* 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.

* List of Big Ten business schools

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.

* Big Ten ( disambiguation )

" 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.

The Big Three were slower to adapt than their Japanese rivals in producing small cars to meet growing demand due to inflexible manufacturing facilities, which made it unprofitable to build small cars.

Together with fierce rivals, and, Carlton was considered historically to be one of the league's " Big Four " clubs, and enjoys a healthy rivalry with all three others.

Big rivals for the school are RGS Guildford, King's College, Wimbledon, Dulwich, St. John's Leatherhead, Merchant Taylors ', Wellington and Eton.

After returning a pop quiz to Wernstrom with a grade of A-minus, the two became bitter rivals ( established in " A Big Piece of Garbage ").

When both Idaho and BSU left the Big Sky in 1996 to move up to Division I-A, Idaho State University lost their main rivals.

" Let's Play House " was the biggest hit, breaking into the Top 50 of the Hot 100, while " New York, New York " was an MTV favorite ; in the video for the latter, Kurupt, Daz, and Snoop stomped Godzilla-like around the Big Apple, taunting their East Coast rivals.

Minnesota rugby plays Division 1 college rugby in the Big Ten Universities conference against traditional Big 10 rivals such as Wisconsin and Iowa.

Founded on 28 February 1904, at a meeting in Farmácia Franco involving 24 men led by Cosme Damião, Sport Lisboa e Benfica ( originally known as Grupo Sport Lisboa ) is one of the Três Grandes ( Big Three ) football clubs in Portugal, with Sporting and FC Porto being the other two clubs, Benfica's biggest rivals.

Southern Utah University is joining the Big Sky in the 2012 academic school year and are going to be rivals with Weber State as well.

Founded in Lisbon in July 1, 1906, it is one of the " Três Grandes " ( The Big Three, in English ) football clubs in Portugal, with Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Futebol Clube do Porto being the other two clubs, Sporting's two biggest rivals.

The first game at Windsor was played against Glentoran, the other half of Belfast's " Big Two ," on September 2, 1905 – though Belfast Celtic were the club's main rivals at the time.

Although they had wrestled occasionally beforehand, their first nationally televised encounter was on the November 2, 1985, edition of Saturday Night's Main Event where Hogan teamed up with André the Giant against André's rivals Bundy and Big John Studd.

In 1965 Oz editor Richard Neville had a close encounter with Sydney's alleged " Mr Big " of organised crime, Lennie McPherson, a notorious criminal who was at that time well on his way to becoming Sydney's most powerful underworld figure, thanks in part to a systematic program of public assassinations of his rivals.

Founded in 1970, Purdue plays college rugby in the Big Ten Universities conference against its traditional Big 10 rivals such as Indiana, and also plays in the annual Big 10 rugby sevens tournament each fall.

* Big Shot and Little Shot-A burly bulldog ( talks like James Cagney in some episodes ) and his short sidekick are a generic gruff gangster who are Chauncey " Flatface " Frog's rivals in crime.

During the 2006 – 2007 season, Alford led the Hawkeyes to an 8 – 6 non-conference record ( losing to in-state rivals Drake and Northern Iowa ) and an 9 – 7 record in the Big Ten Conference ( 17-14 overall ).

On February 1, 2007 McGriff was convicted of murder-for-hire at a Federal court in the Eastern District of New York on charges that he paid $ 50, 000 to have two rivals ( Eric Smith and " Big Nose " Troy Singleton ) gunned down in 2001.

Before 2012, the last meeting of the two schools as conference rivals was in 1995, when both schools were members of the Big West Conference.

The three Machines were introduced as rivals of Bobby Heenan and his massive tag team, Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy.

After disposing of the longtime rivals the Pitbulls at Big Ass Extreme Bash on March 8 ( although the team defeated the Pitbulls in later house shows ), the Eliminators were targeted by The Gangstas setting off a bloody feud between the two teams facing them in a 6-man tag team match with Brian Lee against The Gangstas and Tommy Dreamer at A Matter of Respect and later faced them in title defences at Fight The Power and Hardcore Heaven ' 96, the latter a resulting in a no contest.

This is the only Chip Hilton book addressing social issues, and it does so in a compelling manner, although some of the early works did mention a great " negro " athlete, Miner, who played for the Big Reds ' major rivals, Steeltown.