Sundborg started restoring the university's NCAA membership.

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.

The NCAA started a Women's Frozen Four beginning with the 2000-01 season.

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.

In keeping with this philosophy, the NCAA prohibits Division III schools from awarding athletic scholarships.

Member institutions believe athletic teams should be representative of school's entire student bodies and hew to NCAA Division III admissions and financial policies prohibiting athletic scholarships while awarding financial aid solely on the basis of need.

SUNY Potsdam athletics were recently placed in NCAA probation due to an inadvertent error in the awarding of international student grants was noticed.

The NCAA began awarding national championships for men's basketball in 1939 ; previous championships were retroactively awarded by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

The NCAA began awarding national championships for men's ice hockey in 1948 ; previous championships were awarded by the Amateur Athletic Union and by the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

The NCAA began awarding national championships for women's ice hockey in 2001 ; previous championships were awarded by the American Women's College Hockey Alliance.

In 1993, Jostens and the J Club of St. John's University began awarding the Gagliardi Trophy annually to the most outstanding player in NCAA Division III.

As a result, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Missouri found themselves subject to NCAA penalties for awarding athletic scholarships to non-amateurs.

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.

* The Evansville Purple Aces have won five national championships in the NCAA College Division ( now known as Division II ): 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965 ( 29-0 record ), and 1971.

JMU football also won the NCAA Division I-AA national title in 2004, with a 13-2 record, and are the only team in history to win the title after playing four straight road playoff games.

Fisher received an at-large bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament, in which they defeated Union College, Springfield College and Rowan University to reach the national semifinals in which they lost to Mount Union College, the defending national champions, by a score of 26-14.

** Eighth seeded Villanova defeats national powerhouse Georgetown 66 – 64 to win the first 64 team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.

As a member of the Pacific-12 Conference, the Bruins have won 125 national championships, including 108 NCAA team championships as of December 2011, more than any other university.

In their 106-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won twenty-nine national team championships, twenty-four of which are NCAA titles, and Gator athletes have won 243 individual national championships.

By 1982, however, all divisions of the NCAA offered national championship events for women's athletics and most members of the AIAW joined the NCAA.

In the 2007 NBA Draft the Timberwolves selected Corey Brewer, with the 7th pick, and Chris Richard ( basketball ), with the 41st overall pick, from the two-time NCAA national champion Florida Gators.

Between 1982-1987 the Men's Soccer team won the NCAA Division III national championship title every year except for 1984.

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.

In the fall of 2009, the No. 11 Iona men's cross country team finished tied for eighth place at the NCAA Championship race, extended the Gaels ' streak to eight straight Top 10 national finishes.

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.

On March 17, 2012, the Women's ice hockey team, after finishing the regular season with a record of 28-1-1, won its first NCAA Division III national championship, defeating the defending champion Norwich University 4-1.

Accomplishments include 24 conference championships, four NAIA College World Series appearances and, most recently, the 2001 NCAA Division II conference, regional and national championships.

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.

* Men's soccer have been NCAA Division II national champions in 2005, 2009, and 2011, and were national runners-up in 1999 and 2006.

* The Skyhawks women's basketball team earned a berth in the NCAA Division II national title game in 2010.

The course, which is considered to be the jewel of Alabama's Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, has hosted a number of national tournaments, including the 1997 Nike Tour championship, the 1998 LPGA Tournament of Champions, and the 2000 NCAA Men's Division 1 National Championship.