Because of the American North’s disbanding, there will only be seven power conferences for throwball and swim sports next season (ACC,Arkansas Valley,AtlanticWest,Big 12,Big Ten,Pac-12,and SEC) with the pending founding of the Midwest Conference that former American North conference members can go to if they don’t find a new home.
ACC
Has a new divison format with North and South divisions.Here are the ACC squads for the 2019-20 throwball and swim sports seasons alphabetically by division.
*=New Member
South
Clemson
Duke
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Miami
Norfolk
North Carolina
NC State
Wake Forest
North
Boston College
Louisville
Notre Dame
Southern New York
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Arkansas Valley
No new members for the AValley for 2019-20 but they are in talks with multiple schools to replace Crossett.
AGCU
Atlanta
Coastal (Is going to be renamed Asheville State on July 1,2019)
FGCU
Fort Lauderdale
Georgia Baptist
Jones College
Naples
Southern Coastal (Is going to be renamed to Charelston State on July 1,2019)
Southern North Carolina
Virginia State
West
Crossett
Dallas
Eastern Miss
Huff College
Missouri-Springfield
Northern Louisiana
Northern Oklahoma
Texarkana (ARK)
Texarkana (TX)
Texas-Arlington
Western Miss
AtlanticWest
While the AtlanticWest was in talks with SLM,Dayton,Eastern Indiana,and Canton Bapist (all members of the disbanding American North) the conference decided to deny talks they had with each school because of their motto to stay from Washington DC and down.Thus serious talks between the four schools and the AtlanticWest never happened.The AtlanticWest finally found a school to replace the likes of Virginia State and Norfolk in UNC-Wilmington and UNC-Greensboro. The conference added Arkansas Baptist after they offered them in June in July.
*=New Member
Atlantic
Asheville
Black Moutain
Boca Raton
North Carolina Central
*North Carolina-Greensboro*
*North Carolina-Wilmington*
Northern Florida
Washington DC
West
*Arkansas Baptist*
Daphne
Fairhope
Nashville State
New Orleans
Northern Arkansas
Ouachita Baptist
San Antonio
Big 12
The Big 12 added Little Rock and arch rival Arkansas State (or commonly known as UALR) to their conference for throwball and swim sports only.Little Rock has made it to the final four in three out of the last four seasons and have made the NCAA Tournament in swim sports the eleven out of the last thirteen seasons.The Big 12 also added former American North member Denver and WCC power BYU to the conference.For throwball and swim sports only,the conference will split into north and south divisions.
South
Arkansas State
Baylor
Little Rock
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
TCU
Texas Tech
North
BYU
Denver
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
West Virginia
Big 10
While being in talks with former American North members Dayton,SLM,Eastern Indiana,Denver,and Northern Cal,real discussion on future membership with the schools never happened.So the conference will stay the same headed into 2019-20.Talks have not begun on getting a new member for the west division for any school.
East
John’s Hopkins
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
West
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Purdue
Wisconsin
Pac-12
Talks with Gonzaga and BYU from the WCC and former American North members Northern Cal,Oregon-Cal,and Seattle State never got interesting,so the conference will stay the same.
South
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
UCLA
USC
Utah
North
California
Oregon
Oregon State
Stanford
Washington
Washington State
SEC
No SEC interest from any school to the SEC
West
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
East
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Missouri
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
