Atlantic 10 Conference

The Atlantic 10 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The A-10's member schools are located mostly on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States: Illinois, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Although some of its members are state-funded, half of its membership is made up of private, Catholic institutions. Despite the name, there are 14 full-time members in the conference; three affiliate members participate in women's field hockey and men's lacrosse.
The conference's commissioner since 2008 is Bernadette McGlade. In fall 2023 the A-10 moved its headquarters from Newport News, Virginia, to Washington, D.C.

History

Early history

The Atlantic 10 Conference was founded in 1975 as the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League and began conference play in 1976. At that time, basketball was its only sport. After its first season, it added sports other than basketball and changed its name to the Eastern Athletic Association. However, despite its official names, it was popularly known as the Eastern 8, as it then had eight members.
After changes in membership that saw charter members Villanova and Pittsburgh leave and new members St. Bonaventure, Rhode Island, Saint Joseph's, and Temple enter, establishing the league with 10 members, the conference adopted the current Atlantic 10 name in 1982.

Expansion, contraction, and football

Further membership changes saw the league expand to its maximum of 16 members. From 1997 through 2006, the league also operated [|a football conference]; during that period, more than 20 schools were participating in A-10 competition in at least one sport. This ended when the A-10 football programs all departed to join a new football conference sponsored by the Colonial Athletic Association. In 2012, Butler joined the conference after leaving the Horizon League and VCU joined after leaving the CAA.

Conference realignments and expanding media presence

Conference realignment in 2013 saw the departure of Temple to the American Athletic Conference, Butler and Xavier to the reconfigured Big East, and Charlotte to Conference USA. George Mason joined from the CAA, and Davidson from the Southern Conference announced it would join in 2014.
The league headquarters is located in Washington, DC. In the Fall of 2023 they relocated the HQ from Newport News, Virginia where it had been located since fall 2009. Prior to that, the headquarters was in Philadelphia, within a few miles of member schools Saint Joseph's and La Salle.
The conference currently has media deals with ESPN, CBS Sports Network, NBC Sports, and digital broadcasts with ESPN+.
On November 16, 2021, Loyola University Chicago announced that its athletic program - the Loyola Ramblers - would leave the Missouri Valley Conference and join the A-10 effective July 1, 2022. On May 23, 2022, the addition of men's lacrosse was announced for the 2023 season. The four full members that sponsor the sport were joined by new affiliate members High Point and Hobart.
On December 14, 2023, the conference announced a five-year media deal with its current affiliates, ESPN, CBS, and NBC. The deal would expand basketball coverage and revenue for the schools. The first year of the new contract is the 2024–2025 season and runs through the 2028–29 season.
In late February 2024, it was announced that the 2024–25 season for UMass sports will be the last season as members of the Atlantic 10. The Minutemen will rejoin the Mid-American Conference as a full member beginning in 2025.

Member schools

Current members

Full members

The following is a list of the full members of the conference and the year they joined:

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment	Endowment	Nickname	Colors
Davidson College	Davidson, North Carolina	1837	2014	Private – Presbyterian	1,843	$1,300	Wildcats
	Dayton, Ohio	1850	1995	Private – Catholic	11,241	$770	Flyers
Duquesne University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	1878	1976; 1993	Private – Catholic	9,274	$472.1	Dukes
Fordham University	Bronx, New York	1841	1995	Private – Catholic	16,515	$972	Rams
George Mason University	Fairfax, Virginia	1957	2013	Public	35,047	$222.2	Patriots
George Washington University	Washington, D.C.	1821	1976	Private – Non-sectarian	28,172	$2,400	Revolutionaries
La Salle University	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1863	1995	Private – Catholic	5,191	$80	Explorers
Loyola University Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	1870	2022	Private – Catholic	16,437	$1,072	Ramblers
	Kingston, Rhode Island	1892	1980	Public	16,883	$203	Rams
	Richmond, Virginia	1840	2001	Private – Non-sectarian	4,002	$3,100	Spiders
		1858	1979	Private – Catholic	2,381	$92.3	Bonnies
Saint Joseph's University	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1851	1982	Private – Catholic	7,589	$378.8	Hawks
Saint Louis University	St. Louis, Missouri	1818	2005	Private – Catholic	12,883	$1,700	Billikens
Virginia Commonwealth University	Richmond, Virginia	1838	2012	Public	31,076	$2,720	Rams

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Associate members

The "joined" column indicates the calendar year in which each school became an A-10 associate, which for spring sports such as lacrosse is the year before the first season of competition.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Primary conference	A-10 sport
	Newark, Delaware	1743	2025	Public	23,774	Blue Hens	CUSA	Men's lacrosse
High Point University	High Point, North Carolina	1924	2022	Private	4,545	Panthers	Big South	Men's lacrosse
Hobart College	Geneva, New York	1822	2022	Private – Nonsectarian	2,105	Statesmen	Liberty	Men's lacrosse
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania	Lock Haven, Pennsylvania	1870	2010	Public	3,425	Bald Eagles	PSAC	Field hockey
	Amherst, Massachusetts	1863	2025	Public	30,593	Minutemen	MAC	Men's lacrosse

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Former members

Former full members

None of these institutions played football in the A-10 during their tenure as full members.
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Former associate members

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Former football-only members

After expansion in the Colonial Athletic Association brought that conference to 6 football-playing schools, it was agreed that the CAA would take over management of the Atlantic 10's football conference starting in the 2007–08 school year as the legally separate entity of CAA Football. All the schools on this list were in the A-10 football conference when it became CAA Football, but Hofstra and Northeastern discontinued their football programs after the 2009–10 school year. Membership dates include time in the Yankee Conference which merged into the A-10 in the 1997–98 school year.

Institution	Location	Founded	Type	Enrollment	Joined	Left	Nickname	Primary conference
Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	1839	Private	29,978	1973–74	1997–98	Terriers	Independent America East Patriot League
	Storrs, Connecticut	1881	Public	25,583	1947–48	1999–2000	Huskies	Independent Big East American Big East
	Newark, Delaware	1743	Public	19,391	1986–87	2006–07	Fightin' Blue Hens	East Coast America East CAA CUSA
Hofstra University	Hempstead, New York	1935	Private	12,400	2001–02	2006–07	Pride	CAA
James Madison University	Harrisonburg, Virginia	1908	Public	19,927	1993–94	2006–07	Dukes	CAA SBC
	Orono, Maine	1865	Public	10,901	1947–48	2006–07	Black Bears	Independent America East
	Durham, New Hampshire	1866	Public	11,942	1947–48	2006–07	Wildcats	Independent America East
Northeastern University	Boston, Massachusetts	1898	Private	12,913	1993–94	2006–07	Huskies	America East CAA
Towson University	Towson, Maryland	1866	Public	21,950	2004–05	2006–07	Tigers	CAA
Villanova University	Villanova, Pennsylvania	1842	Private	10,482	1988–89	2006–07	Wildcats	Big East Big East
	Williamsburg, Virginia	1693	Public	8,258	1993–94	2006–07	Tribe	CAA

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