The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in baseball (since 1994), men's basketball (since 1981), women's basketball (since 1982), football (1996–2015), softball (since 1995), men and women's tennis (since 1998), and volleyball (since 1994). Bowling was officially sanctioned as a MEAC governed sport in 1999. Before that season, the MEAC was the first conference to secure NCAA sanctioning for women's bowling by adopting the club sport prior to the 1996–97 school year.
Contents
1History
2Member schools
2.1Current members
2.2Associate members
2.3Former members
2.4Membership timeline
3Facilities
4Sports
5Championships
5.1National championships
5.2Current champions
5.3Football
5.4Men's basketball
5.4.1Tournament Performance by school
5.5Women's basketball
5.6Baseball
5.7Softball
6See also
7Notes
8References
9External links
History
In 1969, a group, whose members were long associated with interscholastic athletics, met in Durham, North Carolina with the purpose of discussing the organization of a new conference. After the formulation of a committee, and their research reported, seven institutions: Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State College agreed to become the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.[1] South Carolina State had been a longtime member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, while the other charter members had been longtime members of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
The conference's main goals were to establish and supervise an intercollegiate athletic program among a group of educational institutions that shared the same academic standards and philosophy of co-curricular activities and seek status as a Division I conference for all of its sports.
The conference was confirmed in 1970, and had its first season of competition in football in 1971. The MEAC has had to date, three full-time commissioners.[1] In 1978, the MEAC selected its first full-time commissioner, Kenneth A. Free, who served as Commissioner until he resigned in 1995. He was succeeded by Charles S. Harris, who served at the position until 2002. On September 1, 2002, Dennis E. Thomas became the conference's commissioner.
The MEAC experienced its first expansion in 1979 when Bethune–Cookman College (Now Bethune–Cookman University) and Florida A&M University were admitted as new members. That same year, founding members Morgan State University, North Carolina Central University and University of Maryland Eastern Shore withdrew from the conference. All three schools eventually returned to the conference; Maryland Eastern Shore rejoined in 1981, Morgan State in 1984, and North Carolina Central in 2010.
On June 8, 1980, the MEAC was classified as a Division I conference by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Prior to that year, the league operated as a Division II conference. The following month the MEAC received an automatic qualification to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
In 1984, membership in the MEAC again changed as Florida A&M chose to leave. The university would return to the conference two years later. Coppin State College, now Coppin State University, joined the conference in 1985. The MEAC would find stability in membership with the addition of two HBCUs in Virginia, Hampton University and Norfolk State University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. For the next 10 years, the MEAC would remain an 11-member conference. In 2007, former CIAA member Winston-Salem State University was granted membership, but announced on September 11, 2009 that it would return to Division II at the end of 2009–2010 and apply to return to the CIAA before ever becoming a full member of the MEAC.[2]
North Carolina Central University rejoined the conference effective July 1, 2010.[3][4] NCCU was one of seven founding member institutions of the MEAC, but withdrew from the conference in 1979, opting to remain a Division II member when the conference reclassified to Division I.[3]
Savannah State University was announced as the newest member of the MEAC on March 10, 2010.[4] Savannah State originally applied for membership into the MEAC in 2006 but faced an NCAA probationary period soon after. Membership was then deferred until the completion of the imposed probation period, which ended in May 2009. Savannah State then resubmitted their application for membership again in 2009 and was finally granted probationary membership status.[4] On September 8, 2011, the university was confirmed as a full MEAC member.[5]
While the MEAC has had no new full members since then, the conference added an associate member in 2014 when Augusta University, then known as Georgia Regents University, a Division II institution with Division I programs in men's and women's golf, joined for men's golf.[6] Augusta became the MEAC's first associate member and first non-HBCU with any type of membership. The conference has since added two more non-HBCU associate members, with Monmouth University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) joining for bowling in 2018.[7]
In April 2017, Savannah State announced that it would drop to Division II effective with the 2019–20 school year.[8] In November 2017, Hampton announced they would leave the MEAC to join the Big South Conference beginning with the 2018–19 season.[9]
Member schools
Current members
Departing member in red.
Institution
Location
Founded
Joined
Type
Enrollment
Nickname
Colors
North Division
Coppin State University
Baltimore, Maryland
1900
1985
Public
3,400[10]
Eagles
Delaware State University
Dover, Delaware
1891
1970
Public
3,400[11]
Hornets
Howard University
Washington, D.C.
1867
1970
Private
10,000[12]
Bison/Lady Bison
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Princess Anne, Maryland
1886
1970, 1981[Notes 1]
Public
3,400[13]
Hawks
Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland
1867
1970, 1984[Notes 2]
Public
4,500[14]
Bears
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, Virginia
1935
1997
Public
4,500[15]
Spartans
South Division
Bethune–Cookman University
Daytona Beach, Florida
1904
1979
Private
3,400[16]
Wildcats
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, Florida
1887
1979, 1986[Notes 3]
Public
10,000[17]
Rattlers/Lady Rattlers
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Greensboro, North Carolina
1891
1970
Public
10,000[18]
Aggies
North Carolina Central University
Durham, North Carolina
1910
1970, 2010[19][Notes 4]
Public
10,000[20]
Eagles
Savannah State University
Savannah, Georgia
1890
2010[21]
Public
3,400[22]
Tigers/Lady Tigers
South Carolina State University
Orangeburg, South Carolina
1896
1970
Public
4,500[23]
Bulldogs/Lady Bulldogs
Associate members
Institution
Location
Founded
Enrollment
Nickname
Colors
Joined
Sport
Primary conference
Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia
1828
9,000
Jaguars
2014
golf (M)
Peach Belt (NCAA D-II)
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, New Jersey
1933
6395
Hawks
2018
bowling (W)
MAAC (NCAA D-I)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
1966
20,902
Blazers
2018
bowling (W)
Conference USA (NCAA D-I)
Former members
Institution
Location
Founded
Joined
Left
Type
Enrollment
Nickname
New Conference
Current Conference
Hampton University
Hampton, Virginia
1868
1991
2018
Private
4,500
Pirates
Big South
Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1892
2007
2010
Public
6,000
Rams
CIAA (NCAA Division II)
Winston-Salem State University was a transitional member and never attained full membership in the MEAC or NCAA Division I before returning to Division II and the CIAA after the 2009–2010 school year. They were scheduled to begin full membership and gain access to NCAA tournaments in 2011.[24][25]
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