The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Participating schools are located principally in the Northeastern United States, from which the conference derives its name.
The Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. It is the only Division II collegiate ice hockey conference in the United States.
NCAA Division I independent schools are four-year institutions that compete in college athletics at the NCAA Division I level, but do not belong to an established athletic conference for a particular sport. These schools may however still compete as members of an athletic conference in other sports. A school may also be fully independent, and not belong to any athletic conference for any sport at all. The reason for independent status varies among institutions, but it is frequently because the school's primary athletic conference does not sponsor a particular sport.
This is a list of NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament bids by school, at the conclusion of the 2023 conference tournaments. Schools whose names are italicized are no longer in Division I and can no longer be included in the tournament. The 2020 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was never played due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Stonehill Skyhawks are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Stonehill College, located in Easton, Massachusetts, in NCAA sporting competitions. All current Skyhawk athletic teams compete at the Division I level, with most being members of the Northeast Conference (NEC). Stonehill has been a member of the NEC since 2022.
The Stonehill Skyhawks football team represents Stonehill College in football. Stonehill is a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC). Prior to 2005, Stonehill's athletics teams were known as the Chieftains.
The Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Northeast Conference (NEC). It has been held every year since the NEC was established in the 1981–82 season. The tournament is an eight-team single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The bracket is reseeded after the quarterfinals, with the highest remaining seed playing the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals. The tournament winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA basketball tournament.
The Stonehill Skyhawks men's basketball team, known previously as the Stonehill Chieftains, represents Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, United States. The Skyhawks currently compete in the Division I Northeast Conference on July 1, 2022. Due to the NCAA's policy on reclassifying programs, the Skyhawks will not be eligible to compete in the NCAA tournament or the NIT until the 2026–27 season.
The Stonehill Skyhawks men's ice hockey team represents Stonehill College in NCAA Division I ice hockey. On April 5, 2022, the school announced that they were promoting all of their varsity programs to Division I for the 2022–23 academic year.
Merkert Gymnasium is a multi-purpose arena in Easton, Massachusetts, USA. It is home to the Stonehill College Skyhawks men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams.
The 2022–23 Stonehill Skyhawks men's basketball team represented Stonehill College in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Skyhawks, led by tenth-year head coach Chris Kraus, played their home games at Merkert Gymnasium in Easton, Massachusetts, as first-year members of the Northeast Conference.
The 2022 Stonehill Skyhawks football team represented Stonehill College as a first-year member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) during the 2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Skyhawks, led by six-year head coach Eli Gardner, played their home games at W.B. Mason Stadium. Stonehill was ineligible for NEC title and FCS postseason play due to transition from NCAA Division II.
Patrick John Boen is a baseball coach and former shortstop, who is the current head baseball coach of the Stonehill Skyhawks. He played college baseball at Stonehill from 1986 to 1989. He also was a point guard on the Stonehill men's basketball team.
David Borges is an American ice hockey coach who is currently in charge of the program at Stonehill.
Chris Kraus is a Canadian basketball coach who is the current head coach of the Stonehill Skyhawks men's basketball team.
The 2023–24 Stonehill Skyhawks men's basketball team represents Stonehill College during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Skyhawks, led by 11th-year head coach Chris Kraus, play their home games at Merkert Gymnasium in Easton, Massachusetts as members of the Northeast Conference.
The Stonehill Skyhawks men's soccer team is an NCAA Division I college soccer team composed of students attending Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, United States. The team is a member of the Northeast Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Stonehill's first men's soccer team was fielded in 1962. The team plays its home games at Skyhawk Field on the campus of Stonehill College. The Skyhawks are coached by Jim Reddish. In 2022, the Skyhawks began play in Division I, reclassified from Division II. Prior to 2022, Stonehill was a founding member of the Northeast-10 Conference in NCAA Division II.
