Proposal For NCAA Regionals Realignment

NCAA COACHES FAVOR MODIFICATION
IN REGIONALS ALIGNMENT

In the four years since the NCAA went to the process whereby people qualify for the NCAA Championships by competing in four different Regionals, it has become increasingly obvious that there is a lack of proportionality among the different Regions, most notably with too many schools being in the East and too few in the West.

Track & Field News has learned that at their recent convention in San Antonio the coaches considered several ways to modify the current system, including cutting back to three Regionals. The system which met with the most approval, and apparently will be forwarded to the NCAA T&F Committee for approval, keeps four Regions. Unlike the current version, which cleaves along State lines, the new one would, in addition to splitting up Conferences, also split up States.

If approved, it’s envisioned that the new setup would begin with the ’08 season. Following are two different ways of looking at the proposed new Regions, first by School, then by State.

EAST REGION BY SCHOOL
American
Army
Bethune-Cookman
Boston College
Boston University
Brown
Bucknell
Campbell
Central Connecticut State
Central Florida
Charleston Southern
Citadel
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
Colgate
Columbia
Connecticut
Coppin State
Dartmouth
Davidson
Delaware
Delware State
Duke
Duquesne
East Carolina
Elon
Fairleigh Dickinson
Florida
Florida A&M
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Florida State
Fordham
Furman
Gardner-Webb
George Mason
Georgetown
Georgia
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Hampton
Harvard
High Point
Holy Cross
Howard
Iona
Jacksonville
James Madison
LaSalle
Lafayette
Lehigh
Liberty
Long Island
Loyola
Maine
Manhattan
Marist
Maryland
Maryland Baltimore County
Maryland-Eastern Shore
Massachusetts
Miami
Monmouth
Morgan State
Morris Brown
Mount Saint Mary's
Navy
New Hampshire
Norfolk State
North Carolina
North Carolina A&T
North Carolina State
North Carolina- Charlotte
North Carolina-Greensboro
North Carolina-Wilmington
Northeastern
Pennsylvania
Princeton
Providence
Quinnipiac
Rhode Island
Richmond
Rider
Robert Morris
Rutgers
Sacred Hart
Savannah State
Seton Hall
South Carolina
South Carolina State
South Florida
Saint Joseph's
Saint John's
Saint Peter's
Stony Brook-SUNY
Temple
Towson
Vermont
Villanova
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Military
Wagner
Wake Forest
William & Mary
Winthrop
Wofford
Yale

EAST REGION BY STATE
Connecticut
Delware
Florida
Georgia
Massachusetts
Maine
Maryland
North Carolina
excluding
Appalachian State
North Carolina Asheville
Western Carolina
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
excluding
Albany
Binghamton-SUNY
Buffalo
Cornell
Syracuse
Pennsylvania
excluding
Penn State
Pittsburg
Saint Francis
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Virginia
excluding
Marshall
Radford
Virginia Tech
Vermont
Washington D.C.
***
MIDEAST REGION BY SCHOOL
Akron
Alabama
Alabama A&M
Alabama -Birmingham
Alabama State
Albany
Alcorn State
Appalachian State
Auburn
Austin Peay State
Ball State
Belmont
Binghamton-SUNY
Bowling Green State
Buffalo-SUNY
Butler
Central Michigan
Cincinnati
Cornell
Dayton
Detroit Mercy
East Tennessee State
Eastern Kentucky
Eastern Michigan
Indiana
Indiana State
IUPU Fort Wayne
Jackson State
Jacksonville State
Kent State
Kentucky
Lipscomb
Louisville
Loyola
LSU
Marquette
Marshall
Memphis
Miami
Michigan
Michigan State
Middle Tennessee State
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Mississippi Valley
Morehead State
Murray State
New Orleans
North Carolina-Asheville
Notre Dame
Ohio
Ohio State
Penn State
Pittsburg
Purdue
Radford
Saint Francis
Samford
South Alabama
Southeastern Louisiana
Southern
Southern Mississippi
Syracuse
Tennessee
Tennessee State
Tennessee-Chattanooga
Toledo
Troy
Tulane
Valparaiso
Vanderbilt
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Western Carolina
Western Kentucky
Western Michigan
Wisconsin
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Youngstown State

MIDEAST REGION BY STATE
Alabama
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
including
LSU
Southeastern Louisiana
Southern
Tulane
Michigan
Mississippi
New York
including
Albany
Binghamton-SUNY
Buffalo
Cornell
Syracuse
North Carolina
including
Appalachian State
North Carolina Asheville
Western Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
including
Penn State
Pittsburg
Saint Francis
Tennessee
Virginia
including
Marshall
Radford
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Wisconsin
***
MIDWEST REGION BY SCHOOL
Arkansas
Arkansas State
Arkansas Little Rock
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Baylor
Chicago State
Colorado
DePaul
Drake
Eastern Illinois
Grambling State
Houston
Illinois
Illinois State
Illinois-Chicago
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Lamar
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisiana-Monroe
McNeese
Minnesota
Missouri
Missouri-Kansas City
Missouri State
Nicholls State
North Texas
Northern Illinois
Northern Iowa
Northwestern State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Oral Roberts
Prairie View A&M
Rice
San Houston State
Southeast Missouri State
Southern Illinois
Southern Methodist
Stephen F. Austin
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Texas Southern
Texas State
Texas Arlington
Texas Pan American
Texas San Antonio
Tulsa
Western Illinois
Wichita State
Wyoming

MIDWEST REGION BY STATE
Arkansas
Colorado
including
Colorado
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
excluding
LSU
Southeastern Louisiana
Southern
Tulane
Minnesota
Missouri
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
excluding
Texas El Paso
Texas Tech
***
WEST REGION BY SCHOOL
Air Force
Arizona
Arizona State
Boise State
BYU
Cal Poly SLO
Cal State Fullerton
Cal State Northridge
Cal State Sacramento
Cal
Colorado State
Eastern Washington
Fresno State
Hawai’i Manoa
Idaho
Idaho State
Irvine
Long Beach State
Loyola Marymount
Montana
Montana State
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
New Mexico State
Northern Arizona
Oregon
Oregon State
Portland
Portland State
Riverside
San Diego State
Southern Utah
Stanford
Texas Tech
Texas El Paso
UCLA
UCSB
UNLV
USC
Utah
Utah State
Washington
Washington State
Weber State

WEST REGION BY STATE
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
excluding
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Texas
including
UTEP
Texas Tech
Utah
Washington
Wyoming