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The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is a conference participating in the NCAA's Division II. It was founded in 1909 as the Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference and has had a very convoluted membership history.
From 1972 to 1975, the conference experimented with a two-conference umbrella organization, the Mountain and Plains Intercollegiate Athletic Association. In 1967, the RMAC split into two divisions, the Mountain Division and the Plains Division. In 1972, the divisions were re-incorporated as separate conferences, the former retaining the RMAC name and the latter calling itself the Great Plains Athletic Conference:
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Great Plains Athletic Conference Adams State
Colorado Mines
Fort Lewis
Regis
Southern Utah
Western New Mexico
Western State
Westminster (UT)Colorado State - Pueblo
Emporia State
Fort Hays State
Nebraska - Omaha
Northern Colorado
Pittsburg State
Washburn
When the MPIAA dissolved in 1976 due to financial difficulties, CSU-Pueblo transferred to the RMAC, Northern Colorado became an independent, and the two conferences terminated their formal association.
Current members[]
While the RMAC has split its basketball teams into divisions in the past, it currently operates a single league table.
- Adams State (joined in 1956)
- Black Hills State (joined in 2012)
- Chadron State (joined in 1989)
- Colorado Christian (joined in 1996)
- Colorado - Colorado Springs (joined in 1996)
- Colorado Mesa (joined in 1975)
- Colorado Mines (charter member)
- Colorado State - Pueblo (joined in 1967, joined GPAC in 1972, rejoined RMAC in 1976, withdrew in 1990, rejoined again in 1996)
- Fort Lewis (joined in 1967, partially withdrew in 1990, rejoined in 1994)
- Metropolitan State (joined in 1996)
- New Mexico Highlands (joined in 1968, withdrew in 1969, rejoined in 1974, withdrew again in 1988, rejoined again in 1991)
- Regis (joined in 1967, withdrew in 1983, rejoined in 1996)
- South Dakota Mines (joined in 2014)
- Western Colorado (joined in 1924)
- Westminster (UT) (joined in 1967, left in 1979, rejoined in 2015)
Former members[]
- BYU (1918-1937)
- Colorado (1909-1937)
- Colorado College (1909-1910, 1914-1967)
- Colorado State (1909-1937)
- Denver (1910-1937, 1997-1998)
- Dixie State (2018–2020)
- Emporia State (1967-1972, GPAC from 1972-1976)
- Fort Hays State (1967–1972, GPAC from 1972–1976, 1989–2006)
- Idaho State (1948-1958)
- Montana State (1917-1959)
- Nebraska - Kearney (1989–1990, 1994–2012)
- Nebraska - Omaha (1967-1972, GPAC from 1972-1976)
- Northern Colorado (1924-1972, GPAC from 1972-1976)
- Pittsburg State (1967-1972, GPAC from 1972-1976)
- Southern Utah (1967-1986)
- Utah (1912-1937)
- Utah State (1914-1937)
- Washburn (1967-1972, GPAC from 1972-1976)
- Wayne State (NE) (1989-1990)
- Western New Mexico (1967–1990, 1996–2016)
- Wyoming (1921-1937)