There's a wire story in today's Albany, NY /Times Union/ about the 
Big 10 forming their own hockey conference:

http://www.mlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/while_big_tens_quiet_conferenc.html

Among other things, the article notes:
>Penn State's decision to start playing varsity hockey meets the 
>conference's six-team minimum for sponsoring the sport, potentially 
>lucrative new programming on the conference-controlled Big Ten Network.

Big 10 teams and hockey:
Illinois - no hockey
Indiana - no hockey
Iowa - no hockey
Michigan - CCHA
Michigan State - CCHA
Minnesota - WCHA
Northwestern - no hockey
Ohio State - CCHA
Penn State - hockey starting 2012/13; Big 10 14/15
Purdue - no hockey
Wisconsin - WCHA

So this would take Michigan, Michigan state and Ohio State out of the 
CCHA and Minnesota and Wisconsin out of the WCHA.

Joe
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