The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference ( MASCAC ) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA 's Division III . Full member institutions are all located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with affiliate members also located in Connecticut , New Hampshire , Pennsylvania , Vermont , and Virginia . The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference was established in June of 1971, making it the oldest NCAA Division III men's and women's playing college athletic conference in the United States .
27-589: MASCAC may refer to: Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference , an athletic conference located within the state of Massachusetts. Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation, an umbrella organization of athletic conferences located within the Mid-Atlantic United States currently known as the Middle Atlantic Conferences Topics referred to by
54-593: A MASCAC football league, which consists of nine schools, and the league champion is awarded an automatic berth to the NCAA D-III Football National Tournament. Bridgewater State University, Fitchburg State University, Framingham State University, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Westfield State University, and Worcester State University are the six core schools deciding to join the new MASCAC conference. Also, Plymouth State University, UMass-Dartmouth, and Western Connecticut State also join
81-624: A renamed NEFC known as Commonwealth Coast Football (CCC Football) in succeeding years. Becker joins as an associate member in 2017 and the University of New England adds a football program and becomes CCC Football's seventh football member in 2018. As a renamed NEFC, CCC Football continues to receive automatic qualification to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament. 2017 – The NEFC begins play as Commonwealth Coast Football and continues to operate as
108-409: A round robin schedule. 1997 – Five new members begin conference play in 1998: Curry, Nichols, MIT, Salve Regina and WNEC. The 14-team conference had two 7-team divisions. 1999 – Bridgewater State (10–0) receives first automatic qualification to NCAA playoffs. 2000 – The first Championship game in the 14-team Conference is scheduled. Wal*Mart agrees to sponsor the game. The Divisions are renamed with
135-532: A single-sport conference administered by the Commonwealth Coast Conference . 2019 – Husson joins as an associate member. 2021 – Becker ceases operations. 2022 - Football fully incorporated into the CCC sport sponsorship, rendering CCC Football a defunct league. The years of departure listed are the calendar years in which each school left the conference. Because football is a fall sport,
162-618: A split into two six-team divisions with divisional winners meeting in championship playoff game. 1988 – UMass Boston and UMass Dartmouth become conference members. 1988 – Western New England leaves conference following '88 season. 1992 – Plymouth State and UMass Lowell join the Freedom Football Conference; Curry and Nichols join the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference. 1992 – The conference now numbers nine colleges that play
189-591: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference All full members are a part of the Massachusetts State Universities system (every member in the Massachusetts State Universities system except the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) is also a MASCAC member) and the public associate members are part of
216-505: Is the first time that the MASCAC awarded membership to private colleges. The 5 private colleges joined the other men's golf sponsoring MASCAC schools from the NECC which includes MCLA , Salem State , Westfield State , and Worcester State to create a 9-team men's golf league. However Dean College men's golf left the MASCAC after the 2019-20 men's golf season to join their primary conference
243-658: The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) in men's golf. The MASCAC started Automatic Qualification (AQ) to the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships in the 2021–2022 season for the MASCAC men's golf tournament winner. [REDACTED] For the current season, see 2023 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference football season . Through end of the 2022 regular season. Records reflect official NCAA results, including any forfeits or win vacating. The members of
270-661: The New England Football Conference ( NEFC ) was renamed following the 2016 season. CCC Football was administered by the Commonwealth Coast Conference . The conference competed under the NEFC banner from 1965 through the 2016 season. Member teams are located in New England . Before an NEFC conference split that took effect with the 2013 season, the NEFC was divided into the Boyd Division and
297-756: The New England Football Conference (NEFC) (now Commonwealth Coast Football) after the 2012 season. They were joined later by fellow NEFC opponents Plymouth State, UMass–Dartmouth, and Western Connecticut State. The NEFC retained the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs . On August 22, 2019, the MASCAC invited 5 of the recently dropped men's golf members from the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) which includes Dean College , Eastern Nazarene College , Elms College , Mitchell College , and Springfield College ; all of them are private colleges which
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#1732790627904324-707: The University of Massachusetts System [UMASS System ( UMASS Dartmouth )], the University System of New Hampshire ( Plymouth State University ), and the Connecticut State University System ( Western Connecticut State University ) respectively. The rest of the associate members are private colleges . On October 5, 2023, it was announced that in the 2025–26 school year, Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts will become
351-513: The 12 seasons the NEFC hosted a championship game between its two division winners, these remaining eight members accounted for 16 of the 24 championship game participants and 8 of 12 conference champions. The decision to rename the NEFC was made in October 2015, as the Commonwealth Coast Conference announced that it would add football by effectively absorbing the NEFC as a single-sport conference known as Commonwealth Coast Football, starting with
378-637: The 2003 season. 2004 – A Most Valuable Player Award is established for the NEFC Championship Game and is named the William Mottola Award in honor of the long-time conference commissioner. 2005 – Plymouth State University and the United States Coast Guard Academy are admitted as members for play beginning in the 2006 season. Plymouth enters the Boyd Division and Coast Guard Academy competes in
405-478: The 2017–18 school year. Accordingly, the 2016 season was the last for the NEFC under its long-standing name and acronym. The CCC and Commonwealth Coast Football unveiled a new family of logos during a June 2019 visual rebrand. Due to changes in NCAA Division III legislation regarding the number of members required for a conference to receive an automatic qualifier (AQ), football was incorporated into
432-680: The Bogan Division, with the division champions competing in Division III football's only season-ending conference championship game. After the 2012 season, the NEFC split, with the seven Massachusetts state institutions and Plymouth State playing in the MASCAC for football. The conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs continued to be held by the eight remaining members: Curry, Endicott, Maine Maritime, MIT, Nichols, Salve Regina, Coast Guard, and Western New England. In
459-474: The Bogan Division. The Conference decides that the Championship Game will be played at the campus of the Bogan Division winner in even numbered years and on the field of the Boyd Division champion in odd numbered years. 2007 – Curry College becomes the first NEFC team to win an NCAA Division III Championship Tournament game, defeating Hartwick College 42–21. 2008 – The NEFC qualifies two teams for
486-598: The MASCAC conference as flagship members, effectively in 2013. 2012 – The NEFC qualifies two teams for the NCAA Division III National Tournament for the second time in league history. Framingham State (10–1) won the NEFC Championship and received the automatic bid, while Bridgewater State (9–1) received an at-large bid. Framingham State lost in the first round, 20–19 to Cortland State (NY), while Bridgewater State also lost in
513-504: The MASCAC have longstanding rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. The following is a list of active rivalries in the MASCAC with totals & records through the completion of the 2022 season . New England Football Conference Commonwealth Coast Football ( CCC Football ) was a single-sport athletic conference that competed in football in the NCAA 's Division III . It began play as CCC Football in 2017 after
540-490: The NCAA Division III Championship Tournament for the first time. Conference champion Plymouth State University receives the automatic bid, and Curry College receives an at-large bid. 2010 – Maine Maritime Academy sets a new NCAA Division III season rushing record with 5189 yards in 11 games. The Mariners miss the all-Division mark set by the University of Oklahoma in 1971 by eight yards. 2011 – Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference institution presidents decide to form
567-555: The Red being the Bogan Division and the Blue becoming the Boyd Division named after the NEFC's first two commissioners. Bridgewater State defeats Salve Regina 27–24 for the championship. UMass Boston drops football. 2001 – The Bogan Division plays with only six teams while the Boyd continues with seven. Endicott College begins a football program and is admitted into the Boyd Division beginning with
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#1732790627904594-492: The United States Coast Guard Academy announce plans to leave the NEFC following the 2016 season to compete in the NEWMAC, which begins sponsoring football as a championship sport in 2017. 2015 – Gregg Kaye, Commissioner of the Commonwealth Coast Conference , is named NEFC Commissioner. 2016 – The NEFC completes its final season of play under the NEFC name. Curry, Endicott, Nichols, Salve Regina, and Western New England compete in
621-526: The first private full member in the 53 year history of the MASCAC and the first new full member since 1974. The MASCAC currently has eight full members, all are public schools: The MASCAC currently has seven associate members, all but three are public schools: ( RSHM ) ( Sisters, Servants of the I.H.M. ) Notes: The MASCAC will have one future associate member, a private school. The MASCAC had two former full members, both were public schools: The MASCAC had one former associate member, which
648-564: The first round, 44–14 to Widener University (PA). 2013 – Retired Bridgewater State University Director of Athletics John Harper is named Commissioner of the Conference 2014 – The Conference Championship traveling trophy is named for former Maine Maritime Academy Director of Athletics and football coach Bill Mottola. Mottola was NEFC Commissioner from 1997 to 2007 and was affiliated with the conference for four decades. 2015 – Maine Maritime Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
675-1090: The multi-sport Commonwealth Coast Conference in 2022, eliminating the need for the football-only league. 1965 – The New England Football Conference is founded by charter members Curry, Bridgewater State and Maine Maritime. 1971 – Plymouth State and New England College become conference members. 1972 – Nichols College and Boston State become conference members. 1972 – New England College suspends football program following '72 season; Mass. Maritime Academy becomes conference member. 1973 – Framingham State and New Haven become conference members. 1979 – Western Connecticut State becomes conference member. 1981 – Western New England College becomes conference member. 1981 – New Haven leaves conference, moves to Division II. 1981 – Boston State suspends football program following '81 season. 1982 – Westfield State becomes conference member. 1985 – Fitchburg State and Worcester State become conference members. 1985 – Western Connecticut leaves conference to pursue independent schedule. 1987 – UMass Lowell becomes conference member in 1987, initiating
702-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MASCAC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MASCAC&oldid=1092327671 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
729-547: Was also a private school: The MASCAC sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in men's baseball , men's and women's basketball , men's and women's cross country , women's field hockey , men's ice hockey , men's golf , men's and women's soccer , women's softball , men's and women's track and field , and women's volleyball . The MASCAC sponsored football for the first time in 2013. Conference members Bridgewater State, Fitchburg State, Framingham State, Massachusetts Maritime, Westfield State, and Worcester State departed
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