This is a list of men's collegiate wrestling programs in the United States that compete in NCAA Division I. For the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's wrestling season, 77 schools in the United States sponsor Division I varsity men's wrestling.[1] This list reflects each team's conference affiliation as of that season.
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Wrestling conferences
- The Big Ten Conference (Big Ten) is the only all-sport conference whose members (14) all compete in wrestling. Incoming members Oregon, USC, UCLA and Washington do not sponsor wrestling.
- The six wrestling schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) are all currently full members of the conference. Stanford will become the seventh member in the conference when it joins on July 2024.
- The Mid-American Conference (MAC) has eight affiliate members in addition to five full members after adding the seven members of the Eastern Wrestling League (EWL) as new affiliates starting in the 2019–20 season.[2]
- The Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12) has six wrestling members in 2019–20. It had operated with three full members plus two affiliates after the elimination of Boise State's program, but restored its wrestling membership to the six required for NCAA recognition by adding Little Rock as an associate member in 2019–20.
- The Southern Conference (SoCon) with three full members meets the membership requirement by having six associate members, with the newest associate, Bellarmine (in transition from Division II), being the most recent addition in 2020–21.
- The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) is a wrestling-only conference that had 16 members in the 2018–19 season, and added another member for 2019–20 and beyond. EIWA member Franklin & Marshall is the only Division III school competing in Division I wrestling. Joining for 2019–20 were the LIU Sharks, created by the merger of Long Island University's two athletic programs—the Division I LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, which did not sponsor wrestling, and the Division II LIU Post Pioneers, which did. The former LIU Post wrestling program has continued to compete as the LIU Sharks.
- The Ivy League is the newest Division I wrestling league, having been formed after the 2023-2024 academic year. The six members that sponsor wrestling were previously members of the EIWA, but broke off after the 2023-24 season to have their own conference and tournament.[3]
- The Big 12 Conference (Big 12) had lost its NCAA recognition when wrestling membership fell to only four full member schools, despite the fact that three of those four schools had won a combined 49 NCAA Division I wrestling team titles. On July 29, 2015, the Big 12 announced that the members of the Western Wrestling Conference (which had six members, but was not recognized by the NCAA) had been accepted as affiliate members of the Big 12, increasing the number of participating schools to ten and restoring the conference's automatic bids. The Big 12 has since added two more wrestling affiliates, though one of these, namely Fresno State, dropped the sport after the 2020–21 season.[4] California Baptist was officially granted Division I status in August 2022.[5] Missouri, previously a full Big 12 member before moving to the Southeastern Conference, where it is currently the only school that sponsors wrestling, moved back to the conference as an affiliate in 2021-22 after spending the previous nine years as an affiliate member of the MAC.[6]
Current Division I schools
Notes
- ^ The entire University at Buffalo has a Buffalo mailing address, but its athletic administration and almost all of its athletic facilities, including the wrestling venue, are in the adjacent town of Amherst.
- ^ Although the athletic department offices and most athletic facilities are within the Boston city limits and have a Boston mailing address, the wrestling venue is in Cambridge, also home to the university administration and its undergraduate campus.
New programs
| School | City | State | Nickname | Future Conference | Primary Conference | Effective | National titles |
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| Tarleton State University | Stephenville | Texas | Texans | TBD | WAC | TBD | - |
In transition
| School | City | State | Nickname | Conference | Primary conference | National titles | Full membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellarmine University | Louisville | Kentucky | Knights | Southern Conference | ASUN Conference | – | July 2024[12] |
| Mercyhurst University | Erie | Pennsylvania | Lakers | – | Northeast Conference | – | July 2028[13] |
Map of Division I men's wrestling programs
All Division I men's wrestling programs during the 2023-24 season. Conferences (clockwise from northeast): purple pog: EIWA, green pog: Ivy League, cyan pog: ACC, black pog: SoCon, green dot: Big 12, red pog: Pac-12, blue dot: Big Ten, orange pog: MAC, white pog: Independent. Labels: 1: American, 2: Army, 3: Bloomsburg, 4: Bucknell, 5: Clarion, 6: Columbia, 7: Drexel, 8: Edinboro, 9: Franklin & Marshall, 10: George Mason, 11: Hofstra, 12: Lehigh, 13: Lock Haven, 14: LIU, 15: Mercyhurst, 16: Penn, 17: Penn St., 18: Princeton, 19: Rider, 20: Rutgers, 21: Sacred Heart
Map of Defunct Division I men's wrestling programs (Since 1953)
Defunct Division I men's wrestling programs as of the 2022–23 season. Conference as of discontinuation (clockwise from northeast): blue marker: CAA, purple pog: EIWA, yellow pog: ACC, cyan pog: SEC, black pog: SoCon, green pog: Big 12, red pog: Pac-12, green marker: Big West, purple marker: Big Sky, yellow marker: WAC, orange pog: Missouri Valley, blue pog: OVC, white pog: MAC, black marker: Independent/Unknown Conference
Notes
- The NEIWA merged into ECC which merged into the CAA[14]
- Dropped Collegiate Programs since 1953[15]
- Dropped College Wrestling Teams[16]
See also
- Collegiate wrestling
- List of NCAA Division II wrestling programs
- List of NCAA Divisions II and III schools competing in NCAA Division I sports
References
- ^ "NCAA Sports Sponsorship". NCBA.org. Archived from the original on March 8, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ^ "MAC Announces Historic Wrestling Expansion". Mid-American Conference. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- ^ "Ivy League To Launch Wrestling Tournament Starting in 2025". ivyleague.com. December 19, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
- ^ "Fresno State Athletics Announces Program Changes" (Press release). Fresno State Bulldogs. October 16, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ "CBU Wrestling Accepts Conditional Membership Status from Big 12 Conference" (Press release). California Baptist Lancers. February 16, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ "Mizzou Wrestling Program Returns To Big 12 Conference". University of Missouri Athletics. April 22, 2021. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
- ^ "Division I Wrestling Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ^ a b "Wrestling Championship Records/Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 24, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ^ "Division III Wrestling Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "Division II Wrestling Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ^ "Largest Donation in Morgan State University Athletics History Paves Way for Return of Division I Collegiate Wrestling, Following 24-Year Hiatus" (Press release). Morgan State Athletics. October 21, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
- ^ "ASUN Conference Announces Addition of Bellarmine University" (Press release). ASUN Conference. June 18, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
- ^ "Welcome To The Lake Show: Mercyhurst University Accepts Northeast Conference Membership Invite" (Press release). Northeast Conference. April 4, 2024. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
- ^ "NCAA Qualifiers by Conference" (PDF). EIWA. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
- ^ "College Programs Dropped Nationally". USA Wrestling-Kansas. February 22, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
- ^ "Dropped College Wrestling Teams". mattalkonline.com. February 23, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
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This page was last edited on 13 April 2024, at 19:11