The 2016 season marks the 35th year of women’s volleyball in the Big Ten. Since the first official season in 1982, only two schools — Penn State and Wisconsin — have won more conference championships than Illinois.
The Nittany Lions have dominated since they joined the Big Ten in 1991, winning 16 titles in 25 years. The Badgers are a distant second with five championships, while the Illini have four.
Other achievements for Illinois and its players in the first 34 years of Big Ten volleyball:
— Twenty-nine different Illini players have won first-team All-Big Ten honors a total of 46 times, third only to Penn State’s 79 and Minnesota’s 54.