List of college athletic programs in Massachusetts
This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
Notes:
- This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
- Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
- Full name of school.
- Location of school.
- Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
- Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
- Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use "Charleston" for that school's athletic program).
- Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
- The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.
NCAA[]
Division I[]
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||||
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Foot- ball |
Basketball | Base- ball |
Soft- ball |
Ice hockey | Soccer | |||||||
M | W | M | W | M | W | |||||||
Boston College Eagles | Boston College | Chestnut Hill | ACC | FBS | [a] | [a] | ||||||
Boston University Terriers | Boston University | Boston | Patriot | [a] | [a] | |||||||
Harvard Crimson | Harvard University | Cambridge | Ivy League | FCS | [b] | [b] | ||||||
Holy Cross Crusaders | College of the Holy Cross | Worcester | Patriot | FCS | [c] | [a] | ||||||
UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen [d] | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst | Atlantic 10 | FBS [e] | [a] | |||||||
Merrimack Warriors [f] | Merrimack College | North Andover | Northeast | FCS | [a] | [a] | ||||||
Northeastern Huskies | Northeastern University | Boston | Colonial | [a] | [a] | |||||||
UMass Lowell River Hawks | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Lowell | America East | [a] |
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k The men's and women's ice hockey teams of Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts, Merrimack, and Northeastern all compete in Hockey East, as do the UMass Lowell men's and Holy Cross women's teams.
- ^ a b Harvard's ice hockey teams compete in ECAC Hockey.
- ^ Holy Cross's men's ice hockey team competes in Atlantic Hockey.
- ^ While national media generally use "Massachusetts", the shortened "UMass" is in wide usage, especially in Massachusetts itself.
- ^ Massachusetts's football team competes as an independent.
- ^ As of the 2021–22 academic year, Merrimack is in the third year of a four-year transition to Division I and will become an active Division I member in 2023–24.
Division II[]
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||||
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Foot- ball |
Basketball | Base- ball |
Soft- ball |
Ice hockey | Soccer | |||||||
M | W | M | W | M | W | |||||||
American International Yellow Jackets | American International College | Springfield | Northeast-10 | [a] | ||||||||
Assumption Greyhounds | Assumption University | Worcester | Northeast-10 | |||||||||
Bentley Falcons | Bentley University | Waltham | Northeast-10 | [a] | ||||||||
Stonehill Skyhawks | Stonehill College | Easton | Northeast-10 | [b] |
- ^ a b American International and Bentley's men's ice hockey teams compete in Division I as members of Atlantic Hockey.
- ^ Stonehill's women's ice hockey team will begin play in 2022–23 and will compete in Division I as a member of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance.
Division III[]
- ^ a b Anna Maria and Dean's football teams compete in the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference.
- ^ a b Anna Maria's ice hockey teams compete as independents.
- ^ a b c d e f The men's ice hockey teams of Babson, Suffolk, and UMass Boston compete in the New England Hockey Conference, as do the women's ice hockey teams of Salem State, Suffolk, and UMass Boston.
- ^ a b Endicott and Nichols's women's ice hockey teams compete in the Colonial Hockey Conference.
- ^ a b UMass Dartmouth's football and men's ice hockey teams compete in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference.
- ^ Worcester State's women's ice hockey team competes as an independent.
NAIA[]
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | |||||
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Basketball | Base- ball |
Soft- ball |
Soccer | ||||||
M | W | M | W | ||||||
Fisher Falcons | Fisher College | Boston, North Attleboro | Independent |
USCAA[]
Team | School | City | Conference |
---|---|---|---|
Bay Path Wildcats | Bay Path University | Longmeadow | |
Hampshire Black Sheep | Hampshire College | Amherst | Yankee Small College Conference |
NJCAA[]
Team | School | City | Conference |
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Bristol Bees | Bristol Community College | Fall River | Massachusetts CC |
Bunker Hill Bulldogs | Bunker Hill Community College | Boston | Massachusetts CC |
Holyoke Cougars | Holyoke Community College | Holyoke | Massachusetts CC |
Mass Bay Buccaneers | Massachusetts Bay Community College | Wellesley Hills | Massachusetts CC |
Massasoit Warriors | Massasoit Community College | Brockton | Massachusetts CC |
Northern Essex Knights | Northern Essex Community College | Haverhill | Massachusetts CC |
Quinsigamond Wyverns | Quinsigamond Community College | Worcester | Massachusetts CC |
Roxbury Tigers | Roxbury Community College | Roxbury Crossing | Massachusetts CC |
Springfield Tech Rams | Springfield Technical Community College | Springfield | Massachusetts CC |
Other/None[]
Team | School | City | Conference |
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Stockbridge School of Agriculture | Stockbridge School of Agriculture | Amherst |
1The Stockbridge School of Agriculture, a division of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has separate athletic programs from UMass in basketball and golf.
See also[]
Categories:
- Lists of college athletic programs by U.S. state
- Massachusetts education-related lists
- College sports in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts sports-related lists