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There are currently 431 American colleges and universities classified as Division III for NCAA competition, making it the largest division in the NCAA by school count. Schools from 34 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia are represented. All schools do not provide athletic scholarships to students.
These do not include appearances made by these teams in either the Division I (University Division) or Division II (College Division) tournaments before the establishment of Division III in 1975. School names reflect those in current use by their respective athletic programs, not necessarily those used when a school made an appearance in the ...
Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table. Full name of school. Location of school. Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown). Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
2011 – The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) was founded, whose charter members include seven member schools that were competing for the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC): (Birmingham–Southern College, Centre College, Hendrix College, Millsaps College, Oglethorpe University, Rhodes College and Sewanee: The University of the South), and NCAA Division III independent Berry ...
D-III schools are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships, while D-II schools can. D-III is the NCAA's largest division with around 450 member institutions, which are 80% private and 20% public. The median undergraduate enrollment of D-III schools is about 2,750, although the range is from 418 to over 38,000.
The Collegiate Conference of the South men's basketball tournament is the annual conference basketball championship tournament for the NCAA Division III Collegiate Conference of the South. The tournament's inaugural edition was held in 2023. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular conference season records. [1]
Member schools are located in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky. [1] While competitive CCS play began immediately during the 2022–23 school year, the CCS will not be eligible for automatic NCAA Division III tournament bids until 2024. [2] The conference sponsors 14 championship sports.
1999 – On March 16, 1999, the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) was founded as the Georgia–Alabama–Carolina Conference (GACC). Charter members included Auburn University at Montgomery, Brenau University, Brewton–Parker College, Emmanuel College (now Emmanuel University), Faulkner University, Georgia Southwestern State University, North Georgia College & State University (now ...