Athletic Conference Great Lakes Valley Conference Great Midwest Athletic Conference Great Northwest Athletic Conference Gulf South Conference Lone Star Conference Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Mountain East Conference Northeast-10 Conference Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Pacific West Conference Peach Belt Conference Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference South Atlantic Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Sunshine State Conference There are expected to be five independent Division II schools without conference affiliations for the 2020–21 season. The most recent change in the list of Division II conferences is the demise of the Heartland Conference, which disbanded at the end of the 2018–19 school year. In 2017, eight of its nine members announced a mass exodus to the Lone Star Conference (LSC) effective in 2019. The remaining member would soon announce that it would become a de facto member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA), and one of the original eight schools to announce a move to the LSC later changed course and chose to become a de facto MIAA member as well. The two schools that moved to the MIAA are technically associate members because they do not sponsor football, a mandatory sport for full conference members. NCAA Division III Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference American Rivers Conference American Southwest Conference Atlantic East Conference Capital Athletic Conference Centennial Conference City University of New York Athletic Conference College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Colonial States Athletic Conference Commonwealth Coast Conference Empire 8 Conference Great Northeast Athletic Conference Great South Athletic Conference Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Landmark Conference Liberty League Little East Conference MAC Commonwealth MAC Freedom Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Midwest Conference Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference New England Collegiate Conference New England Small College Athletic Conference New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference New Jersey Athletic Conference North Atlantic Conference North Coast Athletic Conference North Eastern Athletic Conference Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Northwest Conference Ohio Athletic Conference Old Dominion Athletic Conference Presidents' Athletic Conference St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Skyline Conference Southern Athletic Association Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference State University of New York Athletic Conference University Athletic Association Upper Midwest Athletic Conference USA South Athletic Conference Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Since its introduction in 1973, Division III has always had the lowest share of Black coaches. As of 2015, less than 10% of the coaches in Division III were black (compared to around