The Big Ten is again taking on the hot-button issue of the "one-and-done" phenomenon in men's college basketball.

According to ESPN, the matter was discussed at the conference's spring meetings Tuesday, with Northwestern University athletic director Jim Phillips taking a strong stand against it. Also the chair of the newly formed NCAA Division I Council, Phillips said it was he and his colleagues that have essentially allowed men's college basketball to become the "minor leagues" for the NBA.

"Frankly speaking, shame on us," he said at the meetings. "We've allowed the National Basketball Association to dictate what our rules are, or influence what our rules are at the collegiate level."

The NBA currently requires players coming out of high school to wait one basketball season before being eligible to enter the draft. In many cases, the best high school players enroll at a school with a premier college basketball program with the sole intent of playing their mandated NBA-buffer season there.

It has worked for more than just the players as well. As more players decide to take this route, more coaches have had to switch their approach to recruiting, as was the case for Duke's National Championship run last season.

"Nobody feels great about kids going to school for a semester and then leaving," Phillips said. "That's crazy. It's absurd. So we've got to fix it.

"Why have we accepted that? Why have we just allowed that to happen without any pushback?"

Kentucky coach John Calipari, a "one-and-done" pioneer, has also spoken out against the NBA's rule, as has NCAA president Mark Emmert. But the Big Ten has been trying to address the issue for some time.

In Feb., the conference released a proposal for a "year of readiness," which is designed to require certain freshmen student-athletes to sit out a season in order to better focus on school.

Speaking with CBS Sports at the time, several other Power 5 conference commissioners also expressed interest in the idea.