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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.
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 brought the Ohio Valley Conference membership to twelve schools, the most in its history. The OVC dropped to 10 members after the 2020–21 school year, when founding member Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State left for the Atlantic Sun Conference (then branded as the ASUN Conference; "ASUN" is still the official abbreviation).[3] At that time, the OVC was searching for teams to replace both.[4]
The OVC lost three more members after the 2021–22 school year. Football-sponsoring Austin Peay left for the ASUN, which ultimately launched its own football league in 2022.[5] Non-football Belmont left for the Missouri Valley Conference.[6] Another football school, founding member Murray State, left for the MVC. When announcing its move to the MVC, Murray State announced that it was seeking membership in the football-only Missouri Valley Football Conference, and also announced that it would continue to house its rifle team in the OVC.[7] In a separate statement, Murray State's president indicated that the football team would remain in the OVC in the 2022 season, ensuring that the OVC would retain its automatic bid to the FCS playoffs in that season and giving the league more time to add new football members.[8] Murray State would eventually be accepted by the MVFC effective in 2023.[9]
According to a report from Matt Brown of the Extra Points college sports blog, the OVC expected to lose Murray State, and was considering multiple expansion candidates, with Southern Indiana among them. Other schools named by Brown's sources as possible candidates were FCS programs Arkansas–Pine Bluff and Western Illinois, plus potential Division II upgraders Grand Valley State, Hillsdale, and Lincoln Memorial.[13]
Shortly after the 2022 membership changes took effect, the OVC and the Horizon League jointly announced that they would merge their men's tennis leagues under the Horizon banner, effective immediately. All five OVC members that sponsored men's tennis became Horizon affiliates in that sport.[15]
On March 28, 2023, the OVC announced it was adding men's soccer as its 19th championship sport. The four OVC members sponsoring the sport in other conferences were joined by Chicago State University, Houston Christian University, University of the Incarnate Word, and Liberty University.[16] Chicago State was also announced as an incoming men's and women's golf associate on that day.[17] Chicago State's OVC teams will leave the conference at the end of the 2023–24 school year when the university joins the Northeast Conference, which sponsors all of CSU's OVC sports.[18]
On May 12, 2023, it was announced that Western Illinois University would join the OVC from the Summit League in most non-football sports beginning for the 2023 season. Western Illinois football, which was then a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, played the 2023 season in that league before joining the university's other sports in the OVC for the 2024 season.[19] Western later announced its men's soccer team would also play the 2023 season in its former all-sports home of the Summit League before joining the OVC in 2024.[20]
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.[21] This website carried 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 1,400 events.[22]
In the 2018–19 school year, the coverage previously carried on the OVC Digital Network was switched over to ESPN+.
^Postal address; the campus actually lies in unincorporated Vanderburgh County.
^The Tennessee State men's basketball team joined the OVC a year after becoming a full member for other sports (1987–88); while its football team joined the OVC two years after (1988–89).
Affiliate members
Years listed in this table are calendar years. For schools that play only spring sports (such as beach volleyball) in the OVC, the calendar year of arrival precedes the first season of competition.
^Since leaving the OVC, ETSU has dropped the word "Lady" from its women's team nicknames.
^Marshall left the OVC to become an Independent for one year prior to joining the Mid-American Conference (MAC) effective with the 1953–54 school year.
^Western Kentucky rejoined the OVC for football only in the 1999 and 2000 football seasons (1999–2000 and 2000–01 school years).
^Columbus State dropped rifle after the 2014–15 school year.
^Measured from Murray State's departure as a full OVC member.
Membership timeline
Full members (all sports) Full members (non-football) Associate members (football-only) Associate members (other) Other Conference Other Conference
Comments
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.
Austin Peay's football team left the OVC after the 1996 season to compete as an NCAA D-I FCS Independent. After four seasons as an Independent, the team joined the Pioneer Football League in 2001, and remained there through the 2005 season. Austin Peay then returned to scholarship football, spending the 2006 season as an Independent before re-entering OVC football competition in 2007.
Conference divisions
Starting with the 2012–13 school year, the twelve member schools were split into two divisions for those sports where all schools competed. In the 2014–15 season, women's sports with twelve teams returned to a single league table, while continuing to play a divisional schedule. Men's basketball moved to an 18-game schedule in 2017–18, and they continued to play home-and-home versus the former divisional rivals, and they play home-and-home versus two teams from the other division, with those opponents on a rotation that sets up different pairs from year-to-year. The OVC returned to a single-table format after Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State left in 2021.
East Division
West Division
Belmont
Austin Peay
Eastern Kentucky
Eastern Illinois
Jacksonville State
Murray State
Morehead State
SIU Edwardsville
Tennessee State
Southeast Missouri
Tennessee Tech
UT Martin
Sports offered
The Ohio Valley Conference currently offers championship competition in 19 NCAA sanctioned sports, with eight for men, 10 for women, and rifle for men's, women's, and coed teams.[24]
^Rifle is technically a men's sport, but men's, women's, and coed teams all compete against each other.
^ abAt the conclusion of the 2023-24 season Lindenwood will drop Men's Lacrosse, swimming & diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track & field, and wrestling.
^Morehead State football competes at the non-scholarship FCS level in the Pioneer Football League.
^Rodeo is sanctioned by the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA), not the NCAA.
^ abcdAt the conclusion of the 2023-24 season Lindenwood will drop Men's Lacrosse, swimming & diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track & field, and wrestling.
^Rifle is technically a men's sport, but men's, women's, and coed teams all compete against each other. All competing OVC schools have coed teams, and UT Martin has both a women's and a coed team.
^Tennessee State plans to begin sponsoring women's soccer by no later than 2028.[25]
Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Ohio Valley Conference which are played by OVC schools
^"OVC History". Ohio Valley Conference. July 28, 2009. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
^"Staff Directory". Ohio Valley Conference/Sidearm Sports. July 29, 2009. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
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