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unusual facts about NCAA Division I



Joe Logan

Joe Logan (born c. 1973) is the head coach of the Loyola University Maryland women's basketball team, an NCAA Division I program that competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

After winning two Rose Bowls and a national championship at USC, Ellison was selected in the 1983 NFL Draft by the 49ers, with whom he won three Super Bowl championships.

Postural Restoration

The Science of Postural Restoration has become more commonly used by athletic medicine professionals working with various populations, including several NCAA Division I men's and women's programs, MLB, PGA and MLS.

Randy Edsall

Edsall was the head coach at the University of Connecticut from 1999 until the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, and oversaw the program's promotion from the NCAA Division I–AA level to Division I–A.

Reese's College All-Star Game

The Reese's College All-Star Game, founded by the NABC, is a men's college basketball game showcasing 20 of the best senior players in the NCAA Division I.

Sam Chapman

Going to the university at Riegels' suggestion, Chapman starred in football for the Golden Bears, being named an All-American for the 1937 Pacific Coast Conference and national champion "Thunder Team", which went on to win the 1938 Rose Bowl; the last time California has won the game.

Stipe Miocic

As a former Golden Gloves champion and NCAA Division I wrestler, he debuted in MMA winning his first 5 fights by knockout.

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).


see also

1990 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split national championship and the ensuing controversy helped lead to the creation of the Bowl Coalition, a precursor to the Bowl Championship Series.

1996 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped.

1998 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL.

2005 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the least amount of controversy surrounding the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) title game in many years.

2010–11 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team

May 12: Coach Auriemma, along with Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke men's basketball program, were the recipients of the "Winged Foot Award" presented annually (since 1996) to the coaches of the Men's and Women's NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.

2011 Stony Brook Seawolves football team

Recap: After winning their first outright Big South Championship the prior week the Seawolves headed to their first NCAA Division I playoff game in program history ranked #22 in The Sports Network poll.

2011–12 Alabama–Huntsville Chargers men's ice hockey season

On October 24, 2011, interim UAH President Malcolm Portera announced that the 2011–12 season would be the school's final season competing at the NCAA Division I level, citing financial reasons.

2012 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament

The 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament started on November 29, 2012 and ended on December 15 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky with Texas winning the national championship.

Bo Levi Mitchell

He helped lead EWU to the NCAA Division I FCS National Championship with a 20-19 come-from-behind victory over the University of Delaware, the school's first national championship in football.

Brian Beaman

Beaman eventually became a member of the rifle shooting team for the NCAA Division I, until he was approached by U.S. national pistol coach Erich Buljung, silver medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, to switch from rifle to pistol.

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.

Cole Schneider

Schneider attended the University of Connecticut where he played two seasons of college hockey under the legendary coach Bruce Marshall, with the NCAA Division I Connecticut Huskies men's ice hockey team.

Daniel Santiago

Santiago attended and played Junior College basketball at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico and played NCAA Division I basketball at the University of New Mexico.

Dave Strasser

His father was an all-state sprinter and football player who was recruited by Miami University and other NCAA Division I schools.

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.

Frank Selvy

Selvy is best remembered for scoring 100 points in a college game for Furman University against Newberry College on February 13, 1954, the only NCAA Division I player ever to do so.

Harry Flournoy

He played college ball for Texas Western College, later called the University of Texas at El Paso, or UTEP; he made history when his team won an NCAA Division I National Championship with the first ever all African-American starting lineup under Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins in 1966.

IPFW Mastodons

Men’s Volleyball Head Coach Arnie Ball, who has led the Volleydons for 30 years, began the 2009–10 school year with more than 460 wins as an NCAA Division I coach.

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.

Kim Mulkey

This made her the first woman to have won NCAA Division I basketball titles as a player and a head coach, and only the fourth person (after Joe B. Hall, Bob Knight and Dean Smith).

Patrick Cullity

Prior to turning professional, Cullity attended and graduated from the University of Vermont where he played four seasons of NCAA Division I college ice hockey with the Vermont Catamounts men's ice hockey team.

Paul Cummins

Throughout the history of Irish basketball thus far, Cummins was one a very small number of Irish-born male players to ever earn a basketball scholarship to an American NCAA Division I college (Lafayette College) under head Coach Fran O'Hanlon.

Pioneer League

Pioneer Football League, American non-scholarship NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision conference

Ryan Manitowich

Manitowich attended Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, where he played four seasons (1999 - 2003) of NCAA Division I hockey with the Iona Gaels.