Big Ten rivals Purdue University and Indiana University are the most notable, with national and conference championships to boast.

* Twenty Big Ten Championships ( including four-in-a-row, from 1973 to 1976 ), currently the second most all-time

* One NIT Championship ( 1974 ); the first for the Big Ten Conference and two Runner-up finishes ( 1979, 1982 ) and a third place finish ( 1981 )

* Twenty-Two ( 22 ) Big Ten Championships ( including a " Three-Pete "-a play on their mascot-from 1994 to 1996 and from 1934 to 1936.

** Currently second all-time in Big Ten Conference victories with 848.

The Boilermaker women have one National Championship ( 1999 ), one national runner-up finish ( 2001 to Notre Dame ), seven Big Ten Championships, and have won six of the thirteen women's Big Ten Tournaments.

At the conclusion of the regular Big Ten season, a tournament is held to determine the conference winner, who receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

The Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament began a five-year stint at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in 2008.

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

* 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Its athletic teams, called the Wolverines, are members of the Big Ten Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

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They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

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" Although apparently elderly, he claims to be only 31 years old ( in 1993's " Selma's Choice ", his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, and in " Duffless ", Moleman confessed his real age at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, implying that his grotesque appearance has been caused by severe alcoholism ), though Moleman has been seen at the Springfield Retirement Home on season ten's " The Old Man and the " C " Student " and in the season 13 episode Little Girl in the Big Ten.

Bankers Life Fieldhouse also hosts the Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament and hosted the 2011 NCAA Women's Basketball Final Four.

For the 2008 college football season, the scoring banner went back to a box on the top-left portion of the screen, featuring text in an athletic-like font, with similarities to the text style of Big Ten Network's and Fox's current graphic styling.

The Big Ten Conference ( B1G ), formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the United States ' oldest Division I college athletic conference.

Member schools of the Big Ten also are members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium.

Despite the conference's name, the Big Ten actually consists of twelve schools, following the addition of Pennsylvania State University in 1993 and the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2011.

McNabb was named the Big East's offensive player of the decade for the 1990s, and Big East Offensive Player of the Year an unprecedented three times from 1996 – 98, as well as the first-team all-conference vote earner in each of his four seasons.

Moss also became the first player to earn Big East Offensive Player of the Year and Special Teams Player of the Year honors in the same season.

The Liverpool Pals ' first battle came during " The Big Push " on 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Somme Offensive.

He was a first-team All-Big Ten selection for the second straight year and named the Big Ten Conference Offensive Lineman of the Year.

During his tenure, Chatman was an AP I-AA All-America selection, Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of Year and a first-team all-conference selection.

Clark was the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week against Purdue, when he caught three passes for 116 yards and two touchdowns.

* Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year: Chris Perry ( 2003 ), Braylon Edwards ( 2004 )

While Nebraska's defense struggled during Callahan's tenure, numerous offensive school records were set ( some of which could be attributed to the dramatic change in offensive philosophy ) and QB Zac Taylor was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year for 2006.

As a result, he was given the starting tailback position over Stanley Wilson and was named Big Eight Offensive Player of the Week.

He was named the Big Ten Conference Offensive Player of the Year, one of three finalists for Maxwell Award, one of 10 finalists for Walter Camp Foundation Player of the Year, First-team All-Conference, a permanent team captain on offense, Co-Offensive MVP, Hayden Fry " Extra Heartbeat " Award winner.

In her first year at Seton Hall in 1997, Smith set scoring records for the Big East Conference and became the first athlete in any sport to be the conference's ( Offensive ) Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year in the same season.

In the following two seasons, she was the leading scorer not only in the Big East, but in the whole of NCAA Division I, and was named Big East Offensive Player of the Year in both years.

He was named Big East Offensive Player of the Year in his senior year, 2004, with a 59. 5 percentage.

In 2006 and 2007, he earned Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year and first-team All-Big Ten recognition.

Baas was Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year.

Long was recognized as a first-team All-Big Ten selection by both the coaches and the media and was selected as the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year.

At the conclusion of the Big Ten Conference schedule, he was selected again as first-team All-Big Ten selection by both the coaches and the media and as the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year.

As a senior in 1997, he received All-America honors, was named the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year, and was a semi-finalist for the Outland Trophy and the Lombardi Award.

) with two scores and was voted Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week as the Wildcats defeated Nebraska for the first time in 30 years.

After his senior season, he was voted a consensus All-American and All-Big 12 Conference selection and was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.

At the University of Michigan, Wheatley earned the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Award during the 1992 football season.