What took the Big Ten so long to create a post-season tournament?

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Twenty-five years ago, the Big Ten finally launched a post-season
conference tournament. After years of rejecting the move for an
assortment of reasons ranging from academics to regular season
integrity, the conference switched course and installed the Big
Ten Tournament to cap to the 1997-1998 season. The Chucker,
19nine’s resident historian, explains the Big Ten’s long road to
creating a post-season tournament and the 450,000 reasons the
conference and its member institutions eventually reconsidered
and relented.
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