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lacrosse. Also, like all other Big Ten members except for
Nebraska, it is an AAU member. The Hopkins men's team, which had played as an independent since its creation in 1883, is one of the most successful in college history, with a total of 44 national championships (nine NCAA championships, second
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for both men and women, the conference would begin sponsoring the sport for both sexes in the 2014–15 school year (2015 lacrosse season). Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State already sponsored both men's and women's lacrosse, while
Northwestern sponsored the sport for women only. The two new full
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Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (which remained the conference's legal name until 1987), had been for decades one of the more stable major college conferences. Before the 2010–14 realignment, the conference had seen only three changes in
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Hopkins press release announcing this move indicated that it was driven largely by the school's desire to join a conference with an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The then-current wave of conference realignment was making it more difficult for Hopkins to fill out a
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to add varsity men's ice hockey starting in 2012 triggered a series of changes in college ice hockey conference alignment. Most significantly, the number of Big Ten universities with men's ice hockey programs reached six, the minimum number of teams needed by a conference to receive an
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members brought the Big Ten to six schools with women's lacrosse, the minimum number of schools required under conference bylaws for the sponsoring of an official Big Ten championship. With five men's lacrosse schools set for 2014–15, the Big Ten added its sixth program by inviting
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Conference, the American Athletic Conference agreed that it would not sponsor lacrosse. In turn, the new Big East agreed to take in all of The American's men's and women's lacrosse programs as associate
683:(ALC), a women's lacrosse league which had been home to the four pre-2015 Big Ten women's lacrosse programs. With four of its seven members leaving for the Big Ten, and Johns Hopkins announcing its move to independence, the ALC was left with only two members,
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December 2009, rumors about possible expansion targets and the possibility that the conference might expand to as many as 14 or 16 teams circulated into May 2010. On June 11, 2010,
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applied for membership in the Big Ten and was unanimously approved as the conference's 12th school. Its membership became effective July 1, 2011. Big Ten officials later stated that they had no plans to expand beyond 12 teams in the near future.
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magazine speculated that Plank, estimated by the magazine to be worth more than $ 1.3 billion, was a key driving force in
Maryland's Big Ten move. In the week before the Big Ten negotiations were revealed, Under Armour filed a statement with the
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at the time. There was not a great deal of enthusiasm about that. I think we should have done that at the time. So we would have had
Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and then moved into that other area. I think, by the way, that that can still
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was "100 percent" behind a Big Ten move, and was heavily lobbying regents. On
November 19, the Maryland regents voted to accept the Big Ten's offer, and the Big Ten presidents unanimously approved Maryland's entry later that day. The
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as the only ECAC Lacrosse member that had no confirmed conference home for the 2015 season; it would ultimately play that season as an independent before becoming a lacrosse member of the
Southern Conference for the 2016 season.
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announced that the league would consider adding one or more teams. Media reports then indicated that the Big Ten had two major motives for expansion. First, adding one or more schools would increase the reach of the conference's
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nationally competitive schedule. The Blue Jays' familiarity with the Big Ten's present and future men's lacrosse programs was also a major factor in the school's decision to affiliate with that conference. Hopkins'
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to accept the Big Ten's invitation. The Big Ten unanimously accepted Rutgers' application on November 20; however, the announcement only said that the school would join "at a date to be determined".
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Jim felt that someday, if we didn’t have anyone else in that corridor , someday it wouldn’t make sense maybe for Penn State to be in our league. That they would go into a league somewhere on the
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2246:(Press release). Atlantic Sun Conference. July 8, 2013. Archived from
1936:(Press release). Big Ten Conference. November 20, 2012. Archived from
1907:(Press release). Big Ten Conference. November 19, 2012. Archived from
1840:"Maryland, Rutgers in serious talks about move to Big Ten Conference"
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1723:Big Ten Conference Official Athletic Site
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1357:Gallery of Big Ten membership changes
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2149:. InsideLacrosse.com. Archived from
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2453:List of schools changing conference
2433:2010–14 NCAA conference realignment
1985:Potrykus, Jeff (December 7, 2012).
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2044:Pyle, Encarnación (June 4, 2013).
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1490:McMurphy, Brett (April 30, 2012).
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1639:"Nebraska approved by Big Ten"
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2172:"Hoya Saxa" (June 3, 2013).
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2296:Air Force Academy Athletics
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693:Big East Conference
669:Southern Conference
390:The Washington Post
385:athletic department
303:Big East Conference
2593:Big Ten Conference
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