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1953–54 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team

This team finished unbeaten a 25-0, and though it won the Southeastern Conference title and could have played in the NCAA tournament, it chose not to because star players Frank Ramsey, Cliff Hagan and Lou Tsioropoulos were ruled ineligible because they had already graduated.

1973–74 NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team

Two nights later NC State captured its first NCAA championship by beating Marquette 76-64.

2003 NCAA Division I-A football season

On January 9, 2004, Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway Computers offered the NCAA $31 million for a national championship game between USC and Louisiana State.

2008 Atlantic Coast Conference football season

As a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) conference, the ACC's constituent members competed within the framework of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).

310 Motoring

310 Motoring sponsored the "Game's Big Game", a 2007 NCAA tournament pool, hosted on Facebook, where individuals competed to win a trip for two to the 2007 NCAA championship game.

Albert Means

These allegations and other evidence provided by Tennessee Volunteers coach Phil Fulmer led the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the recruitment of high school football players in Memphis.

All American Football

The game did not have licenses from the NFL, NFLPA or the NCAA.

Arizona Wildcats

The softball team has won eight NCAA Women's College World Series titles, in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2007 under head coach Mike Candrea (NCAA Softball Championship).

Ashley Whitney

Whitney initially attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of coach Jack Bauerle's Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team in 1999—Georgia's first NCAA national championship team.

Brent Rausch

He replaced the former Hawaii Warrior starring Quarterback, NCAA Record Setting, Colt Brennan.

Brian Wellman

Wellman competed collegiately for the University of Arkansas where he won two NCAA Outdoor triple jump titles.

BYU–Hawaii Seasiders

The BYU–Hawaii Seasiders (also Brigham Young–Hawaii Seasiders and BYUH Seasiders) are the 11 varsity athletic teams that represent Brigham Young University–Hawaii, located in Laie, Hawaii, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.

Chaminade Silverswords

Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown (with Patrick Ewing) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston.

Chip Hilton

Since 1997, the NCAA has presented The Chip Hilton Player of the Year Award to a Division I men's basketball player who has demonstrated outstanding character, leadership, integrity, humility, sportsmanship and talent both on and off the court, similar to the fictional Chip Hilton character.

College Slam

It includes most major Division I colleges, but there are many, such as the University of Tennessee, the University of Notre Dame, and Mississippi State University (who had just made a run to the Final Four that year), that are not included.

Crystal Dunn

Dunn had four NCAA Tournament goals, a game-winner against Jackson State, a goal against Notre Dame, and two goals in a 3–1 win over James Madison in NCAA second round; shot 30 percent to lead the team with 60 percent on goal rate.

David Maley

Maley was a part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison team that won the NCAA Division I hockey championship in 1983, and a member of the Montreal Canadiens when they won the Stanley Cup in 1986.

Drake Stadium

In addition, Drake Stadium hosted the 1970, 2008, 2011, and 2012 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 2010 and 2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Eastern Washington Eagles

Eastern football is currently coached by Beau Baldwin and competes at the Football Championship Subdivision level of NCAA Division I football, which is the highest level of collegiate football to determine a champion through a playoff format.

Galen Hall

University president Robert A. Bryan forced Hall's resignation in the middle of the 1989 season during another investigation of possible NCAA rule violations.

Glenn G. Reese

He officiated Division I NCAA basketball for 15 years in the Southern Conference.

Hal Wissel

Wissel’s honors include being named Coach & Athlete magazine’s Eastern Coach of the Year in 1972; Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year (‘79, ‘80, ’81); and NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1980.

Isabelle Morneau

Away from international soccer, Morneau played NCAA soccer at the University of Nebraska (1996–1999) and is one of the most decorated players to have graduated from the program.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux

His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

Jim Berkman

The Sea Gulls compiled an NCAA record 105-game conference winning streak from the start of the 1995 season through the 2009 NCAA tournament.

During the 2008 NCAA tournament, he surpassed Army coach Jack Emmer's former record of 326 wins to become the all-time winningest NCAA lacrosse coach.

Joanne P. McCallie

While at Auburn, McCallie and the Tigers appeared in two national championship games and made an appearance in the NCAA Elite Eight.

John Mariucci

Mariucci's best Gopher team would come in 1954-55 when Minnesota would advance all the way to the NCAA finals before losing to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 5-4 in overtime.

Katie Hnida

Hnida is the third woman to have scored in a college football game, after Liz Heaston, who played for NAIA Willamette University in 1997, and Ashley Martin, who played for NCAA Division I-AA Jacksonville State University in 2001.

Larry English

In 2007 English was the Mid-American Conference's MVP and was a consensus choice First-team All-MAC and a Fourth-team All-American by Phil Steele as he recorded 17 tackles for loss–which ranked 18th in the NCAA.

Liz Heaston

Ashley Martin, the first female to score in an NCAA game, and the first to score in a Division I game

Marquis Floyd

Floyd ended his college career participating in the 2003 Cactus Bowl Division II all-star classic in Kingsville, Texas.

Mel Renfro

In 1962 Renfro contributed to the university's first NCAA team championship by finishing second behind teammate Jerry Tarr in the 120-yard high hurdles with a 13.8 time and third in the long jump with a 25-11 1/4 inch leap.

Mike Mayock

Additionally, Mayock has experience covering college football for Prime Network, NCAA Productions, Prime Sports Radio and the Big East Conference.

MyColors

Sets of themes have been made in partnership with GM, Ford, HP, Dell, the NHL, NBA, and NCAA.

NCAA Season 85 basketball tournaments

Likewise, on August 5, 2009, the scheduled NCAA games were not aired live to give way to former President Corazon Aquino's funeral.

Northwest Missouri State Bearcats

Bearcat Stadium built in 1917 is the oldest stadium in NCAA Division II.

Pilipinas Basketball

It consists of four of the Philippines' major basketball stakeholders - the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), the Philippine Basketball League (PBL), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), as well as Joey Lina, then-president of the BAP, representing the said association.

Robert Hume

Robert H. Hume (born about 1923), the 1941 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion in the outdoor mile run in the United States

Robert Pinn

The range, used by the university's ROTC component and NCAA rifle team, is one of the premier shooting facilities in the state of Ohio.

Ryan Castro

While attending East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (ESU) to play NCAA Division II American football, he became involved in theater after taking acting classes with Erma Duricko.

Ryan Lavarnway

He attended Yale University, where in 2007 he won the NCAA batting title by hitting .467, and led the NCAA with an .873 slugging percentage.

Sam Keller

On May 6, 2009, Keller filed a lawsuit against EA Sports and the NCAA in an attempt to recover damages for the likenesses of college athletes being used in the NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball series.

State College Area High School

Gabe Norwood - former NCAA basketball player, currently playing in the professional PBA league

Stephanie Glance

She was a special assistant at the University of Tennessee under Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest NCAA Basketball coach and was the former interim head coach of the women's basketball team at North Carolina State University, succeeding Kay Yow in 2009.

Troy Trojans

In 2006, Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year Bobby Pierce led the Trojans to a regular season conference title, conference tournament title, and an NCAA Regional appearance with an overall record of 47–16.

William K. Thierfelder

He is a licensed psychologist, a two-time NCAA Division I All-American, a former NCAA Division I coach, and a member of the United States Olympic Committee's Sports Psychology Registry (2000–2004).

Yale golf course

The Yale course has been the site of every significant state championship, two USGA Junior National events, the 1991 and 2004 NCAA Eastern Regional championships, the 1991 ECAC Men's Championship, and the 1992 ECAC Women's Championship, as well as the Nike Connecticut Open.

Zobel Junior Archers

In the spirit of De La Salle Philippines's "One La Salle"(all 18-La Salle campuses in the Philippines are under De La Salle Philippines. Inc. headed by Brother Armin Luistro FSC who is also concurrently the President of De La Salle University-Manila), the La Salle Greenies are currently CSB's juniors reps in the NCAA while the Zobel Junior Archers are DLSU's juniors reps in the UAAP.

Zone run

Most NFL and Division I NCAA football teams that rely on running the ball now use zone blocking schemes.


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