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Background - Big 10 Tournament
Since 1990, there have actually been eleven schools in the conference:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (joined 1895)
Indiana University Bloomington (joined 1899)
University of Iowa (joined 1899)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (joined 1895, left 1908, rejoined 1917)
Michigan State University (joined 1950, began play 1953)
University of Minnesota Twin Cities (joined 1895)
Northwestern University (joined 1895)
Ohio State University at Columbus (joined 1912)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park (joined 1990, began play 1993)
Purdue University (joined 1895)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (joined 1895)
The Big Ten was founded in 1895 as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. The first reference of the Conference as The Big Nine was in 1899 after Iowa and Indiana had joined the Conference. The first reference as the Big Ten was in 1917 after Michigan rejoined the conference (Ohio State had been added in 1912). It again was known as the Big Nine after the University of Chicago's departure in 1946, and back to the Big Ten in 1950 when Michigan State joined. The Conference's official name throughout the time was still the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives and was also known as the Western Conference. It did not formally adopt the name Big Ten until 1988 when it was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation. Membership in the Big Ten conference also entitles member schools admission to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium.
The Big Ten Conference is an association of 11 world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. Intercollegiate athletics has an important place within the mission.
Founded in 1896, the Big Ten has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in student-athletes' lives and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness and competitiveness. Big Ten universities provide in excess of $63 million in athletic scholarship aid to 7,500 men and women student-athletes to compete for 25 championships, 12 for men and 13 for women. Conference institutions sponsor more than 250 athletic programs.
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 The Big Ten is celebrating its 99th season of Big Ten basketball in 2003-04. National dominance, television exposure and attendance titles are the trademarks of Big Ten basketball. Michigan State showcased the depth and strength of the Conference by advancing to the NCAA Elite Eight in 2003 despite earning a No. 7 seed entering the event. The Spartans' run followed a four-year streak that saw at least one League team advance to the Final Four every year. Michigan State made three straight national semifinal appearances from 1999 to 2001, including the 2000 title, and was joined by Ohio State in 1999 and Wisconsin in 2000. Indiana was the most recent Final Four participant from the Big Ten, advancing to the national championship game in 2002.
The Big Ten boasts some of the most loyal fans in the country. League fans are flocking to the arenas and have helped the Conference win each of the last 27 national attendance titles, as the Big Ten has broken the two-million mark in total attendance in 11 straight seasons. Those fans who are not packing the arenas are watching Big Ten basketball on television. In 2003–04 alone, Big Ten fans will be able to enjoy more than 150 games on the tube featuring Conference teams. Media exposure coupled with the Conference's high-quality basketball programs will continue to make Big Ten basketball a "must-see" affair.
Big Ten men's basketball popularity and quality is not a late-arriving fad. Conference attendance has led the nation through the years with good reason. League basketball action has provided many thrills, with great teams, players and coaches. And even as it is favored by basketball fans everywhere, the Big Ten has also been a leader in the game's advancement.
Since James Naismith invented the game in Springfield, MA, with his 13 rules and the use of two peach baskets, the Big Ten has been at the forefront of college basketball's development. Even prior to basketball becoming a Big Ten-sponsored sport, Conference teams were to be leaders in the collegiate basketball movement. It was University of Chicago athletics director Amos Alonzo Stagg, who earned more renown as the Maroons' football coach, who introduced basketball to the Big Ten. A fellow instructor and friend of Dr. Naismith at Springfield College, Stagg initiated basketball as a varsity sport at Chicago in 1894.
Just a month before the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (now the Big Ten Conference) was founded, the first college basketball game with five players to a side was played as Iowa hosted Chicago on Jan. 18, 1896. Previously, games featured seven to nine players on the floor at once, but that made competition rather crowded, so Iowa physical education professor H.F. Callenberg scaled down the size of the two competing teams to five apiece. Chicago won in the new format, 13–12, at the Iowa Armory before about 400 spectators.
In 1906, the NCAA was founded in Chicago, and the previous fall, the Big Ten's inaugural season of basketball got underway.
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