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In addition to the sports above, the NCAA sanctioned a boxing championship from 1932 to 1960. The NCAA discontinued boxing following declines in the sport during the 1950s and following the death of a boxer at the 1960 NCAA tournament. The NCAA also formerly sanctioned a trampoline championship.
Sometimes referred to as the NCAA's death penalty, this sanction has been imposed twice against college basketball programs: (1) the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program for the 1952–53 season; and (2) the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program (then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana) for the 1973–74 and 1974 ...
Sport(s) Expiration date University of Alaska Fairbanks: Nine sports [a] March 17, 2025 [28] Kentucky State University: Football: May 8, 2025 [29] Augusta University: Men's basketball: June 1, 2025 [30] Lewis University: Men's and women's tennis: August 22, 2025 [31] Missouri Southern State University: Football: November 2, 2025 [32] Shaw ...
The first tier includes the sports that are sanctioned by one of the collegiate sports governing bodies. The major sanctioning organizations include the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).
Some sports (particularly women's sports) championships that are currently sanctioned by the NCAA were previously administered by a single-sport governing body (e.g., rifle, women's ice hockey, women's water polo). At some colleges, some of these sports operate at a club level outside of any athletic department.
Some sports, most notably ice hockey [94] and men's volleyball, have completely different conference structures that operate outside of the normal NCAA sports conference structure. As ice hockey is limited to a much smaller number of almost exclusively Northern schools, there is a completely different conference structure for teams. [94]
The men’s basketball team had a brief moment in the spotlight in the spring, after it knocked off heavily favored Baylor University in the NCAA tournament and a clip of its coach falling out of his chair in excitement went viral. But converting an indelible sports achievement into sustained success — and more revenue — remains a huge hurdle.
This category is for articles about incidents that have caused National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) member schools to receive sanctions for rules violations as well as people that have ever had NCAA sanctions like the show-cause penalty.