Big South Conference
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Association | NCAA |
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Commissioner | Kyle Kallander (since 1996) |
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Division | Division I |
Subdivision | FCS |
Region | South Atlantic States |
Official website | www |
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The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002. Its football teams are part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Big South, founded in 1983, is firmly rooted in the South Atlantic region of the United States, with full member institutions located in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia with affiliates in Georgia and New Jersey.[1]
History
Charter members included Armstrong State (later Armstrong Atlantic State University and now merged into Georgia Southern University) (1983–1987), Augusta (later Augusta State University and now merged into Augusta University) (1983–1990), Campbell University (1983–1994; 2011–present), Baptist College (now Charleston Southern University) (1983–present), Coastal Carolina University (1983–2016), Radford University (1983–present) and Winthrop University (1983–present).
The expansion of membership occurred during the 1980s and '90s. Some of those members are the University of North Carolina at Asheville (1984–present), Davidson College (1990–1992), Liberty University (1991–2018), the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (1992–1998), the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1992–1997), Towson University (1992–1995), Elon University (1999–2003), High Point University (1999–present) and Birmingham–Southern College (2000–2006).
The Big South Conference began sponsoring football in 2002, with Charleston Southern, Elon (at the time) and Liberty (Gardner–Webb University also joined as a football-only member) fielding teams; Coastal Carolina and Virginia Military Institute (VMI) joined the conference as football-only members in 2003. In that same athletic year, VMI also joined the conference for all sports, but left to re-join the Southern Conference in 2014. Presbyterian College joined the conference in 2007, moving up from Division II, and became eligible for regular-season championships and conference honors during the 2008–09 athletic year.[2] Gardner–Webb, which had been a football-only member since 2002, joined the conference for all sports on July 1, 2008.[2] Campbell rejoined the Big South for all sports except football in the 2011–12 athletic year. Longwood University accepted an invitation to join the Big South on January 23, 2012, and membership formally began July 1 of that year; Longwood had been independent since 2004, during their transition to Division I.[3] In 2014, following the departure of VMI, the conference returned to a single-division structure.[4] On September 1, 2015, Coastal Carolina announced they would leave the conference following the 2015–16 school year to transition to FBS-level football and the Sun Belt Conference.[5] On June 30, 2016, the day before the school joined the Sun Belt, Coastal Carolina won the 2016 College World Series in baseball. This was the first time in conference history that a team won an NCAA championship in any sport.
In September 2016, the Big South and the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) announced a football partnership that effectively combined the two conferences in that sport. Under its terms, any members of either conference that add or upgrade to scholarship football, provided they fall within the current geographic footprint of the two leagues, automatically join Big South football. At the time of announcement, the only ASUN member that played scholarship football, Kennesaw State, was already a Big South football member. The partnership also provides a guaranteed football home to the leagues' non-scholarship football programs (at that time, Campbell from the Big South, and Jacksonville and Stetson from the ASUN) should they upgrade to scholarship status.[6]
In November 2016, Campbell announced that it would begin offering scholarships and move its football program from the Pioneer Football League to the Big South in 2018.[7]
In December 2016, the University of North Alabama, ASUN, and the Big South Conference announced that, effective in 2018, the school will leave the Division II Gulf South Conference and will join ASUN in non-football sports and the Big South in football. UNA has won three Division II NCAA national championships in football and has won at least a share of the Gulf South Conference football championship for four consecutive seasons through 2016.
Three months later, Liberty announced that it would begin a transition to FBS football in July 2017 and leave the Big South football league in 2018.[8] Liberty and the Big South agreed later in 2017 that the school would continue to house all of its non-football sports (except for field hockey and women's swimming, neither of which is sponsored by the Big South) in that conference for the immediate future. Once Liberty became a full FBS member at the start of the 2019–20 school year, it would have technically become a Big South associate member (barring the school joining an FBS conference).[9] However, Liberty's plans would change several months later, as it instead announced in May 2018 that it would move its non-football sports to the ASUN effective that July (except for the aforementioned field hockey and women's swimming, also not sponsored by the ASUN).[10]
In November 2017, the University of South Carolina Upstate and Hampton University announced that they would be leaving the ASUN and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, respectively, to join the Big South, starting in the fall of 2018.[11][12]
On November 19, 2017, Presbyterian College announced that it would be moving its football program to the non-scholarship Pioneer Football League.[13] Presbyterian's last Big South football season will be 2019; the Blue Hose plan to play the 2020 season as an independent before joining the Pioneer League for 2021 and beyond.[14] The Blue Hose will remain a member of the Big South in all other sports.[15]
Member schools
Current full members
- Notes
- ^ Campbell was a founding member of the Big South Conference in 1983. The Fighting Camels left in 1994 and rejoined in 2011 for all sports, except for their football program, which remained in the Pioneer Football League until joining Big South football in 2018.
Current associate members
Institution | Location | Founded | Joined | Type | Enrollment | Primary Conference | Nickname | Big South Sport(s) | Colors |
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Kennesaw State University | Kennesaw, Georgia | 1963 | 2015[16] | Public | 35,507 | ASUN | Owls | Football | |
Monmouth University | West Long Branch, New Jersey | 1933 | 2014 | Private | 7,440 | Metro Atlantic (MAAC) | Hawks | Football |
Future associate member
Institution | Location | Founded | Joining | Type | Enrollment | Primary Conference | Nickname | Big South Sport(s) | Colors |
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University of North Alabama | Florence, Alabama | 1830 | 2019 | Public | 7,244 | ASUN | Lions | Football |
Divisional realignment, 2012–2014
With the additions of Campbell and Longwood to the Big South in 2011 and 2012, Big South commissioner Kyle Kallander stated the conference will break up into two divisions of six teams each beginning in 2012–2013.[17] He also said the Big South Basketball Tournaments will be held at a single, neutral location. The divisional setup was as follows:
North Division
South Division
In men's and women's basketball, teams played the five other divisional opponents twice, one home and one away (ten games). They played teams outside the division once each (six games). This cut the number of conference games to 16, as opposed to 18 both before and after the realignment.
Following the departure of VMI for the Southern Conference in 2014, the conference returned to a single-division structure, and the basketball conference schedule returned to 18 games.[4]
Former members
Former associate members
Institution | Location | Founded | Joined | Left | Type | Enrollment | Nickname | Sport | Primary Conference |
Current Conference (former BSC Sport) |
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Davidson College | Davidson, North Carolina | 1837 | 2012 | 2014 | Private | 1,756 | Wildcats | Women's lacrosse | Atlantic 10 | |
Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, New York | 1957 | 2008 | 2013 | Public | 24,607 | Seawolves | Football | America East | CAA |
University of North Carolina at Wilmington | Wilmington, North Carolina | 1947 | 2000 | 2004 | Public | 14,918 | Seahawks | Women's golf | CAA |
- ^ Armstrong State, which was last a member of the NCAA Division II Peach Belt Conference, dropped intercollegiate athletics at the end of the 2016–17 school year due to its impending consolidation with Georgia Southern University.
- ^ Formerly known as Augusta State University until January 2013, when it merged with another Augusta institution (Georgia Health Sciences University) to create Georgia Regents University. At the time of the merger, only GRU (as Augusta State) had an athletic program, and GRU's sports teams continued to compete as "Augusta State" through the end of the 2012–13 school year. The school changed its name again to the current Augusta University in 2015.
- ^ Liberty was ineligible for the Big South football title in its final conference season of 2017 (2017–18 school year), as it had started a transition to FBS football in that season.
Membership timeline
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- Augusta State was merged into Georgia Regents University in January 2013; the merged school renamed itself Augusta University in 2015.
Sports
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The Big South sponsors championship competition in nine men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Davidson has competed as an associate member in women's lacrosse, but left in 2014 when the school joined the lacrosse-sponsoring Atlantic 10 Conference. Stony Brook has competed as an associate in football, but left in 2013 for membership in the Colonial Athletic Association.[18][19] Two schools, Monmouth and Kennesaw State, are currently associates in football, respectively joining in 2014 and 2015.
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Men's sponsored sports by school
School | Baseball | Basketball | Cross Country | Football | Golf | Soccer | Tennis | Track & Field (Indoor) |
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- Notes
- ^ Due to scheduling issues, Hampton's football team will be unable to join the Big South until 2019.
- ^ Presbyterian football will leave the Big South in 2020, spend that season as an FCS independent, and join the Pioneer Football League in 2021.
- ^ North Alabama football will join the Big South in 2019.
Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Big South Conference which are played by Big South schools:
School | Lacrosse | Sailing[a] | Swimming | Wrestling |
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Campbell | No | No | No | Southern |
Gardner–Webb | No | No | CCSA | Southern |
Hampton | Independent | MAISA | No | No |
High Point | Southern | No | No | No |
Presbyterian | No | No | No | Independent[b] |
- Notes
- ^ Sailing is a coeducational sport governed by the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association instead of the NCAA.
- ^ Presbyterian launched a men's wrestling program in 2018–19, initially with a partial varsity schedule as an independent before becoming a single-sport Southern Conference member in 2019–20.
Women's sponsored sports by school
School | Basketball | Cross Country | Golf | Lacrosse | Soccer | Softball | Tennis | Track & Field (Indoor) |
Track & Field (Outdoor) |
Volleyball | Total Big South Sports |
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Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Big South Conference which are played by Big South schools:
School | Field Hockey | Sailing[a] | Swimming | Wrestling[b] |
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Campbell | No | No | CCSA | No |
Gardner–Webb | No | No | CCSA | No |
Hampton | No | MAISA | No | No |
Longwood | MAC | No | No | No |
Presbyterian | No | No | No | Independent[c] |
UNC Asheville | No | No | CCSA | No |
- Notes
- ^ Sailing is a coeducational sport governed by the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association instead of the NCAA.
- ^ Women's wrestling is governed by the Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association instead of the NCAA.
- ^ Presbyterian launched a women's wrestling program in 2018–19, becoming the first NCAA Division I member to sponsor wrestling as a varsity women's sport. It initially competes as an independent within the WCWA structure.
Football – players drafted to the NFL
The Big South has had a number of players to get drafted and play football professionally in the NFL.
Name | Position | School | Draft year | Draft pick | NFL team |
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Tyler Thigpen | QB | Coastal Carolina | 2007 | Round 7, Pick 217 | Vikings |
Jerome Simpson | WR | Coastal Carolina | 2008 | Round 2, Pick 46 | Bengals |
Brian Johnston | DE | Gardner–Webb | 2008 | Round 7, Pick 210 | Chiefs |
Rashad Jennings | RB | Liberty | 2009 | Round 7, Pick 250 | Jaguars |
Josh Norman | CB | Coastal Carolina | 2012 | Round 5, Pick 143 | Panthers |
Justin Bethel | S | Presbyterian | 2012 | Round 6, Pick 177 | Cardinals |
Walt Aikens | CB | Liberty | 2014 | Round 4, Pick 125 | Dolphins |
NFL Draftees from the Big South Conference |
Conference champions
Men's basketball
Season | Regular season champion | Tournament champion | Tournament final location |
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1986 | Charleston Southern (5–1) | Charleston Southern | Savannah Civic Center, Savannah, GA |
1987 | Charleston Southern (12–2) | Charleston Southern | Savannah Civic Center |
1988 | Coastal Carolina (9–3) | Winthrop | Winthrop Coliseum, Rock Hill, SC |
1989 | Coastal Carolina (9–3) | UNC Asheville | Winthrop Coliseum |
1990 | Coastal Carolina (11–1) | Coastal Carolina | Winthrop Coliseum |
1991 | Coastal Carolina (13–1) | Coastal Carolina | Civic Center of Anderson, Anderson, SC |
1992 | Radford (12–2) | Campbell | Civic Center of Anderson |
1993 | Towson State (14–2) | Coastal Carolina | North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, SC |
1994 | Towson State (15–3) | Liberty | North Charleston Coliseum |
1995 | UNC Greensboro (14–2) | Charleston Southern | Vines Center, Lynchburg, VA |
1996 | UNC Greensboro (11–3) | UNC Greensboro | Vines Center |
1997 | UNC Asheville (11–3) | Charleston Southern | Vines Center |
1998 | UNC Asheville (11–1) | Radford | Vines Center |
1999 | Winthrop (9–1) | Winthrop | Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC |
2000 | Radford (12–2) | Winthrop | Asheville Civic Center |
2001 | Radford (12–2) | Winthrop | Roanoke Civic Center, Roanoke, VA |
2002 | Winthrop, UNC Asheville (10–4) | Winthrop | Roanoke Civic Center |
2003 | Winthrop (11–3) | UNC Asheville | Vines Center (semis & finals only) |
2004 | Liberty (12–4) | Liberty | Vines Center (finals only) |
2005 | Winthrop (15–1) | Winthrop | Winthrop Coliseum (finals only) |
2006 | Winthrop (13–3) | Winthrop | Winthrop Coliseum (semis & finals only) |
2007 | Winthrop (14–0) | Winthrop | Winthrop Coliseum (semis & finals only) |
2008 | UNC Asheville, Winthrop (10–4) | Winthrop | Justice Center, Asheville, NC (semis & finals only) |
2009 | Radford (15–3) | Radford | Dedmon Center, Radford, VA (finals only) |
2010 | Coastal Carolina (15–3) | Winthrop | Kimbel Arena, Conway, SC (semis & finals only) |
2011 | Coastal Carolina (16–2) | UNC Asheville | Kimbel Arena (semis & finals only) |
2012 | UNC Asheville (16–2) | UNC Asheville | Kimmel Arena, Asheville, NC (quarters, semis & final) |
2013 | Charleston Southern, High Point (12–4) | Liberty | HTC Center, Conway, SC |
2014 | High Point (12–4) | Coastal Carolina | HTC Center, Conway, SC |
2015 | Charleston Southern, High Point (13–5) | Coastal Carolina | HTC Center, Conway, SC |
2016 | High Point, Winthrop (13–5) | UNC Asheville | Gore Arena, Buies Creek, NC |
2017 | Winthrop, UNC Asheville (15–3) | Winthrop | Winthrop Coliseum, Rock Hill, SC (quarters, semis, & finals) |
2018 | UNC Asheville (13–5) | Radford | Dedmon Center, Radford, VA |
Basketball Tournament Championships by school
School | # of Tournament Championships | Last Tournament Championship |
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Winthrop | 11 | 2017 |
Coastal Carolina† | 5 | 2015 |
UNC Asheville | 5 | 2016 |
Charleston Southern | 4 | 1997 |
Liberty | 3 | 2013 |
Radford | 3 | 2018 |
Campbell | 1 | 1992 |
UNC Greensboro† | 1 | 1996 |
- †Former member of the Big South
Football
Season | Champion | Record |
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2002 | Gardner–Webb | 3–0 |
2003 | Gardner–Webb | 4–0 |
2004 | Coastal Carolina | 4–0 (10–1) |
2005 | Charleston Southern | 3–1 (7–4) |
Coastal Carolina | 3–1 (9–2) | |
2006 | Coastal Carolina | 4–0 (9–3) |
2007 | Liberty | 4–0 (8–3) |
2008 | Liberty | 5–0 (10–2) |
2009 | Stony Brook | 5–1 (6–5) |
Liberty | 5–1 (8–3) | |
2010 | Coastal Carolina* | 5–1 (6–5)
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Stony Brook | 5–1 (6–5) | |
Liberty | 5–1 (8–3) | |
2011 | Stony Brook | 6–0 (8–3) |
2012 | Coastal Carolina* | 5–1 (7–4)
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Stony Brook | 5–1 (9–2) | |
Liberty | 5–1 (6–5) | |
2013 | Coastal Carolina | 4–1 (10–2) |
Liberty | 4–1 (8–4) | |
2014 | Liberty* | 4–1 (8–4)
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Coastal Carolina | 4–1 (11–1) | |
2015 | Charleston Southern | 6–0 (9–2) |
2016 | Charleston Southern* | 4–1 (7–4)
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Liberty | 4–1 (6–5) | |
2017 | Kennesaw State | 5–0 (12–2) |
Women's basketball
Season | Regular Season Champion | Tournament Champion | Tournament Runner-up |
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1986–87 | Radford | Radford | Campbell |
1987–88 | Radford & Campbell | Radford | Campbell |
1988–89 | Radford | Campbell | Radford |
1989–90 | Radford | Radford | Campbell |
1990–91 | Campbell | Radford | Campbell |
1991–92 | Radford | Radford | Campbell |
1992–93 | UNC Greensboro | Radford | UNC Greensboro |
1993–94 | UNC Greensboro | Radford | UNC Greensboro |
1994–95 | UNC Greensboro | Radford | UNC Greensboro |
1995–96 | UNC Greensboro | Radford | Winthrop |
1996–97 | UNC Greensboro | Liberty | UNC Greensboro |
1997–98 | Liberty | Liberty | UNC Asheville |
1998–99 | Liberty | Liberty | Coastal Carolina |
1999-00 | Liberty | Liberty | Coastal Carolina |
2000–01 | Liberty | Liberty | Elon |
2001–02 | Liberty | Liberty | Coastal Carolina |
2002–03 | Liberty | Liberty | High Point |
2003–04 | Liberty | Liberty | Birmingham-Southern |
2004–05 | Liberty | Liberty | UNC Asheville |
2005–06 | Liberty | Liberty | High Point |
2006–07 | High Point | UNC Asheville | Radford |
2007–08 | Liberty | Liberty | Radford |
2008–09 | Liberty | Liberty | Gardner-Webb |
2009–10 | Gardner-Webb | Liberty | Gardner-Webb |
2010–11 | Liberty | Gardner-Webb | Liberty |
2011–12 | Liberty | Liberty | High Point |
2012–13 | Liberty | Liberty | Longwood |
2013–14 | High Point | Winthrop | High Point |
2014–15 | Liberty | Liberty | High Point |
2015–16 | UNC Asheville | UNC Asheville | Liberty |
2016–17 | Radford | UNC Asheville | Radford |
2017–18 | Liberty | Liberty | UNC Asheville |
Men's Soccer
Broadcasters (Big South Network)
In addition to basketball games being broadcast on regional and national television, member schools of the Big South Conference are required to provide a live stream of all home games for all sports when playing teams both within and outside the conference. These streams are run by the university hosting the event. All streams are featured on the conference website and are available for free. The football games broadcast on the web are branded as part of a Big South Network.
National Champions
School | Sport | Coach | Year | Opponent | Opponent's Conference |
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Coastal Carolina | Baseball | Gary Gilmore | 2016 | Arizona | Pac-12 |
Facilities
Future members/teams in gray; departing members/teams in red.
- Notes
- Charleston Southern uses the CSU Field House for all conference basketball games. Home games against local rivals or major-conference teams are played at the North Charleston Coliseum when available.
References
- ^ Big South Conference (2007-08-01). "Big South Conference History". Big South Sports.
- ^ a b Big South Conference (2008-07-01). "Gardner–Webb Officially Joins Big South". Big South Sports.
- ^ Big South Conference (2012-01-23). "Big South Conference Adds Longwood University As Full Member". Big South Sports.
- ^ a b Stretlow, Bret (28 October 2014). "Title race in balanced Big South again tough to predict". The Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ "Statement from Big South Commissioner Kyle B. Kallander on Coastal Carolina" (Press release). Big South Conference. September 1, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
- ^ "Big South and ASUN Conference Establish FCS Membership Partnership" (Press release). ASUN Conference. September 13, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
- ^ "Fighting Camels football to join Big South in 2018" (Press release). Campbell University. November 14, 2016. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
- ^ "NCAA Approves Liberty's Waiver Request for FBS Reclassification Process" (Press release). Liberty University Athletics. February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
- ^ "Big South Conference Announces Decision on Liberty's Membership Status" (Press release). Liberty University Athletics. September 22, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ "ASUN Conference Announces Liberty University as League Member for 2018-19" (Press release). ASUN Conference. May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
- ^ Shanesy, Todd (November 15, 2017). "USC Upstate moving to Big South Conference". GoUpstate.com. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ^ Johnson, Dave (November 16, 2017). "Hampton to leave MEAC for Big South". Daily Press. Newport News, VA. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "Presbyterian to join Pioneer Football League in 2021". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^ "Presbyterian College to join Pioneer Football League in 2021" (Press release). Pioneer Football League. November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- ^ "Presbyterian to join Pioneer Football League in 2021". FOX Sports. 2017-11-20. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^ "Kennesaw State Football Joins Big South Conference as Associate Member" (Press release). Kennesaw State Athletics. September 4, 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ^ Big South Conference Adds Longwood; Goes to Divisional Play for 2012–13 Season
- ^ http://www.bigsouthsports.com/HomePage.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4800
- ^ http://www.bigsouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4800&ATCLID=205672104