The 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was played at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics.
 The Northeast Conference also sponsored non-scholarship football, but began offering a maximum of 30 full scholarship equivalents in 2006, which grew to 40 in 2011 after a later vote of the league's school presidents and athletic directors and has since increased to 45
 Partially spurred by an association with cheating, the NIT lost support to the NCAA tournament

