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Disbanded as an all-sports conference after steady losses of membership, both by schools closing and moves to other conferences. Remains in operation for men's volleyball and the non-NCAA esports. New England Conference * 1938: 1947: Disbanded; the final four members joined two other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a new charter.
This is a list of schools who field women's volleyball teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. As of the 2024 season, 346 of the 364 Division I member institutions sponsor women's volleyball. [a] Conference affiliations and venues represent those for the 2025 NCAA women's volleyball ...
The NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament is an annual event that leads to the championship in women's volleyball from teams in Division I contested by the NCAA each winter since 1981. Penn State won the most recent tournament, defeating Louisville 3–1 at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
When the Big West established its men's volleyball league, it took six teams from the MPSF men's volleyball league—half of that conference's pre-2017 men's volleyball membership. However, because the MPSF retained six teams, it kept its automatic NCAA bid, and soon announced it would add two more teams for the 2018 season.
Until the 2011–12 school year (2012 men's season—NCAA women's volleyball is a fall sport, while men's volleyball is a spring sport), there was no official divisional structure in men's collegiate volleyball, and all men's teams, regardless of their divisional affiliation, were eligible to compete for the same NCAA championship.
The Northeast Conference (NEC) became the second D-I all-sports conference to sponsor men's volleyball in the 2023 season. As of the 2024 season, three Division II conferences sponsor men's volleyball at the National Collegiate level. Conference Carolinas (CC) was the first NCAA conference ever to sponsor men's volleyball as a scholarship sport ...
On May 23, 2024, the NCAA and its five power conferences agreed to allow schools to directly pay players for the first time in the 100-plus-year history of college sports. [150] The NCAA and its leagues announced their intention to enter into a multibillion-dollar agreement to settle three pending antitrust cases. [150]
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 ]