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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.
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.
All of these schools sponsored a men's sport in the NCAA University Division, the predecessor to today's Division I, before the NCAA adopted its current three-division setup in 1974–75. At that time, the NCAA did not sponsor championships in women's sports.
The following is a list of United States colleges and universities that are either in the process of reclassifying their athletic programs to NCAA Division I, or have announced future plans to do the same. [1]
School City Conference Sport sponsorship Base-ball Basketball Beach Volleyball Cross Country Field Hockey Foot-ball Golf Lacrosse Soccer Soft-ball Swimming Tennis Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W Allen Yellow Jackets: Allen University: Columbia: SIAC [a] Anderson Trojans: Anderson University: Anderson ...
School City Conference Sport sponsorship Foot-ball Basketball Base-ball Soft-ball Soccer M W M W Drake Bulldogs: Drake University: Des Moines: Missouri Valley: FCS [a] Iowa Hawkeyes: University of Iowa: Iowa City: Big Ten: FBS: Iowa State Cyclones: Iowa State University: Ames: Big 12: FBS: Northern Iowa Panthers: University of Northern Iowa ...
Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly ...
This differs from the top-level NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship, which involved four teams through the 2013 tournament and expanded to six teams for 2014 and seven for 2018. Like the National Collegiate Championship, the Division III championship is a knockout tournament, with best-of-5-set matches.