Big Ten Rugby Conference | Goff Rugby Report

The Big Ten Rugby Conference (B1G Rugby) is a collegiate rugby league composed primarily of universities that are members of the Big Ten academic and athletic institutions, but it operates independently from the official Big Ten athletic conference. The league was formed to build on the traditional rivalries among these universities, but because of travel challenges, not every original Big 10 is in the rugby conference. Only seven of the teams that made up the Big 10 NCAA conference starting in the 1950s are in the Big Ten Rugby Conference. To even things out, the rugby conference added Notre Dame, which is a University with similar history and background to the Big Ten Universities.

This conference is split into West and East, with teams playing three conference games each. The top two from each side then play in semifinals, and the bottom two from each side play in 5th-place semifinals. Then all of the teams meet for a day of championship rugby in which all eight are placed 1st through 8th.

Of the eight teams in B1G Rugby, five play in the National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) postseason, while the other three play toward a College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) postseason.

Division: Men's D1A
Division: Men's NCR D1
Division: Women's D1AA

Conference Website

05.13.2022College Men

Indiana On a Roll, and Wants to Stay There

It's been a pretty long season for the University of Indiana.

After starting the 15s season in August with a coaching change, the Hoosiers ran through a tough Big 10 season, taking the #1 seed out of the regular season into the final, where they were edged by Ohio State.

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05.09.2022College Men

Big 10 Names All-Conference Sevens Selections

The Big 10 Conference has named its all-conference 7s players following a full series of tournaments through the spring.

Indiana, which won the conference championship and was relatively dominant throughout, leads the conference with four players on the 1st team, including conference MVP Will Chevalier, and two more on the 2nd team.

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04.12.2022College Men

Indiana Rolls to Win in Big 10 Series Stop at Purdue

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The eight teams of the Big Ten plus Notre Dame made their way to Purdue for Leg Two of the 2022 Big Ten 7s Series. Indiana sat atop the standings after week one in Champaign.

04.05.2022College Men

Indiana Opens Big 10 7s Season With Win

For the first time since Spring, 2019, the Big Ten Universities Rugby Conference assembled for a league 7s tournament.

The players have changed since COVID – Minnesota has left the conference while Penn State has joined (for 7s only).

02.09.2022College Men

Penn State to Join Big Ten Conference for Sevens Season

The Big Ten Universities Rugby Conference has admitted Penn State to its Spring 7s competition.

This is a big move for Big Ten University Rugby as it helped elevate the standard of competition with addition of one of the top programs in the country.