There are now 32 conferences in Division I with the recent addition of the Great West Conference. They currently do not have an autmoatic bid for their champion to go to the NCAA Basketball Tournament and will not have one for at least four years.
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There are 338 teams within 37 conferences
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346 teams in 32 conferences plus 4 independent schools.
11 conferences plus 1 independent
Many schools. Over 300. Probably between 5-15 teams in each conference.
Yes
they are division 1 but they are division 1-AA which means they do not compete in the same pool of conferences as your typical division 1 school. although they may play a d-1 school, they would not qualify for the NCAA tourney like a georgia, lsu, or oklahoma.
There are around 1000 NCAA basketball schools in total, with 351 schools in 32 Division I basketball conferences. There are also other divisions, but only Division I gets shown on TV, and contains most of the players that go into the NBA.
Since the AFL/NFL merger, the Patriots have always Played in the Amercian Football Conferences' East Division.
UVA-Wise will play the 2013 season as a Division I NAIA college. It will be transferring athletic conferences to NCAA Division II as of the 2013-2014 season.