Sundborg started restoring the university's NCAA membership.

The NCAA started awarding the national title for Women's Track and Field in 1983, prior to that the award was given by the AIAW.

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

Allen founded the National Association of Basketball Coaches ( NABC ), which started what is now the NCAA Tournament.

Rice started his senior season as a projected mid-first-round selection, but his stock rose to the point where he was selected # 4 overall in the 1989 NBA Draft due to his record-breaking performance in the NCAA Tournament.

The post-season NIT, started in 1938, pre-dates the NCAA Tournament by one year and is second in age only to the NAIA Tournament, which was founded by James Naismith in 1937.

However, the battle of members had started, as schools whose men's teams were already participating in the NCAA started to integrate their women's teams.

The Norwood MHA also started girls hockey in the early-1990's and graduated Shanley White who played for the York University Lions of the OUAA and Heather Richardson to NCAA Division III women's hockey at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Kezar is also the home to the annual San Francisco Fall Lacrosse Classic, an NCAA Division I fall ball game started in 2009 to benefit the Bay Area Youth Sports Foundation.

The trend that Clark started has continued to the present ; more than two dozen New Zealanders are now playing for NCAA Division I men's programs in the U. S. A common next step in these players ' career paths is a stint in Major League Soccer ; ESPNsoccernet journalist Brent Latham speculated in a March 2010 story that the All Whites ' 2010 FIFA World Cup squad could have more MLS players than the U. S. squad.

After appearing in 18 games his sophomore season, Graham started every possible game his final two, winning first team All-Pac 10 his senior year, as he led the Cardinal to an appearance in the NCAA College Cup.

He began as a track meet " starter " in 1959 and has started NCAA National Championships and National Federation Championships.

Jordan graduated from Overland High School in Aurora, and played college soccer at Clemson University from 1994 to 1997, for whom he started 80 total games, and was named a first-team All-American in 1997 while leading the Tigers to the NCAA quarterfinals.

Villa Julie was granted admission to the NCAA Division III in 1994 and started offering master's degrees in 1995.

In recent years, provinces have started offering odds on college basketball and college football, much to the annoyance of the NCAA and others who would prefer to keep gambling out of amateur sport.

The harassment, Tarkanian claimed, started when he wrote a newspaper column alleging that the NCAA was more willing to punish less-prominent schools than big-name schools.

It was the first game in which 5 black players started in NCAA Division I. Texas-Western's victory is considered one of the most important games in the history of college sports.

Back at Duke that fall, Williams started all 39 games as a sophomore and led the Devils to the 2001 NCAA National Championship, earning NABC Player of the Year honors.

After LOOK folded, the FWAA started a long association with NCAA Films ( later known as NCAA Productions ), which produced a 30-minute television show and sold it to sponsors.

The 2004 edition of the postseason tournament started on September 8, 2004 and ended on September 22, 2004, with the Philippine Christian University ( PCU ) Dolphins winning their first NCAA Basketball championship at the expense of the University of Perpetual Help Dalta System ( UPHDS ) Altas.

From 1939, when the NCAA Tournament started, the Helms and NCAA Division I champions were the same, except for 1939, 1940, 1944, and 1954 when Oregon, Indiana, Utah, and La Salle respectively won the tournament.

* NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship ( US )

The stadium also features a retractable roof, with electrification technology developed by VAHLE, Inc. Other than being the home of the Colts, the stadium will host games in both the Men's and Women's NCAA Basketball Tournaments and will serve as the back up host for all NCAA Final Four Tournaments.

The " Engineers " sponsor 33 sports, most teams of which compete in the NCAA Division III's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference ; the Division I rowing programs compete as part of the EARC and EAWRC.

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 ).

Under Kahler, the women's basketball program reached the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament 14 times and played in the NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship game in 1988 and 1990.

In NCAA softball, the rule is invoked if one team is ahead by at least eight runs after five innings and, unlike with college baseball, applies in the NCAA tournament as well ( but not in the Women's College World Series ).

It is also used in Women's NCAA play, partially due to the variant rules used which allow 12 substitutions per set ( as opposed to the 6 allowed in the standard rules ).

The University of Nebraska and the Commission co-hosted the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division One Women's Volleyball Championship in December of that year.

Oklahoma City is the annual host of the Big 12 Baseball Tournament, the World Cup of Softball, and the annual NCAA Women's College World Series.

The city has held the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second round and hosted the Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in 2007 ; the city will be the site again in 2009.

* Cross-Country: Men's NCAA Division II, Women's NCAA Division II

* Golf: Women's NCAA Division II

* Indoor Track & Field: Women's NCAA Division II, Men's NCAA Division II

* Lacrosse: Men's NCAA Division II, Women's NCAA Division II

* Outdoor Track & Field: Women's NCAA Division II, Men's NCAA Division II

* Soccer: Women's NCAA Division II, co-ed Intramural

* Softball: Women's NCAA Division II, co-ed Intramural

* Swimming: Men's NCAA Division II, Women's NCAA Division II

With the third overall pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, the team selected Jonathan Toews, who led the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux hockey team to the 2006 NCAA Frozen Four.

In 2010, the men's ice hockey team was the first ever from the Atlantic Hockey conference to reach the NCAA tournament semi-finals: The Frozen Four.

It hosted the 2002 and 2011 NCAA Frozen Four.

* 1-time women's national champions ( 1999, crowned by AWCHA, pre-dated NCAA Women's " Frozen Four ")

The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Men's ice hockey Frozen Four West Regional was hosted on March 24 and March 25, 2007.

The NCAA Men's ice hockey Frozen Four tournament was held at the arena on April 10 and April 12, 2008.

The 2005 NCAA Frozen Four hockey tournament finals were noteworthy when all four teams came from the WCHA.

** 1-time women's national champions ( 1998 ) * crowned by AWCHA, pre-dated NCAA Women's Frozen Four )

They have won 14 WCHA Tournament Championships and have 20 NCAA Frozen Four appearances.

They have also won three WCHA Tournament Championships and have 6 NCAA Frozen Four appearances.

In 2003 the Arena hosted the Frozen Four NCAA Ice Hockey tournament.

It still holds exclusive national radio rights for many sporting events including National Football League and college football games, the Olympic Games, the NCAA Basketball Tournament ( this and NFL coverage are co-produced with corporate sibling CBS TV ), the Masters and U. S. Open golf, Wimbledon tennis tournament, the Frozen Four of college hockey, and the GRAMMY Awards.

The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999, 2003, and 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball regional first and second rounds, the 2009 and 2012 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, the 1998 Frozen Four, the 2004 Frozen Four, and the 2006 Women's Final Four.

The facility has also hosted the 2001 U. S. Figure Skating Championships, the 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, the 1996 and 2000 US Gymnastics Trials, the 1998 and 2004 NCAA Men's Frozen Four, the 1996 NHL All-Star Game, the 2008 and 2010 NBA Finals, and the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.

The semi-finals and finals of the Division I Championship are branded as the Frozen Four, a passing nod to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship-known as the Final Four in its final rounds.

Hockey East continues to send teams to the Frozen Four as well to the NCAA Tournament.

* NCAA Frozen Four Appearances ( 20 ):

* NCAA Frozen Four Appearances ( 8 ):

* 1980 Republican National Convention, John Hancock ( Insurance ) Champions On Ice, three NCAA Frozen Four college hockey finals, college basketball & others.

In 2012, the Tampa Bay Times Forum played host to the NCAA Hockey Frozen Four championship finals ; this was the first time the " Frozen Four " was held outside the northern US since 1999, when the University of Alaska Anchorage hosted the event at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, now the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California.

The NCAA Frozen Four was contested there from 1972 to 1974.

Mike Hall also appeared on ESPN, and occasionally ESPN2, broadcasting college games including the Division I NCAA Frozen Four National Championship.