NCAA Division I.

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The NCAA Division I (DI) is the highest tier of sports programs offered by many American universities, recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. The DI schools include the most important university sports with larger budgets, more extensive facilities and more sports scholarships than Divisions II and III, as well as many smaller schools that have chosen the highest level of intercollegial competition.

This level was once referred to as the university division of the NCAA, as opposed to the lower college division. These terms were replaced by numerical divisions in 1973. The university division was renamed Division I while the college division was split into two. The college division members who offered scholarships or who wished to compete against those who became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III.

For college football only , the DI schools are further divided into the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), and those institutions that do not have a football program. FBS teams must meet higher requirements to participate in games, while more players receive sports scholarships than FCS teams. The FBS is named after a series of postseason bowl games, in which the teams are rated in various surveys after these games are completed to determine the master. The FCS National Champion is determined through a tournament with several teams.

For the 2014/15 school year, Division I comprised 345 of the 1,066 member institutions of the NCAA, including 125 in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), 125 in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and 95 non-football schools. Six other schools were in the transition from Section II to Section I.

DI schools

Schools must have teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women, or six for men and eight for women with at least two team sports for each gender. Teams that include both men and women are counted as men's sports for promotional reasons. Division I schools are required to pay minimum rewards of financial assistance for their athletics program. There is also maximum financial support for any sport that a Division I school cannot exceed. Several other NCAA-approved minima and differences distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Members must sponsor at least one sport (not necessarily a team sport) for each gender in each game season (fall, winter, spring), with teams of more than one gender being counted as men's teams for this purpose. For every sport there are minimum requirements for competitions and participants as well as planning criteria. In all sports, except football and basketball, the Division I schools must play 100 percent of the minimum number of games against opponents from Division I - anything beyond the minimum number of games must be 50 percent against opponents from Division I. The men's and women's basketball teams must play all but two games against teams from Division I; The men's teams must play a third of their games in the home arena.

In addition to schools that fully compete as DI institutions, the NCAA allows D-II and D-III schools to classify one men's and one women's sport (excluding football or basketball) as a DI sport if they do so Sponsored sports before the latest rule change in 2011. Division II schools are also eligible to participate in Division I National Championships in sports for which there is no Division II National Championship. DI rules and scholarship restrictions may also apply in these sports.

FBS and FCS

For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division IA (the main football schools ), Division I-AA (the other schools with football teams), and Division I (the schools that do not give football scholarships). In 2006, the IA and I-AA divisions were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), respectively.

FBS teams are allowed to support a maximum of 85 players per year, with each scholarship holder receiving a full scholarship. FCS teams have the same limit of 85 players as FBS teams, but are only allowed to grant 63 full scholarships. FCS teams are allowed to award partial scholarships, a practice that is technically permitted but essentially never applied at the FBS level. FBS teams must also meet the minimum audience requirements for games (an average of 15,000 people for actual or paid participation per home game), while FCS teams do not need to meet the minimum audience requirements.

Another difference is the post-season. Since 1978, FCS teams have played in an NCAA-approved bracket tournament that culminates in a title game, the NCAA Division I Football Championship , to determine a national champion, while FBS teams play bowl games, with upon completion of these games various surveys evaluate the teams and have produced a Consensus National Champion every year since 1950. From the 2014 postseason, a four-team college football playoff was held, replacing a single championship game that began with the Bowl Coalition during the 1992 postseason . Even so, Division I FBS football remains the only NCAA sport where an annual champion is not determined by an NCAA-approved championship event.

sports

Men's team sports

number Sports Teams Conferences Scholarships per team season Most championships
1 football 256

(128 FBS, 128 FCS)

24

(10 FBS, 14 FCS)

000000000000085.000000000085 (FBS)

63.0 (FCS)

autumn Princeton (28)
2 basketball 351 32 000000000000013.000000000013 winter UCLA (11)
3 baseball 302 32 11.7 spring USC (12)
4th Soccer 204 23 9.9 autumn St. Louis (10)
5 Wrestling 79 7th 9.9 winter Oklahoma State (34)
6th ice Hockey 60 6th 18.0 winter Michigan (9)
7th lacrosse 68 10 12.6 spring Syracuse (10)
8th volleyball 23 4th 4.5 spring UCLA (19)
9 Water polo 22nd 4th 4.5 autumn California (13)

The sports are sorted according to the total possible scholarships (number of teams x number of scholarships per team). The scholarship numbers for head count sports are given without a decimal point. Numbers for equivalence sports are given with a decimal point, if necessary with a trailing zero.

Notes :

The NCAA officially classifies the men's volleyball and water polo championships as "National Collegiate" championships. This is the name given to championships that are open to members of more than one NCAA division. However, the ice hockey championship is referred to as the "Division I" championship because there was previously a separate Division II championship in this sport.
  • Football - DI football programs are divided into FBS and FCS. The 128 FBS programs can provide financial support to up to 85 players, with each player eligible for a full scholarship. The 124 FCS programs can award up to 63 full scholarships, which cannot be distributed to more than 85 people. Some FCS conferences limit scholarships to a lower level or have no scholarships at all.
  • Football - The Big 1 2 and the SEC are the only two major traditional DI conferences that do not promote football. Some other DI conferences don't endorse the sport either - Big Sky , MEAC , Mountain West , Ohio Valley , Southland, and SWAC .
  • Ice Hockey - Most DI ice hockey programs take place in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, or the Colorado Front Range. Only one DI all-sports conference, the Big Ten, sponsors a men's hockey league. All other conferences are hockey-specific leagues. Of the 60 DI hockey schools, 22 are otherwise classified as either D-II or D-III; A number of schools in D-II play DI ice hockey because the NCAA no longer supports championships in D-II, but the schools have many traditional and cultural fan bases.
  • Lacrosse - The vast majority of DI lacrosse programs come from the Northeast and the Central Atlantic. There are only three DI programs west of the Mississippi - Air Force and Denver on the Colorado Front Range as well as Utah .
  • Volleyball - Of the traditional DI conferences, only Big West sponsors men's volleyball, and has only been promoting it since 2017/18. Two of the other three major volleyball conferences are volleyball-specific conferences. The third is the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, a multisport conference that does not promote football or basketball. In addition to the DI schools, 26 D-II schools compete in the National Collegiate Division. Nine of them are members of Conference Carolinas, the only all-sports league outside of Division III that promotes the sport.
  • Water Polo - The number of DI schools promoting water polo for men has decreased from 35 in 1987/88 to 22 in 2010/11. No school outside of California has ever reached the championship finals, and all champions since 1998 have come from one of the four California-based Pac-12 schools.

Individual sports for men

The following table lists the individual DI sports for men with at least 1,000 participating athletes. Sports are sorted by number of athletes.

number Sports Teams (2015) Teams (1982) modification Athletes season
1 Athletics (outdoor) 278 230 +48 11.067 spring
2 Athletics (indoor) 257 209 +48 10.174 winter
3 Off-road running 311 256 +56 4.845 autumn
4th Swimming & diving 134 181 -47 3.839 winter
5 golf 297 263 +34 2.947 spring
6th tennis 258 267 –9 2.678 spring
7th Wrestling 76 146 -70 2.520 winter

DI College Wrestling has lost nearly half of its programs since 1982.

Women's team sports

number Sports Teams Conferences Scholarships

per team

season Most championships
1 basketball 349 32 000000000000015.000000000015th winter Connecticut (11)
2 Soccer 333 31 14.0 autumn North Carolina (21)
3 volleyball 334 32 000000000000012.000000000012 * autumn Stanford (9)
4th Softball 295 32 12.0 spring UCLA (12)
5 rowing 88 12 20.0 spring Brown (7)
6th lacrosse 112 13 12.0 spring Maryland (12)
7th Field hockey 78 10 12.0 autumn Old Dominion (9)
8th ice Hockey 40 4th 18.0 winter Minnesota (6)
9 beach volleyball 47 5 6.0 * spring USC (2)
10 Water polo 34 6th 8.0 spring UCLA (7)

Remarks:

  • As in the men's table above, the sport is listed in order of the total possible scholarships. Numbers for head count sports are given without a decimal point; those for equivalence sports are shown with a decimal point and, if necessary, with a trailing zero.
  • Women's football is the fastest growing NCAA DI women's sport for a long time, rising from 22 teams in 1981/82 to 315 teams in 2010/11. However, in recent years beach volleyball has been the fastest growing, rising from 14 Division I teams in 2011/12 to 55 in 2016/17.
  • * = The number of scholarships is partially fixed for (indoor) volleyball and beach volleyball. Schools that set up both indoor and beach volleyball teams may from 2016/17 award 6.0 full scholarship equivalents specifically for beach volleyball, with the additional restriction that (1) no player who receives a scholarship for beach volleyball is on the list of indoor volleyball players can and (2) a maximum of 14 people can receive scholarships for beach volleyball. If a school only has one beach volleyball team, 8.0 full scholarship equivalents are permitted for this sport, which may also not be distributed among more than 14 people.

Individual sports of women

The following table lists the individual DI sports for women with at least 1,000 participating athletes. Sports are sorted by number of athletes.

number Sports Teams (2015) Teams (1982) modification Athletes season
1 Athletics (outdoor) 329 180 +149 13.075 spring
2 Athletics (indoor) 319 127 +192 12.816 winter
3 Off-road running 342 183 +159 6.031 autumn
4th Swimming & diving 195 161 +34 5,393 winter
5 golf 259 83 +176 2.170 spring
6th tennis 318 246 +72 2.912 spring
7th do gymnastics 61 99 -38 1.085 winter

Conferences

According to NCAA regulations, all Division I conferences defined as "Multisport Conferences" must meet the following criteria:

  • A total of at least seven active members of Division I.
  • Aside from the above, at least seven active Division I members who promote both men's and women's basketball.
  • Promote at least 12 NCAA Division I sports.
  • At least six men's sports with the following additional restrictions:
    • Men's basketball is a compulsory sport and at least seven members must sponsor the sport.
    • Non-soccer conferences must promote at least two team sports other than basketball
    • A minimum of six members must sponsor five male sports other than basketball, including either football or two other team sports.
  • At least six women's sports with the following additional restrictions:
    • Women's basketball is a compulsory sport and at least seven members sponsor the sport.
    • At least two other women's sports must be promoted.
    • A minimum of six members must sponsor five women's sports other than basketball, including either football or two other team sports. If a conference officially sponsors an NCAA "emerging sport" for women (from 2018, equestrian sport, rugby union or triathlon), this sport is counted if five (instead of six) members sponsor it.

FBS Conferences

Main article: NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

See also: List of Football Teams for the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

FBS conferences must meet stricter requirements than other conferences in order to be recognized by the NCAA:

  • A total of at least eight active FBS members.
  • To count towards this amount, a school must participate in at least six sports for men and eight women in conference games, including basketball for men and women, football, and at least two other team sports for women.
    • Any school may include one male and one female sport that is not sponsored by its main conference within the above limits, as long as that sport is in another Division I conference. The male and female sports counted do not have to be the same sport.
Conference Nickname Founded Members sports Seat Total

NCAA title

Men

NCAA title

Women

NCAA title

Mixed

NCAA title

American Athletic Conference *** The American 1979 12

22nd Providence, Rhode Island 55 37 18th 0
Atlantic Coast Conference ** ACC 1953 15th 27 Greensboro, North Carolina 150 87 58 5
Big Ten Conference ** Big Ten 1896 14th 28 Rosemont, Illinois 317 229 72 16
Big 12 Conference ** Big 12 1996 10 21st Irving, Texas 166 3
Conference USA *** C-USA 1995 14th 19th Irving, Texas
Independents 6th
Mid-American Conference *** MAC 1946 12 23 Cleveland, Ohio
Mountain West Conference *** MW 1999 11

19th Colorado Springs, Colorado 21st 13 5 3
Pac-12 Conference ** Pac-12 1915 12 24 Walnut Creek, California 501 309 174 18th
Southeastern Conference ** SEC 1932 14th 20th Birmingham, Alabama 223 118 104 1
Sun Belt Conference *** Sun Belt 1976 12 18th New Orleans, Louisiana 12 12 0 0

(** "Power Five" conferences with guaranteed participation in the "Access Bowls" for the College Football Playoff)

(*** "Group of Five" Conferences)

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Conference was founded in 1979 as the original Big East Conference. It was renamed the American Athletic Conference after it was split in 2013. The non-FBS schools of the original Conference formed a new conference named Big East, while the FBS schools continued to operate under the charter and structure of the old Big East. The American also inherited the old Big East's Bowl Championship Series entry for the 2013 season, the last for the BCS.
  2. ↑ 11 of the 12 full members sponsor football, while Wichita State is the only non-football member.
  3. ↑ In addition to full membership, six schools have individual membership:
    • Navy is an all-football member.
    • Florida and Vanderbilt are members of women's lacrosse.
    • Old Dominion, Sacramento State, and San Diego State are members of women's rowing.
  4. ↑ Notre Dame is a full member, except in football, where it remains independent. It has committed to playing five games per season against ACC opponents and playing against every ACC member at least every three years.
  5. ↑ In addition to full members, two schools have partner membership:
    • Johns Hopkins, otherwise a member of Division III, is a partner in men's and women's lacrosse, a sport that the school operates in Division I.
    • Notre Dame is a partner in men's hockey.
  6. ↑ In addition to the full members, the Big 12 has 11 members who only participate in one sport:
    • Air Force, Fresno State, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado, Northern Iowa, South Dakota State, Utah Valley and Wyoming in wrestling.
    • Alabama and Tennessee in women's rowing.
    • Denver in women's gymnastics.
  7. ^ The Conference was founded in 1995. Football started in 1996.
  8. ↑ In addition to the 14 full members, Conference USA has two schools that play men's soccer: Kentucky and South Carolina.
  9. ↑ One must note that "Independents" is not a conference. It's simply a name given to schools that don't have football programs in a conference. All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports.
  10. ↑ In addition to the 12 full members, the Mid-American Conference has 16 members who only participate in one sport, and another school that participates in two sports.
    • Appalachian State and Longwood compete in women's field hockey.
    • Binghamton competes in men's tennis.
    • Evansville, Missouri State and Southern Illinois compete in men's swimming and diving.
    • Bloomsburg, Clarion, Cleveland State, Edinboro, George Mason, Lock Haven, Missouri, Old Dominion and Rider compete in wrestling.
    • West Virginia competes in men's football.
    • SIU Edwardsville competes in men's soccer and wrestling.
  11. ↑ As of 2012, Hawaii has been an Associate Member for football only, with most of its remaining teams participating in the Big West Conference outside of football.
  12. ↑ In addition to the 11 full members and football partner Hawaii, Colorado College, a Division III school with a Division I men's ice hockey team, Division I women's football in the MW.
  13. ↑ The Pac-12 charter goes back only to the founding of the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959. The Pac-12, however, claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, which was founded in 1915 and began competing in 1916 as its own. Of the nine members of the PCC at the time of their death in June 1959, only Idaho never joined the Pac-12. The starting place of the PCC in the Rose Bowl went to the AAWU.
  14. ↑ The Pac-12 also includes four associate members, each competing in a single sport. San Diego State plays men's soccer and Cal State Bakersfield, Cal Poly and Little Rock compete in wrestling.
  15. ↑ Currently, ten members of the Sun Belt Conference sponsor football, while Little Rock and UT Arlington are members who do not play football at all.
  16. ↑ Central Arkansas and Howard are partners in men's football

FCS Conferences

Conference Nickname Founded Members sports Seat
Big Sky Conference Big Sky 1963 11

16 Ogden, Utah
Big South Conference Big South 1983 11 18th Charlotte, North Carolina
Colonial Athletic Association CAA 1983 10

21st Richmond, Virginia
Ivy League * 1954 8th 33 Princeton, New Jersey
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference MEAC 1970 11

15th Norfolk, Virginia
Missouri Valley Football Conference MVFC 1982 10 1 St. Louis, Missouri
Northeast Conference NEC 1981 11

23 Somerset, New Jersey
Ohio Valley Conference OVC 1948 12

19th Brentwood, Tennessee
Patriot League 1986 10 23 Center Valley, Pennsylvania
Pioneer Football League PFL 1991 10 1 St. Louis, Missouri
Southern Conference SoCon 1921 10 22nd Spartanburg, South Carolina
Southland Conference Southland 1963 13 18th Frisco, Texas
Southwestern Athletic Conference SWAC 1920 10 18th Birmingham, Alabama

* The Ivy League foregoes the championship tournament and all postseason games.

Remarks

  1. ↑ 13 football members with Cal Poly and UC Davis, both full members of the Big West Conference outside of football, as football-only partners.
    • North Dakota, which left Big Sky for the non-football Summit League in 2018, continued to play a full Big Sky schedule throughout the 2019 FCS Independent Member. After that, the school will attend the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
  2. ↑ In addition to full members and football partners, Binghamton and Hartford are associate members in men's golf.
  3. ↑ Big South has five full members competing for the football championship and three football-only partners in Kennesaw State, Monmouth and North Alabama.
    • In 2020, Presbyterian Football will be leaving the Conference as an independent FCS member for a transition season before joining the Pioneer League (although it will continue to be a full-fledged Big South non-football member).
    • North Carolina AT will become a full Big South member, including football, in 2021.
  4. ↑ The CAA Football Conference wasn't founded until 2007, but it has a continuous history that dates back to the late 1930s (although not under the same charter):
    • The New England Conference was founded in 1938 by five state universities in New England and one private university in this region (Northeastern). Four of the public schools, Maine, UMass, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, attended the CAA football conference through 2011. However, UMass-Football left the Conference in 2012 for the MAC. URI football originally planned to go to the Northeast Conference in 2013 but decided to stay at the CAA.
    • In 1946, the four then remaining members of the New England Conference joined two other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a separate charter. The sporting competition began in 1947.
    • In 1997, the Yankee Conference was taken over by the Atlantic 10 Conference. The A10 inherited the Yankee Conference's automatic place in the playoffs of Division I-AA (now FCS). In addition to the four members of the New England Conference mentioned above, five other members of the Yankee Conference were still taking part in the CAA football conference at the time of the A10 merger.
    • After the 2006 season, all A10 football teams went to the new CAA football conference. The CAA inherited the automatic place of the A10 in the FCS playoffs.
  5. ↑ The CAA has 10 full members, but only five of them are part of the CAA football conference. Currently, seven associate members fill the ranks of the CAA football conference: Albany, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Richmond, Stony Brook and Villanova. Villanova is also a CAA member in women's rowing.
  6. ↑ In addition to the football partners, the CAA has four other associate members who each take part in a sport: Eastern Michigan and UConn compete in women's rowing. Fairfield and UMass play men's lacrosse.
  7. ↑ Although the Conference regards 1954 as the founding date, the origins of the sports league go back to the turn of the 20th century.
    • The Ivy League considers the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League (EIBL), a men's-only conference founded in 1901, to be part of its history. Every school that was a member of the EIBL became part of the Ivy League.
    • In 1945, the eight schools that would later form the athletic Ivy League signed the Ivy Group Agreement, which regulated football competition between schools. The original agreement was renewed in 1952.
    • The official founding date of 1954 reflects the expansion of the Ivy Group agreement to all sports. Under the terms of the agreement, Brown, the only one of the original Ivy Group not to join the EIBL, joined. The all-sport competition began in 1955 when the EIBL was accepted directly into the new league.
  8. ↑ The football conference currently consists of 9 of the 11 member schools.
  9. ↑ North Carolina A&T will leave for the Big South Conference in 2021.
  10. ↑ In addition to the full members, three other schools are participants in two sports:
    • Augusta, a Division II school that runs Division I programs in both men's and women's golf, is an associate member of men's golf.
    • Monmouth and UAB participate in women's bowling. North Carolina A&T plans to resume MEAC bowling after departing for the Big South, which does not promote the sport.
  11. ↑ The Football Conference dates back to 1985, but the Conference Charter was established in 1982.
  12. ↑ North Dakota will join the MVFC in 2020.
  13. ↑ The conference has 9 full members who sponsor football. Duquesne of Non-Football. Conference Atlantic 10 is a football partner.
  14. ↑ In addition to Duquesne in football, the NEC has six other associate members, each participating in a sport:
    • Division II member Caldwell, as well as Duquesne, participates in women's bowling.
    • Hobart, otherwise a member of Division III, and the full DI members NJIT and Saint Joseph's take part in men's lacrosse.
    • Fairfield and Rider are field hockey participants.
  15. ↑ The football conference consists of 9 of the 12 member schools. Morehead State plays football without a scholarship in the Pioneer Football League, while Belmont and SIU Edwardsville do not sponsor football.
  16. ↑ In addition to the full members, Chattanooga is a partner in beach volleyball.
  17. ↑ Five of the full members do not sponsor FCS football. American, Boston University, and Loyola, Maryland do not sponsor football at all. Army is an independent FBS member; Navy plays in the American Athletic Conference. Fordham and Georgetown are associate members in football.
  18. ↑ In addition to the football partners, two other schools have individual sport membership:
    • MIT, otherwise a Division III facility, is a partner in women's rowing.
    • Richmond is a partner for women’s golf.
  19. ↑ 9 members in 2020 with Jacksonville playing football 10 members in 2021 with the addition of Presbyterian
  20. ↑ In addition to the full members, SoCon currently has 16 associated members who practice a sport in the conference. Another school is to be associated in the near future:
    • Air Force, Bellarmine (a Division II institution that sponsors Division I men's lacrosse), High Point, Jacksonville, and Richmond are members of men's lacrosse. Jacksonville is a full member of the Atlantic Sun Conference, which has a formal relationship with SoCon in men's lacrosse, and Bellarmine will be attending that conference starting in 2020.
    • Appalachian State, Campbell, Davidson, Gardner-Webb, and Presbyterian are members of wrestling.
    • Central Michigan, Delaware State, and Detroit Mercy are members of women's lacrosse. However, Central Michigan and Detroit Mercy will be leaving SoCon Women's Lacrosse after the 2020 season to join the new Women's Lacrosse League in the MAC.
    • Georgia Southern, North Georgia (a Division II institution), and UAB are members in the shooting range. For shooting, there is only one national championship for all divisions.
    • Belmont is a member of men's football.
  21. ↑ The football conference currently consists of 11 of the 13 member schools.
  22. ↑ In addition to the full members, Howard is an associate member in women's football.

Division I schools without football

Several Conferences of the Bowl Subdivision and the Championship Subdivision have members who do not compete in football. Such schools are sometimes unofficially referred to as I-AAA.

The following non-football conferences have full members promoting football:

The following Division I conferences do not promote football. However, they compete in Division I in all other sports they sponsor.

Conference Nickname Founded Members sports Seat
America East Conference America East 1979 9 19th Boston, Massachusetts
Atlantic Sun Conference ASUN 1978 9

19th Macon, Georgia
Atlantic 10 Conference A-10 1975 14th 21st Newport News, Virginia
Big East Conference Big East 2013 10

22nd New York City, New York
Big West Conference Big West 1969 9

18th Irvine, California
Horizon League Horizon 1979 10 19th Indianapolis, Indiana
Independents Independents 0
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference MAAC 1980 11 22nd Edison, New Jersey
Missouri Valley Conference MVC / Valley 1907 10 17th St. Louis, Missouri
The Summit League The Summit 1982 9

19th Sioux Falls, South Dakota
West Coast Conference WCC 1952 10 15th San Bruno, California
Western Athletic Conference WAC 1962 9

19th Greenwood Village, Colorado

Remarks

  1. ↑ In addition to full members, five schools are associated members in a single sport and a fifth in two sports.
    • California, Monmouth, Pacific, Stanford and UC Davis are associate members in field hockey.
    • VMI is an associate member in swimming and diving for men and women.
  2. ↑ 10 full members in 2020 with the addition of Bellarmine from Division II.
  3. ↑ In addition to the full members, ASUN has five associate members:
    • Coastal Carolina and Mercer compete in beach volleyball.
    • Akron, Howard, and Kent State participate exclusively in women's lacrosse. Akron and Kent State will leave after the 2020 season and join their homeland's new women's lacrosse league, the MAC.
  4. ↑ In addition to full membership, Lock Haven, otherwise a Division II facility, and Saint Francis, Pennsylvania, are associate members in field hockey.
  5. ↑ Today's Big East was formed in 2013 as a result of the split in the original Big East Conference. The original Conferences bylaws were retained by the Schools Promoting Football, now called the American Athletic Conference. While both leagues claim 1979 as the founding date, today's Big East retains the history of the original conference in all of the sports it sponsored. The pre-split history of Big East football and rowing - the two sports sponsored by The American rather than today's Big East - are not recognized by either of the side conferences.
  6. ↑ 11 full members in 2020 with the addition of UConn.
  7. ↑ In addition to full membership, the following schools are Big East partners in one or more sports:
    • Liberty, Quinnipiac, Temple and UConn take part in field hockey. UConn will become a full Big East member in 2020.
    • Denver participates in men's and women's lacrosse.
    • Old Dominion participates in both field hockey and women's lacrosse.
  8. ↑ In addition to the full members, Big West has three associate members. CSU Bakersfield and Sacramento State are members of beach volleyball, while Sacramento State is also a member of men's football. UC San Diego, Division II member, competes in two sports: men's volleyball, a sport in which DI and D-II members compete for a single national championship on identical scholarship terms, and women's water polo, a sport in which all three NCAA divisions host a single national championship.
  9. ↑ CSU Bakersfield and UC San Diego will become full members in 2020.
  10. ↑ 11 members in 2020 with the addition of Purdue Fort Wayne.
  11. ↑ Note: "Independents" is not a conference, just a term that is used to designate schools that do not belong to a conference.
  12. ↑ Since the New Jersey Institute of Technology joined the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2015, there are no more independent institutions.
  13. ↑ In addition to full members, 14 other schools in one sport are affiliated with the MAAC, two more are involved in several sports in the conference.
    • Albany, Dayton and Hartford participate in women's golf.
    • Bryant participates in men's swimming and diving.
    • Detroit Mercy and St. Bonaventure compete in men's lacrosse.
    • Drake, Robert Morris and Stetson take part in the women's row.
    • LIU, St. Francis Brooklyn, Villanova, VMI and Wagner participate in the women's water polo.
    • Jacksonville participates in women's rowing and non-NCAA men's rowing.
    • La Salle participates in women's golf and water polo.
  14. ↑ In addition to full members, three schools with only one sport are represented in the conference:
    • Dallas Baptist, otherwise a Division II institution, plays baseball.
    • Little Rock is a partner in swimming and diving for women.
    • Stony Brook participates in women's tennis.
  15. ↑ 9 full members in 2020 with the addition of Kansas City and the elimination of Purdue Fort Wayne.
  16. ↑ In addition to full members, two schools are partners for a single sport, and two other schools are represented with multiple sports in the conference.
    • Drake and Illinois State are partners in men's tennis.
    • Eastern Illinois is an associate member in men's soccer, as well as in men's and women's swimming and diving.
    • Valparaiso is an associate member in men's swimming (not diving) and men's tennis.
  17. ↑ In addition to full membership, Creighton is an associate member in women's rowing.
  18. ↑ In 2020 CSU Bakersfield and Kansas City will go to the Big West, while Dixie State and Tarleton State from Division II will be added.
  19. ↑ In addition to full members, the WAC currently has 9 associate members who have one or two sports in the conference: The WAC has one or two sports:
    • The Air Force and UNLV participate in men's soccer and men's swimming and diving.
    • Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word, and San Jose State participate in men's football only.
    • Northern Colorado participates in baseball, as well as in women's swimming and diving.
    • Northern Arizona participates in women's swimming and diving.
    • Sacramento State participates in baseball.
    • Wyoming engages in men's swimming and diving.

Of these, the three organizations that most recently sponsored football were the Atlantic 10, the MAAC, and the WAC. The A-10 Football League was dissolved in 2006 and its members moved to the Colonial Athletic Association. Additionally, four A-10 schools (Dayton, Fordham, Duquesne, and Massachusetts) are playing in a different Conference than the new CAA, which still has two full-time A-10 members (Rhode Island and Richmond). The MAAC stopped promoting football in 2007 after most of its members gradually stopped forming teams. The only pre-2007 MAAC member who still supports football is Marist; Monmouth became the second full MAAC member with Football when he was inducted in 2013. Marist plays in the Pioneer Football League, while Monmouth played the 2013 season as an independent FCS member before moving its football program to the Big South. The WAC ceased football at the end of the 2012 season after an almost complete change of membership that completely dismantled the Conference except for two members who sponsored football. The two remaining schools that sponsor the football, Idaho and New Mexico State, played as independent FBS members in the 2013 season before becoming members of the 2014 Sun Belt Conference, which played football only. Both quit Sun Belt Football in 2018, with Idaho downgraded to FCS status and football inducted into the Big Sky Conference while New Mexico State became an independent FBS member.

Division I in ice hockey

Some sports, especially ice hockey and men's volleyball , have completely different conference structures that function independently of the normal NCAA sports conference structure.

Since ice hockey is concentrated in a much smaller number of almost exclusively northern schools, there is a completely different conference structure for teams. At these conferences, there is a combination of teams practicing their other sports in different Division I conferences, and there are also Division II and Division III schools. For most of the early 21st century, there was no correlation between a team's ice hockey affiliation and its affiliation with other sports, with the exception of the hockey-playing schools of the Ivy League, which are all members of the ECAC. For example, prior to 2013, the Hockey East Men's Conference consisted of an ACC school, a Big East school, four schools from America East, an A-10 school, a CAA school, and two schools from the D-II Northeast Ten Conference while the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) both represented some of the Big Ten, as well as Division II and III schools. The structure of the divisions has also been shortened, the championship of Division II was abolished in 1999.

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference discontinued its financial commitment to the sport in 2003, while the remaining members formed Atlantic Hockey . For the next ten years, ice hockey was no longer regularly supported by an all-sports conference.

With the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Division I men's hockey was undergoing a major restructuring. The Big Ten Conference began promoting ice hockey, and its institutions pulled out of the WCHA and the CCHA. In addition, six other schools withdrew from these conferences and at the same time founded the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference . The consequences of these changes led to the elimination of the CCHA, the entry of two more teams into the NCHC and another change of members in the men's department of the WCHA.

Women's hockey remained largely unaffected by this reorganization. The Big Ten still consists of only four members with women's hockey (full members Michigan and Minnesota have only men's ice hockey teams, as does exclusive ice hockey member Notre Dame) and six teams, which are required by conference regulations for the official sponsorship program. As a result, the only changes in women's hockey affiliations between 2010 and 2014 were in College Hockey America , where two schools dropped out and three new members joined.

Conference Nickname Founded Members Men Women
Atlantic Hockey AHC 1997 11 11 -
Big Ten Conference Big Ten, B1G 1896 7th 7th -
College Hockey America CHA 1999 6th - 6th
ECAC hockey - 1962 12 12 12
Hockey East - 1984 12 11 10
Independents 1 1 -
National Collegiate Hockey Conference NCHC 2011 8th 8th -
New England Women's Hockey Alliance NEWHA 2018 6th - 6th
Western Collegiate Hockey Association WCHA 1951 15th 10 7th

Remarks

  1. ↑ Founded as an All-Sports-Conference in 1896, but ice hockey is only promoted from 2013-14.
  2. ↑ Founded in 1999 as an all-male conference, women's hockey was added in 2002. Men's hockey was discontinued after the 2009-10 season.
  3. ↑ The only independent men's or women's team in 2019/20 is that of the Arizona State men. The five schools that were independent for women in 2018/19 are officially recognized by the New England Women's Hockey Alliance by the NCAA as a conference at the National Collegiate level, which in fact corresponds to Division I in women's ice hockey independent ranks eliminated.
  4. ↑ date of foundation; The game started in 2013/14.
  5. ↑ founded in 2017 as a planning organization; Formally organized as a conference in 2018. Received official recognition from the NCAA in 2019.
  6. ↑ 7 members in 2021 with the addition of Stonehill.
  7. ↑ Potential repeal of men's conferences in 2021 following the announcement by 7 of the men's 10 members that they will be leaving after the 2020-21 season to join a reshaped CCHA.

Finances

The Division I sports programs generated sales of $ 8.7 billion in the 2009/2010 academic year. Male teams generated 55% of the revenue, female teams 15% and 30% were not categorized by gender or sport. Football and men's basketball are usually the only profitable university sports and are referred to as "revenue sports". From 2008 to 2012, 205 university teams were withdrawn from NCAA Division I - 72 women's and 133 men's teams, with tennis, gymnastics and wrestling for men being particularly hard hit.

In the Football Bowl subdivision (130 schools in 2017), between 50 and 60 percent of the football and men's basketball programs generated positive income (above the cost of the program). In the Football Championship subdivision (124 schools in 2017), however, only four percent of football and five percent of men's basketball programs were profitable.

In 2012, 2% of the sports budget was spent on equipment, uniforms, and accessories for male athletes in FBS schools, with the average spending per school at $ 742,000.

In 2014, the NCAA and the student athletes discussed whether students should be paid. In April, the NCAA approved students receive unlimited free meals and snacks. The NCAA stated, "The passage of the meal policy ended a conversation that began in the Awards, Achievement, Spending and Funding Cabinet. Members have been working to find appropriate ways to ensure that athletic students get the nutrition they need without jeopardizing Pell Grant or any other aid to the neediest students. In their vote, council members said easing NCAA rules on when and what food can be provided by athletics departments is the best way to do that To address the problem. "

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