Locations of current Ohio Valley Conference full member institutions.
The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; formerly known as Division I-AA), the lower of two levels of Division I football competition. The OVC has 12 members, 9 of which compete in football in the conference.
Contents
1History
2OVC Digital Network
3Member schools
3.1Full members
3.2Former members
3.3Former affiliate members
3.4Membership timeline
3.4.1Comments
4Conference divisions
5Sports offered
5.1Men's sponsored sports by school
5.2Women's sponsored sports by school
6Conference champions
6.1Football conference champions
6.2Basketball
6.3Baseball
6.4Softball
6.5Women's soccer
7Facilities
8References
9External links
History
Primary source :[1]
The Ohio Valley Conference can trace its roots to 1941 when Murray State athletic director Roy Stewart, Eastern Kentucky athletic director Charles "Turkey" Hughes, and Western Kentucky public relations director Kelly Thompson first formulated the idea of establishing a regional athletics conference. The plan was put on hold due to World War II, but it was resurrected after the conclusion of the war. In 1948, the three schools joined with Louisville, Morehead State, and Evansville to form the Ohio Valley Conference. While many collegiate conferences are struggling today with the question of whether their policies and rules should be determined by the athletic departments or by the institutional heads, from the very beginning, the OVC has been run by the presidents of its member schools.
Historically, the OVC was a pioneer in racial desegregation, with Morehead State signing the conference's first black athlete, Marshall Banks, in 1958. The rest of the OVC soon followed in Morehead State's wake. From 1986 to 2018, the OVC was unique among NCAA Division I conferences in that it included one historically black university, Tennessee State University, in a conference that otherwise consists of institutions that are not traditionally black. During this period, every other HBCU in NCAA Division I belonged to either the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference or Southwestern Athletic Conference. Tennessee State is no longer the only D-I HBCU outside of the traditional HBCU conferences, with Hampton University having joined the Big South Conference in July 2018.
The OVC has also been a leader in advancement of sports opportunities for women. The conference began adding championship competitions for women in 1977 several years after the AIAW began sponsoring national championships for women, but seven years before the NCAA was ready to move into the field. Since 2009, the OVC has been led by Commissioner Beth DeBauche, one of only six female commissioners for the thirty-two Division I conferences.[2]
Athletic rivalries, really close colleges and especially when competitors are in relatively close proximity, can generate problems with fan behavior, and the conference leadership struggled with controlling the issue for many years. When the national debate on the problem reached its apex in the mid-1990s, the OVC unveiled the national first of its kind "Sportsmanship Statement" in 1995, stating the conference's policy on, "... principles of fair play, ethical conduct and respect for one's opponent." Since then, the OVC has also introduced individual, team (for each sport), and institutional sportsmanship awards.
Founded by six schools, the expansions of 2007 and 2011 have brought the Ohio Valley Conference membership to twelve schools, the most in its history.
OVC Digital Network
In August 2012, the OVC announced that it had launched the OVC Digital Network as a replacement for and improvement over the conference's former efforts to provide streaming video coverage of many athletic events that had been in place since 2006.[3] This website carries live, student-produced coverage of most conference games and some non-conference games in baseball, men's and women's basketball, football, soccer, softball, and volleyball as well as some coaches' shows, special presentations, and archived game-casts available for later viewing.
In its first two years, the network provided well over 600,000 viewings of streamed live video of more than 1400 events.[4]
Member schools
Full members
Institution
Location
Founded
Joined
Type
Enrollment
Nickname
Colors
Football member?
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, Tennessee
1927
1962
Public
10,344
Governors
Y
Belmont University
Nashville, Tennessee
1890
2012
Private
8,080
Bruins
N
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois
1895
1996
Public
7,526
Panthers
Y
Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky
1906
1948
Public
16,959
Colonels
Y
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, Alabama
1883
2003
Public
8,514
Gamecocks
Y
Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky
1887
1948
Public
10,748
Eagles
N1
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky
1922
1948
Public
10,495
Racers
Y
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
1873
1991
Public
11,978
Redhawks
Y
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, Illinois
1957
2008
Public
14,142
Cougars
N
Tennessee State University
Nashville, Tennessee
1912
1986
Public
8,775
Tigers/Lady Tigers
Y
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee
1912
1949
Public
10,492
Golden Eagles
Y
University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, Tennessee
1927
1992
Public
6,705
Skyhawks
Y
Note
Morehead State's football team competes in the Pioneer Football League, a Division I FCS football-only conference whose members choose not to offer athletic scholarships for football.
Former members
Institution
Location
Founded
Joined
Left
Type
Enrollment
Nickname
New Conference
Current Conference
Classification
University of Akron
Akron, OH
1870
1980
1987
Public
29,251
Zips
NCAA D-I Independent
Mid-American (MAC)
Division I FBS
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
1911
1958
1978
Public
15,536
Buccaneers Lady Buccaneers
SoCon
Division I FCS
University of Evansville
Evansville, IN
1854
1948
1952
Private
2,526
Purple Aces
ICC (NCAA Division II)
Missouri Valley
Division I non-football
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
1798
1948
1949
Public
22,293
Cardinals
NCAA Independent
ACC
Division I FBS
Marshall University
Huntington, WV
1837
1949
1952
Public
13,450
Thundering Herd
NCAA Independent[fm 1]
C-USA
Division I FBS
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
1911
1952
2000
Public
24,192
Blue Raiders
Sun Belt
C-USA
Division I FBS
Samford University
Homewood, AL
1841
2003
2008
Private
4,833
Bulldogs
SoCon
Division I FCS
Western Kentucky University[fm 2]
Bowling Green, KY
1906
1948
1982
Public
21,048
Hilltoppers
Sun Belt
C-USA
Division I FBS
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH
1908
1981
1988
Public
15,194
Penguins
Mid-Continent NCAA I-AA Independent (football)
Horizon MVFC (football)
Division I FCS
Notes
^Marshall left the OVC to become an Independent for one year prior to joining the Mid-American Conference (MAC).
^Western Kentucky rejoined the OVC for football only in the 1999 and 2000 football seasons (academically 1999–2001).
Former affiliate members
Institution
Location
Founded
Nickname
Joined
Left
Sport
Primary Conference
Columbus State University
Columbus, Georgia
1958
Cougars
2012
2015
Rifle
Peach Belt (NCAA D-II)
Notes
Columbus State dropped rifle after the 2014–15 school year.
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