ANN ARBOR -- Michigan coach John Beilein will head to Chicago next week for the Big Ten's annual spring meetings, and a topic of discussion will be what the league does with two more teams in 2014-15.

The Big Ten is set to move to two divisions in football after next season, and Beilein says he's in favor of basketball following the same plan.

"I think it makes sense," Beilein said Friday in Ann Arbor. "It depends on how big (the league gets eventually), but the rhyme or reason of who you play and when you play is difficult. If you knew you were playing everybody (in your division) twice, I think that'd be helpful."

The Big Ten has already announced it will move to two football divisions (East and West) beginning in 2014.

Michigan will be joined in the East by Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Maryland, Indiana and Rutgers for football. Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Illinois and Wisconsin will be in the West.

At first glance, a pure mirror of the football divisions for basketball doesn't quite seem balanced -- as Michigan State, Ohio State, Indiana, Michigan and Maryland would all be on the same side.

But, it's a discussion Beilein expects to have either way.

Other than that, Beilein says the rest of the meetings will be rather typical.

"It'll be going over the officials and rating the officials and going over them," he said. "I know Jim Delany will talk to us about the conference, how do we add these new teams, and all that."

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