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The NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship is an annual men's college
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national collegiate championship sponsored by the
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(NCAA) for teams in Division I. The tournament crowns a team, individual, and doubles champion . The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the NCAA, with Harvard's Joseph Clark taking the singles title. The same year Clark partnered to Howard Taylor to win the doubles title. The first NCAA-sponsored tournament was held in 1946. In 1963, the NCAA began to organize separate tournaments for Division I and Division II. A tournament for
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was also added in 1973. However, after 1995, the NCAA no longer holds a Division II tournament. The national championship rounds are contested annually in May. In recent years, the
NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship The NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's tennis tournament to determine the Team Championships, Singles Championships, and Doubles Championships for women's tennis athletes from Division I ...
has been held at the same location as the men's tournament.


Pre-NCAA Championships


Singles and Doubles Championships (1883–1945)


NCAA Championships


Singles, Doubles, and Team–Points Championships (1946–1976)


Singles, Doubles, and Team–Bracket Championships (1977–present)

*The NCAA was founded in 1906, but the first NCAA-sponsored championship would not be held until 1946. *Before 1977, individual wins counted in the team's total points. In 1977, a dual-match, single-elimination team championship was initiated, eliminating the points system.


Team titles


Result by school and by year

191 teams have appeared in the NCAA tournament in at least one year starting with 1977, when the tournament shifted to its current bracket format. The results for all years are shown in this table below. The code in each cell represents how far the team made it in the respective tournament: * National Champion * National Runner-up * Semifinals * Quarterfinals * Round of 16 * Round of 32 (1999–present) :: Regional Finals (1996–1998) :: First round (1987–1993) * Round of 64 (1999–present) :: Regional semifinals (1996–1998) * Regional Quarterfinals (1996–1998)


See also

*NCAA Men's Tennis Championships ( Division II,
Division III In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Association football *Belgian Thir ...
) * NAIA Men's Tennis Championship *NCAA Women's Tennis Championships ( Division I, Division II,
Division III In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Association football *Belgian Thir ...
)


References


External links


List of NCAA champions
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