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lacrosse. Also, like all other Big Ten members except for
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for both men and women, the conference would begin sponsoring the sport for both sexes in the 2014–15 school year (2015 lacrosse season). Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State already sponsored both men's and women's lacrosse, while
Northwestern sponsored the sport for women only. The two new full
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members brought the Big Ten to six schools with women's lacrosse, the minimum number of schools required under conference bylaws for the sponsoring of an official Big Ten championship. With five men's lacrosse schools set for 2014–15, the Big Ten added its sixth program by inviting
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Conference, the American Athletic Conference agreed that it would not sponsor lacrosse. In turn, the new Big East agreed to take in all of The American's men's and women's lacrosse programs as associate
694:(ALC), a women's lacrosse league which had been home to the four pre-2015 Big Ten women's lacrosse programs. With four of its seven members leaving for the Big Ten, and Johns Hopkins announcing its move to independence, the ALC was left with only two members,
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December 2009, rumors about possible expansion targets and the possibility that the conference might expand to as many as 14 or 16 teams circulated into May 2010. On June 11, 2010,
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magazine speculated that Plank, estimated by the magazine to be worth more than $ 1.3 billion, was a key driving force in
Maryland's Big Ten move. In the week before the Big Ten negotiations were revealed, Under Armour filed a statement with the
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at the time. There was not a great deal of enthusiasm about that. I think we should have done that at the time. So we would have had
Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and then moved into that other area. I think, by the way, that that can still
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was "100 percent" behind a Big Ten move, and was heavily lobbying regents. On
November 19, the Maryland regents voted to accept the Big Ten's offer, and the Big Ten presidents unanimously approved Maryland's entry later that day. The
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as the only ECAC Lacrosse member that had no confirmed conference home for the 2015 season; it would ultimately play that season as an independent before becoming a lacrosse member of the
Southern Conference for the 2016 season.
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nationally competitive schedule. The Blue Jays' familiarity with the Big Ten's present and future men's lacrosse programs was also a major factor in the school's decision to affiliate with that conference. Hopkins'
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to accept the Big Ten's invitation. The Big Ten unanimously accepted Rutgers' application on November 20; however, the announcement only said that the school would join "at a date to be determined".
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