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The Patriot League is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I-AA for football and Division I for all other sports. There are seven football members and eight members for basketball and other sports. It was founded in 1986 as the Colonial League but changed its name in 1990 when it expanded to include other sports besides football. Patriot League members are schools with very strong academic reputations that adhere strongly to the ideal of the "scholar-athlete", with the empahasis on "scholar". Out of league play for Patriot League members is typically with members of the Ivy League which follow a similar philosophy regarding athletics. In NCAA basketball, Bucknell is the only team in the conference ever to have recorded NCAA Tournament victories; once in 2005 over Kansas and again in 2006 over Arkansas. The Patriot League was profiled in the John Feinstein book, The Last Amateurs . In it, Feinstein followed all the league's men's basketball teams during the 1999-2000 season. There are eight full-time member schools: There are three part-time member schools:
Army and Navy participate as Division I-A Independents in football, so they do not participate in I-AA Patriot League football. CHAMPIONSHIPS EXTERNAL LINKS |