The member Universities of the Conference are situated in the Midwest of the country and stretch from Iowa and Minnesota in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. University teams of the Big Ten Conference also are members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, which is one of the most important educational consortiums. Although the name of the conference implies 10 members, there are actually 11, since Penn State joined in 1990. Previously, the name of the Conference changed several times. It was also known as Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, Big Nine, or Western Conference in the history.
The Big Ten Conference has given a great many successful mens basketball teams. It has had several championship winners and has frequently sent more than four teams to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The former NCAA champions are Indiana, having received five titles, Michigan State with two titles, and Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio State with one title. The most recent champion of the Conference is the University of Iowa basketball team in 2006, featuring the outstanding player Jeff Horner.
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