Question: How many members actually compete in the conference in which the Northwestern Wildcats compete?

Context articles: Bryant McIntosh
1949 Rose Bowl
Kentucky Wildcats softball
Horace Butterworth
Central Washington Wildcats
Big Ten Conference
Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse
2000 Northwestern Wildcats football team
2012 Northwestern Wildcats football team
2015 Kentucky Wildcats football team

Bryant Scott McIntosh (born November 20, 1994) is an American college basketball player for Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball where he has completed his junior season for the 2016–17 team.
 He holds the Northwestern career and single-season assist records.
 He was a 2017 All-Big Ten team 2nd team selection and led the 2016–17 Northwestern Wildcats to the first NCAA Tournament in school history.
The 1949 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game.
 It was the 35th Rose Bowl Game, and the third since the Big Nine Conference and Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) agreed to an exclusive agreement to match their conference champions.
 The Northwestern Wildcats defeated the California Golden Bears 20–14.
 Northwestern halfback Frank Aschenbrenner was named the Rose Bowl Player of the Game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.
 The Wildcats were underdogs going into the game but pulled off an upset.
 Until the 2013 Gator Bowl, this was the only bowl game win in the history of Northwestern Wildcats football program.
The Kentucky Wildcats softball team represents the University of Kentucky in the sport of softball.
 The Kentucky Wildcats compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
 The Wildcats play their home games at John Cropp Stadium on the university's Lexington, Kentucky campus, and are currently led by head coach Rachel Lawson.
 In the history of the Wildcats softball program, the team has made appearances in eight NCAA Division I Softball Championship, four Super Regionals, and one Women's College World Series (WCWS).
Horace C. Butterworth (December 3, 1868 – December 8, 1939) was the first head coach for the Chicago Maroons men's basketball team, the fourth head football coach for the Northwestern Wildcats baseball team as well as the fourth head coach for the Temple Owls football team.
 Additionally, Butterworth was the fourth athletic director for Northwestern and maintain the position from 1903 to 1904.
 Butterworth attended Delaware College for his undergraduate studies and completed his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1898.
 Even though he had a record of 10–4, his time as the Chicago Maroons head coach was cut short when the university suspended the program based on a lack of interest.
 In his only season as the Northwestern Wildcats baseball coach his team played a 17-game season, of which 12 games were verses Western Conference opponents.
 At Temple, his coaching record was 4–0–2.
 This ranks him 16th at Temple in total wins and first at Temple by winning percentage.
The Central Washington Wildcats (also CWU Wildcats) are the 12 varsity athletic teams that represent Central Washington University, located in Ellensburg, Washington, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.
 The Wildcats compete as members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
The Big Ten Conference (B1G), formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.
 Despite its name, the conference consists of 14 members (as of 2016).
 They compete in the NCAA Division I; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport.
 The conference includes the flagship public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska, as well as two additional public land grant schools and a private university.
The Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse team is a NCAA Division I college lacrosse team representing Northwestern University as part of the Big Ten Conference.
 It was a member of the American Lacrosse Conference until the 2013-14 season, when the conference was dissolved as the Big Ten was sponsoring women's lacrosse from the 2014-15 season.
 The team began competition at the varsity level in 1982, operated as a club sport from 1993 to 2001, and resumed play at the varsity level in 2002.
 They play their home games at Lakeside Field in Evanston, IL.
 From 2005 to 2009, the team won the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship five consecutive times and recorded two undefeated seasons.
 After losing in the finals in 2010, the Wildcats added their sixth and seventh championships in 2011 and 2012.
 The midwestern team's success is a rarity in a sport that enjoys most of its popularity on the East Coast - the Wildcats are the only team from outside the Eastern Time Zone to win the national title.
The 2000 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 They played their home games at Ryan Field and participated as members of the Big Ten Conference.
 They were coached by Randy Walker.
The 2012 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University during the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 Pat Fitzgerald, in his seventh season at Northwestern, was the team's head coach.
 The Wildcats home games were played at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois.
 They were members of the Legends Division of the Big Ten Conference.
 The Wildcats won their first bowl game since the 1949 Rose Bowl against California by defeating Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl 34–20.
 They finished the season 10–3 (5–3 Big Ten).
The 2015 Kentucky Wildcats football team (variously "Kentucky", "UK", or "Wildcats") represents the University of Kentucky in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The Wildcats compete in its 122nd season and 82nd as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) as part of its Eastern Division.
 The team is led by head coach Mark Stoops, which is his third year coaching the team, and the Wildcats play its home games at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.