Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Most of its 18 member institutions are in the Midwestern United States. The conference footprint expanded to the country's Pacific coast in 2024. Members Newest members The Big Ten added four members after the 2023–24 school year, all from the Pac-12 Conference. Associate members The Big Ten gained its first "associate member"—i.e., a school playing only a small number of sports (in this case, one) in the conference—in 2014. The same school brought a second sport into the Big Ten in 2016. A second school became an associate member in 2017. References