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- ↑ "All-Time Division III Football Championship Records" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
- ↑ "DIII Management Council supports expanding football, team sport brackets". NCAA (Press release). April 18, 2024.
- ↑ "An Isolated Conference in an Age of Expansion". 27 October 2019.
- ↑ "Long Island University Announces Unification Into One LIU Division I Program" (Press release). LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds. October 3, 2018. Archived from the original on October 11, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Welcome to the Shark Tank: Long Island University Chooses the Shark as New Mascot" (Press release). Long Island University. May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
