List of NCAA Division I wrestling programs
This is a list of men's collegiate wrestling programs in the United States that compete in NCAA Division I. For the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's wrestling season, 76 schools in the United States sponsor Division I varsity men's wrestling.[1] The most recent changes to the roster of D-I wrestling programs came in 2019–20 with the addition of three programs. This list reflects each team's conference affiliation as of the 2019–20 season.
Wrestling conferences
- The Big Ten Conference (Big Ten) is the only all-sport conference whose members (14) all compete in wrestling.
- The six wrestling schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) are all currently full members of the conference.
- The Mid-American Conference (MAC) has 10 affiliate members in addition to five full members after adding the seven members of the Eastern Wrestling League (EWL) as new affiliates starting in the 2019–20 season.[2]
- The Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12) will have six wrestling members in 2019–20. It had operated with three full members plus two affiliates after the elimination of Boise State's program, but restored its wrestling membership to the six required for NCAA recognition by adding Little Rock as an associate member in 2019–20.
- The Southern Conference (SoCon) with three full members meets the membership requirement by having five associate members, with the newest associate, Presbyterian, being the most recent addition in 2019–20.
- The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) is a wrestling-only conference that had 16 members in the 2018–19 season, and added another member for 2019–20 and beyond. Six members are also full members of the Ivy League and compete for that conference's dual meet championship during the EIWA season. EIWA member Franklin & Marshall is the only Division III school competing in Division I wrestling. Joining for 2019–20 will be the LIU Sharks, created by the merger of Long Island University's two athletic programs—the Division I LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, which did not sponsor wrestling, and the Division II LIU Post Pioneers, which did. The former LIU Post wrestling program will continue to compete as the LIU Sharks.
- The Big 12 Conference (Big 12) had lost its NCAA recognition when wrestling membership fell to only four full member schools, despite the fact that three of those four schools had won a combined 49 NCAA Division I wrestling team titles. On July 29, 2015, the Big 12 announced that the members of the Western Wrestling Conference (which had six members, but was not recognized by the NCAA) had been accepted as affiliate members of the Big 12, increasing the number of participating schools to ten and restoring the conference's automatic bids. The Big 12 has since added two more wrestling affiliates.
Current Division I schools
Notes
- Fresno State reinstated wrestling in 2017 after dropping the sport in 2006.
- Old Dominion dropped its wrestling program in April 2020 as a result of the "...significant impact on future athletics budgets..." brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In transition
School | City | State | Nickname | Conference | Primary Conference | National titles | Full Membership |
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California Baptist University | Riverside | California | Lancers | Independent | Western Athletic Conference | NCWA 2011, 2013 | July 2022[7] |
School | Team | City | State | Type | Future Conference | Future Primary Conference | Making Transition | National titles | Full Membership |
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Bellarmine University | Knights | Louisville | Kentucky | Private/Catholic | D-I Independent | Atlantic Sun Conference | 2021 | – | 2024 [8] |
See also
References
- "NCAA Sports Sponsorship". NCAA.org. Archived from the original on March 8, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- "MAC Announces Historic Wrestling Expansion". Mid-American Conference. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- "Division I Wrestling Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- "Wrestling Championship Records/Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- "Division III Wrestling Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- "Division II Wrestling Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- "Cal Baptist moving to NCAA Division I". The Press-Enterprise & Digital First Media. January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
- Crawford, Eric (June 17, 2019). "Done D-1 Deal". WDRB. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
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