The Big Ten’s seemingly perpetual wheel of expansion has decimated the league’s football scheduling process. The 2011 and 2012 schedules vanished with the addition of Nebraska. Three seasons worth of schedules, two of which were released with great interest last spring, also went up in smoke when the league chose to add Rutgers and Maryland [...]

Big Ten expansion has brought rivalry football back to its final weekend. Each school received a season-ending rivalry assignment for the 2014 league schedule, which was released today by the league office. The schedule was revamped to accommodate newcomers Rutgers and Maryland, who join the Big Ten in 2014. The league also shifted into East [...]

CHICAGO — Expansion talk has dulled to a whisper at the Big Ten meetings, a complete flip from the recent past. After adding Nebraska in 2011 and accepting Maryland and Rutgers as new members in 2014, the Big Ten appears content at the moment to stay at 14 members. It’s possible the rest of the [...]

CHICAGO — Any changes to the Big Ten’s basketball foundation will be subtle, not forceful, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday. “There’s no appetite for regional divisions in basketball,” Delany said. “I think 18 games is about right. I thought this year, as enjoyable as the season was, as competitive it was and as [...]

CHICAGO — Big Ten men’s basketball coaches lack the same zeal as their football counterparts to split the league into divisions. After a full day of meetings at the Sofitel Hotel, basketball coaches have yet to discuss a potential divisional alignment, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “I don’t think divisional play is where we’re headed,” [...]

IOWA CITY —— The most important development in college athletics this year won’t happen on the football field or basketball arena. Instead it will occur in a federal courtroom. Ed O’Bannon, a former All-American basketball player at UCLA, field an antitrust suit accusing sued the NCAA, its licensing company, all NCAA schools and conferences of [...]

IOWA CITY — Iowa’s quest to upgrade its non-conference schedule just received a major boost from the Big Ten Conference. The Hawkeyes, fresh from an NIT finals appearance, will play host to Notre Dame as part of the Big Ten-ACC Challenge on Dec. 3. The match-up will pit two teams that won 25 games last [...]

IOWA CITY — The Big Ten’s decision to eliminate future schedules with Football Championship Subdivision schools has no bearing on whether Northern Iowa will leap to the bowl subdivision. Northern Iowa Athletics Director Troy Dannen told The Gazette his school is unlikely to move beyond the FCS for one simple reason. “It comes down to economics,” [...]

CHICAGO –The Big Ten could be due for a bowl shakeup in its next round of agreements. The league will remain tied to the Rose Bowl and likely the Capital One and Outback bowls. But beyond those, the league could be set for a new round of bowling. “It could be a lot,” Big Ten [...]

IOWA CITY — Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany often uses punctuation — usually a period or a comma — to describe his league’s status on expansion. Now a semicolon seems more appropriate. The Big Ten Conference will move forward in 2014 with 14 members, but officials acknowledge the number could change depending on the college [...]