NCAA Division II independent schools

Map of full NCAA Division II Independent schools

NCAA Division II independent schools are four-year institutions that are not formally affiliated with any athletic conference. Schools that are members of a conference may also field intercollegiate teams in football, lacrosse, soccer, wrestling, and other sports not affiliated with a conference, usually due to their primary conference not having enough teams in a certain sport to enable sponsorship of the sport by that conference.

Full independents

Men's sponsored sports by school

School	Baseball	Basketball	Cross Country	Golf	Soccer	Tennis	Track & Field Outdoor	Total IND Sports
Bluefield State	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y		5
Oakland City	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		6
Salem	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	6

Women's sponsored sports by school

School	Basketball	Cross Country	Golf	Soccer	Softball	Tennis	Track & Field Outdoor	Volleyball	Total IND Sports
Bluefield State	Y	Y			Y	Y		Y	5
Oakland City	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	7
Salem	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	7

Football independents

Lacrosse independents

Current members

Institution	Location	Nickname	Primary Conference	(M)	(W)
Lewis University	Romeoville, Illinois	Flyers	Great Lakes Valley		Y
Lindenwood University	Saint Charles, Missouri	Lions	Mid-America	Y
Notre Dame de Namur University	Belmont, California	Argonauts	Pacific West	Y
Quincy University	Quincy, Illinois	Hawks	Great Lakes Valley		Y

Soccer independents

Current members

Institution	Location	Nickname	Primary Conference	(M)	(W)
Albany State University	Albany, Georgia	Golden Rams	Southern Intercollegiate		Y
Lincoln University (PA)	Oxford, Pennsylvania	Lions	Central Intercollegiate		Y
Shaw University	Raleigh, North Carolina	Bears	Central Intercollegiate	Y	Y

Wrestling independents

Other sports

Golf

Institution	Location	Nickname	Primary Conference	(M)	(W)
Daemen College	Amherst, New York	Wildcats	East Coast	Y
Long Island University–Post	Brookville, New York	Pioneers	East Coast		Y
Post University	Waterbury, Connecticut	Eagles	Central Atlantic		Y
Roberts Wesleyan College	Chili, New York	Redhawks	East Coast	Y
St. Thomas Aquinas College	Sparkill, New York	Spartans	East Coast	Y
Thomas Jefferson University	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Rams	Central Atlantic		Y

Swimming & Diving

Institution	Location	Nickname	Primary Conference	(M)	(W)
University of North Carolina at Pembroke	Pembroke, North Carolina	Braves	Peach Belt		Y
Roberts Wesleyan College	North Chili, New York	Redhawks	East Coast	Y	Y
Simon Fraser University	Burnaby, British Columbia	Clan	Great Northwest	Y	Y

• UNC Pembroke women's swimming & diving joins the Mountain East Conference in 2019.^[2]

Tennis

Institution	Location	Nickname	Primary Conference	(M)	(W)
Augustana University	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Vikings	Northern Sun	Y
University of California, San Diego	La Jolla, California	Tritons	California	Y	Y

Sports not in D-II

• Reclassifying institution in yellow.
• Franklin Pierce, Post, Saint Anselm College, Saint Michael's College — Established the New England Women's Hockey Alliance, a scheduling agreement in women's ice hockey that also includes Sacred Heart, the only full member of Division I with an independent program in that sport, in 2017–18..^[3] The NEWHA will add full Division I member LIU Brooklyn when that school's women's ice hockey program starts play in 2019–20.

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