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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: Badger1969 on March 28, 2026, 06:16:31 PM
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I am watching the NCAA Hockey Championship and wondering why all Big Ten schools not able to field a team. I know that sponsoring a team cost the athletic department additional money but the University of Nebraska Omaha has a D1 Hockey team and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee has a D1 baseball team which could be added to the Big Ten like Notre Dame is for Hockey. How many other Big Ten University System schools have D1 sports that are missing from the major institution and could be incorporated into the Big Ten at no additional cost to their athletic department?
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I don't if it's fact or rumor, but supposedly, Trev Alberts made a deal with UNO that UNL would not add hockey if UNO killed football. That's been a while back.
Iowa now has a local rink (Coralville) but previous AD Barta said it would take a mega donation (like Arizona State got I think?) to add a men's and women's hockey team.
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Ice Hockey and Men's Lacrosse both need beefed up in a big way.
https://bigten.org
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I watched way too much lacrosse today on the BTN
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UNL has a hockey team, just not at the D1 level.
Same with Rugby
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The Big Ten is rather bereft of downhill skiing.
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(https://i.imgur.com/oSpxHYZ.jpeg)
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MSU hasn't had a football team in like a decade
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I know how you feel - :'(
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I think hockey is also a relatively expensive sport to add. Facilities and equipment cost a lot. Plus a pretty big roster to fund.
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I think hockey is also a relatively expensive sport to add. Facilities and equipment cost a lot. Plus a pretty big roster to fund.
Yes, and then you need to match the scholarships with women's scholarships.
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Most schools lose money on hockey either way. Also, I don't think it's a headcount sport for scholarships, so I think you can split the scholarship money up amongst the players anyway you want.
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most schools??? hah
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If only the conference had a massive media deal to help with such costs.
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I blame the SEC
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How many Big Ten sponsored sports have a full compliment of members? Obviously football, and M/W basketball.
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How many Big Ten sponsored sports have a full compliment of members? Obviously football, and M/W basketball.
Women's volleyball
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Women's sports are more likely than men's, due to Title IX
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Women's volleyball
Also:
W Cross Country
M&W Golf
W Soccer
W Tennis
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Women's sports are more likely than men's, due to Title IX
Yep.
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The weird one to me is softball, which has 17. The one holdout being...USC?
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I'd guess they have more women's sports than most - but it is odd not to have softball
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Hockey is the exception with way more men's teams across the board
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i guess the question is which schools have all the sports?
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or, which schools has the most
I think Stanford used to have the most
Ohio St. and Michigan used to lead the B1G
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The only hockey program that runs in the black is Minnesota, even during bad times.
On the other hand, the closest any of the non-rev programs have ever come to turning a profit was women's basketball in 2003-04, the year they went to the Final Four. Most of that came from averaging 10K+ a game at home.
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Revenue generating sports for Wisconsin include football, men's hoops, men's and women's hockey and volleyball.
The other 17 sports run in the red.
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OSU, Michigan and Penn State are the only ones with all the Big Ten sponsored sports. The rest are missing either Ice Hockey or Lacrosse, at the very least.
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The problem with hockey is that it is so regional. So you need a really good plan to grow it organically. And that takes a lot of time in investment in an era where the upside isn’t that high.
I kind of enjoy that it’s just a thing for a smaller slice of schools. And I’m still mad that the Big Ten blew up the old WCHA the way it did.