Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC)
Established	1970
Association	NCAA
Division	Division I FCS
Members	13
Sports fielded	16 (men's: 8; women's: 8)
Region	South Atlantic, Middle Atlantic
Headquarters	Norfolk, Virginia
Commissioner	Dennis E. Thomas (since 2002)
Website	www.meacsports.com
Locations

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 United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).

Currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in baseball (since 1994), men’s basketball (since 1981), women’s basketball (since 1982), football (since 1996), softball (since 1995), men and women’s tennis (since 1998), and volleyball (since 1994). Bowling was officially sanctioned as a MEAC governed sport in 1999. Before that season, the MEAC was the first conference to secure NCAA sanctioning for women’s bowling by adopting the club sport prior to the 1996-97 school year.

History

In 1969, a group, whose members were long associated with interscholastic athletics, met in Durham, North Carolina with the purpose of discussing the organization of a new conference. After the formulation of a committee, and their research reported, seven institutions: Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State College agreed to become the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.^[1] The conference's main goals were to establish and supervise an intercollegiate athletic program among a group of educational institutions that shared the same academic standards and philosophy of co-curricular activities and seek status as a Division I conference for all of its sports.

The conference was confirmed in 1970, and had its first season of competition in football in 1971. The MEAC has had to date, three full-time commissioners.^[1] In 1978, the MEAC selected its first full-time commissioner, Kenneth A. Free, who served as Commissioner until he resigned in 1995. He was succeeded by Charles S. Harris, who served at the position until 2002. On September 1, 2002, Dennis E. Thomas became the conference’s commissioner.

The MEAC experienced its first expansion in 1979 when Bethune–Cookman College (Now Bethune–Cookman University) and Florida A&M University were admitted as new members. That same year, founding members Morgan State University, North Carolina Central University and University of Maryland Eastern Shore withdrew from the conference. All three schools eventually returned to the conference; Maryland Eastern Shore rejoined in 1981, Morgan State in 1984, and North Carolina Central in 2010.

On June 8, 1980, the MEAC was classified as a Division I conference by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Prior to that year, the league operated as a Division II conference. The following month the MEAC received an automatic qualification to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

In 1984, membership in the MEAC again changed as Florida A&M chose to leave. The university would return to the conference two years later. Coppin State College, now Coppin State University, joined the conference in 1985. The MEAC would find stability in membership with the addition of two HBCUs in Virginia, Hampton University and Norfolk State University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. For the next 10 years, the MEAC would remain an 11-member conference. In 2007, former CIAA member Winston-Salem State University was granted membership, but announced on September 11, 2009 that it would return to Division II at the end of 2009-2010 and apply to return to the CIAA before ever becoming a full member of the MEAC.^[2]

North Carolina Central University rejoined the conference effective July 1, 2010.^[3][4] NCCU was one of seven founding member institutions of the MEAC, but withdrew from the conference in 1979, opting to remain a Division II member when the conference reclassified to Division I.^[3]

Savannah State University was announced as the newest member of the MEAC on March 10, 2010.^[4] Savannah State originally applied for membership into the MEAC in 2006 but faced an NCAA probationary period soon after. Membership was then deferred until the completion of the imposed probation period, which ended in May 2009. Savannah State then resubmitted their application for membership again in 2009 and was finally granted probationary membership status.^[4] On September 8, 2011, the university was confirmed as a full MEAC member.^[5]

While the MEAC has had no new full members since then, the conference added an associate member in 2014 when Augusta University, then known as Georgia Regents University, a Division II institution with Division I programs in men's and women's golf, joined for men's golf.^[6] Augusta became the MEAC's first associate member and first non-HBCU with any type of membership.

Member schools

Current members

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Colors
North Division
Coppin State University	Baltimore, Maryland	1900	1985	Public	3,400[7]	Eagles
Delaware State University	Dover, Delaware	1891	1970	Public	3,400[8]	Hornets
Hampton University	Hampton, Virginia	1868	1995	Private	4,500[9]	Pirates/Lady Pirates
Howard University	Washington, D.C.	1867	1970	Private	10,000[10]	Bison/Lady Bison
University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Princess Anne, Maryland	1886	1970, 1981[Notes 1]	Public	3,400[11]	Hawks
Morgan State University	Baltimore, Maryland	1867	1970, 1984[Notes 2]	Public	4,500[12]	Bears
Norfolk State University	Norfolk, Virginia	1935	1997	Public	4,500[13]	Spartans
South Division
Bethune-Cookman University	Daytona Beach, Florida	1904	1979	Private	3,400[14]	Wildcats
Florida A&M University	Tallahassee, Florida	1887	1979, 1986[Notes 3]	Public	10,000[15]	Rattlers/Lady Rattlers
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University	Greensboro, North Carolina	1891	1970	Public	10,000[16]	Aggies
North Carolina Central University	Durham, North Carolina	1910	1970, 2010[17][Notes 4]	Public	10,000[18]	Eagles
Savannah State University	Savannah, Georgia	1890	2010[19]	Public	3,400[20]	Tigers/Lady Tigers
South Carolina State University	Orangeburg, South Carolina	1896	1970	Public	4,500[21]	Bulldogs/Lady Bulldogs

Former members

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	New Conference	Current Conference
Winston-Salem State University	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	1892	2007	2010	Public	6,000	Rams	CIAA (NCAA Division II)

• Winston-Salem State University was a transitional member and never attained full membership in the MEAC or NCAA Division I before returning to Division II and the CIAA after the 2009-2010 school year. They were scheduled to begin full membership and gain access to NCAA tournaments in 2011.^[22][23]

Membership timeline

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Full members Full members (non-football) Associate members Other Conference Other Conference

• Maryland Eastern Shore was a founding member of the MEAC in 1970 and left after the 1978-1979 school year. In 1980, UMES dropped football, and returned to the MEAC the next year as a full member that no longer had a football program.^[24]
• Florida A&M left the MEAC completely for one season in 1985 and competed as an NCAA D-I Independent after a disagreement with the MEAC office over the playing of the rivalry game between Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman University when FAMU refused to play conference mate BCU at a neutral site in Tampa in 1983 and the game was not played again in 1984. Florida A&M returned all sports to the MEAC in the 1986 season. FAMU football left the conference in the 2004 season during an attempt to move up to Division I-A (now FBS) with all other sports remaining in the MEAC. Financial difficulties halted the move after the 2004 season, at which time FAMU football returned to the MEAC.^[25]
• Winston-Salem State was a transitional member from 2007-2010, but never attained full MEAC membership nor full membership in Division I. The school was scheduled to gain full membership after the 2009-2010 school year, but due to financial difficulties, returned to the CIAA in Division II before then.

Facilities

School	Football stadium	Capacity	Basketball arena	Capacity	Baseball stadium	Capacity
Bethune Cookman	Municipal Stadium	10,000	Moore Gymnasium	3,000	Jackie Robinson Ballpark	4,200
Coppin State	Non-football school[Notes 5]		Physical Education Complex	4,100	Joe Cannon Stadium	1,500
Delaware State	Alumni Stadium	7,000	Memorial Hall	3,000	Soldier Field	N/A
Florida A&M	Bragg Memorial Stadium	25,500	Alfred Lawson, Jr. Multipurpose Center Teaching Gym	9,639	Moore–Kittles Field	500
Hampton	Armstrong Stadium	17,000	Hampton Convocation Center	7,200	Non-baseball school
Howard	William H. Greene Stadium	10,000	Burr Gymnasium	2,700	Non-baseball school
Maryland Eastern Shore	Non-football school[Notes 6][26]		Hytche Athletic Center	5,500	Hawks Stadium	1,000
Morgan State	Hughes Stadium	10,000	Talmadge L. Hill Field House	4,250	Non-baseball school
Norfolk State	William "Dick" Price Stadium	30,000	Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall	7,000	Marty L. Miller Field	1,500
North Carolina A&T	Aggie Stadium	22,000	Corbett Sports Center	5,700	War Memorial Stadium	7,500
North Carolina Central	O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium	10,000	McLendon–McDougald Gymnasium	3,056	Durham Athletic Park	5,000
Savannah State	Ted Wright Stadium	8,000	Tiger Arena	6,000	Tiger Field	5,000
South Carolina State	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium	22,000	SHM Memorial Center	3,200	Non-baseball school

Sports

The MEAC sponsors championship competition in seven men's and eight women's NCAA sanctioned sports:^[27]

Teams in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference competition

Sport	Men's	Women's
Baseball	9	-
Basketball	13	13
Bowling	-	11
Cross Country	13	13
Football	11	-
Golf	6	-
Softball	-	13
Tennis	10	13
Track and Field (Indoor)	13	13
Track and Field (Outdoor)	13	13
Volleyball	-	13

Championships

NCAA champions

School	NCAA titles	Years
Howard	1	1971 [Notes 7] • 1974
FAMU	1	1978 [28]
North Carolina A&T	1	2015 [29]
Maryland-Eastern Shore	3	2008 • 2011 • 2012 [30]

Current champions

Sport School Baseball TBD Basketball (W) North Carolina A&T Basketball (M) Hampton Bowling Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES) North Carolina A&T Cross Country (W) Florida A&M (FAMU) Cross Country (M) Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES)

Sport School Football Bethune-Cookman North Carolina A&T North Carolina Central Golf TBD Indoor Track & Field (W) Hampton Indoor Track & Field (M) Bethune-Cookman Outdoor Track & Field (W) TBD Outdoor Track & Field (M) TBD

Sport School Softball TBD Tennis (W) TBD Tennis (M) TBD Volleyball Howard

Football

The MEAC is one of two Division I conferences comprising HBCUs, the other being the SWAC. Until 2015, the MEAC sent its champion and occasional at-large schools to the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. Starting in 2015, the MEAC will give up its automatic postseason bid and will play an annual championship game against the SWAC champion in the Celebration Bowl in the Georgia Dome.

Season	Champion(s)
1971	Morgan State
1972	North Carolina Central
1973	North Carolina Central
1974	South Carolina State
1975	South Carolina State
1976	South Carolina State
1977	South Carolina State
1978	South Carolina State
1979	Morgan State
1980	South Carolina State
1981	South Carolina State
1982	South Carolina State
1983	South Carolina State
1984	Bethune-Cookman
1985	Delaware State
1986	North Carolina A&T
1987	Delaware State
1988	Bethune-Cookman Delaware State Florida A&M
1989	Delaware State
1990	Florida A&M
1991	Delaware State North Carolina A&T
1992	North Carolina A&T
1993	Howard
1994	South Carolina State
1995	Florida A&M
1996	Florida A&M
1997	Hampton
1998	Florida A&M Hampton
1999	North Carolina A&T
2000	Florida A&M
2001	Florida A&M
2002	Bethune-Cookman
2003	North Carolina A&T
2004	Hampton South Carolina State
2005	Hampton
2006	Hampton
2007	Delaware State
2008	South Carolina State
2009	South Carolina State
2010	Bethune-Cookman[Notes 8] South Carolina State Florida A&M
2011	Norfolk State
2012	Bethune-Cookman
2013	Bethune-Cookman South Carolina State
2014	Bethune-Cookman Morgan State[Notes 9] North Carolina A&T North Carolina Central South Carolina State
2015	North Carolina A&T Bethune-Cookman North Carolina Central

Men's basketball

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. In three cases, MEAC schools seeded 15th (Coppin State in 1997, Hampton in 2001, Norfolk State in 2012) defeated second-seeded teams in the NCAA tournament. In 2008, Coppin State again made history by being the first 20-loss team to play in the NCAA Tournament.

Season	Regular season champion(s)	Tournament champion
1972	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1973	Maryland Eastern Shore	North Carolina A&T
1974	Maryland Eastern Shore	Maryland Eastern Shore
1975	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1976	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1977	South Carolina State	Morgan State
1978	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1979	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1980	Howard	Howard
1981	North Carolina A&T	Howard
1982	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1983	Howard	North Carolina A&T
1984	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1985	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1986	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1987	Howard	North Carolina A&T
1988	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
1989	South Carolina State	South Carolina State
1990	Coppin State	Coppin State
1991	Coppin State	Florida A&M
1992	Howard	Howard
1993	Coppin State	Coppin State
1994	Coppin State	North Carolina A&T
1995	Coppin State	North Carolina A&T
1996	Coppin State South Carolina State	South Carolina State
1997	Coppin State	Coppin State
1998	Coppin State	South Carolina State
1999	South Carolina State Coppin State	Florida A&M
2000	South Carolina State	South Carolina State
2001	Hampton	Hampton
2002	Hampton	Hampton
2003	South Carolina State	South Carolina State
2004	South Carolina State Coppin State	Florida A&M
2005	Delaware State	Delaware State
2006	Delaware State	Hampton
2007	Delaware State	Florida A&M
2008	Morgan State	Coppin State
2009	Morgan State	Morgan State
2010	Morgan State	Morgan State
2011	Bethune-Cookman	Hampton
2012	Savannah State	Norfolk State
2013	Norfolk State	North Carolina A&T
2014	North Carolina Central	North Carolina Central
2015	North Carolina Central	Hampton
2016	Hampton	Hampton

Tournament Performance by school

School	Championships	Championship Years
North Carolina A&T	16	1972 • 1973 • 1975 • 1976 • 1978 • 1979 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1994 • 1995 • 2013
Hampton	6	2001 • 2002 • 2006 • 2011 • 2015 · 2016
South Carolina State	5	1989 • 1996 • 1998 • 2000 • 2003
Coppin State	4	1990 • 1993 • 1997 • 2008
Florida A&M	4	1991 • 1994 • 2004 • 2007
Howard	3	1980 • 1981 • 1992
Morgan State	3	1977 • 2009 • 2010
Maryland-Eastern Shore	1	1974
Delaware State	1	2005
Norfolk State	1	2012
North Carolina Central	1	2014

Women's basketball

Season	Regular season champion(s)	Tournament champion
1978	–	South Carolina State
1979	–	South Carolina State
1980	–	–
1981	–	–
1982	–	Howard
1983	–	South Carolina State
1984	South Carolina State	Bethune-Cookman
1985	South Carolina State	Howard
1986	South Carolina State	South Carolina State
1987	Howard	Howard
1988	North Carolina A&T	Howard
1989	North Carolina A&T	Howard
1990	North Carolina A&T	Howard
1991	South Carolina State	Coppin State
1992	South Carolina State	South Carolina State
1993	South Carolina State Coppin State Florida A&M	South Carolina State
1994	South Carolina State	North Carolina A&T
1995	Florida A&M	Florida A&M
1996	Florida A&M	Howard
1997	Howard	Howard
1998	Howard	Howard
1999	Hampton	Florida A&M
2000	Howard	Hampton
2001	Howard	Howard
2002	Howard	Norfolk State
2003	Hampton	Hampton
2004	Delaware State Hampton	Hampton
2005	Coppin State	Coppin State
2006	Coppin State	Coppin State
2007	Coppin State	Delaware State
2008	North Carolina A&T	Coppin State
2009	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
2010	North Carolina A&T	Hampton University
2011	Hampton	Hampton
2012	Hampton	Hampton
2013	Hampton	Hampton
2014	Hampton	Hampton
2015	Hampton	Savannah State
2016	Bethune Cookman North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T

Softball

Bethune-Cookman won the Florida Regional in 2005, the first NCAA Regional Final ever won by a MEAC school, and ended that season ranked #18 in a national poll.^[31]

Season	Champion(s)
1993	Florida A&M
1994	Florida A&M
1995	Florida A&M
1996	Hampton
1997	Florida A&M
1998	Florida A&M
1999	Florida A&M
2000	Bethune-Cookman
2001	Bethune-Cookman
2002	Bethune-Cookman
2003	Bethune-Cookman
2004	Bethune-Cookman
2005	Florida A&M
2006	Florida A&M
2007	Howard
2008	Delaware State
2009	Florida A&M
2010	Bethune-Cookman
2011	Bethune-Cookman
2012	Bethune-Cookman
2013	Hampton
2014	Florida A&M
2015	Florida A&M

Baseball

Season	Regular season champion(s)	Tournament champion
1972	Howard
1973	South Carolina State
1974	North Carolina A&T
1975	Howard
1976	Howard
1977	Howard
1978	No Records Available
1979	No Records Available
1980	No Records Available
1981	No Records Available
1982	No Records Available
1983	No Records Available
1984	Howard
1985	Bethune-Cookman
1986	Howard
1987	Florida A&M
1988	Florida A&M
1989	Delaware State
1990	Florida A&M
1991	Florida A&M
1992	Florida A&M
1993	North Carolina A&T
1994	Florida A&M
1995	Coppin State
1996	Bethune-Cookman
1997	Bethune-Cookman
1998	Howard
1999	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2000	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2001	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2002	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2003	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2004	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2005	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
2006	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2007	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2008	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2009	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2010	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2011	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2012	Bethune-Cookman	Bethune-Cookman
2013	Delaware State	Savannah State
2014		Bethune Cookman
2015		Florida A&M

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Notes

1. Maryland-Eastern Shore wasn't part of the MEAC between the 1979-80 and the 1980-81 seasons.
2. Morgan State wasn't part of the MEAC between the 1979-80 and the 1983-84 seasons.
3. Florida A&M wasn't part of the MEAC between the 1984-85 and the 1985-86 seasons.
4. North Carolina Central wasn't part of the MEAC between the 1979-80 and the 2009-10 seasons.
5. Coppin State has a club football team that competes in the Mid Atlantic Conference of the National Club Football Association. This team does compete at an on campus facility.
6. Maryland Eastern Shore has a club football team that competes in the Mid Atlantic Conference of the National Club Football Association.The team does have an on campus field but does not have seating.
7. Howard was later disqualified from their 1971 NCAA soccer championship, however, no team was ever announced as the new champion.
8. Bethune-Cookman receives NCAA Division I FCS Playoff Automatic Qualifying bid via MEAC Conference tiebreaker system.
9. Morgan State receives NCAA Division I FCS Playoff Automatic Qualifying bid via MEAC Conference tiebreaker system.

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External links

• Official website