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This article is about the NCAA division. For the Swedish football league, see Division 2. Division 2 is the fourth level in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 72 Swedish football teams

Division II (or DII) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations It offers an alternative to both the highly competitive (and highly expensive) level of intercollegiate sports offered in NCAA Division I and to the non-scholarship level offered in Division III. Division I (or D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. It was formerly called the NCAA College Division

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Membership

Division II schools tend to be smaller public universities and many private institutions. Athletic scholarships are offered in most sponsored sports at most institutions, but with more stringent limits as to the numbers offered in any one sport than at the Division I level. For example, Division II schools may give up to 36 football scholarships (whereas Division I FBS, the highest level, is allowed 85 football scholarships), although some Division II conferences limit the number of scholarships to a lower level. Division II scholarship programs are frequently the recipients of student-athletes transferring from Division I schools; a transfer student does not have to sit out a year before resuming sports participation as would be the case in the event of transferring from one Division I institution to another (with the exception of football players transferring from a Division I FBS school to a Division I FCS school, who also do not have to sit out a year). College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies

Division II Independent Schools
Conferences competing in Division II

^ Conferences that sponsor football. NCAA Division II independent schools are four-year institutions that field intercollegiate teams in football and other Sports, but which are not formally Member schools Sports The CACC sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in men's Baseball, men’s and women’s Basketball, men’s History The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, founded on the campus of Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in 1912 is the oldest African-American Member schools Sports Conference Carolinas sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in men's and women's Swimming, men’s Baseball History The East Coast Conference was founded in 1989 as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference Members The members of the GLFC for the 2008-09 season are Central State University Kentucky Wesleyan College Current members Associate Members Former Members Sports The GLIAC sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition Membership Member schools The league currently has 9 full members Football Memberships Central Washington University - North Central Conference Conference History Originally known as the Mid-South Conference, the GSC was formed by six universities in the summer of 1970 Delta State, Florence State (now Member schools The Heartland Conference included the following schools for the 2005-2006 school year Sports The Heartland Conference sponsors 13 sports 7 for Current members Teams Abilene Christian Wildcats Angelo State Rams Cameron Aggies Member schools Former members Between 1912 and 1924 several other private colleges were members of the conference Central Wesleyan College Missouri History The NCC was formed in 1922 Charter members of the NCC were South Dakota State University, College of St Membership Current members Former Members Conference Facilities President's Cup Champions Sports Member schools History The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference was founded in 1932 Since 1932 16 institutions have competed in the NSIC Current members The league currently has 8 full members New Pacific West Conference Hawai’i Pacific University along with the three other Division II schools in Current members The league currently has 11 full members Expansion The conference announced on June 18, 2007, that it had invited three private universities to join the conference Charter Members University of Colorado at Boulder (left 1938 to form the Mountain States Conference) Colorado State University Member schools Conference Stadia Conference sports Conference member schools Current members Former members Conference Stadia Championships Membership Current members Former Members Conference Facilities National Championships The Sunshine State Conference History The conference rates as one of the oldest in intercollegiate athletics dating back to its founding in 1924 by the West Virginia Department of Education

Interaction with other divisions

The NCAA does not strictly prevent its member institutions from playing outside of their own division, or indeed playing against schools that are not members of the NCAA. Division II schools often compete against Division I, Division III or even the NAIA

NAIA

Many Division II schools frequently schedule matches against members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which specializes primarily in smaller institutions and is something of a rival collegiate sports sanctioning authority to the NCAA. Division I (or D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA) seeks to fully integrate life academics sport and fitness into the higher education environment

Division I

Division II schools also frequently schedule "money games", usually men's basketball games, against Division I schools, particularly lesser-known ones, early in the season in which they are almost invariably the visiting team and are invited to play with the almost-certain knowledge that they will be defeated but will receive a substantial (at least by Division II standards) monetary reward which will help to finance much of the rest of the season and perhaps other sports as well. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m

Non-revenue sports competition

Matches between the three divisions in non-revenue sports are often quite competitive; the difference in the level of competition between the two divisions is often considerably less in these sports than it is in football and men's or women's basketball. American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m Indeed, in some sports, among them ice hockey and men's volleyball, there is no Division II competition. Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 active players (5 normal players and one 'libero' are separated by a net that is usually four feet In hockey, many schools whose athletic programs are otherwise Division II compete in Division I or Division III, while in men's volleyball, which has no NCAA-sanctioned divisional structure, Division II members are allowed to award the same number of scholarships as Division I members.

Pressure to move to Division I or III

The viability of Division II as an ongoing operation in the medium-to-long term is frequently called into question; it is noted that these institutions' athletics programs share many of the major expenses of their Division I counterparts with regard especially to scholarships, facilities upkeep, and travel while receiving for the most part far smaller gate receipts and almost no television revenue. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic An increasing number of Division II schools are under pressure from administrators, boosters, and other interested parties either to "step up" to Division I or down to Division III; as a result, the NCAA has adopted rules which tend to make it harder for new institutions to join Division I, such as minimum attendance requirements for football and a long waiting period (now eight years) before a new Division I institution can participate in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament ("March Madness") or share in its considerable revenues. The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single elimination Tournament held each spring featuring 65 College basketball teams in the

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Division I (or D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations
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