The Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) is a

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whose member schools compete in men's

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. The conference footprint is centered in the

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ern

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in the west to

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in the east; a

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school will join in 2023. Many of the conference's schools also participate in the similarly named Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association in men's volleyball at the club level. The MIVA Tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship, which now consists of seven teams playing in a single-elimination format to determine the national champion. The two other pre-2017 major volleyball conferences, the EIVA (

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) and the MPSF (

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), also send their league tournament champions to the tournament, as do

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(since the 2014 season) and the

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(from the 2018 season forward).

History

On February 4, 1961 the Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Conference, the nation's first men's college volleyball league, was started in Lansing, Michigan by representatives of Ball State University, Detroit Institute of Technology, Earlham College, George Williams College, Lansing College, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, and Wittenberg College. The league came about largely through the efforts of Jim Coleman of Wittenberg College and Don Shondell of Ball State University. The league name was later changed to the Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA). Over the years, more than forty schools from Divisions I, II, and III, as well as a couple of junior colleges, have participated as members of the MIVA. The current membership is made up of five D-I (including two charter members) and three D-II institutions, with

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having started a transition from D-II to D-I in July 2022. Another transitional D-I school,

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, will join the MIVA in July 2023. Three MIVA teams have won the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship, although only two are officially recognized by the NCAA. Lewis' 2003 title was later vacated by the school due to player eligibility issues, and the NCAA no longer recognizes the title. Loyola won the national championship in both 2014 and 2015, and Ohio State won the title in 2011, 2016, and 2017.

Membership timeline

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Michigan State Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It i ...

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Members

The MIVA comprises eight teams from the

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

's Division I and Division II. A ninth team will join in 2023 (2024 season).

Current members

Future member

The most recent change in MIVA membership was in 2017, when

left the MIVA for the

. The next change in membership will come in 2023 with the arrival of Queens. One current MIVA member changed its institutional and athletic identity after the 2018 men's volleyball season.

Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

(IPFW), a joint venture between the

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and

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

systems, was dissolved at the end of the 2017–18 school year. IPFW's academic programs in health sciences now operate as

Indiana University Fort Wayne Indiana University Fort Wayne is a public university in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is a regional campus of Indiana University founded on July 1, 2018, when its predecessor university, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, split into t ...

, and all other academic programs transferred to Purdue as Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). The athletic program was inherited solely by PFW. Shortly before the split took effect, PFW announced that the athletic program, previously known as the Fort Wayne Mastodons, would become the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.

Former members

Affiliations reflect those for men's volleyball, and are current for the upcoming 2023 NCAA men's volleyball season (2022–23 school year). Institutional names and nicknames reflect those in current use, not necessarily those used while each school was an MIVA member. The NCAA's top men's volleyball championship is open to schools in Divisions I and II, with scholarship limits identical for members of each division. Therefore, this table makes no distinction between NCAA Division I and Division II conferences.

MIVA Champions

Titles

MIVA in the NCAA tournament

Until 2014, the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship was a Final Four only tournament with the champions of three conferences ( EIVA, MIVA, and

MPSF The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) is a college athletic conference with members located mostly in the western United States, although it now has members as far east as Pennsylvania. The conference participates at the NCAA Division I ...

) receiving automatic bids and one team getting an at-large bid. In 2014, the tournament expanded to include the champion of the Division II

and a second at-large team. The tournament expanded to seven teams for 2018 with the addition of the

champion.

References

External links

* {{Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association navbox