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.

Starting in the 2011-2012 season, SFU will be competing in the NCAA ’ s Division II Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( GNAC ).

Once completed, the transition will move all 19 Simon Fraser Clan teams into the NCAA.

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.

In NCAA and NAIA college baseball, the game will end if a team is ahead by at least 10 runs after seven innings in a scheduled 9-inning game.

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.

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In 2013, the MAAC will become eligible for its 15th NCAA Championship when Women's Rowing will fulfill qualifying requirements.

In July 2011, Shorter University and Union University ( Jackson, Tenn .) were accepted into the NCAA and will begin the multi-year transition process from the NAIA to NCAA.

Both universities will begin GSC competition in the 2012 – 13 academic year but will not be eligible for NCAA national tournaments until the 2014 – 15 academic year.

* 2012: Minot State University and the University of Sioux Falls will begin full membership after joining NCAA Division II from the NAIA.

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.

Starting in the 2012-2013 season, the women's team will be part of the College Hockey America conference, and will be eligible for conference postseason play, but not NCAA postseason play.

The moratorium on the NCAA postseason will be lifted beginning with the 2014-2015 season.

The school hosted the NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship at Bill Greehey Arena in 2009 and will host again in 2012.

The Linc also plays host to several soccer games each year, and in the past ( 2005, 2006 ) it has played host to the NCAA lacrosse national championship ; it will do so again in 2013.

The NCAA Football Rules Committee determines the playing rules for Division I ( both Bowl and Championship Subdivisions ), II, and III games ( the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) is a separate organization, but uses the NCAA rules ).

College divers interested in tower diving may compete in the NCAA separate from swim team events.

The move was intended to separate the NCAA from direct influence of any individual conference and to keep it centrally located.

In 2005, Pitino's Louisville team posted a tie for the most single season wins in school history ( 33 ) while he is one of two men's coaches in NCAA history to lead three separate schools ( Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville ) to the Final Four.

Izod Center uses two separate floors for NBA and NCAA basketball-a standard hardwood floor for Nets and the arena's old parquet floor for regular season college basketball ( since 2007, the NCAA has used a uniform floor for regional sites ).

Since 1963, the NCAA organizes separate tournaments for Division I and II.

Men's rowing ( both heavyweight and lightweight ) and women's lightweight rowing are not part of the NCAA and have separate championships.

The NCAA however considers the Yankee Conference and New England Conference to be two separate conferences, as they were formed under different charters.

Six separate entities investigated Valvano and the NC State basketball program including the NC State Faculty Senate, the North Carolina Attorney General, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, the NC State Board of Trustees, and the NCAA.

A separate NCAA women's competition is also held.

This is different from the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship, in which separate tournaments are conducted for all three divisions, mainly because there are far more NCAA member schools offering women's volleyball than the men's game.

Members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ), a separate athletics governing body whose members are primarily smaller institutions, regularly play matches against NCAA teams.

In the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship, separate tournaments are conducted for Division I, Division II, and Division III institutions.

Osterman threw six more no-hitters including three more perfect games on February 16 ( perfect ), March 9 ( perfect ), March 11, May 12, May 20 and May 21 ( perfect ); she also struck out 20-or-more batters in four separate games on March 17 ( 23 in ten innings ), March 19 ( 21 in eight innings ), April 26 ( 24 in ten innings matching her career-high ), and May 27 ( 20 in nine innings ) in the process of leading the Longhorns to a third-place finish in the NCAA Softball World Series ( they lost to the UCLA Bruins, who in turn lost to the Michigan Wolverines ).

He was the only coach in NCAA history to take three separate schools to the NCAA Tournament in his first year coaching the teams.

Today, CBS has separate distribution agreements between Dial Global ( for CBS Radio News and its ' sports play-by-play packages, most notably the NFL and the NCAA ) and Cumulus Media ( for CBS Sports Radio ).

To qualify for a diving event at the NCAA championships, a competitor must first finish in the top three at one of five zone championships, which are held after the various conference championship meets.

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 ).

The Academy's intercollegiate program has 17 men's and 10 women's NCAA sanctioned teams, nicknamed the ‘‘ Falcons .’‘ Men's teams compete in football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, cross-country, fencing, golf, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, lacrosse, rifle, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, water polo and wrestling.

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.

Houston competes with other notable sports teams, such as the baseball team, which has made 18 NCAA Tournament appearances with two trips to the College World Series ; the men's golf team, which has won 16 NCAA National Championships ; the women's soccer team, which was rated as the top first-year women's program in the country in 1998 ; the swimming and diving teams, which have spawned multiple Olympians and All-Americans ; the track and field team, which perennially ranks in the top 10 as an NCAA team ; and the volleyball team, which had a streak of ten consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament.

In NCAA swimming and diving, athletes and relay teams who make the championship final ( top eight ) are considered First-Team All-Americans.

Husson University, known athletically as the Eagles, is a member of the NCAA Division III and fields seventeen varsity sports teams in the North Atlantic Conference including mens & women's soccer, men & women's lacrosse, men & women's cross country, men & women's basketball, men's football, women's field hockey, women's swimming & diving, men's golf, women's outdoor track & field, women's indoor track & field, baseball, softball, and women's volleyball.

In both men ’ s and women ’ s swimming and diving, Denison has posted 47 consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III championships.

The Gators won the NCAA men's indoor track and field championship in three consecutive seasons in 2010, 2011 and 2012, the NCAA women's swimming and diving team national championship in 2010, the NCAA women's tennis championship in 2011 and 2012, and the NCAA men's outdoor track and field championship in 2012, earning the university a total of twenty-nine national team championships.

Individual Gator athletes have won 249 individual NCAA championships in boxing, golf, gymnastics, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field.

In the last decade under former head coach David Marsh, Auburn's swimming and diving program became a virtual dynasty in the SEC and the NCAA winning five consecutive NCAA men's championships from 2003 through 2007 and women's championships in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007.

UNK participates in intercollegiate athletics at the NCAA at the Division II level and is a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MIAA ) for most of its sports ; women's swimming and diving competes in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ), The university joined the MIAA in 2012 ; prior to joining the conference, UNK was a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ( RMAC ).

According to NCAA reporting on varsity team participation after football ( 64 thousand ), the most popular participatory college sports are baseball / softball ( 47 thousand ), track and field ( 46 thousand ), soccer ( 43 thousand ), basketball ( 32 thousand ), cross-country running ( 25 thousand ), and swimming / diving ( 20 thousand ).

The deep end has an NCAA and USS-approved diving complex, which houses two one-meter springboards and one three-meter board.

Western State College competes in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference at the NCAA Division II level, and competes in 13 sports with football, volleyball, men's cross country, women's cross country, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, wrestling, men's indoor track and field, women's indoor track and field, women's swimming and diving, men's outdoor track and field and women's outdoor track and field.