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- On June 8, 1978, the MEAC was classified as a Division I conference by the NCAA.
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On June 8, 1980, the MEAC earned the classification as a Division I conference by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since 1981, the MEAC has received a qualifying bid to NCAA post season play in the sport of basketball.
- Sonja O. Stills (since 2022)
- Division I
- 14, men's: 6, women's: 8
- Norfolk, Virginia
Sep 8, 2017 · On June 8, 1980, the MEAC was classified as a Division I conference by the NCAA; prior to that year, the conference had operated on the Division II level. The month after achieving Div. I status, the MEAC received automatic qualification to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.
Sep 28, 2008 · On June 8, 1980, the MEAC was classified as a Division I conference by the NCAA. Prior to that year, the conference operated as a Division II conference. The month after it achieved Division I status, the MEAC received an automatic qualification to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
May 10, 2021 · The rebuilding process for the MEAC will not happen overnight, considering that five schools have left the league since 2017. After moving from Division II to Division I to become a member of the MEAC in 1998, Savannah State left the conference in 2017 to move back down to the Division II level.
It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). 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 ...
Feb 20, 2019 · Florida A&M, the 1978 Division I-AA champions, announced in August 1979 that it would be leaving the SIAC for a Division conference. A member of the second-oldest HBCU football conference for 66 years, the move came down to money and visibility and a desire to be Division I-AA in all sports.
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