I have been hearing people talking about the Big Ten Hockey Conference or 10+ years and it has yet to come to fruition, someone from the big ten has to add hockey first. Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania aren't exactly hot beds of hockey. Also, like someone mentioned if that was case there would be some top quality teams left out of the NCAA tourney every year because they were beating up on each other for 4-6 games someone like a MSU, Michigan or Minnesota is going to be left out of the NCAA tourney.