West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Definition and Overview

The West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) is a college athletic conference which operates entirely within the U.S. state of West Virginia. It participates in the NCAA's Division II. Within West Virginia, the conference is more often referred to as the WVC.

Its postseason basketball tournament, which was first conducted in 1936, is the oldest college postseason tournament in continuous existence—predating the NCAA tournament (1939), the NIT (1938), and the NAIA national championship (1937).

Member schools

• Alderson-Broaddus College (no football)
• Bluefield State College (no football)
• University of Charleston
• Concord University (WV)
• Davis and Elkins College (no football)
• Fairmont State University
• Glenville State College
• Ohio Valley College (no football)
• Salem International University (no football)
• Shepherd University
• West Liberty State College
• West Virginia State University
• West Virginia University Institute of Technology [=WVU Tech]
• West Virginia Wesleyan College
• Wheeling Jesuit University (no football)

External link

• Official Website of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (http://www.wviac.org/)