Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was to start men's volleyball competition in 2021 with 6 newly launched teams, making those schools the first historically black institutions to sponsor varsity men's volleyball. The SIAC chose not to compete in 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns, delaying the launch of men's volleyball to the 2022 season. During the 2021–22 offseason, the SIAC men's volleyball roster lost one of its intended 6 members when Paine left the NCAA, but kept its membership at 6 with the addition of men's volleyball by incoming SIAC member Edward Waters. Eleven D-II schools compete as men's volleyball independents. Three of these are campuses of the University of Puerto Rico. Of the remaining independents, only Coker and Limestone had sponsored the sport before the 2016 season. The others are Alderson Broaddus (2016), Lincoln Memorial (2017), Tusculum (2020), American International, Maryville (MO) (both 2022), and Missouri S&T (2023). Two schools, one each in Division I and Division II, launched National Collegiate men's volleyball programs for the 2023 season. Transitional D-I member Merrimack is one of eight inaugural members of the NEC men's volleyball league. Missouri S&T, a full member of the D-II Great Lakes Valley Conference, is competing as an independent for the time being. In the 2021–22 school year, the GLVC had five men's volleyball schools; the launch of the S&T program maintained the conference's level of men's volleyball sponsorship after Lindenwood's July 2022 departure for the Ohio Valley Conference (which sponsors volleyball only for women). Five additional schools, all either current Division II members or transitioning to D-II, will add National Collegiate programs in the near future: Full D-II members Roberts Wesleyan and St. Thomas Aquinas will add programs in the 2024 season. Thomas More, an NAIA men's volleyball school which started a transition to D-II in 2022–23, will fully align with the NCAA for the 2024 season. Full D-II member Rockhurst will add men's volleyball in the 2025 season. Menlo, also an NAIA men's volleyball school, is planing to start a transition from the NAIA to D-II in 2023–24 and fully align with the NCAA for the 2025 season. Division II does not have a separate national championship, and neither Division I nor II has a sufficient number of teams to sponsor a national championship without the other. Champions †Vacated due to NCAA violations Team titles All-time record Source: as of end of 2022 tournament indicates schools belong