Southern Conference


The Southern Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the [NCAA NCAA Division I|Division I College football|Football Championship Subdivision|Football Championship Subdivision]. Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Established in 1921, the Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college athletic conference in the United States, and either the third or fourth oldest in continuous operation, depending on definitions.
The Southern Conference is considered one of the stronger football conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision and is considered a mid-major conference in basketball. The three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers were a member of the conference when they stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines [2007 Appalachian State University|Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game|34–32] on September 1, 2007. The Davidson Wildcats reached the Elite Eight in the Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Wisconsin. More recently, the six-time Division I NCAA football champion Georgia Southern Eagles stunned Southeastern Conference power-house Florida Gators 26–20 in The Swamp on November 23, 2013—the first loss to a lower-division opponent in the Florida program's history. In 2015, Furman defeated UCF 16–15 and The Citadel topped [South Carolina South Carolina Gamecocks|Gamecocks football|South Carolina] 23–22 for their second win over the Gamecocks in the past three meetings. On September 4, 2021, [East University of Tennessee|Tennessee State Buccaneers football|East Tennessee State University] stunned Vanderbilt 23–3 in their opening game. The SoCon also frequently sees multiple teams selected to participate in the NCAA Division I baseball championship.
The SoCon was the first conference to use the three-point field goal in basketball in a November 29, 1980, game at [Western Carolina Western Carolina Catamounts|Catamounts men's basketball|Western Carolina] against Middle Tennessee State University, where Ronnie Carr shot the historic shot from away and the Catamounts won 77–70.

History

Wallace Wade1951–1960
Lloyd Jordon1960–1973
Ken Germann1974–1986
Dave Hart1986–1991
Wright Waters1991–1998
Alfred B. White1998–2001
Danny Morrison2001–2005
John Iamarino2006–2019
Jim Schaus2019–2023
Michael Cross2023–present

Talks of a new conference for Southern athletics had started as early as fall of 1920. The conference was formed on February 25, 1921, in Atlanta as fourteen member institutions split from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Southern Conference charter members were Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, [University of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|North Carolina at Chapel Hill|North Carolina], North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee. In 1922, six more universities—Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt joined the conference. The first year of competition for the conference was in 1922, effective January 1. The new rules banned freshman play. Later additions included Sewanee, Virginia Military Institute, and Duke.
The SoCon is particularly notable for having spawned two other major conferences. In 1932, the 13 schools located south and west of the Appalachians all departed the SoCon to form the Southeastern Conference. In 1953, seven additional schools withdrew from the SoCon to form the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC and SEC have gone on to surpass their parent conference in prestige; while the ACC and SEC are considered "power" conferences in Division I FBS, the SoCon dropped to Division I-AA in 1982, four years after the top division was split into two levels in 1978.
The SoCon became the first league to hold a post-season basketball tournament to decide a conference champion. Although first played in 1921, it did not become "official" until 1922, and in its first few years included teams which were not conference members. Held at the Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta from February 24 to March 2, 1922, the first meeting was won by North Carolina who defeated non-member Mercer in the Finals 40–25. The SoCon Basketball Tournament continues as the nation's oldest conference tournament. The next-oldest tournament overall is the SEC men's basketball tournament, founded in 1933, but that event was suspended after its 1952 edition and did not resume until 1979. With the demise of the Division II West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2013, whose tournament had been continuously held since 1936, the next-oldest conference tournament in continuous existence is now the ACC men's basketball tournament, first held in 1954.

Member schools

Current full members

The all-sports membership changed to 10 schools in 2014 following the departure of Appalachian State, Davidson, Elon, and Georgia Southern, plus the arrival of East Tennessee State, Mercer, and VMI. The current football membership stands at nine. UNC Greensboro does not sponsor football, while ETSU relaunched its previously dormant football program in 2015 and rejoined SoCon football in 2016 after one season as an [NCAA Division I FCS NCAA Division I FCS independent schools|independent schools|independent].
The 10 members of the Southern Conference are:
InstitutionLocationFoundedJoinedTypeEnrollmentEndowment
NicknameColors
University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaChattanooga, Tennessee18861976Public11,728$195Mocs
The CitadelCharleston, South Carolina18421936Senior Military College3,693$423.6Bulldogs
East Tennessee State UniversityJohnson City, Tennessee19112014Public9,151$87.8Buccaneers
Furman UniversityGreenville, South Carolina18261936Private2,629$812Paladins
Mercer UniversityMacon, Georgia18332014Private9,026$502Bears
Samford UniversityHomewood, Alabama18412008Private5,729$403.5Bulldogs
University of North Carolina at GreensboroGreensboro, North Carolina18911997Public19,764$368.6Spartans
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, Virginia18392014Senior Military College1,772$703.1Keydets
Western Carolina UniversityCullowhee, North Carolina18891976Public12,243$130Catamounts
Wofford CollegeSpartanburg, South Carolina18541997Private1,773$417.4Terriers

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Associate members

On January 9, 2014, the SoCon and Atlantic Sun Conference announced a new alliance in lacrosse that took effect with the 2015 spring season. Under its terms, sponsorship of men's lacrosse shifted from the ASUN to the SoCon, while women's lacrosse sponsorship remained with the ASUN. Bellarmine, which had announced it would join the ASUN for men's lacrosse for the 2015 spring season, instead joined the SoCon. The alliance remains in effect in men's lacrosse, but the leagues amicably ended their full alliance in women's lacrosse once the SoCon began sponsoring that sport in the 2018 spring season. However, the conferences maintained their working relationship in women's lacrosse, with the SoCon adding Coastal Carolina as an associate member effective with the 2021 spring season in order to keep both conferences at five women's lacrosse members for 2021. Coastal was intended to play in SoCon women's lacrosse in the 2022 spring season as well, but the SoCon decided to drop the sport after the 2021 spring season. While no formal announcement was made, the SoCon–ASUN women's lacrosse partnership definitively ended at that time, as the three full SoCon members who sponsored women's lacrosse moved that sport to the Big South Conference. Coastal and Delaware State both returned women's lacrosse to the ASUN Conference.
The men's lacrosse partnership took a slightly different form from the 2022 spring season forward, as the ASUN reinstated its men's lacrosse league. The two full ASUN members with men's lacrosse programs separated, with Jacksonville remaining in SoCon men's lacrosse while Bellarmine joined the ASUN men's lacrosse league. SoCon associate Air Force also left for ASUN men's lacrosse. The SoCon maintained its automatic NCAA tournament berth with the addition of Hampton.
Before the addition of Hampton men's lacrosse, the most recent addition to the associate membership was Presbyterian wrestling, which joined during summer 2019. Two women's lacrosse members, Central Michigan and Detroit Mercy, left after the 2020 season to join the new women's lacrosse league of Central's full-time home of the Mid-American Conference; this move contributed to the eventual demise of the SoCon women's lacrosse league.
Men's soccer member Belmont left the SoCon after the 2021–22 school year when it joined the Missouri Valley Conference, which sponsors that sport. At the same time, Hampton moved men's lacrosse to its new full-time home of the Colonial Athletic Association, now known as the Coastal Athletic Association.
The addition of men's lacrosse by the Atlantic 10 Conference, announced on May 23, 2022, led to the demise of the SoCon men's lacrosse league after the 2022 season. In addition to Hampton joining the CAA, SoCon associate members High Point and Richmond moved to the A-10, and Jacksonville returned to ASUN men's lacrosse.
In the table below, the "Joined" column denotes the start of the school year in which the institution became an associate member, which for spring sports differs from the first season of competition.
InstitutionLocationFoundedJoinedTypeEnrollmentNicknameColorsSportPrimary conference
Birmingham, Alabama19692016Public18,568BlazersrifleAmerican
Appalachian State UniversityBoone, North Carolina1899201420,641MountaineerswrestlingSun Belt-
Bellarmine UniversityLouisville, Kentucky19502020Private3,846KnightswrestlingASUN
Campbell UniversityBuies Creek, North Carolina18872011Private11,241Fighting CamelswrestlingCAA
Davidson CollegeDavidson, North Carolina18372014Private1,850WildcatswrestlingAtlantic 10
Gardner–Webb UniversityBoiling Springs, North Carolina19052011Private5,000Runnin' BulldogswrestlingBig South
Georgia Southern UniversityStatesboro, Georgia19062016Public20,517EaglesrifleSun Belt
Dahlonega, Georgia18732016Public16,064[North University of Georgia|Georgia Nighthawks|Nighthawks]riflePeach Belt
Presbyterian CollegeClinton, South Carolina18802019Private1,403Blue HosewrestlingBig South

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Future associate members

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Former full members

Most former members are currently members of either the Southeastern Conference or the Atlantic Coast Conference. Two of the former full members, Appalachian State and Davidson, maintain SoCon associate membership in wrestling. A third former full member, Georgia Southern, became an associate member in rifle when the SoCon added the sport for the 2016–17 school year.
InstitutionLocationFoundedJoinedLeftNicknameColorsCurrent
conference
Tuscaloosa, Alabama183119211932Crimson TideSEC
Appalachian State UniversityBoone, North Carolina189919712014MountaineersSun Belt
Auburn UniversityAuburn, Alabama185619211932TigersSEC
Charleston, South Carolina177019982013[College of College of Charleston|Charleston Cougars|Cougars]CAA
Clemson UniversityClemson, South Carolina188919211953TigersACC
Davidson CollegeDavidson, North Carolina183719361988WildcatsAtlantic 10
Davidson CollegeDavidson, North Carolina183719922014WildcatsAtlantic 10
Duke UniversityDurham, North Carolina183819281953Blue DevilsACC
East Carolina UniversityGreenville, North Carolina190719641976PiratesAmerican
Elon UniversityElon, North Carolina188920032014PhoenixCAA
Gainesville, Florida185319221932GatorsSEC
George Washington UniversityWashington, D.C.182119411970ColonialsAtlantic 10
Athens, Georgia178519211932BulldogsSEC
Georgia Southern UniversityStatesboro, Georgia190619922014EaglesSun Belt
Atlanta, Georgia188519211932Yellow JacketsACC
Lexington, Kentucky186519211932WildcatsSEC
Louisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge, Louisiana186019221932TigersSEC
Marshall UniversityHuntington, West Virginia183719761997Thundering HerdSun Belt
College Park, Maryland185619231953TerrapinsBig Ten
Oxford, Mississippi184819221932RebelsSEC
Mississippi State UniversityStarkville, Mississippi187819211932BulldogsSEC
Chapel Hill, North Carolina178919211953Tar HeelsACC
North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, North Carolina188719211953WolfpackACC
Richmond, Virginia183019361976SpidersAtlantic 10
Sewanee: The University
of the South
Sewanee, Tennessee185719231932TigersSAA
Columbia, South Carolina180119221953GamecocksSEC
Knoxville, Tennessee179419211932VolunteersSEC
Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, Louisiana183419221932Green WaveAmerican
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Tennessee187319221932CommodoresSEC
Charlottesville, Virginia181919211937CavaliersACC
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia187219211965HokiesACC
Wake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, North Carolina183419361953Demon DeaconsACC
Washington and Lee UniversityLexington, Virginia174919211958GeneralsODAC
West Virginia UniversityMorgantown, West Virginia186719501968MountaineersBig 12
Williamsburg, Virginia169319361977TribeCAA

Former associate members

In the table below, the "Joined" and "Left" columns denotes the calendar year in which each school joined and left the SoCon. For fall sports, the year of departure differs from the final year of competition. For spring sports, the year of arrival differs from the first season of competition.

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Sports

The Southern Conference sponsors championship competition in 11 men's, 9 women's, and one co-educational NCAA-sanctioned sports. Five schools are associate members for wrestling. Under a cooperative agreement with the ASUN Conference, the SoCon began sponsoring men's lacrosse in the 2014–15 school year with three full members and four associates. SoCon men's lacrosse has since added Air Force. Women's lacrosse was sponsored by the ASUN through the 2017 season, after which the SoCon launched its own women's lacrosse league. Beginning in the 2016–17 academic year, after a 30-year hiatus, the SoCon resumed rifle as its 21st sport. Members for conference competition are full members The Citadel, VMI, and Wofford as well as associate members UAB, Georgia Southern, and North Georgia. The SoCon is one of only two all-sports conferences to sponsor rifle, joining the Ohio Valley Conference. Rifle is technically a men's sport for NCAA purposes, but men's, women's, and co-ed teams all compete against each other. Women's lacrosse was added as the 22nd sport for 2017–18, but was dropped after the 2020–21 school year.
The SoCon dropped men's lacrosse after the 2022 season. Affiliate member Hampton joined the Colonial Athletic Association, which sponsors that sport, and the Atlantic 10 Conference, full-time home to men's lacrosse affiliate Richmond, launched a men's lacrosse league in the 2023 season, also taking in another SoCon affiliate in High Point. With SoCon men's lacrosse being gutted by these changes, VMI moved that sport to its former men's lacrosse home of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, and the two remaining men's lacrosse members, Jacksonville and Mercer, moved that sport to the ASUN.
SportMen'sWomen'sCo-ed
Baseball8
Basketball108
Cross Country1010
Football9
Golf89
Rifle233
Soccer610
Softball8
Tennis88
Track and Field (Indoor)99
Track and Field (Outdoor)910
Volleyball9
Wrestling9

Men's sponsored sports by school

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Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Southern Conference which are played by SoCon schools:
SchoolLacrosseSwimming &
diving
MercerASUNNo
VMINECAmerica East

Women's sponsored sports by school

;Notes
Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Southern Conference which are played by SoCon schools:
SchoolBeach volleyballLacrosseSwimming &
diving
Water polo
ChattanoogaOVCNoNoNo
FurmanNoBig SouthNoNo
MercerSun BeltBig SouthNoNo
Tennessee TechOVCNoNoNo
VMINoNoAmerica EastMAAC
WoffordNoBig SouthNoNo

Facilities

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Conference champions

Football

This is a list of recent champions. For the full history, see List of Southern Conference football champions.
YearChampionRecord
2014Chattanooga7–0
2015Chattanooga
The Citadel
6–1
2016The Citadel8–0
2017Wofford7–1
2018East Tennessee State
Furman
Wofford
6–2
2019Wofford7–1
2020VMI6–1
2021East Tennessee State7–1
2022Samford8–0
2023Furman7–1
2024Mercer10–2

Automatic bid to NCAA Division I Football Championship

Men's basketball

This is a partial list of the last 10 regular-season and tournament champions. For the full history, see List of Southern Conference men's basketball champions.
YearRegular season championRecordTournament champion
2015–16Chattanooga15–3Chattanooga
2016–17East Tennessee State
UNC Greensboro
Furman
14–4East Tennessee State
2017–18UNC Greensboro15–3UNC Greensboro
2018–19Wofford18–0Wofford
2019–20East Tennessee State16–2East Tennessee State
2020–21UNC Greensboro13–5UNC Greensboro
2021–22Chattanooga14–4Chattanooga
2022–23Furman
Samford
15–3Furman
2023–24Samford15–3Samford
2024–25Chattanooga15–3Wofford

Women's basketball

This is a partial list of the last 10 tournament champions. For the full history, see Southern Conference women's basketball tournament
YearChampion
2016Chattanooga
2017Chattanooga
2018Mercer
2019Mercer
2020Samford
2021Mercer
2022Mercer
2023Chattanooga
2024Chattanooga
2025UNC Greensboro

Baseball

''This is a partial list of the last 10 champions. For the full history, see Southern Conference baseball tournament.''

Men's Lacrosse

YearChampion
2015High Point
2016Air Force
2017Air Force
2018Richmond
2019Richmond
2020Not Held
2021High Point

Commissioner's and Germann Cups

The Commissioner's and Germann Cups are awarded each year to the top men's and women's program in the conference. The Commissioner's Cup was inaugurated in 1970. The Germann Cup, named for former Southern Conference Commissioner Ken Germann, was first awarded in 1987. The completion of the 2013–2014 athletics season saw Appalachian State winning its 33rd Commissioner's Cup and Furman its 13th Germann Cup.
YearCommissioner's CupGermann Cup
1969–70East Carolina
William & Mary
1970–71William & Mary
1971–72William & Mary
1972–73William & Mary
1973–74East Carolina
1974–75East Carolina
1975–76William & Mary
1976–77East Carolina
1977–78Appalachian State
1978–79Appalachian State
1979–80Appalachian State
1980–81Appalachian State
1981–82Appalachian State
1982–83East Tennessee State
1983–84Appalachian State
1984–85Appalachian State
1985–86Appalachian State
1986–87Appalachian StateAppalachian State
1987–88Appalachian StateAppalachian State
1988–89Appalachian StateAppalachian State
1989–90Appalachian StateAppalachian State
1990–91FurmanAppalachian State
1991–92Appalachian StateAppalachian State
1992–93Appalachian StateFurman
1993–94Appalachian StateFurman
1994–95Appalachian StateFurman
1995–96Appalachian StateFurman
1996–97Appalachian StateFurman
1997–98Appalachian StateFurman
1998–99Appalachian StateFurman
1999–00Appalachian StateFurman
2000–01Appalachian StateFurman
2001–02Appalachian StateFurman
2002–03Appalachian StateFurman
2003–04Appalachian StateFurman
2004–05ChattanoogaCollege of Charleston
2005–06Appalachian StateAppalachian State
2006–07Appalachian StateAppalachian State
2007–08Appalachian StateChattanooga
2008–09Appalachian StateCollege of Charleston
2009–10Appalachian StateSamford
2010–11Appalachian StateAppalachian State
2011–12Appalachian StateCollege of Charleston
2012–13Appalachian StateAppalachian State
2013–14Appalachian StateFurman
2014–15ChattanoogaSamford
2015–16East Tennessee StateFurman
2016–17East Tennessee StateFurman
2017–18East Tennessee StateFurman
2018–19East Tennessee StateFurman
2020–21FurmanSamford
2021–22East Tennessee StateSamford
2022–23SamfordSamford
2023–24SamfordSamford

Relevant literature