They currently hold the NCAA record for the most consecutive sold out home games ; the sellout streak dates back to November 3, 1962.

Following the season, controversy developed surrounding a potential NCAA investigation into the basketball coaching staff attending voluntary player workouts outside of the regulated practice dates.

The University at Albany has used the facility for past games against Syracuse University and has been approached to use the facility for some dates in the future in the wake of their participation in the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

The arena itself dates back to 1976 ; it was renovated and remodeled to its current larger form in the summer of 1995 following the Lakers ' run of three national championships and eight straight NCAA tournament appearances, which continued into the first year of the arena.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

The IAAUS would get its current name of National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ), in 1910 which still sets rules governing the sport.

Also, in 1979, the university moved all of its athletic programs to NCAA Division I. Enrollment that year passed 11, 000.

In 2011, Albert was named an announcer for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, the result of longtime tournament broadcaster CBS handing off some of its coverage to Turner Sports.

In the United States, it is important to note that Women's Rowing is an NCAA sport, while Men's Rowing chooses to remain governed by its own regulatory body, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association ( IRA ).

Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of Conference USA, often competing with its cross-town rival the University of Houston.

On February 20, 2012, the NCAA announced it had granted Berea permission to begin a one-year period exploring membership in its Division III, non-scholarship athletic program.

Of special note, the university had announced its desire to possibly enter the NCAA during the 2007 athletic season.

The IAAUS was officially established on March 31, 1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

The NCAA was dissatisfied with its Johnson County, Kansas suburban location noting that its location on the south edges of the Kansas City suburbs was more than 40 minutes from Kansas City International Airport.

In 1999 the NCAA moved its 300 member staff to its new headquarters in the White River State Park in a four-story, facility on the west edge of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.

The 2008 – 2009 season saw the men's NCAA volleyball team have its best season ever.

Eight of the seventeen conference schools are football members and the Big East competes as a BCS conference in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ), the top level of NCAA competition in that sport ( also known by its former designation: Division I-A ).

The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport.

It is a member of the NCAA's Division I for all sports ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I-A ), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition.

It participates in the NCAA's Division I ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I-A ), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition.

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

In its last years as a football conference, it was a hybrid league that included teams in NCAA Divisions I-A ( today's FBS ) and I-AA ( now FCS ).

The Hilltoppers left the GFC after the 2006 season, went through the two-year " reclassification " period mandated by the NCAA for schools moving from the FCS to the FBS, and became a football member of its all-sports conference, the Sun Belt Conference, in 2009.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

The term became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954.

Dudley was responsible for the formation of the SIAA, the predecessor of the Southern Conference and Southeastern Conference, in 1895, and was also instrumental in the formation of the NCAA in 1906.

Denison is a member of the NCAA and the North Coast Athletic Conference ( NCAC ) since the conference ’ s formation in 1984.

While both parties, with the involvement of the Philippine Basketball Association, the Philippine Basketball League, the UAAP and the NCAA, reportedly agreed on an agreement on the formation of a new national team, things soon returned to the usual verbal war.

In hopes of securing a long-term solution, FIBA, in a memorandum, ordered the PBA, PBL, UAAP, NCAA and Joey Lina ( as a person or in Lina's claim, as a representative of the BAP ) to form a new constitution or a formation of a new basketball body.

However, the 3-4 ( 3 defensive linemen plus 4 linebackers ) formation is becoming more popular among professional and NCAA Division I teams.

Prior to the formation of the UAAP, it was a founding member of the Philippine National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ).

The United States holds two national level university tournaments including the NCAA championship and the USACFC National Championships tournaments in the USA and the BUCS fencing championships in the United Kingdom.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

Under NFL and NCAA rules, there are actually two lines of scrimmage at the outset of each play: one that restricts the offense and one that restricts the defense.

On Friday, July 10, 2009, the NCAA announced that it has accepted SFU as a Division II member that will begin after a two year transition period.

The current coach of the Memphis Tigers is Josh Pastner, who coached the Tigers to NCAA appearances in two of his first three seasons on the job.

The Bears have won 19 NCAA Division III Championships — one in women's cross country ( 2011 ), one in men's tennis ( 2008 ), two in men's basketball ( 2008, 2009 ), five in women's basketball ( 1998 – 2001, 2010 ), and ten in women's volleyball ( 1989, 1991 – 1996, 2003, 2007, 2009 ) – and 144 UAA titles in 15 different sports.

Late in the season, with the Heat well out of any type of realistic playoff contention, head coach Pat Riley missed two games because he went to scout certain NCAA basketball conference tournament games, to prepare in the likely event that the Heat received the number 1 or 2 pick in the 2008 draft.

Somewhat unexpectedly, it was announced that the Heat agreed to trade the lesser two of their three 2009 second-round draft picks to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for the draft rights of talented Kansas guard Mario Chalmers, who helped lead Kansas to the NCAA championship, including making a three-point shot that sent the game to overtime.

The men's ice hockey team won the last two Atlantic Hockey conference tournaments, made the first ever appearance by a service academy in the NCAA hockey tournament in 2007, and made a repeat appearance in 2008.

It participates in Division I of the NCAA ; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision ( FCS ; formerly known as Division I-AA ), the lower of two levels of Division I football competition.

The arrival of these two schools will bring the PSAC to 18 full members ; barring any further changes, it will become the largest NCAA conference in terms of membership.

The TBA has hosted rounds one and two of the men's NCAA Division I basketball tournament on eight occasions from 1983 – 2009, and the third and fourth rounds of the NCAA women's Division I basketball tournament in 2002.

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.

* Brent Metcalf, two time NCAA national wrestling champion

UMass ' visit to the Final Four was later officially nullified by the NCAA because Camby had been found to have accepted $ 28, 000 from two sports agents.

The latter three mark one of only two times that a team has won three NCAA Division I-A national football championships in four seasons.

In 2003, the NCAA created a tournament for Women ’ s bowling and the Nebraska Women ’ s Bowling team has been one of the top college bowling teams since the start of NCAA competition, which the Huskers won the first two national titles in a row, came in third place during the third NCAA tournament and have won three of the first six NCAA tournaments.