This is part of an ongoing series covering various college realignment news for all three NCAA Divisions as well as the NAIA. The roundup below will cover news and reports since October 31, 2025, and provide updates on previously discussed topics. As a reminder, all official moves starting with the 2025-26 academic year can be found here and those starting in 2026-27 are here. We’ll break out the reports for each Division in the following order: Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, and NAIA. Clicking the links will bring you to the corresponding section.
| School(s)/Conference | News Item |
|---|---|
| Monroe University | Joining NCAA and Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference |
| Pac-12 Conference | Media Rights Deal with USA Sports |
| Trinity Christian College | School Closing |
NCAA Division 1 News
Pac-12 Adds USA Sports to Media Rights Package
The Pac-12 Conference and USA Sports agreed to a five-year media rights deal starting in the 2026-27 academic year and lasting through the 2030-31 academic year. USA Sports will air 22 regular season football games, 50 regular season men’s basketball games, and 5 to 10 regular season women’s basketball games. The deal also gives USA Sports the rights to all of the men’s basketball championship rounds, except the Championship game, which will continue to be broadcast by CBS. The Pac-12 previously announced it would partner with CBS and extended its current rights deal with The CW through the 2030-31 academic year.
NCAA Division 2 News
CACC Adds Monroe University
The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) added Monroe University (New Rochelle, New York) as its next full member starting with the 2026-27 academic year. Monroe is currently a four-year institution, but as a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), the athletic teams are only open to freshmen and sophomores. All of Monroe’s current teams will join the CACC in 2026-27, except for men’s volleyball, which isn’t sponsored by the conference. The CACC will have 12 full members when Monroe joins.
NCAA Division 3 News
There were no news stories for NCAA Division 3.
NAIA News
Trinity Christian Closing
Trinity Christian College (Palos Heights, Illinois) will close at the end of the 2025-26 academic year. Trinity Christian is a member of the NAIA’s Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference, which is slated to have 12 members for 2026-27. The CCAC has seen several membership changes over the last five years. Robert Morris University in Chicago merged with Roosevelt University at the start of the 2020-21 academic year. Roosevelt later left the CCAC and moved up to NCAA Division 2 in 2024-25. Lincoln College (Lincoln, Illinois) closed in 2022, Trinity International University (Deerfield, Illinois) moved to online-only classes in 2023, and Cardinal Stritch University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) closed in 2023.
Trinity Christian announced it has teach-out agreements in place with Calvin University (Grand Rapids, Michigan), as well as fellow CCAC members Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, Illinois) and Saint Xavier University (Chicago, Illinois). The college also stated in the FAQs that it plans to continue offering all athletics through the end of the 2025-26 academic year, but that could change for some sports as the end of the semester approaches and current students consider their transfer options.
Trinity Christian becomes the second NAIA school to announce its closure this academic year. Siena Heights University (Adrian, Michigan) will also close at the end of the 2025-26 academic year. Below is a table showing the NCAA and NAIA schools that have announced they would close or discontinue athletics. Southwest Virginia Community College (Cedar Bluff, Virginia) also announced it would discontinue athletics after the 2025-26 academic year.
| School | Affiliation | Status | Effective Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy of Art | NCAA D2 – Pacific West | Dropping Athletics | 2025-26 |
| Bryn Athyn | NCAA D3 – United East | Dropping Athletics | 2025-26 |
| Cal Maritime* | NAIA – Cal Pac | Merging with Cal Poly | 2026-27 |
| Concordia Ann Arbor | NAIA – WHAC | Dropping Athletics | 2025-26 |
| Fontbonne | NCAA D3 – SLIAC | Closing | 2025-26 |
| Limestone | NCAA D2 – South Atlantic | Closing | 2025-26 |
| Multnomah | NAIA – CCC | Dropping Athletics | 2025-26 |
| Northland College | NCAA D3 – UMAC | Closing | 2025-26 |
| Providence Christian | NAIA – Cal Pac | Dropping Athletics | 2025-26 |
| Rosemont College | NCAA D3 – United East | Merging with Villanova | 2026-27 |
| Siena Heights | NAIA – WHAC | Closing | 2026-27 |
| Sonoma State | NCAA D2 – CCAA | Dropping Athletics* | 2025-26 |
| Southwest Virginia CC | NJCAA | Dropping Athletics | 2026-27 |
| St. Andrews | NAIA – Appalachian | Closing | 2025-26 |
| Trinity Christian (IL) | NAIA – CCAC | Closing | 2026-27 |
Photo courtesy of Monroe University