Twenty-five years ago, the Big Ten finally launched a post-season conference tournament. After years of rejecting the move for an assortment of reasons ranging from academics to regular season integrity, the conference switched course and installed the Big Ten Tournament to cap to the 1997-1998 season. The Chucker, 19nine’s resident historian, explains the Big Ten’s long road to creating a post-season tournament and the 450,000 reasons the conference and its member institutions eventually reconsidered and relented.
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