The National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) is the national body that governs club baseball at colleges and universities in the United States. Club teams are different from varsity teams in that the school doesn't completely sponsor the teams' expenses and the teams are not eligible to play in the NCAA's College World Series.
Contents
- Teams
- Great Lakes Region
- Gulf Coast Region
- Mid America Region
- Mid Atlantic Region
- North Atlantic Region
- Northern Pacific Region
- South Atlantic Region
- Southern Pacific Region
- District I
- District II
- District III
- District IV
- District V
- District VI
- District VII
- District VIII
- Schools Joining the NCBA in 2014 15
- Division II
- References
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, and arranges for discounts on baseball clothing and equipment.
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 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 with the exception of Districts VI and VII which only has two conferences each.
There are currently six schools (seven beginning in 2014-15) that field both Division I and II teams
Great Lakes Region
North Conference
South Conference
West Conference
Gulf Coast Region
South Conference
North Conference
East Conference
Mid-America Region
North Conference
South Conference
West Conference
Mid-Atlantic Region
North Conference
South Conference
West Conference
North Atlantic Region
East Conference
North Conference
West Conference
Northern Pacific Region
North Conference
South Conference
West Conference
South Atlantic Region
East Conference
South Conference
West Conference
Southern Pacific Region
North Conference
South Conference
West Conference
District I
East Conference
South Division
West Conference
District II
East Conference
South Conference
West Conference
District III
East Conference
North Conference
West Conference
District IV
East Conference
North Conference
West Conference
District V
North Conference
South Conference
West Conference
East Conference
District VI
North Conference
South Conference
District VII
East Conference
West Conference
District VIII
North Conference
South Conference
West Conference
Schools Joining the NCBA in 2014-15
Division II
† denotes school also fielded an NCBA Division I team that season