By: AP via stltoday.com --Minneapolis --  Rachel Banham scored 20 points and made three 3-pointers, helping Minnesota take down No. 9 Ohio State 76-68 on Sunday. Kiara Buford added 15 points and seven assists for the Golden Gophers (12-11, 4-5 Big Ten), who beat a ranked team for the first time in nearly three years. They did it by dominating the post, outscoring the Buckeyes 36-20 in the paint with Katie Loberg and Micaella Riche taking it to the young..... READ THE REST OF ... Read More

By: Scott Dochterman (TheGazette.com) -- Big Ten football schedules had slick manueverability when the league carried an unwieldy number of 11 schools. Each football program played two permanent rivals annually and faced the other league opponents six times over an eight-year period. That scheduling procedure worked until it got in the way of progress. In June 2010, the Big Ten voted to unanimously add Nebraska as its 12th member. In football terms that meant two divisions and a new scheduling ... Read More

By Michael Periatt (TheLantern.com) -- Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer may be inheriting a new team, but it appears he has a building block in freshman quarterback Braxton Miller. On Miller's 19th birthday Wednesday, the OSU quarterback was named the Big Ten Conference's Thompson-Randle El Freshman of the Year. The award, which is presented to the conference's most outstanding freshman, is named after Darrell Thompson who played running back for Minnesota in 1986 and Antwaan Randle El who played ... Read More

From: jconline.com -- The kickoff time for Nov. 12 Ohio State at Purdue football game won't be announced until Monday, Nov. 7, the Big Ten announced today. ESPN/ABC is exercising one of its six-day selection rights. Other games being held by the network are Michigan State at Iowa, Michigan at Illinois, Wisconsin at Minnesota and Nebraska at Penn State. Two of the five games will be broadcast by ESPN, ESPN2, or possibly ESPNU, at noon. One of the ... Read More

From: OhioStateBuckeyes.com -- Park Ridge, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference announced on Monday the launch of the Honoring Legends. Building Leaders. Mobile Tour that will visit each Big Ten campus this football season. The tour will contain the Big Ten Football Championship and division trophies and will make its stop in Columbus for the Sept. 24 game against Colorado. The mobile tour will entertain and educate fans about the new era of Big Ten football and the exciting road ... Read More

By: Stewart Mandel (SportsIllustrated.com) -- The Big Ten certainly wouldn't be the Big Ten without all 11, er, 12 schools. This fall will mark a momentous change, as everyone from Penn State to Michigan State, Iowa to Illinois, acclimates to a world of Leaders and Legends and cross-divisional matchups, trips to Lincoln, Neb., and, for the lucky two, a December showdown in Indianapolis. But even the proudest Northwestern or Minnesota fan, even the newcomers from Nebraska, understand ... Read More

From: PostBulletin.com -- MADISON, Wis. — The face of Big Ten Conference football continues to change. Big Ten officials announced Thursday the league's football teams will begin playing a nine-game conference schedule in 2017. According to the plan: Three teams each from the Legends Division and Leaders Division will have five league home games during odd-numbered years and the three other teams from each division will have five league home games in even-numbered years. In 2017, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio State from the ... Read More

From: SBNation.com -- The bracket for the 2011 Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis is set, and play will begin on Thursday when Northwestern and Minnesota square off at Conseco Fieldhouse for the right to take on top seed Ohio State. How do we at SB Nation Pittsburgh see things shaking out? Read on. Round One No. 9 Minnesota vs. No. 8 Northwestern-The Golden Gophers won the first matchup of these two teams 81-70 back on Jan. 26, but the Wildcats' ... Read More

BY: BRUCE HOOLEY (FOXSportsOhio.com) -- There are 180,000 reasons no one should confuse Ohio State center Jared Sullinger with Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton and three reasons they should. Unlike Newton, Sullinger’s father didn’t try to sell him for the price of a three-bedroom split-level on a quiet cul-de-sac. But just like the Heisman Trophy winner, Sullinger is smiling his way through the taunts he encounters in the hostile environments of the road while keeping his team unbeaten and on ... Read More

By: AP via ESPN.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- David Lighty scored 19 points and Jared Sullinger had 18 points and 13 rebounds to help top-ranked Ohio State remain unbeaten with an 82-69 victory over Minnesota (No. 20 ESPN/USA Today, No. 18 AP) on Sunday. Every starter for the Buckeyes (24-0, 11-0 Big Ten) scored 10 or more points as they stretched the second-longest winning streak in school history. William Buford added 15 points, four assists, four rebounds and two steals, ... Read More