COMPETITIVE HIGHLIGHTS

Football

  • 149 teams have earned bowl bids
  • Liberty earned the league’s first New Year’s Six Bowl appearance in 2023, versus Oregon in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl
  • Eligible for the College Football Playoff
  • Conference USA has seven guaranteed bowl selections for the 2025 season and associations with 17 different bowls. CUSA sent five teams to bowl games in 2025 (Bahamas, Boca Raton, Cure, Independence, and New Orleans)

Men's Basketball

  • 152 postseason teams (59 NCAA, 57 NIT, 19 CBI, 14 CIT, 2 LV16)
  • One National Championship title game appearance
  • Four Final Four teams
  • Eight Elite Eight NCAA Tournament teams
  • Two NIT Champions and nine NIT semifinalists
  • Three CBI Champions
  • One CIT Championship
  • Inaugural Las Vegas 16 Champion

Women's Basketball

  • 144 postseason teams (59 NCAA, 74 WNIT, 11 WBI)
  • One Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament team
  • Three WNIT semifinalists
  • Two WBI Champions

Baseball

  • 85 NCAA appearances
  • Six College World Series appearances (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2001)
  • 14 Super Regional appearances
  • Has produced at least four teams in 11 of the past 19 NCAA Tournaments 

Bowling

  • Two-time defending national champion league (Youngstown State in 2025, Jax State in 2024)
  • Produced three of the four teams in the 2025 Final Four after accounting for all four in 2024
  • League earned seven at-large bids in the 2025 NCAA Tournament
  • CUSA occupied seven of the top nine spots in the end-of-season NTCA Coaches Poll; all 10 schools ranked in the top 25

Softball

  • CUSA has sent five teams to the Super Regionals, including Liberty in 2025. The Lady Flames were the first CUSA team to advance past the regional round since 2013 and the first team in NCAA history to eliminate the No. 1 seed in the regional round


The league’s tradition of achievement includes four volleyball teams in the NCAA Sweet 16, five Men’s Soccer College Cup appearances, highlighted by 2020 National Champion Marshall, 41 NCAA track and field titles, one national champion in diving, and numerous NCAA individual and team competitors in beach volleyball, cross country, golf, women’s soccer, swimming, tennis, and track and field. The Michael L. Slive Award, named after the league’s first commissioner, honors the league’s top male and female student-athletes each year.


-Updated June 2025