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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often read "N-C-Double-A" or more rarely,"N-C-2-A") is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many college
College

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s and universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (and, potentially, Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 universities as well). Its headquarters are located in Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
, Indiana
Indiana

The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....
, and it is currently under the leadership of president Myles Brand
Myles Brand

Myles David Brand is the president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association and prior to that served as the 16th president of Indiana University....
.






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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often read "N-C-Double-A" or more rarely,"N-C-2-A") is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many college
College

File:Government college for Women Dhoke Kala Khan.JPGCollege is a term most often used today to denote an education institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of collegialitys, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals....
s and universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (and, potentially, Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 universities as well). Its headquarters are located in Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
, Indiana
Indiana

The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....
, and it is currently under the leadership of president Myles Brand
Myles Brand

Myles David Brand is the president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association and prior to that served as the 16th president of Indiana University....
. The NCAA is the largest collegiate athletic organization in the world, and because of the great popularity of college sports among spectators in the United States, it is far more prominent than most national college sports bodies in other countries.

In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I
Division I

Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States....
, Division II
Division II

Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It offers an alternative to both the highly competitive level of intercollegiate sports offered in NCAA Division I and to the non-scholarship level offered in Division III....
, and Division III
Division III

Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States....
 was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarship
Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of access to an institution, or a Student financial aid award for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award....
s to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships. Generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was further divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently the term "Division I-AAA" was added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all. In 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).

History

Its predecessor, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS), was established on March 31, 1906 to set rules for amateur sport
Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
s in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. When then-president Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
's own son, Ted
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., or Theodore Roosevelt II was an American political and business leader, a Medal of Honor recipient who fought in both World War I and World War II, and the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt....
, broke his collar bone playing football at Harvard, Roosevelt became aware of the growing number of serious injuries and deaths occurring in collegiate football. He brought the presidents of the three major Ivy League
Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of university in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group....
 universities, Harvard, Yale and Princeton to several meetings at the White House in October, 1905, to discuss steps to make college athletics safer. The IAAUS was created as one of the outcomes of those meetings. The IAAUS became the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910.

Until the 1980s, the association did not offer women's athletics. Instead an organization named the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women

The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships....
 governed women's collegiate sports in the United States. By 1982 however, all divisions of the NCAA offered national championship events for women's athletics and most members of the AIAW joined the NCAA.

The NCAA was headquartered in the Kansas City metropolitan area from 1951 until 1999 when it moved from its last Kansas City area location at Overland Park, Kansas
Overland Park, Kansas

Overland Park is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in Johnson County, Kansas, it has traditionally been considered a Satellite town of Kansas City, Missouri, and is located adjacent to Olathe, Kansas, Lenexa, Kansas, Prairie Village, Kansas and Leawood, Kansas....
 to a four-story, facility on the west edge of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
. Adjacent to the headquarters is the NCAA Hall of Champions
NCAA Hall of Champions

NCAA Hall of Champions is a museum, exhibition center, and conference center located adjacent to the NCAA National Office in Indianapolis's White River State Park....
.

During its days in Kansas City, Municipal Auditorium hosted nine Final Four
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship records

Champions, runners-up and locations* Vacated this due to NCAA violations.? denotes overtime games. Multiple ?'s indicate more than one overtime....
 basketball tournaments -- the most of any venue.

Football television controversy

By the 1980s, televised college football was a significant source of income for the NCAA. Had the television contracts the NCAA had with ABC, CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
, and ESPN
ESPN

ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
 remained in effect for the 1984 season, they would have generated US$
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
73.6 million for the Association and its members. In September 1981, the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....
 and the University of Georgia
University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public university research university located in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning....
 Athletic Association filed suit against the NCAA in district court in Oklahoma
Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
. The plaintiffs stated that the NCAA's football television plan constituted price fixing, output restraints, boycott, and monopolizing, all of which were illegal under the Sherman Act. The NCAA argued that its pro-competitive and non-commercial justifications for the plan—-protection of live gate, maintenance of competitive balance among NCAA member institutions and creation of a more attractive "product" to compete with other forms of entertainment—-combined to make the plan reasonable. In September 1982, the district court found in favor of the plaintiffs, ruling that the plan violated antitrust laws. It enjoined the Association from enforcing the contract.

Structure

The NCAA's legislative structure is broken down into cabinets and committees, consisting of various representatives of its member schools. These may be broken down further into sub-committees. Legislation is then passed on to the Management Council, which oversees all the cabinets and committees, and also includes representatives from the schools, such as athletic directors and faculty advisors. Management Council legislation goes on to the Board of Directors, which consists of school presidents, for final approval.

The NCAA staff itself provides support, acting as guides, liaison, research and public and media relations. The current NCAA president is Myles Brand
Myles Brand

Myles David Brand is the president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association and prior to that served as the 16th president of Indiana University....
, former president of Indiana University
Indiana University

Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana. The IU system includes the following campuses:...
.

Sports sanctioned by the NCAA include basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 (men), softball
Softball

Softball is a Team sport sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball and the rules of both sports are substantially similar....
 (women), football
College football

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American University, colleges, and United States military academies....
 (men), cross country
Cross country running

Cross Country running is a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include Poaceae, mud, woodlands, and water....
, field hockey
Field hockey

Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
 (women), bowling
Bowling

Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called Bowling pin or to get close to a target ball....
 (women), golf
Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
, fencing (coeducational), lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
, soccer
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics. Competitive gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting ....
, rowing
Sport rowing

Rowing is a sport in which athletes racing against each other on rivers, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline....
 (women only), volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
, ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
, water polo
Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes....
, rifle
Shooting sports

The shooting sports include those competitive sports involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns ....
 (coeducational), tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
, skiing
Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing takes place at specially developed ski resorts where trees are cut, slopes are manipulated, snow is groomed & avalanches controlled to facilitate the activity....
 (coeducational), track & field
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
, swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
 & diving
Diving

Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games....
, and wrestling
Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling is the style of amateur wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling is sometimes known as folkstyle wrestling because by and large, it is the style that emerged out of the folk wrestling styles practiced in the early history of the United States....
 (men's).

The NCAA is not the only collegiate athletic organization in the United States. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs....
 is another collegiate athletic organization. The Canadian equivalent to NCAA is the Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....
 (CIS).

Presidents of NCAA (called executive director until 1998)

  • Walter Byers
    Walter Byers

    Walter Byers was the first executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He served from 1951 to 1988. He also helped start the United States Basketball Writers Association in 1956....
     1951–1988
  • Dick Schultz
    Dick Schultz

    Dick Schultz , a native of Kellogg, Iowa, is the former head baseball and basketball coach at the University of Iowa and served as the executive director of the NCAA and USOC....
     1988–1993
  • Cedric Dempsey
    Cedric Dempsey

    Cedric Dempsey is a former executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the first Commissioner of the new All American Football League that is scheduled to begin play in the summer of 2008....
     1993–2002
  • Myles Brand
    Myles Brand

    Myles David Brand is the president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association and prior to that served as the 16th president of Indiana University....
     2003–present


Division History


Years 		Division

1906-1955 		None

1956-1972 		NCAA University Division (Major College), NCAA College Division (Small College)

1973-present 		NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III

1978-2006 		NCAA Division I-A, NCAA Division I-AA (football only)

2006-present 		Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision (football only)


Championships

The NCAA holds, or has held in the past, championship tournaments in the following sports:

*Baseball
NCAA Division I Baseball Championship

The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship tournament is held each year from May though June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the College World Series....

*Basketball
**Men's
***Division I
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a Single-elimination tournament tournament held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States....

***Division II
NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship

The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship has been conducted since 1957. Like all other NCAA basketball divisions for men and women, the champion is decided in a single-elimination tournament, and like in Division I, the Division II tournament has 64 teams....

***Division III
NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association holds an annual tournament to determine the Division III Men's Basketball Championship.Since 1996, the Division III men's basketball championship has been held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia....

**Women's
***Division I
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981 in sports-1982 in sports season....

***Division II
NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship

Division II women's basketball champions for the National Collegiate Athletic Association...

***Division III
NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Women's Basketball Champions...

*Bowling
NCAA Bowling Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Bowling Championship is a sanctioned women's championship in college athletics. It was first held in April of 2004 in sports....
 (women's only)
*Boxing
NCAA Boxing Championship

The following is a list of NCAA Team Champions in Boxing. The National Collegiate Athletic Association discontinued the boxing championship after 1960 in sports; however in 1976 in sports, American collegiate boxing was picked up again by the National Collegiate Boxing Association....
 (Discontinued)
*Men's Cross Country
*Women's Cross Country
NCAA Women's Cross Country Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association team and individual champions for Women's cross country running....

*Fencing
NCAA Fencing team championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association fencing championship results, combined men and women , men's and women's ....

*Field Hockey
NCAA Women's Field Hockey Championship

Twelve women's sports were added to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship program for the 1981-82 school year. The first national championship events were staged November 21-November 22 1981, in NCAA Women's Cross Country Championship and field hockey....


*Football
**Division I (FCS)
**Division II
NCAA Division II national football championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II National College football Championship began in 1973 in sports. Prior to 1973, four regional bowl games were played in order to provide postseason action for what was then called the NCAA College Division and a poll determined the final champion....

**Division III
NCAA Division III national football championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III National college football Championship began in 1973 in sports. Prior to 1973, most of the schools now in Division III competed in the NCAA's former "College Division"....

*Men's Golf
**Division I
NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Men's Golf Championships, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S....

**Division II
NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championships

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Men's Golf Championships, played in late May, is an annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf....

**Division III
NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Men's Golf Championships, played in mid-May, is an annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf....

*Women's Golf
NCAA Women's Golf Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association Champions for Women's Golf...

*Men's Gymnastics
NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship

This is a list of National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Gymnastics Champions, by division and year. All schools currently compete in one division due to there being only 18 schools which sponsor men's gymnastics teams ....

*Women's Gymnastics
NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association introduced Women's Gymnastics as a championship sport in 1982 in sports. Since then, only four different universities have claimed the overall Division I championship; Division II competition was discontinued in 1987....

*Men's Ice Hockey
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship

The annual NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and Division III....

*Women's Ice Hockey
NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship

The annual NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top women's ice hockey team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, and Division III....

*Men's Indoor Track and Field
NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association team champions for Men's Indoor Track and Field...

*Women's Indoor Track and Field
NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association team champions for Women's Indoor Track and Field...

*Men's Lacrosse
NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

The annual NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the top Men's Field Lacrosse team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, Division II, and Division III....

*Women's Lacrosse
NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship

The annual NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the top women's lacrosse team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, Division II, and Division III....


*Men's Outdoor Track and Field
NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association team championships for Men's Outdoor Athletics ...

*Women's Outdoor Track and Field
NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship

National Collegiate Athletic Association team champions for Women's Outdoor Track and Field...

*Rifle
NCAA Rifle team championship

The NCAA Rifle Championship is an annual co-educational shooting sports national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....

*Rowing
NCAA Rowing Championship

The NCAA Rowing Championship is a rowing championship held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for Division I, II and III women's heavyweight collegiate crews....
 (women's only)
*Skiing
NCAA Skiing team championship

The NCAA Skiing Championships are held annually to crown the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's and women's team skiing champions....

*Softball
NCAA Division I Softball Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Softball Championship tournament is held each year in June and features 64 college softball teams in the United States, culminating in the Women's College World Series , which is played in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma....

*Men's Soccer
NCAA Men's Soccer Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association began conducting a men's Football national championship tournament in 1959 with an eight-team tournament....

*Women's Soccer
NCAA Women's Soccer Championship

NCAA Women's Soccer Championships are divided into three divisions.2008 27th annual Division I Women's College Cup is scheduled for December 5 and 7, 2008 at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina, with North Carolina State University, Town of Cary and Capital Area Soccer League as hosts....

*Men's Swimming and Diving
NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Swimming and Diving Championships are a college championships event in the USA. The event is held annually, and the NCAA hosts a Swimming & Diving Championships in each of its 3 Divisions ....

*Women's Swimming and Diving
NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships

National Collegiate Athletic Association Team Championships for Women's Swimming and Diving...

*Men's Tennis
NCAA Men's Tennis Championship

The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are held to crown a team, individual, and doubles champion in United States college tennis. The first championship was held in 1883 with Harvard's Joseph Clark taking the singles title....

*Women's Tennis
NCAA Women's Tennis Championship

The NCAA Women's Tennis Championship is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's tennis tournament to determine the Team Championships, Singles Championships, and Doubles Championships in Women's Tennis, which was started in 1982....

*Men's Volleyball
NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Volleyball Championship is the tournament that determines the national championship of United States college volleyball....

*Women's Volleyball
NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has contested team championships in women's volleyball since 1981. The following is a list of the champions of each division with their record for the year in which they won the championship, and the runner up, city, site and other final four participants for division I....

*Men's Water Polo
NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Water Polo Championship has existed since the 1969 season.No school from outside the state of California has ever surpassed third place....

*Women's Water Polo
NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Women's Water Polo Championship has existed since the 2001 season. Three conferences have teams competing in women's water polo, the Collegiate Water Polo Association, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference....

*Wrestling
NCAA Wrestling Team Championship

The National Collegiate Athletic Association Collegiate wrestling Team Championship was first officially awarded in 1929 and began to be continuously awarded on an annual basis in 1934 except during World War II 1943-1945....



Presently, UCLA
UCLA Bruins

The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I as part of the Pacific-10 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation ....
, Stanford
Stanford Cardinal

The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the sport teams at Stanford University....
 and Southern California
USC Trojans

The USC Trojans are the men's athletic teams representing the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, California. The women's athletic teams are referred to as "The Women of Troy." The program participates in the Pacific-10 Conference and has won 109 total team national championships, 89 of which are NCAA National Champ...
 have the most NCAA championships; UCLA holds the most, winning a combined 103 team championships in men's and women's sports, with Stanford coming in second with 95 followed by Southern California with 85.

The NCAA currently awards 87 national championships yearly; 44 women's, 40 men's, and three coed championships where men and women compete together (Fencing, Rifle, and Skiing). For every NCAA sanctioned sport other than Division I FBS football, the NCAA awards wooden trophies with gold, silver, and bronze plating for the first, second, and third place teams respectively; similar to the Olympics
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
. In the case of the NCAA basketball tournaments, both semifinalists who did not make the championship game receive bronze plated trophies for third place (prior to 1982 the teams played a "consolation" game to determine third place). Similar trophies are awarded to both semifinalists in the NCAA football tournaments (which are conducted in Division I FCS and both lower divisions), which have never had a third-place game. Winning teams maintain permanent possession of these trophies unless it is later found that they were won via serious rules violations. Starting with the 2001 season, and later in 2008, the trophies were given an extensive facelift. Starting in the 2007 basketball season, teams that make the Final Four in the Division I tournament receive bronze plated "regional championship" trophies upon winning their Regional Championship. The teams that make the National Championship game receive an additional trophy that is gold plated for the winner and silver plated for the runner-up. Starting in the mid-1990s, the National Champions in men's and women's basketball receive a very elaborate trophy sponsored by Siemens
Siemens

Siemens AG is a German electrical and telecommunications companysiemens may refer to*siemens , the SI unit of electrical conductance, equivalent to 1 ampere/volt...
 with a black marble base and crystal "neck" with a removable crystal basketball following the presentation of the standard NCAA Championship trophy.

Football Bowl Subdivision

The NCAA does not hold a championship tournament for Division I FBS football, which has caused controversy. In the past, the "national championship
Mythical National Championship

A mythical national championship is a colloquial term used to describe a champion in a sport in which a championship is determined without the use of a playoff or tournament of some kind....
" went to teams that placed first in any of a number of season-ending media polls, most notable the AP Poll
AP Poll

The Associated Press Poll typically refers to a weekly ranking of the top 25 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college football and Division I college basketball teams, though other AP polls exist as well....
 of writers and the Coaches Poll
Coaches Poll

The USA Today Coaches' Poll is the current name for a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football and Division I college basketball teams....
. Currently, the Bowl Championship Series
Bowl Championship Series

The Bowl Championship Series is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the Division I#Football Bowl Subdivision an opportunity to compete in a "national championship game"....
—an association of the conferences who compete in Division I FBS and four bowl game
Bowl game

In the United States, a bowl game is commonly considered to refer to one of a number of post-season college football games. Prior to 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating teams, whi...
s—has arranged to place the top two teams (based on a formula blending human polls, computer rankings, and, in some years, other factors) into a national title game
BCS National Championship Game

The BCS National Championship Game is the final bowl game of the annual Bowl Championship Series and is intended by the organizers of the BCS to determine the NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship of the Football Bowl Subdivision ....
. The winner of the BCS title game must be ranked first in the final Coaches' Poll and receives the ADT Trophy; since the NCAA awards no national championship for Division I FBS football, this trophy does not say NCAA as all other college sports national championship trophies do. The AP and other organizations are still free to name as national champions other teams than the one that won the BCS championship.

Conferences


Division I conferences

  • America East Conference
    America East Conference

    The America East Conference is a mid-major college athletic conference whose members are located mainly in the northeastern United States. The conference participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I....
  • Atlantic Coast Conference
    Atlantic Coast Conference

    The Atlantic Coast Conference is a List of college athletic conferences in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member university compete in twenty sports in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I....
     (ACC)*
  • Atlantic Sun Conference
    Atlantic Sun Conference

    The Atlantic Sun Conference is a list of college athletic conferences which operates primarily on the east coast of the United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I; the conference does not sponsor College football....
  • Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10)
  • Big East Conference
    Big East Conference

    The Big East Conference is a List of college athletic conferences consisting of seventeen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States....
    *
  • Big Sky Conference
    Big Sky Conference

    The Big Sky Conference is an intercollegiate college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association?s Division I, with college football competing in the division I Football Championship Subdivision....
  • Big South Conference
    Big South Conference

    The Big South Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association?s Division I. The conference's American football teams are part of the Division I#Football Championship Subdivision ....
  • Big Ten Conference
    Big Ten Conference

    The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I list of college athletic conferences. Its eleven member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Iowa and Minnesota in the west to Pennsylvania in the east....
     (Big Ten) *
  • Big West Conference
    Big West Conference

    The Big West Conference is an National Collegiate Athletic Association-affiliated Division I major college athletic conference that formerly sponsored Division I-A college football, through the 2000 season....
  • Big 12 Conference
    Big 12 Conference

    The Big 12 Conference is a list of college athletic conferences of twelve schools located mostly in the central United States. It is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I for all sports; its American football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision , the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football c...
     (Big 12) *
  • Colonial Athletic Association
    Colonial Athletic Association

    The Colonial Athletic Association, also known as the CAA, is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I list of college athletic conferences whose members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia ....
     (CAA)
  • Conference USA
    Conference USA

    Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a list of college athletic conferences whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States....
     (C-USA) #
  • Horizon League
    Horizon League

    The Horizon League is a ten school, National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I list of college athletic conferences, whose members are located in five of the Midwestern United States....
  • Great West Conference
  • NCAA Independents
    NCAA Independents

    NCAA Independents could refer to multiple different groups of National Collegiate Athletic Association schools which are independent and do not have a conference affiliation:...
  • Ivy League
    Ivy League

    The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of university in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group....
  • Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
    Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

    The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is a athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. MAAC teams compete in the NCAA's Division I....
     (MAAC)
  • Mid-American Conference
    Mid-American Conference

    The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I List of college athletic conferences with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from New York to Illinois....
     (MAC) #
  • Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
    Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

    The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is a collegiate athletic conference of historically black colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States....
     (MEAC)
  • Missouri Valley Conference
    Missouri Valley Conference

    The Missouri Valley Conference is a list of college athletic conferences whose members are located in the midwestern United States. The conference participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I....
     (MVC or The Valley)
  • Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
    Mountain Pacific Sports Federation

    The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation is a college athletic conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. The conference participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I....
     (MPSF)
  • Mountain West Conference
    Mountain West Conference

    The Mountain West Conference , the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association?s Division I FBS , officially began operations in July 1999 in sports....
     (MWC) #
  • Northeast Conference
    Northeast Conference

    The Northeast Conference is a college athletic conference whose schools are members of the NCAA. The NCAA designates the Northeast Conference to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision for Division I Men's Football and to Division I Sports for all other sports....
     (NEC)
  • Ohio Valley Conference
    Ohio Valley Conference

    The Ohio Valley Conference is a list of college athletic conferences which operates in the Midwestern United States and southeastern United States....
     (OVC)
  • Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10)*
  • Patriot League
    Patriot League

    The Patriot League is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; in American football, it participates in the Division I#Football Championship Subdivision ....
  • Southeastern Conference
    Southeastern Conference

    The Southeastern Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in , which operates in the Southern United States part of the United States....
     (SEC)*
  • Southern Conference
    Southern Conference

    The Southern Conference is a list of college athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Southern Conference American football teams compete in the Division I#Football Championship Subdivision ....
     (SoCon)
  • Southland Conference
    Southland Conference

    The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I for all sports; for American football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision....
  • Southwestern Athletic Conference
    Southwestern Athletic Conference

    The Southwestern Athletic Conference is a mid-major list of college athletic conferences headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities in the southern United States....
     (SWAC)
  • Sun Belt Conference
    Sun Belt Conference

    The Sun Belt Conference is a list of college athletic conferences that has been affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I since 1976 in sports....
     (SBC) #
  • The Summit League (The Summit) (Formerly the Mid-Continent Conference)
  • United Basketball Conference
    United Basketball Conference

    The United Basketball Conference was a scheduling alliance of NCAA Division I NCAA Division I independent schools which began play in January 2007....
     (UBC)
  • West Coast Conference
    West Coast Conference

    The West Coast Conference is an National Collegiate Athletic Association list of college athletic conferences consisting of eight member schools across the states of California, Oregon, and Washington....
     (WCC)
  • Western Athletic Conference
    Western Athletic Conference

    The Western Athletic Conference was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ....
     (WAC) #
Conferences with automatic entry to the Bowl Championship Series
Bowl Championship Series

The Bowl Championship Series is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the Division I#Football Bowl Subdivision an opportunity to compete in a "national championship game"....
 are denoted with an asterisk (*). Conferences within the Football Bowl Subdivision but not the BCS are denoted with a pound sign (#).

Division I FCS football-only conferences

  • Missouri Valley Football Conference
  • Pioneer Football League
    Pioneer Football League

    The Pioneer Football League is a college athletic conference which operates literally from coast to coast in the United States. It has member schools that range from New York, North Carolina, and Florida in the east to California in the west....


Division I hockey-only conferences

  • Atlantic Hockey
    Atlantic Hockey

    Atlantic Hockey is a college athletic conference which operates primarily in the northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I as a ice hockey-only conference....
  • Central Collegiate Hockey Association
    Central Collegiate Hockey Association

    The Central Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in Michigan and Ohio, although it also has members in Alaska, Indiana and Nebraska....
     (CCHA)
  • College Hockey America
    College Hockey America

    College Hockey America is a college athletic conference with teams ranging geographically from New York State to Alabama and Minnesota. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I as a ice hockey-only conference....
  • ECAC Hockey
  • Hockey East
    Hockey East

    Hockey East Association is a college athletic conference which operates in New England. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I as a ice hockey-only conference....
  • Western Collegiate Hockey Association
    Western Collegiate Hockey Association

    The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States....
     (WCHA)


Foreign intercollegiate/interuniversity equivalents

  • International University Sports Federation
    International University Sports Federation

    The F?d?ration Internationale du Sport Universitaire , based in Brussels, Belgium coordinates the activities of over 100 national university sport federations and organizes the Winter and the Summer Universiades in uneven years and World University Championships in even years....
  • Australian University Sport
  • British Universities & Colleges Sport
  • Canadian Interuniversity Sport
    Canadian Interuniversity Sport

    Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....
  • National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines)
    National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines)

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association is an athletics association of eight colleges and universities in the Philippines. Established in 1924, the NCAA is the oldest athletic association in the Philippines....
     (NCAA) and University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) for Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
     (among other leagues)


Awards

The NCAA presents a number of different individual awards, including:
  • NCAA Award of Valor
    NCAA Award of Valor

    The NCAA Award of Valor is presented by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to recognize "courageous action or noteworthy bravery" by persons involved with intercollegiate athletics....
    , not given every year, selection is based on heroic action occurring in the academic year.
  • NCAA Gerald R. Ford Award
    NCAA Gerald R. Ford Award

    The NCAA Gerald R. Ford Award was named in recognition of Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States. Presented by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the award honors an individual who has provided significant leadership in the role of advocate for intercollegiate athletics and has done so a continuous basis over...
    , honors an individual who has provided significant leadership as an advocate for intercollegiate athletics.
  • NCAA Inspiration Award
    NCAA Inspiration Award

    The NCAA Inspiration Award is awarded to one of the following who is associated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association: a current or former varsity letter-winner, a coach, or an administrator....
    , not given every year, selection is based on inspirational action.
  • NCAA Sportsmanship Award, honoring student-athletes
    Student athlete

    A student athlete is a participant in an organized competitive sport sponsored by the educational institution in which he or she is enrolled. The term student-athlete is used to descripe the direct balance of a full time student and a full time athlete....
     who have demonstrated one or more of the ideals of sportsmanship.
  • NCAA Woman of the Year Award
    NCAA Woman of the Year Award

    The NCAA Woman of the Year Award was created to honor a senior female student-athlete who has distinguished herself throughout her collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership....
    , honors a senior student-athletes who has distinguished herself throughout her collegiate careers in academics, athletics, service and leadership.
  • The Flying Wedge Award
    The Flying Wedge Award

    The Flying Wedge Award is one of the National Collegiate Athletic Association highest honors. It is awarded to an individual who exemplifies outstanding leadership and service to the NCAA....
    , one of the NCAA’s highest honors exemplifying outstanding leadership and service to the NCAA.
  • Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)
    Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)

    The Theodore Roosevelt Award is the highest honor the National Collegiate Athletic Association may confer on an individual. The award is awarded annually to a graduate from an NCAA member institution who earned a varsity letter in college for participation in intercollegiate athletics, and who ultimately became a distinguished citizen of nat...
    , the highest honor that the NCAA confers on an individual.
  • Today's Top VIII Award
    Today's Top VIII Award

    The Today's Top VIII Award is given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to honor eight outstanding senior student-athletes of the preceding calendar year....
    , honoring eight outstanding senior student-athletes.
  • Silver Anniversary Awards
    Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA)

    The Silver Anniversary Awards are given each year by the American National Collegiate Athletic Association to recognize six distinguished former student-athletes on their 25th anniversary as college graduates....
    , honoring six distinguished former student-athletes.
  • Walter Byers Scholarship
    Walter Byers Scholarship

    The Walter Byers Scholar program is a scholarship program that recognizes the top male and female scholar-athlete in NCAA sports and that is awarded annually by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....
    , honoring the top male and female scholar-athletes.


Media

The NCAA has current media rights contracts with CBS Sports
CBS Sports

CBS Sports is a division of CBS which airs many of the sports telecasts in the United States.CBS Sports broadcasts programs like NFL on CBS, The NFL Today, SEC on CBS, National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball, Professional Golfers' Association of America golf, and professional tennis....
, CBS College Sports Network, ESPN
ESPN

ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
, and ESPN Plus
ESPN Plus

ESPN Plus is the popular name of ESPN Regional Television, which is an United States television program Television syndication. ERT is based in Charlotte, North Carolina....
 for coverage of its 88 championships. According to the official NCAA website, ESPN and its associated networks have rights to 21 championships and CBS to 67. The following are the most prominent championships and rightsholders:
  • CBS: Men's basketball (NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament), track and field, ice hockey (women's division I)
  • ESPN: Women's basketball (all divisions), baseball, softball, ice hockey (men's division I), football (all divisions including Div. I FCS), soccer (division I for both sexes)


Westwood One
Westwood One

Westwood One is an radio in the United States radio network. It is based in New York City, and it was previously managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation....
 has exclusive radio rights to the men's and women's basketball Final Fours to the men's College World Series
College World Series

The College World Series or CWS is a baseball tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska that is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion....
 (baseball). DirecTV
DirecTV

DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite service based in El Segundo, California, California, which transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America....
 has an exclusive package expanding CBS' coverage of the men's basketball tournament.

Video games based on popular NCAA sports such as football and basketball are licensed by Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is an international video game developer, marketer, video game publisher and distributor of video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games....
.

Most NCAA events are also available online either through its own site (as in March Madness on Demand) or from ESPN360.com.

On or about March 1, 2008, the NCAA launched its revamped website with the address , changed from NCAASports.com. The site offers streamlined navigation and a quick reference to many popular links at the bottom of each page.

Rules violations

Member schools pledge to follow the rules promulgated by the NCAA. Creation of a mechanism to enforce the NCAA's legislation occurred in 1952 after careful consideration by the membership.

Allegations of rules violations are referred to the NCAA's investigative staff. A preliminary investigation is initiated to determine if an official inquiry is warranted and to categorize any resultant violations as secondary or major. If several violations are found, the NCAA may determine that the school as a whole has exhibited a "lack of institutional control." The institution involved is notified promptly and may appear in its own behalf before the NCAA Committee on Infractions.

Findings of the Committee on Infractions and the resultant sanctions in major cases are reported to the institution. Sanctions will generally include having the institution placed on "probation" for a period of time, in addition to other penalties. The institution may appeal the findings or sanctions to an appeals committee. After considering written reports and oral presentations by representatives of the Committee on Infractions and the institution, the committee acts on the appeal. Action may include accepting the infractions committee's findings and penalty, altering either, or making its own findings and imposing an appropriate penalty.

Institutions violating the probationary period may be subject to being banned from participating in the sport in question for up to two years, a penalty known as the "Death Penalty". This penalty has only been imposed once in its modern form, when Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university, coeducational university in University Park, Texas, Texas . Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU currently operates campuses in University Park, Plano, Texas, and Taos, New Mexico....
's football team had its 1987 season canceled due to massive rules violations
Southern Methodist University football scandal

The Southern Methodist University football scandal was an incident in which the football program at Southern Methodist University was investigated and punished for violating numerous NCAA rules and regulations....
 dating back more than a decade. SMU opted not to field a team in 1988 as well due to the aftershocks from the sanctions, and the program has never recovered. This has reportedly made the NCAA skittish about issuing another one; since the SMU case, it has only seriously considered imposing it again three times.

Additionally, in particularly egregious cases of rules violations, coaches, athletic directors and athletic support staff can be barred from working for any NCAA member school without permission from the NCAA. This procedure is known as a "show-cause order" (not to be confused with an order to show cause
Order to show cause

An order to show cause, in most Anglo-Saxon law systems, is a type of court order that requires one or more of the parties to a case to justify, explain, or prove something to the court....
 in the legal sense). Theoretically, a school can hire someone with a "show cause" on their record during the time the show cause order is in effect only with permission from the NCAA Infractions Committee. The school assumes the risks and stigma of hiring such a person. It may then end up being sanctioned by the NCAA and the Infractions Committee for their choice, possibly losing athletic scholarships, revenue from schools who would not want to compete with that other school, and the ability for their games to be televised, along with restrictions on recruitment and practicing times. As a result, a show-cause order usually has the effect of blackballing individuals from being hired for the duration of the order.

Currently, Dave Bliss
Dave Bliss

Dave Bliss is a former United States college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Oklahoma, Southern Methodist University, the University of New Mexico and Baylor University....
, former basketball coach at Baylor University
Baylor University

Baylor University is a private university, Baptist-affiliated research university located in Waco, Texas. It is the largest Baptist university in the world by enrollment....
, has the longest show cause order. As a result of his involvement in serious rules violations
Baylor University basketball scandal

The 2003 Baylor University basketball scandal was an incident in which Baylor University was investigated and punished for violating many National Collegiate Athletic Association regulations....
, Bliss is effectively banned from coaching at the major college level until the 2015-16 season.

The NCAA also has the power to declare players ineligible. In extreme cases, a player can be banned from competing for any NCAA member school. The only known instance where this has happened was in 1989, when Kentucky Wildcats basketball player Eric Manuel
Eric Manuel

Eric Manuel was an United States college basketball player.Born in Macon, Georgia; Manuel made the Parade and McDonald's All-American Team All-America teams as a high school senior in 1987....
 was banned after the NCAA ruled he had cheated on a college entrance exam.

Division I-A institutions on probation

The following Division I-A institutions are currently on probation by the NCAA in one or more sports:
InstitutionSport(s)Expiry
Ball State University
Ball State University

Ball State University is a state university research university located in Muncie, Indiana, Indiana, United States Located on the northwest side of the city, Ball State's campus spans more than 1,000 acres ....
 		 Football, Men's Tennis, Women's Softball 15 October 2009
Baylor University
Baylor University

Baylor University is a private university, Baptist-affiliated research university located in Waco, Texas. It is the largest Baptist university in the world by enrollment....
 		 Football, Men's Basketball 22 June 2010
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University , located in Provo, Utah, United States, is a Private education, coeducational research university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
 		 Men's Volleyball 10 March 2011
California State University, Fresno
California State University, Fresno

California State University, Fresno, commonly referred to as Fresno State, is one of the campuses of California State University, located at the northeast edge of Fresno, California, California, United States....
 		 Men's Basketball 25 April 2010
Florida International University
Florida International University

Florida International University, commonly referred to as FIU or Florida International, is a public university research university located in Miami, Florida, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus at University Park, Florida....
 		 Baseball, Football, Men's Basketball, Men's Cross Country, Men's Soccer, Men's Track (Indoor), Men's Track (Outdoor), Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Women's Softball, Women's Swimming, Women's Tennis, Women's Volleyball 5 May 2012
Indiana University, Bloomington Men's Basketball 24 November 2011
Middle Tennessee State University
Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University, commonly abbreviated as MTSU, is a public university university located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Tennessee....
 		 Women's Volleyball 21 May 2010
Purdue University
Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, Indiana, United States, is the flagship university of the six campuses within the Purdue University System....
 		 Women's Basketball 21 August 2009
Temple University
Temple University

Temple University is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr....
 		 Men's Tennis 9 May 2009
Texas Christian University
Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University is a private university, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, Texas. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Christian Church ....
 		 Men's Tennis 26 February 2010
Ohio State University
Ohio State University

The Ohio State University is a public university research university in the state of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the List of largest United States universities by enrollment in the United States....
 		 Men's Basketball 9 March 2009
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Men's Track (Indoor), Men's Track (Outdoor) 24 October 2010
University of Colorado, Boulder Football 20 June 2009
University of Kansas
University of Kansas

The University of Kansas is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, and Overland Park, Kansas, Kansas with the main campus being located atop Mount Oread in Lawrence....
 		 Football, Men's Basketball 11 October 2009
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette, is a coeducational public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana....
 		 Football, Men's Basketball 18 April 2009
University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, New Mexico, USA. It was founded in 1889. It offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering....
 		 Football 19 August 2011
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public university research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma....
 		 Football 23 May 2010
West Virginia University
West Virginia University

West Virginia University is a public university research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia, United States of America. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg, West Virginia; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia; Potomac State College of West...
 		 Men's Soccer 29 April 2009


Criticisms

Numerous criticisms have been lodged against the NCAA. These include:
  • Several people, notably including former Sports Illustrated
    Sports Illustrated

    Sports Illustrated is an United States sports magazine owned by Mass media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the United States....
     columnist Rick Reilly
    Rick Reilly

    Richard "Rick" Paul Reilly is an United States sportswriter. Long known for being the "back page" columnist for Sports Illustrated, Reilly moved to ESPN on June 1, 2008....
    , have criticized the NCAA for its inflexibility
  • Student-athletes at universities with major athletic programs often have low graduation rates.


See also

  • NCAA Hall of Champions
    NCAA Hall of Champions

    NCAA Hall of Champions is a museum, exhibition center, and conference center located adjacent to the NCAA National Office in Indianapolis's White River State Park....
  • List of NCAA Division I Institutions
    List of NCAA Division I Institutions

    The following United States colleges and universities are classified as Division I for National Collegiate Athletic Association competition.Notes:...
  • List of Division I Athletic Directors
  • List of NCAA Division II Institutions
    List of NCAA Division II Institutions

    The following United States colleges and universities are classified as Division II for National Collegiate Athletic Association competition.Notes:...
  • List of NCAA Division III Institutions
    List of NCAA Division III Institutions

    The following United States colleges and universities are classified as Division III for National Collegiate Athletic Association competition.Notes:...
  • NAIA
    National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

    The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs....
  • List of NAIA Institutions
    List of NAIA Institutions

    As of 2008, the NAIA has 291 member institutions. The following colleges and universities are members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for athletic competition:...
  • List of college athletic programs by U.S. State
    List of college athletic programs by U.S. State

    This list main article is College sports.Notes:*This list is in the process of being converted to a tabular format. Columns will be arranged in the following order, from left to right:...
  • AIAW Champions
    AIAW Champions

    The AIAW was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women?s athletics and to administer national championships. During its existence, the AIAW and its predecessor, the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports , recognized via these championships the teams and individuals who excelled at the highest level of women's collegiate competition....
    hips
  • College football
    College football

    College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American University, colleges, and United States military academies....
  • College basketball
    College basketball

    College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....
  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
    NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

    The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a Single-elimination tournament tournament held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States....
  • List of college athletic conferences
    List of college athletic conferences

    This is a List of Athletic Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ....
  • Academic Progress Rate
    Academic Progress Rate

    The Academic Progress Rate is a metric established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to measure the success or failure of collegiate athletic teams in moving student-athletes towards graduation....
  • NACDA Director's Cup
    NACDA Director's Cup

    The NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup is an List of prizes, medals, and awards given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics....
  • NJCAA
  • Canadian Interuniversity Sport
    Canadian Interuniversity Sport

    Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....
  • Canadian Colleges Athletic Association
    Canadian Colleges Athletic Association

    The Canadian Colleges Athletic Association is the national governing body for college sports in Canada. It was formed in 1974. The CCAA awards national championships in nine different sports....


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