Indiana Collegiate Conference
| Indiana Collegiate Conference | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1950 |
| Dissolved | 1979 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division II |
| Members | 8 (final), 13 (total) |
| Sports fielded | 9 |
| Region | Wabash-Ohio River Valley |
| Headquarters | Terre Haute, Indiana |
| Commissioner | Jim Hinga (1970–1978) |
The Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) was a college athletic conference in the United States from 1951 to 1979. It consisted solely of schools in Indiana.
The charter members of the conference were Indiana State University, Butler University, Valparaiso University, the University of Evansville, Ball State University, Saint Joseph's College (Indiana), and in 1953 DePauw University.
The conference was an offshoot of the older, larger Indiana Intercollegiate Conference; and was established for the 1950-51 academic year. It took a couple of years before all members were able to play full conference schedules. While the membership was limited to Indiana-based colleges, their profiles varied from the larger, public colleges (Indiana State and Ball State) to the smaller, secular schools such as the Roman Catholic-affiliated Saint Joseph's, to the Methodist-chartered Evansville and Lutheran-established Valparaiso. Independent schools such as Butler and DePauw were also members, Butler having recently been a member of the Mid-American Conference. The ICC would be guided by various commissioners during the early years, the first full-time commissioner was not hired until 1968 Jim Hinga, prior to Hinga's selection, the position was filled by part-time commissioners, like LeRoy Heminger of Franklin College. In addition, the conference maintained a rotating presidency, filled by long-time educational administrators such as Dr. Joseph Nygaard of Indianapolis and S.T. "Cy" Proffitt of Terre Haute.
In addition to the varied affiliations of the schools themselves, the athletic programs were a mixture of NCAA and NAIA member schools; some (Indiana State and Ball State notably) were simultaneous members of both collegiate athletic associations. Indiana State continued as an NAIA power in men's basketball; their dominance had begun while an Indiana Intercollegiate Conference member; participating in 5 NAIA tournaments and finishing 3rd Nationally in 1953.
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