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Mid Major is a term mainly used in American college basketball and to a lesser extent college football to describe schools not affiliated with a BCS or other "major" conference. The term generally has a slightly different meaning in college basketball than it does in college football and "mid major schools" face different dilemmas in each sport. College basketball refers to the American basketball league organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. History The game of basketball was devised by James Naismith in 1892. ...
A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ...
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College basketball refers to the American basketball league organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. History The game of basketball was devised by James Naismith in 1892. ...
A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ...
Major Conferences The term "mid-major" does NOT apply to schools belonging to the following six conferences:
In college basketball, the following are also sometimes considered "major" conferences: For other uses of the abbreviation BCS, please see BCS (disambiguation). ...
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is one of the oldest collegiate athletic leagues in the United States. ...
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. ...
The University of Notre Dame is a leading Roman Catholic institution of higher learning located immediately northeast of South Bend, Indiana, United States. ...
Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference is the United States oldest college athletic conference. ...
The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of twelve schools located in the central United States. ...
The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. ...
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. ...
College basketball refers to the American basketball league organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. History The game of basketball was devised by James Naismith in 1892. ...
The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio. ...
The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply The Valley) is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States. ...
The Mountain West Conference (or MWC), the youngest of the College Athletic Conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A, officially began operations in July 1999. ...
The Western Athletic Conference (commonly referred to as the WAC, pronounced whack) was formed in 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 College Athletic Conferences currently affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States, with member institutions...
Basketball Though the term "mid major" is sometimes used to describe all schools not belonging to a major conference, the term generally is used to label the non-major conferences that consistently produce quality teams. Generally speaking, in college basketball, the following conferences represent the "mid major" schools: This list is not exhaustive, as some schools in lower ranked conferences (or "low majors") such as Bucknell, Pacific and Vermont in 2005, often warrant the label. Also, many of the lower-ranked teams in conferences like the Atlantic 10, Missouri Valley and Western Athletic are nearly always considered mid-majors. A very strong team in a mid-major conference may be a major program; the most notable examples of this are Memphis and Gonzaga. (The operator of the Mid-Majority site calls Gonzaga the "Unnamed Major Program From the Northwest," or UMPFN.) The Colonial Athletic Association, also known as the CAA, is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. ...
Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference which is now in the Southern United States. ...
The Horizon League is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States. ...
The Mid-American Conference is a College Athletic Conference whose members are located mainly in the Midwestern United States; nine of the schools are in Ohio and Michigan alone. ...
The West Coast Conference is an NCAA collegiate athletic conference consisting of eight member schools in California, Oregon, and Washington. ...
Bucknell University is a highly competitive university located along the Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 60 miles (97 km) north of Harrisburg. ...
The University of the Pacific was chartered in Santa Clara, California under the name California Wesleyan College, by the California Supreme Court, itself in its first year of existence, on July 10, 1851. ...
The University of Vermont The University of Vermont is a university in Burlington, Vermont. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio. ...
Missouri Valley may refer to: Missouri Valley, Iowa Missouri River This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The University of Memphis was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1912 as the West Tennessee Normal School. ...
Gonzaga University is a private, co-educational university located in Spokane, Washington. ...
Issues Facing Mid Major Schools Mid major teams often have a difficult time scheduling high quality opponents, especially at home. "Major" conference teams usually will not schedule a high quality mid major team, knowing that there is an uncomfortably high chance that they will lose (especially if the game is at the mid major team's home court) and if the major team does win, there is little benefit in the rankings or in media exposure for beating non-major school. This phenomenon often manifests itself in some "major" squads playing mostly low quality teams (some from mid major conferences) in their out-of-conference schedules thereby establishing very impressive records against lesser foes and bypassing higher quality mid major teams in the process (Georgetown has often been used as an example of this phenomenon). Not to be confused with the University of Georgetown in Georgetown, Guyana or Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY. Georgetown University is a private university in the United States. ...
The difficulty some mid majors have in scheduling high quality opponents has a large effect on their ability to qualify for the NCAA basketball championship tournament and for the National Invitation Tournament. Often, mid-major teams with outstanding records are passed over for at-large berths in the NCAA Tournament in favor of teams from major conferences with mediocre records based mainly on the fact that the mid major teams have a much lower strength of schedule. Without the ability to play more "major" opponents, most mid-majors have to stake their Tournament hopes on winning their conference's season-ending tournament (which promises an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament) since the possibility of an at-large bid is remote. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ...
The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is a college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ...
Gonzaga faces a slightly different set of challenges. Since its Elite Eight appearance in 1999, it has successfully established itself as the closest thing to a major program in a mid-major conference, making the tournament field in every year since, even in years it failed to win the West Coast Conference tournament. Its position in a mid-major conference is no longer a major issue with regard to making the tournament field, but is often perceived to adversely affect its tournament seeding. The Bulldogs typically play a nationally competitive nonconference schedule, frequently going on the road, and have proven themselves capable of defeating nationally prominent opponents. However, the relative weakness of the WCC hurts Gonzaga's strength of schedule, which in turn lowers the Bulldogs' RPI. These issues are likely to face any other mid-major school that establishes itself on a national level, such as Memphis in the post-2005 Conference USA. The playoff term Elite Eight has been popularized to refer to the final eight teams in the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament, who play in the final game of each of the tournaments four regional brackets. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
The University of Memphis was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1912 as the West Tennessee Normal School. ...
Football In college football the term "mid-major" denotes those Division I-A schools that do not play in the six BCS conferences. Notre Dame has retained its independent status in football, but is a member of the Big East in all other sports, and is also included in the BCS. Mid-major football schools play in the following Division I-A conferences: A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ...
Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ...
For other uses of the abbreviation BCS, please see BCS (disambiguation). ...
The University of Notre Dame is a leading Roman Catholic institution of higher learning located immediately northeast of South Bend, Indiana, United States. ...
Mid major football schools face the problem of not being part of the BCS, which controls access to the unofficial National Chapionship of Division I-A football (since the NCAA does not sponsor a I-A football champion). Mid major schools have very limited opportunities to participate in the four BCS bowl games with only the University of Utah and Texas Christian University having success in recent years. Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference which is now in the Southern United States. ...
The Mid-American Conference is a College Athletic Conference whose members are located mainly in the Midwestern United States; nine of the schools are in Ohio and Michigan alone. ...
The Mountain West Conference (or MWC), the youngest of the College Athletic Conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A, officially began operations in July 1999. ...
The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAAs Division I since 1976. ...
The Western Athletic Conference (commonly referred to as the WAC, pronounced whack) was formed in 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 College Athletic Conferences currently affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States, with member institutions...
The United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, or simply USMA or Army — and sometimes, irreverently among the cadets themselves, as Whoops or Woopoo — is a U.S. service academy and Army fort. ...
The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and is located in Annapolis, Maryland. ...
Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ...
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The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U) is a public university in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...
Texas Christian University (abbreviated TCU) is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas. ...
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