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You're both wrong. The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) is America's oldest collegiate athletic conference - Founded in 1888 by Olivet College, Albion College, and Michigan State University.
http://miaa.org/history/index.html
The Big 10 IS the oldest Division 1 conference in the United States - Founded 1896
http://www.bigten.org/trads/big10-trads.html
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LaoGeneva College in Beaver Falls, PA (Suburban Pittsburgh) was the first College Basketball program. April 8, 1893 they played their first game with New Brighton, YMCA. The program was founded by a James Naismith protoge named Charles O. Bemies. (http://www.Basketball.org/first-college-basketball-game/)
Geneva College - 1893-94 (Played until 1943)
Iowa 1893-94
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Hiram - 1894-95 (Played until 1904)
Drexel - 1894-5 (Did not play Div 1 equiv. between 1901 and 1972)
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Temple - 1895-1896
Bucknell - 1895-1896
Yale - 1895-1896
Minnesota - 1895-1896
Washington - 1895-1896 (not again until 1888-89)
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Notre Dame 1896-1897
Nebraska 1896-1897
Purdue 1896-1897
Penn State 1896-1897
Butler 1896-1897
Pennsylvania - 1896-1897
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North Dakota State - 1897-98 (Did not play Div 1 equiv. between 1927 and 2007)
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Kansas - 1898-99
Ohio State - 1898-99
Illinois State - 1898-99
Wisconsin - 1898-99
Michigan State - 1898-99
Syracuse - 1898-99
Cornell - 1898-99
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Indiana State - 1899-00
Dartmouth - 1899-00
New Mexico - 1899-00
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Princeton - 1900-01
Brown - 1900-01
Harvard - 1900-01
Columbia - 1900-01
Lafayette - 1900-01
Vanderbilt - 1900-01
Indiana - 1900-01
Holy Cross - 1900-01
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Washington State - 1901-02
Oregon State - 1901-02
Connecticut - 1901-02
Cincinnati - 1901-02
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Colgate - 1902-03
Oregon - 1902-03
Colorado - 1902-03
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Kentucky - 1903-04
Seton Hall - 1903-04 (but not again until 1908-09)
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Northwestern - 1904-05
Arizona - 1904-05
West Virginia - 1904-05
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Kansas State - 1905-06
Pittsburgh - 1905-06
Illinois - 1905-06
Auburn - 1905-06
Duke - 1905-06
Georgia - 1905-06
Wake Forest - 1905-06
Virginia - 1905-06
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Texas - 1906-07
USC - 1906-07
Missouri - 1906-07
Rutgers - 1906-07
Wichita St. - 1906-07
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California - 1907-08
St. John's - 1907-08
Georgetown - 1907-08
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Oklahoma - 1908-09
Oklahoma State - 1908-09
Iowa State - 1908-09
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North Carolina - 1910-1911
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Louisville - 1911-12
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North Carolina State - 1912-13
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Stanford - 1913-14
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Michigan - 1917-1918
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UCLA - 1919-20
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Florida - 1920-21
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Arkansas - 1923-24
-first public basketball game was played on March 11, 1892 at the Springfield YMCA Training School between students and faculty, students won 5-1.
-first basketball game reported between two colleges was played on February 9th, 1895, when the Minnesota State School of Agriculture (which is now the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus) beat the Hamline College Porkers by a score of 9 to 3
-first recognized intercollegiate game with five players on each team,on January 16th, 1896, University of Chicago defeated University of Iowa 15 to 12
-first official intercollegiate game, on December 10th, 1896, Wesleyan University defeated Yale, 4-3
Rutgers and Princeton played in the first-ever College Football game in 1869.
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