Horizon League Network
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| Established | 1979 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I non-football |
| Members | 10 |
| Sports fielded | 19 (men's: 9; women's: 10) |
| Region | Great Lakes and Ohio Valley |
| Former names | Midwestern City Conference (1979–1985) Midwestern Collegiate Conference (1985–2001) |
| Headquarters | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Commissioner | Jonathan B. LeCrone (since 1992) |
| Website | www |
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| Horizon League Network | |
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| Launched | 2006 |
| Owned by | Horizon League |
| Picture format | 720p |
| Country | United States |
| Broadcast area | Webcast |
| Headquarters | Indianapolis, Indiana |
The Horizon League is a 10-school collegiate athletic conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, whose members are located in and near the Midwestern United States.
The Horizon League was founded in 1979 as the Midwestern City Conference. In 1985, the conference changed its name to Midwestern Collegiate Conference and then the Horizon League in 2001. The conference started with a membership of six teams and has fluctuated in size with 24 different schools as members at different times. Currently, the League has 10 members, following Valparaiso leaving to join the Missouri Valley Conference and IUPUI joining the league on July 1, 2017.
The Horizon League does not sponsor football.
In May 1978, DePaul University hosted a meeting with representatives from Bradley, Dayton, Detroit, Illinois State, Loyola-Chicago, Air Force, and Xavier in which all agreed in principle that a new athletic conference was needed. Further progress was made through a series of early 1979 meetings in San Francisco, Chicago, and St. Louis that included participation by Butler, Creighton, Marquette, and Oral Roberts. On June 16, 1979, the Midwestern City Conference (nicknamed the MCC or Midwestern City 6) was formed by charter members Butler, Evansville, Loyola, Oklahoma City, Oral Roberts, and Xavier, with Detroit joining the following year.
In 1980 the league established its headquarters in Champaign, Illinois. The MCC gained an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1981, followed by the announcement that Saint Louis University would be joining the following season. The University of Notre Dame joined the conference for all sports except basketball and football in 1982. The conference attained automatic qualification for the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship in 1984 and the conference moved its headquarters to Indianapolis. In the summer of 1985, three changes occurred: Oklahoma City dropped out of the NCAA altogether; the name was altered slightly to Midwestern Collegiate Conference; and the conference brought women's athletics into the fold. The latter triggered Notre Dame's temporary withdrawal from the league as its women's teams were contracted to the North Star Conference. ESPN began televising the MCC Championship game in 1986 and in 1987 Oral Roberts left the conference while Dayton joined and Notre Dame rejoined. In 1989, the conference received its first at-large bid to the men's basketball tournament and automatic qualification to the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship. The conference won an automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 1991 and the conference lost members Marquette and Saint Louis. Duquesne and La Salle joined the MCC in 1992, the same year the conference gained an automatic berth to the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship. Duquesne and Dayton left the conference in 1993.
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