The Atlantic 10 Conference ( A-10 ) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA) Division I . The A-10's member schools are located mostly on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States : Illinois , Massachusetts , Missouri , New York , North Carolina , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , Virginia , and Washington, D.C.
29-601: Mike Stone may refer to: Mike Stone (baseball) (born 1955), American college baseball coach Mike Stone (British Army officer) (born 1953), chief information officer of the British Ministry of Defence Mike Stone (karate) (born 1944), American martial arts competitor and actor Mike Stone (lacrosse) (born 1986), current player for the Boston Cannons Mike Stone (musician) (born 1969), former guitarist for
58-454: 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
87-581: A member of the CAA from 1983 to 2001, to rejoin for football only, because of UR's long-standing in-state rivalries with William & Mary and James Madison. UR accepted the invitation, taking the A-10 football conference below the NCAA minimum of six. Shortly after this, the A-10 football conference opted to disband, with all of its members becoming charter members of the CAA football conference. This league continues to operate under
116-721: A new football conference sponsored by the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA; now known as the Coastal Athletic Association ). In 2012, Butler joined the conference after leaving the Horizon League and VCU joined after leaving the CAA. 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
145-466: A number of intense rivalries within the Atlantic 10, with rivalries that carry over from the Big 5 which includes Saint Joseph's, La Salle, and Temple (now in the American Athletic Conference ). URI and UMass also have a long-standing rivalry. St. Bonaventure and Duquesne also maintain a rivalry that predates their affiliation with the conference. UMass and Temple also had a basketball rivalry while John Chaney
174-459: A transition from Division I-AA to Division I-A football (now Division I FBS) that was completed in 2002 . In 2004 , UConn, already a member of the Big East for other sports, became a football member of that conference. The other schools all remained in the A-10 football conference until the management change after the 2006 season. The 2005 move of Northeastern University , a football-only member of
203-498: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mike Stone (baseball) Mike Stone (born April 29, 1955) is an American college baseball coach, and last served as the head coach of the UMass Minutemen baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 1988 season . Stone retired after the 2017 season. Stone played high school baseball at Taft School , and
232-416: Is made up of private, Catholic institutions. Despite the name, there are 15 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. The Atlantic 10 Conference was founded in 1975 as
261-501: The Big East in 1980 with Pittsburgh following in 1982. Temple joined the A-10 that year. Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1991 (effectively in 1993), and three A-10 members joined the Big East as football-only members: Rutgers, West Virginia, and Temple (only Rutgers and West Virginia would later join the Big East as full members in 1995). Virginia Tech joined the A-10 in 1995 as a result of
290-921: The Eastern Collegiate Basketball League ( ECBL ) 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 (Villanova, Duquesne, Penn State, West Virginia, George Washington, Massachusetts, Pittsburgh, and Rutgers). After changes in membership that saw charter members Villanova and Pittsburgh leave (in 1980 and 1982, respectively) and new members St. Bonaventure (1979), Rhode Island (1980), Saint Joseph's (1982), and Temple (1982) enter, establishing
319-529: 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 (Richmond, St. Bonaventure, Saint Joseph's, UMass) were joined by new affiliate members High Point and Hobart . On December 14, 2023, the conference announced
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#1732855873631348-466: The Mid-American Conference (MAC) as a full member beginning in 2025. The following is a list of the full members of the conference and the year they joined: 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. None of these institutions played football in
377-534: The Yankee Conference , a Division I-AA (now known as Division I FCS) football-only conference. The move was triggered by a change in NCAA rules that reduced the influence of single-sport conferences over NCAA legislation. The following teams were in the Yankee Conference at the time of its demise: Boston University dropped football after the first season of A-10 football. After the 1999 season, UConn started
406-568: The 13th sponsored women's sport in 2024–25. In addition to the 15 full members, two Pennsylvania schools, Lock Haven and Saint Francis , are affiliate members in field hockey. High Point and Hobart became men's lacrosse affiliates in July 2022. The Atlantic 10 Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 12 women's NCAA sanctioned sport. Regular-season champions are indicated with "(RS)" and tournament champions with "(T)". The A-10 began sponsoring football in 1997 when it absorbed
435-615: The 1982 season. He then earned a position as head coach at Vermont , where he remained for five seasons, succeeding Jack Leggett . In his time at Vermont, the Catamounts struggled but finished above .500 in his final season. Stone also earned a master's degree while at Vermont. During his tenure at UMass, the Minutemen have won eight Atlantic 10 Conference regular season crowns, a pair of Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament titles, and seen 36 players sign professional contracts. Stone
464-481: The A-10 during their tenure as full 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 (except Boston U. and Connecticut) were in
493-573: 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 was an all-sports conference from the 1947–48 to 1975–76 seasons, and a football-only conference after that) which merged into the A-10 in the 1997–98 school year. Full members Full members (non-football) Associate members (football only) Assoc. member (list sports) Notes - Virginia Tech did not participate in wrestling. There are
522-440: The A-10, to the Colonial Athletic Association for basketball and Olympic sports began a chain of events that would lead to the demise of the A-10 football conference, at least under the A-10 banner. At that time, the CAA did not sponsor football, but five of its members in the 2004–05 academic year (Delaware, Hofstra, James Madison, Towson, and William & Mary) were football members of the A-10. The addition of Northeastern gave
551-599: The A10. Rivals St. Louis and Dayton play each year in basketball for the Arch-Baron Cup. George Washington and George Mason compete annually in the Revolutionary Rivalry across all sports. In the 2021–22 academic year, the Atlantic 10 Conference sponsors championship competition in ten men's and thirteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports, with lacrosse becoming the 10th sponsored men's sport in 2022–23 and women's golf becoming
580-406: The CAA six schools with football programs, which under NCAA rules allows a conference to sponsor football. Northeastern agreed to join any future CAA football conference, which meant that the A-10 football conference would drop to six members once CAA football began operation. With six football members in place, the CAA decided to start a football conference in 2007. The league then invited Richmond,
609-857: 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 -
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#1732855873631638-489: The administration of the multi-sports CAA, now known as the Coastal Athletic Association , as the legally separate entity of CAA Football (in full, the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference ). A-10 charter members Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, West Virginia, and Villanova played I-A football as independents while members of the A-10 in other sports. Villanova became a member of
667-410: The league with 10 members, the conference adopted the current Atlantic 10 name in 1982. 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
696-455: The merger that created Conference USA . They would then join the Big East as full members in 2000, following the football program which was already a member of the league. Temple remained a football-only member of the Big East until 2004; they would join the MAC for football in 2007 until 2012, and re-joined the Big East in football for the 2012 season. Temple planned to move the rest of its sports into
725-773: The progressive metal band Queensrÿche Mike Stone (radio personality) (born 1958), sports radio broadcaster in Detroit, Michigan, USA Mike Stone (unionist) (1927–2018), American labor union leader Mike C. Stone (born 1970), American businessman and politician from North Carolina Mike Stone (record producer) (1951–2002), English recording engineer and record producer Mike D. Stone (1949–2017), American recording engineer Mike Stone, founder of independent record label Clay Records , Stoke-on-Trent Mike Stone (character) , lead character of The Streets of San Francisco See also [ edit ] Michael Stone (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
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783-629: Was coaching Temple but it has died down a bit since, and even more so now that Temple has left the conference. Due to both teams sharing the Ram mascot, the Fordham - URI rivalry has increased in recent years as the competitions are heralded as "The Battle of the Rams." The long-standing crosstown rivalry between Richmond and VCU, now known as the Capital City Classic , became a conference rivalry with VCU's arrival in
812-619: Was drafted in the third round of the 1974 MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals . He played four seasons in the Cardinals organization, primarily as a catcher, and reached Class-AA, and spent one season in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. After ending his baseball career, Stone played football for UMass while pursuing a degree in physical education. Stone began coaching at Northfield Mount Hermon School , serving as head baseball coach for
841-913: Was named Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year three times in a row from 1994 through 1996. This table shows Stone's record as a college head coach. National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion Atlantic 10 Conference Although some of its members are state-funded, half of its membership
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