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Caltech's athletic teams traditionally do not tend to be very good. Some examples of this include: On January 6, 2007, the Beavers' men's basketball team snapped a 207-game losing streak to Division III schools, beating Bard College 81–52. It was their first Division III victory since 1996. [2]
A forerunner conference to the SCIAC was the Intercollegiate Football Association of Southern California, which existed in the 1890s. It included Occidental, Caltech (then called Throop Polytechnic), USC, Chaffey College and Los Angeles High School.
Currently, there are 364 institutions classified as Division I (including those in the process of transitioning from other divisions), making it the second largest division by school count in the NCAA. [1] An additional 206 institutions in one of the NCAA's other two divisions compete or will compete in Division I in at least one sport.
Team School(s) City Conference Sport sponsorship Foot-ball Basketball Base-ball Soft-ball Soccer M W M W Cal Lutheran Kingsmen and Regals: California Lutheran University
Conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision must meet a more stringent set of NCAA requirements than other conferences. Among these additional NCAA regulations, institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision must be "multisport conferences" and participate in conference play in at least six men's and eight women's sports, including football, men's and women's basketball, and at least two other ...
The basketball team was a product of what one writer described as "perhaps the worst college basketball program ever." [ 4 ] The Caltech men's basketball team, the Beavers, compete in the NCAA Division III and the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference .
List of NCAA Division III institutions [1] School Nickname City State Conference Adrian College: Bulldogs: Adrian: MI: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Agnes Scott College [A 1] Scotties: Decatur: GA: Collegiate Conference of the South: Albertus Magnus College: Falcons: New Haven: CT: Great Northeast Athletic Conference: Albion ...
Division I athletic programs generated $8.7 billion in revenue in the 2009–10 academic year. Men's teams provided 55%, women's teams 15%, and 30% was not categorized by sex or sport. Football and men's basketball are usually a university's only profitable sports, [4] and are called "revenue sports". [5]