12 Facts About Patriot League

Patriot League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United States.

Outside the Ivy Patriot League, it is among the most selective groups of higher education institutions in the NCAA, and has a very high student-athlete graduation rate for both the NCAA graduation success rate and the federal graduation rate.

Patriot League has 10 core members: American University, the United States Military Academy, Boston University, Bucknell University, Colgate University, College of the Holy Cross, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Loyola University Maryland, and the United States Naval Academy .

Patriot League members are schools with very strong academic reputations that adhere strongly to the ideal of the "scholar-athlete", with the emphasis on "scholar".

Out-of-league play for Patriot League schools is often with members of the Ivy League, which follow similar philosophies regarding academics and athletics.

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Patriot League members have some of the oldest collegiate athletic programs in the country.

Origins of the Patriot League began after the eight Ivy League schools expanded their football schedules to ten games starting in 1980.

Patriot League's was the first woman and youngest person to be the leader of an NCAA Division I conference.

Patriot League prohibited athletic scholarships for football from its founding until the league presidents voted to approve football scholarships starting with the 2013 recruiting class.

Until 1997, Patriot League teams did not participate in the NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs.

Patriot League was profiled in the John Feinstein book The Last Amateurs .

The title is derived from the belief that the Patriot League was the last Division I basketball league that plays a conference tournament and functions as a place for student-athletes rather than a de facto minor professional circuit with players not representative of their student bodies.