List of college athletic programs in Mississippi

This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

Notes:

  • This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
    • Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
    • Full name of school.
    • Location of school.
    • Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
  • Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
    • Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school, such as the College of Charleston.
    • Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
    • The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.

NCAA

Division I
TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
Foot-
ball		BasketballBase-
ball		Soft-
ball		Soccer
MWMW
Alcorn State Braves [lower-alpha 1]Alcorn State UniversityLormanSWACFCS
Jackson State Tigers and Lady TigersJackson State UniversityJacksonSWACFCS
Mississippi Rebels [lower-alpha 2]University of MississippiOxfordSECFBS
Mississippi State Bulldogs and Lady BulldogsMississippi State UniversityStarkvilleSECFBS
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and DevilettesMississippi Valley State UniversityItta BenaSWACFCS
Southern Miss Golden Eagles and Lady EaglesThe University of Southern MississippiHattiesburgC-USAFBS
  1. Alcorn State uses no nickname for its women's teams at all, referring to them solely as "Alcorn".
  2. National media generally use "Mississippi" in score listings and on first reference, but will frequently use "Ole Miss" on later reference. The school athletic department prefers "Ole Miss".

Division II
TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
Foot-
ball		BasketballBase-
ball		Soft-
ball		Soccer
MWMW
Delta State Statesmen and Lady StatesmenDelta State UniversityClevelandGulf South
Mississippi College ChoctawsMississippi CollegeClintonGulf South

Division III
TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
Foot-
ball		BasketballBase-
ball		Soft-
ball		Soccer
MWMW
Belhaven BlazersBelhaven UniversityJacksonAmerican Southwest
Millsaps MajorsMillsaps CollegeJacksonSAA
MUW Owls [lower-alpha 1]Mississippi University for WomenColumbusIndependent
  1. As of the 2020–21 academic year, MUW is in the second year of a four-year transition to Division III and will become an active Division III member in 2023–24.

NAIA
TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
BasketballBase-
ball		Soft-
ball		Soccer
MWMW
Blue Mountain ToppersBlue Mountain CollegeBlue MountainSouthern States
Rust BearcatsRust CollegeHolly SpringsGulf Coast [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2]
Tougaloo BulldogsTougaloo CollegeTougalooGulf Coast [lower-alpha 1]
William Carey CrusadersWilliam Carey UniversityHattiesburgSouthern States
  1. Rust and Tougaloo's baseball teams compete as independents.
  2. Rust's softball team competes as an independent.

NJCAA
TeamSchoolCityConference
Coahoma TigersCoahoma Community CollegeClarksdaleMississippi C&JC
Copiah-Lincoln WolvesCopiah-Lincoln Community CollegeWessonMississippi C&JC
East Central WarriorsEast Central Community CollegeDecaturMississippi C&JC
East Mississippi LionsEast Mississippi Community CollegeScoobaMississippi C&JC
Hinds EaglesHinds Community CollegeRaymondMississippi C&JC
Holmes BulldogsHolmes Community CollegeGoodmanMississippi C&JC
Itawamba IndiansItawamba Community CollegeFultonMississippi C&JC
Jones County BobcatsJones County Junior CollegeEllisvilleMississippi C&JC
Meridian EaglesMeridian Community CollegeMeridianIndependent
Mississippi Delta TrojansMississippi Delta Community CollegeMoorheadMississippi C&JC
Mississippi Gulf Coast BulldogsMississippi Gulf Coast Community CollegePerkinstonMississippi C&JC
Northeast Mississippi TigersNortheast Mississippi Community CollegeBoonevilleMississippi C&JC
Northwest Mississippi RangersNorthwest Mississippi Community CollegeSenatobiaMississippi C&JC
Pearl River WildcatsPearl River Community CollegePoplarvilleMississippi C&JC
Southwest Mississippi BearsSouthwest Mississippi Community CollegeSummitMississippi C&JC

References

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