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==Sports with no independents other than full independents==
==Sports with no independents other than full independents==
Full independents Hartford and Chicago State are the only schools that are independents in the following sports: Baseball (Hartford only), men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, and softball (Hartford only).
===Baseball===
The only independents in baseball for the 2022-23 season will be full independent Hartford.
===Basketball===
The only independents in men's and women's basketball for the 2022-23 season will be full independents Chicago State and Hartford.
===Football Championship Subdivision===
===Football Championship Subdivision===
{{see|NCAA Division I FCS independent schools}}
{{see|NCAA Division I FCS independent schools}}

Revision as of 22:14, 27 September 2022

NCAA Division I independent schools are four-year institutions that compete in college athletics at the NCAA Division I level, but do not belong to an established athletic conference for a particular sport. These schools may however still compete as members of an athletic conference in other sports. A school may also be fully independent, and not belong to any athletic conference for any sport at all. The reason for independent status varies among institutions, but it is frequently because the school's primary athletic conference does not sponsor a particular sport.

Full independents

Two schools are confirmed to be competing as full independents for the 2022–23 season. Chicago State left the WAC at the conclusion of the 2021–22 school year without announcing a new conference affiliation for the next season, and has yet to announce plans to join any conferences for any subsequent seasons. Hartford started a transition from Division I to Division III in 2021–22, and left the America East Conference at the end of that school year. It will play its final season in D-I as a full independent for 2022–23 as it continues its transition to D-III before joining the Commonwealth Coast Conference in July 2023.[1]

Three Chicago State teams have conference homes in the 2022–23 school year—men's soccer in the Mid-American Conference, and men's and women's tennis in the Horizon League.

Hartford is maintaining its single-sport golf memberships in the Big Sky Conference (men) and Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (women) in 2022–23 before moving to the CCC. It will have to find a D-III conference home for its women's golf team because the CCC sponsors that sport only for men.

Current members

Institution Location Founded Affiliation Enrollment Nickname Years Future
conference
Chicago State University Chicago, Illinois 1867 Public
(TMCF) 		2,620[2] Cougars 2022–23 None
University of Hartford West Hartford, Connecticut 1877 Nonsectarian 6,792 Hawks 2022–23 CCC (NCAA D-III) in 2023–24

School Men Women
Base­ball Basket­ball Cross
Country 		Golf Lacr­osse Soccer Tennis Track
& Field
(indoor) 		Track
& Field
(outdoor) 		Basket­ball Cross
Country 		Golf Lacr­osse Soccer Soft­ball Tennis Track
& Field
(indoor) 		Track
& Field
(outdoor) 		Volley­ball
Chicago State Red XN Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Red XN MAC Horizon Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Red XN Green tickY Red XN Horizon Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Hartford Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Big Sky Green tickY Green tickY Red XN Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY MAAC Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Red XN Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY

Bowling

Bowling, like beach volleyball, is currently a women-only sport at the NCAA level that holds a single national championship open to all NCAA members. As of the 2022–23 season, seven bowling programs are expected to compete as independents.

Institution Team Location Founded Type Enrollment Primary conference
Belmont Abbey College Crusaders Belmont, North Carolina 1876 Private 1,320 Conference Carolinas (Division II)
Chestnut Hill College Griffins Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1924 Private 2,301 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (Division II)
Mount St. Mary's University Mountaineers Emmitsburg, Maryland 1808 Private 1,889 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (Division I)
University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska) Cornhuskers Lincoln, Nebraska 1869 Public 25,260 Big Ten Conference (Division I)
Post University Eagles Waterbury, Connecticut 1890 Private 7,317 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (Division II)
Wilmington University Eagles New Castle, Delaware 1968 Private 20,522 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (Division II)
University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks Whitewater, Wisconsin 1868 Public 11,722 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division III)

Field hockey

As of the current 2022 season, three schools are Division I independents in field hockey, with one being a full D-I member and the other two transitional D-I members. The full D-I member, James Madison, had competed in the Colonial Athletic Association in all sports, including field hockey, but moved to the Sun Belt Conference (SBC) in July 2022.[3][4] However, since the SBC does not sponsor field hockey, the Dukes will compete as an independent in that sport only.[5] JMU is one of three SBC members to sponsor the sport, the others being Appalachian State and Old Dominion (the latter of which joined the SBC alongside JMU). Those schools respectively play field hockey in the Mid-American Conference and Big East Conference.

The transitional D-I independents are Lindenwood and Queens (in North Carolina; not to be confused with Queens College in New York City, which remains in D-II), both of which started their transitions from NCAA Division II in July 2022. Unlike Stonehill, the other field hockey school that started a transition from D-II at the same time, Lindenwood and Queens joined conferences that do not sponsor the sport, respectively the Ohio Valley Conference[6] and ASUN Conference.[7] (Stonehill joined the field hockey-sponsoring Northeast Conference.[8]) Neither Lindenwood nor Queens has announced a future field hockey affiliation.

Institution Team Location Founded Type Enrollment Primary conference
James Madison University Dukes Harrisonburg, Virginia 1908 Public 19,550 Sun Belt Conference
Lindenwood University Lions St. Charles, Missouri 1827 Private 6,992 Ohio Valley Conference
Queens University of Charlotte Royals Charlotte, North Carolina 1857 Private 1,740 ASUN Conference

Football

Football Bowl Subdivision

Further information: NCAA Division I FBS independent schools

As of the current 2022 college football season, seven NCAA Division I FBS schools are football independents. Three of these schools, highlighted in pink, will join FBS conferences in 2023: BYU will move to the Big 12 Conference, while Liberty and Mew Mexico State will join Conference USA.

Institution Founded Nickname First season Location Type Enrollment Primary conference
United States Military Academy
(Army) 		1802 Black Knights 1890 West Point, New York Federal 4,294 Patriot League
Brigham Young University (BYU) 1875 Cougars 1922 Provo, Utah Private 29,672 West Coast Conference
(Big 12 Conference in 2023)[9]
Liberty University 1971 Flames 1973 Lynchburg, Virginia Private 15,000[a] ASUN Conference
(Conference USA in 2023)[10]
New Mexico State University 1888 Aggies 1893 Las Cruces, New Mexico Public 18,497 Western Athletic Conference
(Conference USA in 2023)[10]
University of Notre Dame 1842 Fighting Irish 1887 Notre Dame, Indiana Private 12,179 Atlantic Coast Conference
[b]
University of Connecticut (UConn) 1881 Huskies 1896 Storrs, Connecticut[c] Public 32,257 Big East Conference
University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) 1863 Minutemen 1879 Amherst, Massachusetts Public 29,269 Atlantic 10 Conference
Notes
  1. ^ Does not include roughly 90,000 students enrolled in online programs.
  2. ^ Notre Dame remains officially an independent football team, and is not a member of the ACC in any capacity for football. However, as part of the agreement to join the ACC in other sports, Notre Dame agreed to schedule 5 games per year against ACC opponents.[11]
  3. ^ While the UConn campus is in Storrs, the Huskies play home games in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Ice hockey

Further information: NCAA Division I independent schools (ice hockey)

Men

There are currently six confirmed NCAA Division I independents in men's ice hockey—the University of Alaska Fairbanks (branded athletically as simply "Alaska"), the University of Alaska Anchorage, Arizona State University, Lindenwood University, Long Island University (LIU), and Stonehill College

Alaska became a men's independent after the 2020–21 season due to the demise of its former league, the men's side of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (the WCHA remains in operation as a women-only league). The seven Midwestern members of the men's WCHA left to reestablish the Central Collegiate Hockey Association without the WCHA's three geographic outliers—the two Alaska schools, along with Alabama–Huntsville. Of these three schools, Alaska was the only one that did not initially drop hockey.[12]

Alaska-Anchorage's hockey program was suspended in 2020 by the University of Alaska System due to a reduction in state funding, along with the skiing and gymnastics programs. The 2020-21 season was set to be its last, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they did not end up playing that season either. The Alaska Board of Regents told the hockey program they would be reinstated if they were able to collect 3 million dollars in donations and fundraising, so the team was on hiatus for both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 season while its future was uncertain. Ultimately, the money was raised, and the Seawolves were reinstated for the 2022-23 season, but due to the WCHAs aforementioned disbanding, they will begin playing as an independent alongside the Nanooks.

Arizona State moved up from club hockey in the ACHA to full varsity status. The Sun Devils began playing a full Division I schedule in 2016–17, and expected to be in a hockey conference for 2017–18, but no conference move has yet materialized. With the 2020–21 season dramatically impacted by COVID-19, ASU entered into a scheduling agreement with the Big Ten Conference for that season, with the Sun Devils playing a road-only schedule of four games against each of the seven Big Ten hockey members.[13]

LIU announced in late April 2020 that it would launch varsity men's hockey for the 2020–21 season. The Sharks have yet to announce a conference home, but played their first season as a scheduling partner of Atlantic Hockey.[14]

In 2021–22, Lindenwood fielded two separate men's club teams, each playing at a different level of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA), which governs the sport at club level. On March 23, 2022, Lindenwood announced that it would launch a Division I men's varsity program starting in the 2022–23 season, while maintaining its ACHA program. This announcement came shortly after the school announced it was starting a transition from Division II to Division I in July 2022, joining the non-hockey Ohio Valley Conference.[15]

On April 5, 2022, Stonehill, then a member of the D-II Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10), announced it was joining the Northeast Conference (which also does not sponsor ice hockey) that July, starting its own transition to D-I. Before this announcement, Stonehill had been one of seven NE-10 members that played men's ice hockey under Division II regulations, despite the NCAA not sponsoring a championship event at that level. (All other D-II schools with varsity men's ice hockey play under D-I regulations.)[16]

Neither Lindenwood nor Stonehill has announced a conference home for its men's hockey program.

Institution Team Location Founded Type Enrollment Years Primary conference
University of Alaska Fairbanks (Alaska) Nanooks Fairbanks 1917 Public 8,336 2021–present Great Northwest Athletic Conference
(Division II)
University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves Anchorage, Alaska 1954 Public 6,813 2022–present Great Northwest Athletic Conference
(Division II)
Arizona State University Sun Devils[17] Tempe, Arizona 1885 Public 50,246 2015–present Pac-12 Conference
Lindenwood University Lions St. Charles, Missouri 1827 Private 6,491 2022–present Ohio Valley Conference
Long Island University Sharks[18] Brooklyn and Brookville, New York[a] 1926 Private 15,197 2020–present Northeast Conference
Stonehill College Skyhawks Easton, Massachusetts 1946 Private 2,500 2022–present Northeast Conference
  1. ^ The current LIU athletic program was created in 2019 with the merger of the athletic programs of the university's two main campuses—the Brooklyn campus, which had been a Division I member, and the Post campus in Brookville, which had competed in Division II. The merged program inherited Brooklyn's Division I membership. The team is open to undergraduate men at both campuses who meet NCAA eligibility requirements.

Lacrosse

See also: NCAA independent schools (lacrosse)

Women's

In the 2023 season (2022–23 school year), four schools will compete as independents—full independent Hartford, plus San Diego State, UC Davis, and Xavier.

San Diego State and UC Davis became independents after the 2021 season when their former women's lacrosse home of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation shut down its league due to a lack of sponsoring members. Both will join the Pac-12 Conference for women's lacrosse after the 2023 season.[19] Xavier starts varsity play in 2023, and will begin full conference play in its full-time home of the Big East Conference in 2024.[20]

Institution Location Nickname Affiliation Enrollment Season(s) as independent
San Diego State University San Diego, California Aztecs Public 35,578 2022–2023
University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Davis, California Aggies Public 40,031 2022–2023
Xavier University Cincinnati, Ohio Musketeers Private 7,127 2023

Soccer

Women

In addition to full independent Hartford, two schools are independents in the coming 2022 women's soccer season. The most recent departure from the independent ranks was Hampton University, which joined the Big South Conference, which sponsors women's soccer, in 2018.[21] Hampton has since moved its athletic program to the Colonial Athletic Association. Delaware State will join the Northeast Conference as an affiliate in women's soccer in 2023-24.[22]

Institution Team Location Founded Type Enrollment Primary conference
Delaware State University Hornets Dover, Delaware 1891 Public 3,400 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
South Carolina State University Lady Bulldogs Orangeburg, South Carolina 1896 Public 3,000 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

Swimming & Diving

Women's Potential independents

Of the three programs that left conferences that sponsored women's swimming & diving for the non-sponsoring Sun Belt Conference (SBC), two are known to have conference homes for 2022–23. Before leaving the Colonial Athletic Association for the SBC, James Madison University was also a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference for that sport; its ECAC team title in 2021–22 was its fifth straight.[23] With the ECAC being a separate legal entity from the CAA (or any other NCAA conference), it can be presumed that JMU will remain an ECAC member for 2022–23. Marshall University, which left Conference USA (C-USA), joined the Missouri Valley Conference as an associate member for the 2022–23 season.[24]

Another potential independent is Old Dominion University, which left C-USA to return to the SBC. Its men's team currently competes in the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association; it is possible that the women's team joins but no future affiliation has been announced.

All three of the above programs will move that sport to the SBC once that conference adds women's swimming & diving in 2023–24.

Institution Team Location Founded Type Enrollment Men's Women's Primary conference
Old Dominion University Monarchs Norfolk, Virginia 1930 Public 24,286 CCSA Green tickY Sun Belt

Volleyball

Men's (indoor)

Men's volleyball has a truncated divisional structure in which members of both Division I and Division II compete under identical scholarship limits for a single national championship. As of the next NCAA men's volleyball season in 2023, 11 men's volleyball programs are expected to compete as independents. All are D-II members except Queens (NC), which started a transition from D-II to D-I in July 2022. The 2023 season will be Queens' last as an independent, as it will join the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.[25]

Four schools left the independent ranks after the 2022 season. Full D-II member Daemen, transitional D-II member D'Youville (currently reclassifying from Division III), Fairleigh Dickinson, and LIU will start competition in the Northeast Conference, full-time home to Fairleigh Dickinson and LIU, in the 2023 season.

Full D-II member Missouri S&T starts men's volleyball play in the 2023 season; it has yet to announce an affiliation in that sport.

Institution Team Location Founded Type Enrollment Primary conference
Alderson Broaddus University Battlers Philippi, West Virginia 1871 Private 1,052 Mountain East Conference
American International College Yellow Jackets Springfield, Massachusetts 1885 Private 1,723 Northeast-10 Conference
Limestone University Saints Gaffney, South Carolina 1845 Private 3,300 South Atlantic Conference
Lincoln Memorial University Railsplitters Harrogate, Tennessee 1897 Private 2,579 South Atlantic Conference
Maryville University Saints Town and Country, Missouri 1872 Private 3,500 Great Lakes Valley Conference
Missouri University of Science and Technology Miners Rolla, Missouri 1870 Public 6,086 Great Lakes Valley Conference
University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón Cowboys Bayamón, Puerto Rico 1971 Public 5,014 Independent[a]
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Tarzans Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 1911 Public 13,146 Independent[a]
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus Gallitos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1903 Public 18,653 Independent[a]
Queens University of Charlotte Royals Charlotte, North Carolina 1857 Private 2,100 ASUN Conference
Tusculum University Pioneers Tusculum, Tennessee 1794 Private 2,053 South Atlantic Conference
  1. ^ a b c While no member of the University of Puerto Rico system is part of a recognized NCAA conference, all are members of Liga Atlética Interuniversitaria de Puerto Rico, which governs college sports competitions in both Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

Women's (beach)

Beach volleyball, currently a women-only sport at the NCAA level, holds a single national championship open to members of all three NCAA divisions. As of the 2023 season (2022–23 school year), the following programs are expected to compete as independents.

Institution Team Location Founded Type Enrollment Primary conference
Abilene Christian University Wildcats Abilene, Texas 1906 Private 5,334[26] Western Athletic Conference
Berry College Vikings Mount Berry, Georgia 1902 Private 1,900 Southern Athletic Association (Division III)
California State University, Los Angeles
(Cal State Los Angeles)		 Golden Eagles Los Angeles, California 1947 Public 27,685 California Collegiate Athletic Association (Division II)
Carson–Newman University Eagles Johnson City, Tennessee 1851 Private 2,115 South Atlantic Conference (Division II)
Colorado Mesa University Mavericks Grand Junction, Colorado 1925 Public 11,000 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (Division II)
Concordia University Irvine
(Concordia–Irvine)		 Golden Eagles Irvine, California 1976 Private 2,564 Pacific West Conference (Division II)
Eckerd College Tritons St. Petersburg, Florida 1958 Private 1,650 Sunshine State Conference (Division II)
Erskine College Flying Fleet Due West, South Carolina 1839 Private 920 Conference Carolinas (Division II)
Florida Southern College Moccasins Lakeland, Florida 1883 Private 2,185 Sunshine State Conference (Division II)
Grand Canyon University Antelopes Phoenix, Arizona 1949 Private 19,500 Western Athletic Conference
Hendrix College Warriors Conway, Arkansas 1876 Private 1,400 Southern Athletic Association (Division III)
Huntingdon College Hawks Montgomery, Alabama 1854 Private 900 Collegiate Conference of the South (Division III)
LaGrange College Panthers LaGrange, Georgia 1831 Private 1,100 Collegiate Conference of the South (Division III)
Lincoln Memorial University Railsplitters Harrogate, Tennessee 1897 Private 2,579 South Atlantic Conference (Division II)
University of Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders Belton, Texas 1845 Private 2,700 American Southwest Conference (Division III)
Mississippi State University Bulldogs Mississippi State, Mississippi 1878 Public 21,884 Southeastern Conference
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
(Nebraska)		 Cornhuskers Lincoln, Nebraska 1869 Public 33,273 Big Ten Conference
Saint Leo University Lions St. Leo, Florida 1889 Private 2,235 Sunshine State Conference (Division II)
Spring Hill College Badgers Mobile, Alabama 1830 Private 1,439 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division II)
Stevenson University Mustangs Stevenson, Maryland 1947 Private 3,621 MAC Commonwealth (Division III)
University of Tampa Spartans Tampa, Florida 1931 Private 7,600 Sunshine State Conference (Division II)
Texas A&M University–Kingsville Javelinas Kingsville, Texas 1925 Public 8,783 Lone Star Conference (Division II)
Tusculum University Pioneers Tusculum, Tennessee 1794 Private 2,053 South Atlantic Conference (Division II)

Sports with no independents other than full independents

Full independents Hartford and Chicago State are the only schools that are independents in the following sports: Baseball (Hartford only), men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, and softball (Hartford only).

Football Championship Subdivision

Further information: NCAA Division I FCS independent schools

As of the 2022 season, no school plays as an FCS independent.

Golf

As of the 2022–23 season, no men's or women's golf team competes as a Division I independent. While Hartford is a full independent in 2022–23, its last season in Division I, it is maintaining its golf-only memberships in the Big Sky Conference (men) and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (women). The university will move to the Division III Commonwealth Coast Conference in July 2023.

The last golf teams to compete as independents did so in 2020–21: Francis Marion in men's golf, and Augusta, Delaware State, and Maryland Eastern Shore in women's golf. Augusta and Francis Marion are Division II members that compete in Division I golf, with Augusta doing so for both men and women and Francis Marion for men only. All four teams became associate members of the Southland Conference in July 2021, with Augusta also joining that league in men's golf.[27][28]

Women's Ice Hockey

No women's ice hockey teams have played as independents at the National Collegiate level, the de facto equivalent to Division I in that sport, since the 2018–19 season. In that season, five schools—Franklin Pierce, Post, Sacred Heart, Saint Anselm, and Saint Michael's—competed as independents, all participating in the nascent New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA), which had originally been established in 2017 as a scheduling alliance among all of the then-current National Collegiate independents. The NEWHA initially included six schools, but Holy Cross left after the inaugural 2017–18 NEWHA season to join Hockey East. The NEWHA officially organized as a conference in advance of the 2018–19 season,[29] but was not officially recognized by the NCAA as a Division I league until the 2019–20 season, by which time the newly launched LIU program had joined to return the conference membership to six.[30]

The next three schools to add women's ice hockey have confirmed conference homes. Stonehill starts varsity play in the 2022–23 season as the newest playing member of the NEWHA.[31] Assumption joined the NEWHA for administrative purposes alongside Stonehill, but will not start NEWHA play until it launches its new team in 2023–24.[32] Robert Morris, which had dropped the sport after the 2020–21 season due to COVID-19 impacts, will resume play in 2023–24, returning to its previous conference of College Hockey America.[33]

Men's Lacrosse

The only team that will compete as a D-I men's independent in the 2023 season is full independent Hartford, in its final season before starting Division III competition in the 2023–24 school year. The only other school that was a potential independent in that season, Merrimack, found a home for that sport in the America East Conference.[34]

Men's Soccer

The only men's soccer independent in the 2022 season is full independent Hartford, participating in its final D-I season before joining the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference. The other full independent, Chicago State, joined Mid-American Conference men's soccer for 2022.

Men's Swimming & Diving

No men's swimming & diving programs are independents in the 2022–23 season. The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), which left the Horizon League for the non-sponsoring Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), joined all of the other MVC men's swimming & diving programs in the Mid-American Conference.[35] Queens University of Charlotte moved from NCAA Division II to the ASUN Conference, which also does not sponsor that sport. However, the ASUN is a member of the partnership that created the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, a league originally established solely for swimming & diving whose scope later expanded to include beach volleyball. Queens accordingly joined that conference.

The two full independents, Chicago State University and the University of Hartford, do not sponsor swimming & diving for either sex.

See also

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