List of NCAA Division I institutions
This is a list of NCAA Division I institutions.
Division I Institutions
Full Member Institutions
- Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The football team plays in the Pioneer Football League.
- 1 2 The football team plays in the Big Sky Conference.
- ↑ Primary affiliation changing to the Big West Conference in 2020.
- ↑ Duquesne football plays in the Northeast Conference.
- 1 2 The football team plays in the Patriot League.
- ↑ Hampton football will play as an FCS independent in 2018 before joining the Big South in 2019.
- ↑ Hawaii football plays in the Mountain West Conference.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The football team plays in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
- 1 2 The football team plays in the Big South Conference.
- ↑ Liberty football currently plays as an FBS independent.
- ↑ UMass football plays as an FBS independent.
- ↑ New Mexico State football currently plays as an FBS independent.
- ↑ North Dakota football is competing as an FCS independent in 2018 and 2019 before joining the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020.
- ↑ Notre Dame football plays as an FBS independent, but has a scheduling agreement with the ACC by which it plays five games each season against ACC schools, and plays each other ACC member at least once every three years.
- ↑ Presbyterian football will leave the Big South after the 2019 season, spending a transitional season as an FCS independent before joining the Pioneer Football League in 2021. It will remain a full non-football Big South member.
- ↑ Purdue Fort Wayne was established on July 1, 2018 with the split of Division I member Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) into separate institutions affiliated with Indiana University and Purdue University. The IPFW athletic program transferred completely to Purdue Fort Wayne, inheriting IPFW's memberships in Division I and The Summit League, and rebranded as the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.[7]
- ↑ Has announced that it will drop to NCAA Division II starting in 2019.
- ↑ Army football plays as an FBS independent.
- ↑ Navy football plays in the American Athletic Conference.
Transitional schools
| School | Team | City | State | Type | Conference | Making Transition | Full Membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah State University | Tigers | Savannah | Georgia | Public (HBCU) | Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference | From DI to DII (To begin transition after 2018–19 school year) | July 2021[8] |
| School | Team | City | State | Type | Conference | Began Transition | Full Membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Baptist University | Lancers | Riverside | California | Private/Southern Baptist | Western Athletic Conference | July 2018 | July 2022[9] |
| University of North Alabama | Lions | Florence | Alabama | State | Atlantic Sun Conference[lower-alpha 1] | July 2018 | July 2022[10] |
- ↑ North Alabama football is playing the 2018 season as an FCS independent before joining the Big South Conference in 2019.
| School | Team | City | State | Type | Future Conference | Making Transition | Full Membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Diego | Tritons | San Diego | California | State | Big West Conference[A 43] | From DII to DI | July 2024 [11] |
| Merrimack College | Warriors | North Andover | Massachusetts | Private/Catholic | Northeast Conference[A 44] | From DII to DI | July 2023 [12] |
Notes
- ↑ The formal nickname for women's teams is "Razorbacks", and the university consistently refers to the women's teams as the Razorbacks or Razorback women. The terms "Lady Razorbacks" and "Lady'Backs" have been abandoned by the university.
- ↑ Although the school now prefers to use "Little Rock" for its athletic programs, and the NCAA has also adopted this usage, national media have yet to fully recognize this change.
- ↑ The Long Beach State baseball team is unofficially called "Dirtbags", and the school recognizes the nickname.
- ↑ The school is increasingly branding its athletic program as simply "Charleston". The NCAA and national sports media are inconsistent, using "Charleston" for basketball but "College of Charleston" for other sports.
- ↑ Charleston Southern's women's golf team is known as the Lady Bucs
- ↑ With the school currently mired in financial difficulties beyond those of the State of Illinois and with the needs of the athletic program to maintain its viability within the Western Athletic Conference and the NCAA's Division I, in April 2016, the Chicago State University Budget Committee recommended that the Athletic Department "... study the benefits of being Division 1 or another division."[2]
- ↑ The women's gymnastics team is known as "Gym Dogs".
- ↑ Most of the university is in Cambridge, but some academic buildings and athletic facilities, including the football stadium, lie in Boston.
- ↑ In July 2013, all Hawaiʻi men's teams adopted the nickname of "Rainbow Warriors". This reversed a 2000 policy that resulted in different men's teams using "Rainbow Warriors", "Warriors", and "Rainbows". All women's teams continue to use "Rainbow Wahine", although the beach volleyball team has mostly deprecated that nickname in favor of "SandBows".
- ↑ Although UIC is the school's preferred athletic name, national sports media generally use "Illinois-Chicago" in score listings and on first reference.
- ↑ The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds will pass into history when LIU merges them with the Division II LIU Post Pioneers after the 2018-19 academic year. A new name and mascot will be named by the alumni and students of the two campuses, and the teams of the merged campuses will continue LIU Brooklyn's membership in the Northeast Conference.[3][4]
- ↑ The school brands its athletic program solely as "Louisiana", with no city identifier.
- ↑ The use of "Tigers" or "Lady Tigers" depends on whether a given sport is sponsored for both men and women at the varsity level. In sports that are sponsored for both sexes, women's teams are known as "Lady Tigers". Sports that are sponsored only for one sex use "Tigers".
- ↑ National sports media generally use "Loyola–Chicago", "Loyola (Chicago)", or "Loyola (Illinois)" to distinguish this school from others with the Loyola name. The NCAA now uses "Loyola–Chicago".
- ↑ While national media generally use "Massachusetts", the shortened "UMass" is in wide usage, especially in Massachusetts itself.
- ↑ National media sometimes use "Miami (Florida)" or "Miami (FL)" to distinguish it from Miami University in Ohio.
- ↑ National media usually use "Miami (Ohio)" or "Miami (OH)" to distinguish it from the University of Miami in Florida.
- ↑ National media generally use "Mississippi" in score listings and on first reference, but will frequently use "Ole Miss" on later reference. The school athletic department prefers "Ole Miss".
- ↑ The women's basketball team is known as the "Lady Griz", but all other women's teams use the "Grizzlies" nickname.
- ↑ The baseball team is nicknamed "Thoroughbreds" instead of "Racers".
- ↑ The school has rebranded its athletic program as "Omaha". Both its all-sports league, The Summit League, and its ice hockey league, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, follow this usage, as does the NCAA. National media, however, still tend to use "Nebraska-Omaha".
- ↑ The men's basketball team is nicknamed "Runnin' Rebels"; the women's basketball team is "Lady Rebels"; all other teams, whether men's or women's, are simply "Rebels".
- ↑ The school brands itself as UNCG, though national sports media will refer to it was UNC Greensboro, which is not preferred by the athletic department.
- ↑ From November 9, 2011 through November 18, 2015, North Dakota had no athletic nickname. In 2011, the state's governor Jack Dalrymple signed a bill into law that allowed the school to drop its former nickname of Fighting Sioux, ending a long-standing controversy over its use. Under the law, UND was not allowed adopt a new nickname until after January 2015.[5] On November 18, 2015, the school announced Fighting Hawks was the new nickname chosen by the students/alumni.[6]
- ↑ The Penn State women's basketball team is nicknamed "Lady Lions", but all other women's teams use "Nittany Lions".
- ↑ The school also widely uses its historic short form of "Pitt".
- ↑ In 2013, the school changed its athletic brand to "St. Francis Brooklyn" in an attempt to distinguish itself from other schools of that name, notably the fellow Northeast Conference member in Pennsylvania. National media usually use "St. Francis (New York)" instead.
- ↑ National media usually use "St. Francis (Pennsylvania)" to distinguish it from other schools of that name, notably the fellow Northeast Conference school of the same name in Brooklyn.
- ↑ Other schools in the U.S. have this name, but national media do not add a location identifier to it, since it is the only "St. John's" whose athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I.
- ↑ Although there are other schools with this name in the U.S., none of the others are members of NCAA Division I. Therefore, national media refer to it as "Saint Joseph's" (preferred usage) or "St. Joseph's", without a regional identifier, or just St. Joe's/Saint Joe's.
- ↑ Although the school prefers to use "USC Upstate", national media often use "South Carolina Upstate".
- ↑ The school accepts either "Southern California" or "USC" for athletics purposes; national news media generally use "USC".
- ↑ Historically, USC women's teams were known as the "Women of Troy". The school now accepts either "Trojans" or "Women of Troy" for use with women's teams.
- ↑ Although the school prefers to use "SIUE", national media often use "SIU Edwardsvile".The NCAA now uses "SIUE".
- ↑ In 2017–18, Tennessee allowed women's teams to use the school's historic women's nickname of "Lady Volunteers", reversing a change it had made in 2015–16 that saw only the women's basketball team retain the "Lady" designation. Since then, Tennessee has moved toward a model similar to that used by LSU and Texas Tech, with women's teams in sports sponsored for both sexes using "Lady Volunteers" and other women's teams using "Volunteers".
- ↑ UTRGV has six campuses within its service area, but its athletic program is based from its Edinburg campus. The school inherited its athletic program from the University of Texas–Pan American, located in Edinburg and merged into UTRGV in 2013, with UTRGV beginning full operation in 2015.
- ↑ The use of "Red Raiders" or "Lady Raiders" depends on whether a given sport is sponsored for both men and women at the varsity level. In sports that are sponsored for both sexes, women's teams are known as "Lady Raiders". Sports that are sponsored only for one sex use "Red Raiders".
- ↑ The academy now uses "Army West Point" for marketing purposes, though national media simply use "Army".
- ↑ The men's basketball team is nicknamed "Runnin' Utes", and the women's gymnastics team is nicknamed "Red Rocks".
- ↑ The school's formal name is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, but it uses "Virginia Tech" in all but the most formal contexts.
- ↑ The school prefers "Green Bay" for its athletic program, and accepts "GB". National sports media were slow to adopt this, generally using "Wisconsin-Green Bay", but the school's preferred usage has become generally accepted since 2011.
- ↑ The school officially uses "Milwaukee" for its athletic program, and accepts "UWM". As with Green Bay, national media were slow to accept this, preferring "Wisconsin–Milwaukee", but "Milwaukee" is now seeing wide media use.
- ↑ Accepted as future member by the Big West Conference in November, 2017.
- ↑ Accepted as future member by the Northeast Conference in September, 2018.
See also
- List of non-Division I Schools competing in NCAA Division I sports
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of NAIA institutions
- List of USCAA institutions
- List of NCCAA institutions
- List of NCAA Division I athletic directors
- List of NCAA Division I baseball programs
- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball programs
- List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs
- List of NCAA Division I FCS football programs
- List of NCAA Division I non-football programs
- List of NCAA Division I ice hockey programs
- List of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs
- List of NCAA Division I softball programs
- List of NCAA Division I lacrosse programs
- List of NCAA Division I wrestling programs
- List of NCAA fencing schools
- List of NCAA men's volleyball schools
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball alignment history
- NCAA Men's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision alignment history
- NCAA Men's Division I Football Championship Subdivision alignment history
References
- ↑ "Division I Members". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- ↑ "University Budget Committee minutes" (PDF). Chicago State University. April 26, 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ↑ "LIU combining Post and Brooklyn athletic programs". Newsday. October 3, 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "#OneLIU website". Long Island University. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ↑ "Governor signs Fighting Sioux name bill". ESPN.com. Associated Press. November 9, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Fighting Hawks selected as new nickname for the University of North Dakota". North Dakota Fighting Hawks. November 18, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
- ↑ "Purdue Fort Wayne Branding Released" (Press release). Purdue University Fort Wayne. June 18, 2018. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ↑ "Savannah State plans to move athletics down to Division II". Savannahnow/Savannah Morning News. April 17, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
- ↑ "Cal Baptist moving to NCAA Division I". The Press-Enterprise & Digital First Media. January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
- ↑ "UNA to move to Division 1, join ASUN". DecaturDaily.com. December 7, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
- ↑ "Cal State Bakersfield, UC San Diego to join Big West Conference". Orange County Register. November 27, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Merrimack Accepts Invitation to Join Northeast Conference". Northeast Conference/sidearmsports.com. September 10, 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
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