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The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to South Carolina and west to Missouri. Most or all members belong to at least one other athletic conference.
The ECAC was founded as the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics in 1938, largely through the efforts of James Lynah of Cornell University. In 1983, the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) was consolidated into the ECAC. Most member schools are in other conferences as well, but through the ECAC they are able to participate in sports that their main conferences do not offer. Its headquarters are located in Danbury, Connecticut. The ECAC also now offers esports competitions to its member schools.
Membership
= Division I
=As of fall 2023, there are 78 Division I members.
= Division II
=As of fall 2023, there are 7 Division II members.
= Division III
=As of spring 2018, there are 79 Division III members.
Affiliates
The ECAC has several affiliated single-sport leagues:
Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges
ECAC Equestrian
Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League
Intercollegiate Rowing Association
Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes in America
ECAC Lacrosse League (defunct)
ECAC Division II Lacrosse League (defunct)
ECAC Hockey (independent since 2004)
Sports
ECAC men's basketball tournaments
At various times, the ECAC has organized regional college basketball championship tournaments at the end of the regular season for teams playing at the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III levels. It held the Division I tournaments from 1975 to 1982 to provide independent colleges and universities in the northeastern United States with a means of participating in end-of-season tournaments that resulted in the winning team receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, similar to the end-of-season tournaments held by conventional athletic conferences. The Division I ECAC tournaments were discontinued after all participating schools joined conferences of their own during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The ECAC also held combined Division II/III regional end-of- season tournaments from 1973 to 1980 and a single Division II-only tournament after the regular season from 1988 to 2006 and in 2007, 2008, and 2014. Since 1981, it has organized regional Division III-only men's basketball tournaments annually at the end of each regular season.
ECAC Division III football bowls
In football, the ECAC organizes four NCAA Division III bowl games each year. The bowl games are as follow:
ECAC Asa S. Bushnell Bowl
ECAC Clayton Chapman Bowl
ECAC James Lynah Bowl
ECAC Scotty Whitelaw Bowl
Awards
See footnotes
Div. I FBS Football Major Awards
Div. I FCS Football Major Awards
Div II Football Major Awards
Div. III Football Major Awards
Robbins Scholar-Athletes
Award of Merit (for student-athletes)
Award of Valor (for student-athletes)
ECAC Rowing Trophy
See also
ECAC Hockey, a Division I ice hockey conference previously affiliated with the ECAC
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, a similar Division I conference in the western U.S.
References
External links
Official website
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