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1519:—are often considered to be major basketball conferences as well. When the original league split along football lines, the seven non-FBS schools, plus Creighton, Butler, and Xavier, founded the current Big East while the three remaining FBS schools, Cincinnati, UConn, and Temple, became The American. In every year since the split, the "new" Big East has been ranked a top five basketball conference by leading analysts such as Ken Pomeroy. Villanova won the men's basketball national championship in the 2015-2016 and 2017–2018 seasons. The American has also found success, consistently ranking a top ten league. In the 2013–14 season, the first after the split, American member UConn won national titles in both men's and women's basketball. The American also includes several other historically major men's programs such as Cincinnati, Memphis, and Temple. UConn eventually left The American in 2020 to reunite with many of its historic rivals in the current Big East. Cincinnati also eventually left The American for the Big 12 Conference in 2023. 1259:

along with most other NCAA sports, fundamentally differs in its financial model from the so-called "revenue sports" of basketball and Division I FBS football. The NCAA classifies the latter two sports as "head-count" sports, which means that the total number of players that can receive any athletically related financial aid from the school is limited. Because a partial scholarship counts fully against the head count, it means that in practice, scholarships are almost always awarded as full grants-in-aid. On the other hand, the NCAA classifies swimming as an "equivalency" sport, meaning that scholarships can be divided among a number of student-athletes. CollegeSwimming.com's definition of a mid-major institution takes this into account. Though the lineup has changed, institutions eligible for the CollegeSwimming.com poll are those institutions that a) are not members of a

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they have sent five programs to New Year's Six bowl games: Houston in 2015, UCF in 2013, 2017, and 2018, Memphis in 2019, Cincinnati in 2020 and 2021, and Tulane in 2022. These programs have gone 4–4 in the games played to date. USF, UCF, Houston, Navy, Cincinnati, SMU, and Memphis, all American Conference teams, are very successful programs in FBS play. In 2017, UCF was the first team from The American to go undefeated; its schedule included two wins against Memphis (whose only two regular season losses came to UCF and was otherwise undefeated) and a win against USF (which had only one other loss besides UCF), and the team won its bowl game against #7 Auburn, a team which had beaten both CFP championship game teams (Alabama and Georgia) that year. The Knights also completed an unbeaten regular season in 2018, but lost to LSU in their bowl game after having lost

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team's home court) and if the major team does win, there is often little benefit in media exposure for beating a non-major school. Some major conference teams also believe that scheduling games with additional competitive teams isn't necessary for their current team's development, as they believe there will be enough "tough games" during conference play. This phenomenon often manifests itself in major squads playing mostly lower ranked mid-major conference teams (while refusing schedule requests from better mid-major squads) in their out-of-conference schedules, thereby establishing very impressive records against lesser foes and bypassing higher quality mid-major teams in the process.

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21st and 25th, respectively, ranked conferences in the RPI.) Some still refuse to consider the Mountain West to be a "major" conference, despite outperforming several other "major" (BCS) conferences for the last several years in a row. There are many conferences (besides the six BCS conferences) that have regularly had teams advance to the Sweet Sixteen or beyond, regularly challenge for multiple NCAA Tournament bids, have multiple teams "buy" games from lower-ranked conferences, and have finished in the top 10 in conference attendance every year for the last decade. Additionally, as noted previously, Gonzaga is now seen as a major program despite its mid-major conference affiliation.

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season. A change in the NCAA's RPI rating process prior to the 2005 season also improved many of these teams' chances by changing from a formula that treated home and road wins and losses equally, to a formula that gave higher weight to road games. Because many BCS conference teams played no more than one or two non-conference games away from home, there was a

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teams (distinguishing them from the "low-major" conferences). Often the definition of a "mid-major" is a conference that garners only one bid to the NCAA tournament (its automatic bid, won by its conference tournament winner) and no at large bids, all the while not garnering the attention and television dollars of a major conference.

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Gonzaga men's basketball to be a mid-major program; CBS Sports journalist Matt Norlander, in his 2022–23 season preview of mid-major conferences and programs, explicitly called Gonzaga "not a mid-major". In 2022, Gonzaga was reportedly in preliminary membership talks with three Power Six conferences—the Big East, Big 12, and Pac-12.

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bolstering of RPI ratings for many mid-major teams, leading to speculation about how this "new" version of the RPI would be used in the selection process by the NCAA tournament selection committee. In spite of a new precedent being set by the committee by leaving the highest ranked RPI team ever, #21

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tournament. Its position in a mid-major conference is no longer a primary 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

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is often remote. Mid-majors that do make it into the tournament by winning their conference tournament are regularly placed in the lowest seeds (four of the eight play-in game seeds are reserved for mid-major conference champions), which effectively ensures they will be eliminated from the tournament

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were widely considered to high-major conferences but a step below the level of the six major conferences. However, due to recent changes in membership in some conferences, as well as the sustained success of some "mid-major" conferences, most no longer consider the Atlantic 10 and Mountain West to be

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Before the 2023 departure of Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF for the Big 12, The American was widely considered the best football conference that is not in the Power 5. Since its reorganization and split from the Big East Conference in 2013 (and its corresponding expulsion from "BCS conference" status),

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Given the sustained success of many so-called "mid-major" conferences, and especially that of the Gonzaga program, higher profile conferences find it more difficult to distinguish themselves with the "mid-major" and "major" labels, unless one takes into account the distinction of being in now-defunct

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Mid-major basketball teams also face significant disadvantages when it comes to resources to spend on recruiting, marketing, and operations, including coaches' salaries. Mid-major basketball blogger Kyle Whellison, who describes as mid-major any team from a conference where average total spending on

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The NCAA tournament selection for the 2006 men's tournament was surrounded by controversy related to mid-major programs. A number of teams from mid-major conferences had unprecedented success in the non-conference portions of their schedule, and were therefore ranked highly in the RPI throughout the

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The term "mid-major" is sometimes used to describe all of the other 25 basketball-playing conferences not receiving automatic tie-ins to either the BCS or CFP. However, most of the time the term is specifically applied only to the non-CFP conferences that consistently produce quality NCAA Tournament

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team, an independent, was an exception due to being a member of the ACC in all other sports with the exception of men's hockey in which it is a member of the Big Ten.) It was rare for any mid-major program to receive one of two at-large bids (or only one, if Notre Dame qualified) to one of the four

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in the NCAA Tournament in favor of teams from BCS conferences with mediocre records, based partly on the fact that the mid-major teams often have a lower strength of schedule. Without the ability to play more "major" opponents, most mid-majors have to stake their Tournament hopes on winning their

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Mid-major teams often have a difficult time scheduling major conference 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

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This list is not static from year to year, as many fail to agree which conferences are truly the majors and which are the mid-majors and/or low-majors during any given season. (The Big West and Ohio Valley Conference were previously included on this list; they finished the 2011–2012 season as the

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Since 2002, CollegeSwimming.com has produced an objective ranking system for Mid-Major, Division I swimming programs. Initiated by Clark Campbell, the poll has been used to provide attention to teams that were often targeted for elimination ostensibly for Title IX or budgetary reasons. Swimming,

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opened two additional at-large berths and mandated invites for mid-major schools above a certain ranking, which led to an increase in mid-major appearances in the four major bowls. Then conference realignment brought about the split of the Big East football conference. Schools that did not join a

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In recent years, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has stressed the importance of a team's strength of schedule (SOS) in the nonconference portion of their schedule. Teams with a low-ranked nonconference SOS have often been penalized in their seeding and in some cases not selected for the

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currently defines men's basketball mid-majors as "programs outside the top 7 conferences (Power Five, Big East, AAC) and Gonzaga". Another ESPN journalist, Jeff Borzello, referred to Gonzaga in 2022 as a "power conference" program. ESPN is not the only major media outlet that does not consider

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So-called "mid-major" basketball programs generally belong to one of the following twenty-four conferences. Note that some of these conferences, including the Mountain West and the Atlantic 10, may be considered a "high-major" as opposed to a mid-major depending on whom one asks.

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football conference, but is universally considered a power conference in basketball, with the term "Power Six" sometimes used by media to describe the combination of the Power Five and Big East. The NCAA has officially recognized this distinction in the selection process for the

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have so far been the most successful of the Group of Five at placing their champions in major bowls, respectively doing so eight and five times. However, four of the MW's appearances were in the BCS era, when the conference now operating as The American was known as the

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and end the season as the only undefeated FBS team. The Knights were denied a CFP bid in favor of four teams which had all lost one game (two of which, Georgia and Alabama, had lost by double digits to the same Auburn team that UCF had defeated in the Peach Bowl).

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reached the Final Four, becoming the 3rd mid-major to make the Final Four in the modern (1985–present) era. On April 3, they beat Michigan State of the Big Ten Conference to become the second mid-major to reach the national championship game since 1998.

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men's basketball programs is less than $ 2 million and average total spending on all athletic programs is less than $ 20 million, notes that teams from major conferences win games against teams from mid-major conferences roughly 84 percent of the time.

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Conference USA the WAC And American Athletic Conference both once had many strong basketball programs, but since 1999 WAC men's basketball has dropped in prestige due to members leaving for the American Athletic Mountain West, Big 12, respectively.

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of the Ivy League qualified. Butler is no longer a mid-major due to its membership in the Big East since 2013. VCU has since joined the Atlantic 10, where it has consistently been among the top teams, even following the departure of coach

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that any 16 seed had ever defeated a 1 seed.) To expand opportunities for mid-majors to play postseason basketball, some unofficial postseason tournaments have arisen, including the aforementioned CollegeInsider.com tournament and the

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quickly because they will have to face the strongest teams in the tournament in their first game. (Only one play-in game participant has ever defeated a 1 seed, when Fairleigh Dickinson defeated Purdue in 2023; it was not until

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created a similar definition of "mid-major" when it introduced the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award in 2020. Currently, players from the Power Five conferences, plus the Big East, are ineligible for this award.

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Mid-major schools have compiled a record of 9–7 in the major bowl games since the 2004 football season. Since 2004, only the 2005 and 2011 seasons did not see a mid-major team in one of the major bowl games. The

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neither acknowledges nor uses the terms "major" or "mid-major" to differentiate between Division I athletic conferences. Some schools and fans consider it offensive and derogatory, while others embrace the term.

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BCS football playing conference. However, only one team from what is now a mid-major conference has won a national championship since the tournament expanded to 64 teams—UNLV in 1990 as a member of the

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The WAC reinstated football in 2021, but the conference competed in the second-tier Division I FCS through the 2022 season. In 2023, it merged its football league with that of another FCS league, the

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continues to include Gonzaga in its unofficial "Mid-Major Top 25" when warranted, it apparently no longer considers Gonzaga to be eligible for its "mid-major" awards. For example, in 2020–21,

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is another program that had to overcome the mid-major label prior to joining the Big East. On January 9, 2008, PG Drew Lavender was named the "Mid-Major Player of the Week" by

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had no representatives on the Lou Henson All-America Team, consisting of the 25 players on the final watchlist for the Henson Award. This was despite three Gonzaga players (

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bowl games mandates that the highest-ranked Group of Five conference champion be awarded a New Year's Six bowl berth. This has been most recently invoked for the

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created its own definition of "mid-major" when it introduced a pair of end-of-season awards for outstanding mid-major individuals in college basketball: the

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but Lavender refused to accept the award making the case that Xavier was no longer a mid-major. This act caused many prominent journalists to debate if the

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for coaches (first presented in 2005). Since the 2013–14 season, players and coaches from the following conferences have been ineligible for these awards:

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have each done so twice. Cincinnati, TCU, UCF, and Utah are now members of "Power Five conferences"—TCU is now in the Big 12, qualified for the

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of The American were selected after an unbeaten regular season. The Bearcats were defeated in the opening (semifinal) round 27–6 by the

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in a "good" year, or how much success a given conference has had in the NCAA tournament, or even conference revenue and attendance. The

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was left out of the tournament field in large part because its out-of-conference schedule was rated #316 out of 333 Division I teams.

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While Cincinnati reached two major bowl games in the BCS era, it was then a member of the Big East, which was a primary BCS partner.

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The difficulty most mid-majors have in scheduling major conference opponents has a large effect on their ability to qualify for the

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became the first team in history to win five games to reach the Final Four, winning the First Four round in its inaugural year.

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In unusual cases, teams may have reputations as mid-majors even if they participate in major conference. An example of this is

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for these larger-audience games. Some mid-major and major conference teams have made the use of non-campus arenas permanent.

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is a mid-major conference or not. This quandary no longer applies to Xavier, as it joined the reconstituted Big East in 2013.

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returned for their second consecutive appearance after winning the Southeast Regional in New Orleans as a #8 seed. The

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As a convenient shorthand, the term "high major" basketball conference is often synonymous with the college football

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was the first time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that two mid-majors met in the Final Four. The

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had a strong showing, advancing to the second round with wins over Vanderbilt and Ohio State respectively. In the

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have proven themselves capable of defeating nationally prominent opponents. However, the relative weakness of the

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advanced to their first Final Four appearance after winning the Southwest Regional in San Antonio as a #11 seed.

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The Big West's status as a "mid-major" in 1990 was debatable; it received three bids to that year's tournament.

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than in other sports. The six conferences of the BCS each had guaranteed appearances in one of the four major

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Some mid-major teams are now preferring to play "home" games in larger nearby arenas. Gonzaga uses the

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below the level of the CFP conferences in college basketball. One reason why is the 2012–2013

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while there; Utah, which joined the Pac-12 in 2011 and moves to the Big 12 in 2024, played in the

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semifinal. The 2018 season saw a controversy that also involved UCF, which went on to win the

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has done so three times, with all such games for both bowls taking place in the CFP era. The

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hurts Gonzaga's strength of schedule, which in turn lowers the Bulldogs'

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has never qualified a champion for a BCS or New Year's Six bowl.

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Members of these conferences were also generally ineligible for

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team faces a slightly different set of challenges. Since its

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that became the first Group of Five team to be selected to a

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Until the last decade, the Atlantic 10, Conference USA, the

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has made all of its appearances while in The American.

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