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Wisconsin athletics: Big Ten fall sports moving to spring, pending final approval

Wednesday was a huge day around the Big Ten conference in terms of getting sports set up to play this fall. College football will be back in B1G cities from Nebraska to New Jersey to Mississippi starting on Oct. 24 and men’s and women’s college basketball has a new start date of Nov. 25. As far as the rest of the athletic department goes it is looking like the rest of the fall sports will be played in the spring.

The Division 1 Council is passing this recommendation along to the Division 1 Board of Directors for their approval: “After a thorough review, the recommendations were made by the Division I Competition Oversight Committee for men’s cross country, women’s cross country, field hockey, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and men’s water polo.