The impetus for the realignment was put in motion in September 2010, when oil and natural gas magnate Terry Pegula and his wife Kim donated $ 88 million to establish a Division I hockey program at Penn State University. This gave the Big Ten Conference, at the time a non-hockey division one conference, six members that had men's ice hockey competing at the D1 level. Six members of a league gives the league champion an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I hockey Championship tournament. The conference members voted to add men's ice hockey as a conference sponsored sport in March 2011. The start date of the hockey was announced for the 2013-14 academic year.
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