The ACC is unique in that it is the only Division I college basketball conference that does not officially recognize a regular season champion.This started when only one school per conference made the NCAA tournament.The ACC representative was determined by conference tournament rather than the regular season result....
He is widely considered one of the greatest NCAA basketball players of all-time.Gola was the oldest of seven children born to Ike and Helen Gola....
The same year he also won the Gorriarian award for having the most amount of falls in the least amount of time at the tournament.Every match he won that year at the NCAA's, he won by fall.After graduating, he relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career....
Through 2009, Villanova men's lacrosse was a member of the Colonial Athletic Association and in 2009, Villanova won the CAA tournament as the fourth seed (the lowest-seeded championship team in conference history) for its first title.The team also made its first NCAA tournament appearance that year....
The three awards and the 1994 award won by track and field athlete Tanya Hughes are the highest number of Woman of the Year awards won by a single university.A number of notable individuals have also won national championships in the NCAA....
In his senior season at Oral Roberts, Green led the nation in both free throws made and attempted.He finished his senior season as the NCAA's active scoring leader.Additionally, Green holds the Mid-Con Conference career scoring and rebounding records....
Rochester is the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the U.S. which does not include at least one college or university participating at the NCAA Division I level in all sports.Almost all area college sports are played at the NCAA Division III level.The only exceptions are the RIT men's and women's ice hockey teams, which compete at the Division I level....
Previously, only NCAA post-season games were broadcast on national television.The "Game of the Century" proved that a national audience would watch college basketball games during the regular season....
Don McEwen is a former track and field athlete.He was a two-time NCAA champion in the two-mile run.While competing for the University of Michigan, he won consecutive NCAA men's track and field championships in the two-mile race....
The regional champion, and possibly a number of strength bids, advance to Nationals to compete for the championship title in May.College teams have for years been trying to get the sport accepted to NCAA status, without success....
No team has won an NCAA team championship as a member of C-USA.
Cousy played poorly, however, scoring only four points on 2-for-13 shots.Holy Cross became the first New England college to win the NCAA tournament.On their arrival back in Worcester, the team was given a hero's welcome by about ten thousand cheering fans who met their train at Union Station....
Clark finished as the career leader at the end of the 2006 MAAC tournament, but was soon passed by J. J. Redick, who held the NCAA record for three point field goals made with 457 until 2014 when Oakland's Travis Bader (461+) surpassed him.Clark finished his career as number six on the list of all-time NCAA scoring leaders....
Under SEC conference rules reflecting the large number of male scholarship participants in football and attempting to address gender equity concerns (see also Title IX), each member institution is required to provide two more women's varsity sports than men's.A similar rule was recently adopted by the NCAA for all of Division I....
In college, she was a three-time NCAA Division II track and field champion.She won the triple jump events at the United States Outdoor Championships in 2011 and 2012, and at the Indoor Championships in 2011....
Finally, she set Big 12 records in ERA, strikeouts and opponents batting average, of which only the strikeouts has been surpassed.She finished the season at third place on the all-time NCAA single-season strikeout list.Osterman threw 6 no-hitters (an NCAA top-5 season record) and three more perfect games (another NCAA top-3 and Junior Class season tying record) and set a career best WHIP....
In 2007, the Bradley soccer team returned to the MVC Championship and defeated Creighton 1-0 to claim their first MVC Tournament Championship and fourth appearance in the NCAA postseason soccer tournament.They had never won a game in the NCAA tournament.Following their first ever NCAA tournament game victory over DePaul 2-0, the Braves continued on a magical run to the Elite Eight by defeating seven-time national champion Indiana University on penalty kicks (5-4) and the University of Maryland in overtime, both on the road....
