The NCAA Bowling Championship is a sanctioned women's championship in college athletics. Unlike many NCAA sports, only one championship is held each season with teams from Division I, Division II, and Division III competing together. Eight teams, all at-large selections, are chosen by the NCAA Bowling Committee to compete in the championships. The championship was first held in April 2004.
The most successful team is Nebraska with 5 titles. The reigning champions are McKendree, who swept Nebraska in four games to win the 2017 NCAA Bowling championship. This is Mckendree's first NCAA Bowling Championship and its first ever NCAA Championship since becoming a member of NCAA Division II in 2013. McKendree became the first NCAA Division II program to win the NCAA Bowling Championship and its 4-0 triumph of Nebraska in the finals was the first sweep in the 14 year history of the championships.
Nebraska is the only program to qualify for all 14 NCAA Bowling Championships.
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Format
The collegiate bowling season runs during the winter (beginning in October), and the championship is typically held in April. The current format for the championships begins with qualifying rounds in which each team bowls one five-person regular team game against each of the other seven teams participating in the championship for a total of seven games. Teams will be seeded for bracket play based on their win-loss record after seven games. Teams will then compete in best-of-seven-games Baker matches in a double elimination tournament. In the Baker format, each of the five team members, in order, bowls a complete frame until a complete (10-frame) game is bowled. A Baker match tied 3½ games to 3½ games after seven games will be decided by a tiebreaker using the Modified Baker format, which is the last five frames (frames 6 to 10).
At present, all participants receive at-large bids, but it is proposed that automatic qualifiers be awarded to conference champions, starting in 2018.
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Champions
Team titles
Championship participants
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A total of 77 teams are competing in 2016-17, up from 71 in 2015-16:
- 34 from Division I (+1)
- 31 from Division II (+5)
- 12 from Division III
Conferences
- Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (6 Div. III schools)
- Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (10 Div. II schools)
- East Coast Conference (10 Div. II schools)
- Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (9 Div. I schools)
- Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (5 Div. II & 2 Div. III schools)
- Northeast Conference (6 Div. I, 1 Div. II & 1 Div. III schools)
- Southland Bowling League (8 Div. I schools)
- Southwestern Athletic Conference (7 Div. I schools)
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