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There are around 1000 NCAA basketball schools in total, with 351 schools in 32 Division I basketball conferences. There are also other divisions, but only Division I gets shown on TV, and contains most of the players that go into the NBA.
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1,000 schools participate at the NCAA division 2
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The majority of Division I basketball players went to public high schools, so naming them all would be impossible.
Division 1 schools can have varying numbers depending on the sport. Currently, basketball has the most with 344 teams in Division I.
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In Division 1-A football, that is Army, Navy, and Notre Dame.
The WestPAC conference is a league of high schools sports teams. This league is concerned with volleyball, basketball and football, as well as cross country.
In short, they didn't. (The upshot answer is in boldface type in the last paragraph.) The fuller story is this.The original Big East teams were schools that were seeking a competitive NCAA Division I basketball conference. Almost all of the original (1979) member schools were Catholic institutions located in Eastern seaboard states and Washington, DC: Boston College (MA), Providence (RI), St. John's (NY), Seton Hall (NJ) and Georgetown (DC). The other two original members were Syracuse (NY) and Connecticut, both non-Catholicschools. Villanova(PA), a Catholic school joined in the conference's second year. Pittsburgh (PA), a non-Catholicschool joined in the conference's fourth season. Other schools were added through the years, both Catholic and not.By the turn of the century, the economics of college athletics had brought about the need to provide a competitive program for those schools also fielding Division I football teams. This led to the inclusion of other schools, some Catholic and some not. The additional schools often were not even in the Eastern seaboard states. Some of the member schools opted to leave the Big East for conferences that were already competitive in both basketball and football (e.g.,Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference)In 2012, as the few remaining schools in the Big East with Division I football teams began accepting offers from other established conferences, the conference was left with a defactodispersal. Since original Catholicmembers Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Georgetownwere among those not leaving for another conference and fellow Catholic member schools Marquette, DePauland Villanovawere in the same situation, they opted to return to the conference's original concept as a Division I basketballconference and reasonably claimed title to the name of that conference. To bolster the conference's strength, those schools have invited a few other similar schools to join-- and for the most part, Catholic colleges don't field Division I NCAA teams.