Sports sanctioned by the NCAA include the following: basketball, baseball ( men ), softball ( women ), football ( men ), cross country, field hockey ( women ), bowling ( women ), golf, fencing ( coeducational ), lacrosse, soccer, gymnastics, rowing ( women only ), volleyball, ice hockey, water polo, rifle ( coeducational ), tennis, skiing ( coeducational ), track and field, swimming and diving, and wrestling ( men ).

With Arizona State's softball title in 2011, the conference won its 400th NCAA Championship.

Currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in baseball ( since 1994 ), men ’ s basketball ( since 1981 ), women ’ s basketball ( since 1982 ), football ( since 1996 ), softball ( since 1995 ), men and women ’ s tennis ( since 1998 ), and volleyball ( since 1994 ).

The softball team has led the way, winning several conference titles, appearing in 12 NAIA national tournaments and two NCAA Division II national tournaments and winning the 2002 Division-II National Championship.

Women's college softball started at Nebraska in 1976, before it was an official NCAA sport.

Missouri State University sponsors NCAA Division I inter-collegiate athletic teams in men's and women's basketball, golf, soccer, swimming and diving ; men's baseball and football ; and women's cross country, field hockey, softball, track, and volleyball.

The College has a number of sports teams that compete on the NCAA Division II level, including baseball, men's and women's basketball, football, softball, women's swimming, track and field, cross country, and volleyball.

WSU is an NCAA Division I institution and fields teams in tennis, cross-country, basketball, track, golf, men's baseball and women's volleyball and softball.

Flagler competes in 13 varsity sports ( basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, and tennis for men and women, baseball for men only, and volleyball and softball for women only ) in Division II that compete in the NCAA.

This NCAA Division I athletic program has teams in football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country, tennis, swimming, wrestling, track and field, rowing, golf, and softball.

TWU Pioneers have NCAA Division II programs in basketball, soccer, volleyball, softball, and gymnastics.

Women ’ s tennis, softball and volleyball won the WCC Conference championships and went on to play in NCAA postseason tournaments.

* In 2003-04, ESU became the first school to have their football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball and softball teams all advance to NCAA play in the same school year.

* ESU is the only school in the MIAA to have both their baseball and softball teams earn NCAA Tournament berths in each of the last nine years.

The Canisius College softball team recently won the 2009 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament, its 3rd consecutive title win, marking the team's 11th trip to the NCAA tournament in the last 15 years.

Bridgewater College sponsors 22 NCAA intercollegiate sports, which include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, indoor track, and outdoor track for men, and basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, softball, soccer, tennis, indoor track, outdoor track, volleyball and swimming for women.

Four other Niagara teams have advanced to the NCAA Tournament in their respective sports: softball ( 1998 ); women's soccer ( 2006 ); women's tennis ( 2003 & 2005 ); and women's volleyball ( 2009 & 2010 ).

The Women's College World Series ( WCWS ) is the final portion of the NCAA Division I Softball Championship for college softball in the United States.

Fresno State has made several runs at NCAA tournaments in basketball, soccer, tennis, baseball, softball, and volleyball.

* NCAA Division I Champions, softball, in 1998.

The NCAA has never sponsored championship competition in badminton, synchronized swimming, or slow-pitch softball.

" The Meredith " Avenging Angels " compete on seven NCAA Division III athletics teams: basketball, soccer, softball, cross country, volleyball, lacrosse and tennis.

The Columbus State University Cougars have many different types of men's and women's athletics, including basketball, baseball, soccer, softball, tennis, golf, and cross country, all of which compete at the NCAA Division II level.

The new NCAA rule applies to penalties on both sides of the ball.

The NCAA has also adopted this rule.

Most NCAA conferences only apply the rule on the final day of a series for travel reasons or during conference tournaments in order to allow the next game to start.

The rule is not allowed for the NCAA Division I tournament, where all games must be nine innings.

At the college level, there is no NCAA mercy rule.

Furthermore, a libero is not allowed to serve, according to international rules, with the exception of the NCAA women's volleyball games, where a 2004 rule change allows the libero to serve, but only in a specific rotation.

He was allowed to practice with the team, but couldn't join the squad because the NCAA had a rule forbidding the use of freshman players.

Following an NCAA rule change passed in January 1991, which required Division I schools to conduct all sports at the Division I level by 1993, the conference was formed by charter members Butler University, the University of Dayton, Drake University, the University of Evansville, and Valparaiso University.

Brower became a central figure in the NCAA implementing the ' intentional foul ' rule for basketball.

Brown calculated that at the NCAA rule of a three-point line at, 9-inches from the rim, Maravich would have averaged thirteen 3-point scores per game, lifting the player's career average to 57 points per game.

Many teams during the ban did not have the chance to show off their skills as some teams were even ranked in the Top Ten nationally, because of the NCAA rule prohibiting more than two teams from the same region being selected ( Harburn 4 ).

The NCAA adopted an overtime rule for the 1995 post-season and all games thereafter.

For many years, Santa Clara participated in NCAA Division II in football, including reaching the NCAA Division II Championship semi-finals in 1980, because of an NCAA bylaw that allowed Division I schools to participate in lower divisions in football ; however, the rule was changed in the mid-1990s, and the program forced to move into Division I-AA ( now FCS ).

Since then, NCAA football games have a tie-breaking rule, so only a rule change would allow this record to be broken.

In high school football, the defense is generally not allowed to score if it gains possession, although the Oregon School Activities Association adopted the college rule experimentally in 2005, and the University Interscholastic League of Texas, the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association use NCAA football rules.

The alternating possession rule is used to start all overtime periods under international rules while a jump ball is used under high school and NCAA rules, with the arrow reset based on the results of the jump ball to start each overtime.

Using his height to dominate opposing players, Mikan invented the hook shot and the shot block ; as a consequence, the NCAA, and later NBA, adopted the goaltending rule, and, in 1951, the NBA widened the foul lane, a decision known as the ' Mikan rule.

This was the first time this configuration was used for NCAA Tournament play with the new 70, 000-seat capacity rule in effect.

NCAA rules have no set dress code rule, leaving it up to individual teams or conferences.