The National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) is the national body that governs club
baseball
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at
colleges and universities in the
United States
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. Club teams are different from
varsity team
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s in that the school doesn't completely sponsor the teams' expenses and the teams are not eligible to play in 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
College World Series
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is an annual baseball tournament held in June in Omaha, Nebraska. The MCWS is the culmination of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Divisi ...
.
The NCBA was founded in 2000 to provide a national structure for the existing club teams. It structures the conferences, runs the NCBA College World Series (its national championship series), gathers playing statistics, assists teams in
fundraising
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, and arranges for discounts on
baseball clothing and equipment
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.
The NCBA is a division of CollClubSports which operates as a for-profit
LLC with a sole proprietorship in the name of Greg "Sandy" Sanderson as President. Many club-sport governing bodies operate as non-profit groups in order to return the most benefit to member teams. League dues for the NCBA are $1,700 per season per team.
The two types of institutions that field club teams are schools that can't sponsor NCAA varsity baseball (often due to
Title IX
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restrictions) and schools that do have a varsity team, but also have enough demand to field a second team.
Teams
The NCBA currently is divided into two divisions named Division I and II respectively. Division I is split up into eight regions with three conferences each. Division II is split up into eight districts with three conferences, each except Districts VI and VII which only have two conferences each.
There are currently nine schools that field both Division I and II teams:
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Penn State #Redirect Pennsylvania State University
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Maryland
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Illinois
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Wisconsin
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Arizona State
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Ohio State
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Florida
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Lone Star College
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Texas A&M University
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Division I
Great Lakes Region
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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Gulf Coast Region
= South Conference
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=North Conference
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=East Conference
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Mid-America Region
=North Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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Mid-Atlantic Region
=North Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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North Atlantic Region
=East Conference
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=North Conference
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=West Conference
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Northern Pacific Region
=North Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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South Atlantic Region
=East Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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Southern Pacific Region
=North Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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Division II
Chesapeake
=Central
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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District II
=East Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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District III
=East Conference
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=North Conference
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=West Conference
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District IV
=East Conference
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=North Conference
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=West Conference
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District V
=North Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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=East Conference
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District VI
=North Conference
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=South Conference
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District VII
=East Conference
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=West Conference
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District VIII
=North Conference
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=South Conference
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=West Conference
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Schools Joining the NCBA in 2014-15
*All schools will be in Division II unless noted
NCBA World Series Champions
Division I champions
Division I appearances
Note: through the 2019 season.
Division II champions
† denotes school also fielded an NCBA Division I team that season
See also
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References
External links
*{{official website, http://www.clubbaseball.org
College baseball in the United States
College club sports associations in the United States
Baseball governing bodies in the United States
Sports organizations established in 2000