overall record, making him far and away the winningest coach in school history. Stewart's Missouri teams also won eight Big Eight regular-season championships, six Big Eight tournament titles, made 16 NCAA Tournament appearances (including Elite Eight appearances in 1976 and 1994; though

1326-521: The Tigers' recruiting practices and the number of scholarships that could be offered in the 1991–92 and 1992–93 academic years. Two of Stewart's assistant coaches, Rich Daly and Bob Sundvold , were forced to resign over the scandal, but Stewart was able to remain as Missouri's coach. Stewart's legal attorney was future Missouri interim president Steve Owens . Shortly after the 1994 Elite Eight season, Missouri discovered that senior center Jevon Crudup had accepted thousands of dollars in inducements from

1377-403: The Western Conference, but Kansas State University joined the conference in 1913. Nebraska left in 1918 to play as an independent for two seasons before returning in 1920. In 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but were not approved due to deficient management of their athletic programs. The conference then added Grinnell College in 1919, with

1428-522: The big-league level. Following his brief career as a professional athlete, Norm Stewart returned to the University of Missouri in 1957 to earn his master's degree. He also served as an assistant basketball coach under Sparky Stalcup and an assistant baseball coach under Hi Simmons . In 1961 Stewart became head basketball coach at the State College Of Iowa (now University of Northern Iowa ). In six seasons Stewart's Panthers compiled

1479-417: The competing claims of the two conferences, led to considerable debate over which conference was the original and which was the spin-off, though the MVIAA went on to become the more prestigious of the two. For the remainder of the Big Eight's run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their founding date, as well as the same history through 1927. To this day, it has never been definitively established which conference

1530-554: The conference color barrier in basketball. Nebraska was the third league school to (re)integrate its athletic teams, with Charles Bryant joining the football team in 1952. Iowa State would be next, with Harold Potts and Henry Philmon reintegrating the Cyclone football team in 1953. The following season, Franklin Clarke became the first varsity African-American football player at the University of Colorado . In 1955, Homer Floyd became

1581-465: The early 1980s, Colorado's colors were sky blue and gold.) Full members Other conference Big Eight members who were among the founding members of the Big 12 Conference   Following are the MVIAA/Big Eight regular-season conference champions from 1908 to 1996 (showing shared championships in italics ): Shared championships are shown in italics : Kansas would have won

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1632-419: The end of the 1950s, and this gave the conference an advantage throughout the 1960s, as many opposing conferences had not yet integrated their sports teams. The Southeastern Conference (SEC), the last major college sports conference to oppose integration, had particular trouble against the Big Eight during its final years fielding all-white teams. The first SEC school to integrate, Kentucky , did so in 1967, and

1683-437: The facility's entryway and upgrades to the team's locker room coming from a $ 1.5 million donation. In June 2017, a former Mizzou athletics staffer was arrested on two felony charges after he allegedly drove a Volkswagen Passat through Mizzou Arena and onto Norm Stewart Court early that morning, causing an estimated $ 100,000 in damages. Norm Stewart As head coach: Norman Eugene Stewart (born January 20, 1935)

1734-487: The final eight members of the conference, as of July 2014. Football, Helms , and equestrian titles are included in the total, but excluded from the column listing NCAA and AIAW titles. The history of the Big Eight Conference straddles the era of racial segregation in the United States , particularly as it relates to African Americans . Before the formation of the conference, three African-American brothers at

1785-406: The first African-American to play football for Kansas since Ed Haney in 1893. Sports teams at the remaining three conference schools (Oklahoma, Missouri and Oklahoma State) were subsequently all integrated by the end of the 1950s. Most notably, Prentice Gautt became the first black player for Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma in 1956. Every college football team of the Big Eight was fully integrated by

1836-530: The first ever African-American athlete on scholarship in the conference. Harold Robinson later received a letter of congratulations from Jackie Robinson , who had reintegrated major league baseball in 1947 while playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers . In the spring of 1951 the conference's baseball color barrier was broken by Kansas State's Earl Woods , and in the winter of 1951–1952 Kansas State's Gene Wilson and Kansas's LaVannes Squires jointly broke

1887-479: The following decades was Iowa State . In 1923 Jack Trice became the first African-American athlete at Iowa State – and the only one in the conference. Tragically, Trice died two days after playing his second football game with Iowa State, due to injuries suffered during the game (against Minnesota ). Jack Trice Stadium at Iowa State is now named in his honor. Trice was followed at Iowa State by Holloway Smith, who played football for ISU in 1926 and 1927. After Smith,

1938-412: The formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1994, the Big Eight continued operations until August 30, 1996, when the conference was formally dissolved and its members officially began competition in the Big 12 Conference. Although the Big 12 was essentially the Big Eight plus the four Texas schools, the Big 12 regards itself as a separate conference and does not claim the Big Eight's history as its own. (*In

1989-529: The former unofficial name of the MSC. The final membership change happened ten years later, when Oklahoma A&M, newly renamed Oklahoma State , joined (or rejoined, depending on the source) the conference on June 1, 1957, and the conference became known as the Big Eight . However, Oklahoma State did not begin conference play until the 1958–59 season for basketball and the 1960 season for football. Peters' title

2040-408: The last school to do so, Mississippi , did so in 1972. During the SEC's eight-year national championship drought between 1965 and 1973, the Big Eight teams repeatedly defeated the SEC teams in inter-conference games, largely due to their integrated teams. The 1971 football season ended with three Big Eight schools—Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado—ranked first, second, and third the final AP poll ,

2091-445: The league's teams were all-white for more than two decades. (During this time all of the major professional sports leagues in the U.S. were also segregated.) The modern era of full integration of league sports began at Kansas State , with Harold Robinson. In 1949, Harold Robinson played football for Kansas State with an athletic scholarship. In doing so, Robinson broke the modern "color barrier" in conference athletics, and also became

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2142-460: The next 12 years. Notable among these NU players was Clinton Ross, who in 1911 apparently became the first African-American to participate in sport in the MVIAA, following the league's formation in 1907. Race relations in the United States, however, deteriorated in the early 20th century , and African-American athletes disappeared almost entirely from the conference in the four decades after Ross's final season at NU in 1913. The lone exception during

2193-581: The only season in college football history that three teams from the same conference finished in the top three rankings. During the 1971 season, those three Big Eight teams beat three SEC schools—Alabama, Auburn, and LSU—in decisive victories (Colorado defeated LSU, 31–21 in September; Nebraska defeated Alabama, 38–6 in the Orange Bowl ; Oklahoma defeated Auburn, 40–22 in the Sugar Bowl ). In each of

2244-628: The start of fall practice, the six schools announced they would retain the MVIAA name for formal purposes. However, fans and media continued to call it the Big Six. The three private schools – Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University – joined with Oklahoma A&M to form the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The old MVIAA's administrative staff transferred to the MVC. The similarity of the two conferences' official names, as well as

2295-2738: The title to Nebraska , but Oklahoma still claims these wins and this title. The following is a complete list of the 100 AIAW , NCAA and college football championships won by teams that were representing the Big Eight Conference in NCAA- or AIAW-recognized sports at the time of the championship. Football (11): 1950 – Oklahoma 1955 – Oklahoma 1956 – Oklahoma 1970 – Nebraska 1971 – Nebraska 1974 – Oklahoma 1975 – Oklahoma 1985 – Oklahoma 1990 – Colorado 1994 – Nebraska 1995 – Nebraska Baseball (4): 1951 – Oklahoma 1954 – Missouri 1959 – Oklahoma State 1994 – Oklahoma Men's basketball (2): 1952 – Kansas 1988 – Kansas Men's Cross Country (3): 1953 – Kansas 1989 – Iowa State 1994 – Iowa State Women's Cross Country (5): 1975 – Iowa State 1976 – Iowa State 1977 – Iowa State 1978 – Iowa State 1981 – Iowa State Men's golf (9): 1963 – Oklahoma State 1976 – Oklahoma State 1978 – Oklahoma State 1980 – Oklahoma State 1983 – Oklahoma State 1987 – Oklahoma State 1989 – Oklahoma 1991 – Oklahoma State 1995 – Oklahoma State Men's gymnastics (14): 1971 – Iowa State 1973 – Iowa State 1974 – Iowa State 1977 – Oklahoma 1978 – Oklahoma 1979 – Nebraska 1980 – Nebraska 1981 – Nebraska 1982 – Nebraska 1983 – Nebraska 1988 – Nebraska 1990 – Nebraska 1991 – Oklahoma 1994 – Nebraska Men's/Women's Skiing (14): 1959 – Colorado 1960 – Colorado 1972 – Colorado 1973 – Colorado 1974 – Colorado 1975 – Colorado 1976 – Colorado 1977 – Colorado 1978 – Colorado 1979 – Colorado 1982 – Colorado (men's) 1982 – Colorado (women's) 1991 – Colorado 1995 – Colorado Men's Indoor Track (4): 1965 – Missouri 1966 – Kansas 1969 – Kansas 1970 – Kansas Women's Indoor Track (3): 1982 – Nebraska 1983 – Nebraska 1984 – Nebraska Men's Outdoor Track (3): 1959 – Kansas 1960 – Kansas 1970 – Kansas Women's volleyball (1): 1995 – Nebraska Wrestling (27): 1928 – Oklahoma State 1933 – Iowa State 1936 – Oklahoma 1951 – Oklahoma 1952 – Oklahoma 1957 – Oklahoma 1958 – Oklahoma State 1959 – Oklahoma State 1960 – Oklahoma 1961 – Oklahoma State 1962 – Oklahoma State 1963 – Oklahoma 1964 – Oklahoma State 1965 – Iowa State 1966 – Oklahoma State 1968 – Oklahoma State 1969 – Iowa State 1970 – Iowa State 1971 – Oklahoma State 1972 – Iowa State 1973 – Iowa State 1974 – Oklahoma 1977 – Iowa State 1987 – Iowa State 1989 – Oklahoma State 1990 – Oklahoma State 1994 – Oklahoma State The national championships listed below are for

2346-578: Was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football . It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MVIAA ) by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas , University of Missouri , University of Nebraska , and Washington University in St. Louis . Additionally,

2397-548: Was announced that a new conference would be formed from the members of the Big Eight and four of the Texas member colleges of the Southwest Conference. Though the name would not be made official for several months, newspaper accounts immediately dubbed the new entity the "Big 12". Charter members of the Big 12 included the members of the Big Eight plus Baylor , Texas , Texas A&M and Texas Tech . Following

2448-543: Was born in Shelby County, Missouri . He grew up the son of a gas station owner around the small farming community of Shelbyville, and graduated from high school there in 1952. After high school Stewart enrolled at the University of Missouri , becoming a standout in both basketball and baseball for the Tigers. Stewart was a two-time team captain, and all-Big Seven selection in basketball. His 24.1 scoring average per-game in 1956 ranks fourth in school history and earned him

2499-518: Was changed to "Executive Secretary" of the conference in 1957. He retired in June 1963 and was replaced by Wayne Duke, whose title was later changed to "Commissioner". In 1964, the conference legally assumed the name Big Eight Conference . In 1968 the conference began a long association with the Orange Bowl , sending its champion annually to play in the prestigious bowl game in Miami, Florida , all except

2550-532: Was named College Coach of the Year by the Associated Press and five other leading organizations. Following another winning 1998–99 season, the Stewart Era came to an end as he announced his retirement on April 1, 1999. As a measure of the growth in the Tigers' stature under his watch, he won four more games in 32 years than the Tigers had previously won in their first 60 years of play. He'd also had

2601-648: Was the original. Conference membership grew with the addition of the University of Colorado on December 1, 1947, from the Mountain States Conference . Later that month, Reaves E. Peters was hired as "Commissioner of Officials and Assistant Secretary" and set up the first conference offices in Kansas City, Missouri. With the addition of Colorado, the conference's unofficial name became the Big Seven Conference , coincidentally,

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