You forgot Nebraska

And there was a little ditty in USHR back in October (it's now free) that 
said:
"..By the way, it seems inevitable that University of Nebraska-Omaha’s 
program will somehow migrate west to Lincoln and give the Cornhuskers a Div. 
I program in the Big 10 League. We don’t want to pretend to understand the 
machinations of such a move, but we can tell you it’s being ‘explored.’ That 
means people in high places want it to happen, which usually means that it 
will happen..."

Let's start blowing things up before rebuilding, shall we?

Joe

-----Original Message----- 
From: Joe Makowiec
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 06:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Big 10 Hockey

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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