So you're saying there's a chance...

The answer to the "has it ever been done before" Big Ten championship trifecta is no.

The Big Ten has only recognized a women's champion since the 1981-82 season, and no school has ever won a football, men's basketball and women's basketball championship in the same academic year.

The last two times a team won both a Big Ten football title and a Big Ten men's basketball title in the same season... believe it or not... it was Illinois.

In 2001-02, they won the football title outright and shared the basketball title with Indiana, OSU and Wisconsin.

In 1983-84, they won the football title outright (thanks to a scheduling quirk where OSU finished a half-game back) and split the basketball championship with Purdue.

It has also been more than 10 years since any school won the men's and women's basketball titles in the same year. Purdue did it back-to-back in 1993-94 and 1994-95.