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First, when the NCAA placed severe restrictions on the fielding of Division I teams by Division II institutions in 2011, it grandfathered in all then-current D-I teams at D-II schools. Apart from this, Division II members are allowed to compete for Division I championships in sports in which a Division II national championship is not contested.
The following table is a list of Division II schools competing in Division I. [1] Conference affiliations reflect those for the specific sports in which each school competes alongside D-I schools, and do not necessarily match their primary affiliations. Years for conference moves or the addition of sports reflect calendar years.
In 2010, two other Division II teams beat teams that reached the NCAA Division I tournament. [37] In 2011, another Division II team defeated a Division I team that finished in the top half of the Pac-12 Conference. In 2012, another Division II team beat [37] eventual Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season and tournament champion Miami. [38]
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The conference traces its roots November 1988 when 11 schools first met in Greenville, S.C. to form a Division II conference. Following a second meeting on Dec. 3, 1989, five of those 11 schools, plus two others, formed the Peach Belt Athletic Conference and began play in the fall of 1990.
Map of NCAA Division II football programs, 2024. This is a list of the schools in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States that have football as a varsity sport. In the 2024 season, [1] there are a total of 162 Division II football programs – one fewer than 2023. Changes from last season were:
This is a list of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools in the United States and Canada that play lacrosse as a varsity sport at the Division II level. In the 2024 NCAA lacrosse season, there are 77 men's and 121 women's Division II lacrosse programs.
Division II was created in 1973, at a time when the NCAA included dozens of independent members, plus members of conferences who played as independents in one or more sports. The trend toward consolidating the NCAA membership into conferences began in the late 1970s, and within a decade the number of independent programs declined dramatically.