2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference changes and new programs
Monmouth announced in December 2012 that it would leave the Northeast Conference (NEC) for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), effective in July 2013. As the MAAC has not sponsored football since 2007, Monmouth's football plans were uncertain. Those plans became clear on February 14, 2013, when the Big South Conference announced that Monmouth would become a football-only member of that league in 2014. Since Monmouth was transitioning from the limited-scholarship NEC to a conference that allows the full FCS limit of 63 scholarship equivalents, the Hawks played the 2013 football season as an independent.


2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference changes and new programs
In addition to the schools changing conferences, three others launched FCS football programs. Charlotte, which rejoined C-USA after eight years in the Atlantic 10 Conference, played as an FCS independent in its first football season, as part of its announced plan to become a full FBS member in 2015. The 49ers were counted as an FBS program for scheduling purposes in 2014 and became a C-USA football member in 2015. Two other schools, Mercer and Stetson, reinstated varsity football after decades-long absences—Mercer had last played in 1941 and Stetson in 1956. Both initially planned to operate as non-scholarship programs in the Pioneer Football League. However, Mercer would later commit to scholarship football when it accepted an invitation to join the Southern Conference (SoCon) in 2014.


2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference changes and new programs
Two other SoCon members, Appalachian State and Georgia Southern, were officially announced on March 27, 2013 as future Sun Belt members. Both schools began FBS transitions in 2013 in advance of their 2014 entry into the Sun Belt. They were counted as FBS members for scheduling purposes in 2014, and were eligible for the Sun Belt football championship, but were not eligible for bowl games until completing their transitions in 2015.


2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference changes and new programs
This was also the last season for two other programs in their then-current conferences. Elon left the SoCon for the CAA in July 2014; at the same time, VMI left the Big South and returned to the SoCon after an 11-year absence.


2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, FCS team wins over FBS teams
(FCS rankings from the Sports Network poll; FBS rankings from the AP Poll)


2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Conference summaries, Other conference winners
Note: Records are regular-season only, and do not include playoff games.


2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Postseason, NCAA Division I playoff bracket
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2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Coaching changes, Preseason and in-season
This is restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2013. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2013, see 2012 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes.


2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season, NFL draft selections
Listed below are all FCS players selected in the 2014 NFL Draft


2013 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
The 2013 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 33rd women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college field hockey team from Division I in the United States. The Connecticut Huskies defeated the Duke Blue Devils in the finals to win their third national championship. The championship was played on November 24, 2013 at the L.R. Hill Sports Complex on the home field of the host Old Dominion Lady Monarchs in Norfolk, Virginia.


2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
The 2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the North Dakota State Bison and the Sam Houston State Bearkats. It was played on January 5, 2013, at FC Dallas Stadium in Frisco, Texas. The culminating game of the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season, it was won by North Dakota State, 39–13.


2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
With sponsorship by Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the game was officially known as the NCAA FCS Championship presented by Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The contest was a rematch of the prior season's championship game, which was also won by North Dakota State.


2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 2012 FCS Playoffs, which began with a 20-team bracket.


2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, North Dakota State Bison
North Dakota State finished their regular season with a 10–1 record (7–1 in conference), including a win over Colorado State of the FBS. As the first-seed in the tournament, the Bison defeated South Dakota State, Wofford, and fifth-seed Georgia Southern to reach the final. This was North Dakota State's second appearance in an FCS/Division I-AA title game, having won the prior season's title game over Sam Houston State.


2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, Sam Houston State Bearkats
Sam Houston State finished their regular season with an 8–3 record (6–1 in conference). Two of their losses were to FBS teams; Baylor and Texas A&M. Unseeded in the tournament, the Bearkats defeated Cal Poly, third-seed Montana State, and second-seed Eastern Washington to reach the final. This was also Sam Houston State's second appearance in an FCS/Division I-AA championship game, having lost the prior season's title game to North Dakota State.


2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Game summary
Both teams scored a field goal and touchdown in the first half, for a 10–10 score at halftime. The Bearkats appeared to take the lead on a 41-yard run by Timothy Flanders early in the third quarter, but the score was negated by a holding penalty. The Bison went on to score four second-half touchdowns, while holding the Bearkats to a single field goal. The 39–13 final score gave the Bison their second FCS championship.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The 2013 National Championship Game was played on April 8, 2013 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, and featured the 2013 Midwest Regional Champions, #1-seeded Louisville, and the 2013 South Regional Champions, #4-seeded Michigan. Louisville's title was subsequently vacated by the NCAA on June 15, 2017 as the result of sex, stripper, and/or prostitution scandal related to both players on this team, as well as potential recruits. This decision was upheld on February 20, 2018.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan
Michigan, who was led by 2013 national player of the year Trey Burke, was a #4 seed in the South Regional of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. In the 2nd round, Glenn Robinson III scored 21 points to lead the Wolverines past South Dakota State 71-56. In the 3rd Round, Michigan crushed VCU with a 78–53 win to advance to the Sweet 16 for the 1st time since 1994. Against Kansas, Burke made a long game-tying three-pointer with 4.2 seconds left to send the game to overtime, and Michigan would then win to advance to the Elite Eight.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan
Michigan routed Florida 79-59 to advance to the Final Four for the 1st time since 1993. Against Syracuse, with Michigan leading 58–56 with 19.2 seconds left, Jordan Morgan took the charge and Brandon Triche was called for an offensive foul. Then, Jon Horford made 1 of 2 free throws for a 59–56 lead. With 6 seconds left, Trevor Cooney missed a jump shot and Tim Hardaway Jr. got the rebound, then Caris LeVert threw it all the way to Morgan, who would dunk it in for a 61–56 win over Syracuse and a trip to the 2013 National Championship Game.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Michigan
Michigan was competing for its 2nd ever National Title being in its 6th national title game, its 1st since the 1993 National Title Game when the Fab Five was around.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Louisville
Louisville was the #1 overall seed in the 2013 NCAA Tournament and was placed in the Midwest Regional. Louisville had no trouble beating North Carolina A&T in the 2nd round with an easy 79–48 win. In the 3rd Round, Russ Smith scored 27 points as Louisville crushed Colorado State 82-56. In the Sweet 16, Russ Smith scored 31 points to beat Oregon 77-69 for a trip to the Elite Eight. Then the Cardinals overcame Kevin Ware's injury to beat Duke 85-63 and advance to the 2013 Final Four. Louisville survived the surprising Wichita State team to advance to the 2013 National Championship Game.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Louisville
This was Louisville's 3rd trip to the National Title Game and it also vied for its 3rd national title, which was later vacated.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Starting lineups
Selected in an NBA Draft (number corresponds to draft round)


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary, First half
Trey Burke scored seven quick points to get Michigan out to an early 7–3 lead. But then he picked up two fouls and would be forced to sit on the bench. Spike Albrecht, replacing him, made four consecutive three-pointers leading to a 17-point first-half performance and Michigan would be up 35–23. But, Luke Hancock made four consecutive three-pointers to cut the Michigan lead to 38–37 at halftime.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary, Second half
The 2nd half featured several lead changes, then with 5:09 remaining, Trey Burke delivered a clean block on a Peyton Siva layup but the officials called a body foul. Siva made both free throws for a Louisville 69–64 lead. With 3:27 left, Luke Hancock made a three-pointer to give Louisville a 76–66 lead. Michigan took the game to an 80-76 deficit with 14 seconds left, but Siva made two free throws to give Louisville an 82–76 win. With 22 points, Hancock was named the 2013 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament that involved 68 teams playing to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 19, 2013, and concluded with the championship game on April 8, 2013, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. This was the 75th edition of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, dating to 1939.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The Final Four consisted of Louisville, Wichita State (second appearance), Syracuse (first appearance since their 2003 national championship), and Michigan, returning for the first time since the Fab Five's second appearance in 1993 (later vacated). By winning the West Region, Wichita State became the first #9 seed and first Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) team to reach the Final Four since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The last #9 seed to reach the Final Four was Penn, and the last MVC team to do so was Indiana State, both in 1979.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Louisville defeated Michigan in the championship game by a final score of 82–76, winning their first national title since 1986. They also are the last team from the original Big East Conference to win a national championship. On February 20, 2018, the NCAA vacated Louisville's entire tournament run, including its national title, due to a 2015 sex scandal.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The tournament featured several notable upsets. For the first time since 1991, at least one team seeded #9 through #15 won at least once in the tournament. The most notable was Florida Gulf Coast University, who made their tournament debut in only their second year of Division I eligibility. They upset Georgetown and San Diego State in their first two games, becoming the first #15 seed to advance to the regional semifinals (where they were defeated by Florida). For the first time since 2010, a #14 seed won as Harvard defeated New Mexico in the West Region.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The same region saw #13 La Salle, who won in the opening round, defeat #4 Kansas State and #12 Mississippi defeat #5 Wisconsin. In addition to that, the region's top seed, Gonzaga, was defeated in the round of 32 by eventual region winner Wichita State, who defeated La Salle in the Sweet Sixteen.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Two other teams also earned their first ever NCAA Tournament victory: Ivy League champion Harvard and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) champion North Carolina A&T. Liberty became the first 20-loss team in five years to earn an NCAA bid, having finished its season with five consecutive wins to secure the Big South championship and its automatic qualification.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 2013 tournament:


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
For the third and final time, the Georgia Dome hosted the Final Four. The building was demolished in 2017 and replaced with Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The tournament saw two new venues being used for the first time. The City of Arlington, halfway between former host cities Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, hosted for the first time at what is now known as AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
After a 19-year hiatus, the tournament returned to the city of Los Angeles, this time being played at the Staples Center, the city's major indoor sports venue, which replaced both the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and the Forum in Inglewood. As of 2018, this is the last tournament to feature the Frank Erwin Center, The Palace of Auburn Hills or Rupp Arena. The Erwin Center is scheduled to close at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season, with the Longhorns moving into the Moody Center for the 2022-23 season. The Palace closed in 2017, replaced with Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit, which hosted early round games 2018. As of 2018, this is also the most recent year that UD Arena has hosted games after the First Four games.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualified teams, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2013 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket
Unless otherwise noted, all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04)


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Midwest Regional – Indianapolis, Indiana, Midwest Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Seth Curry, Duke; Gorgui Dieng, Louisville; Mason Plumlee, Duke; Peyton Siva, Louisville


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, West Regional – Los Angeles, California, West Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Carl Hall, Wichita State; Mark Lyons, Arizona; LaQuinton Ross, Ohio State; Deshaun Thomas, Ohio State


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, South Regional – Arlington, Texas, South Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Mitch McGary, Michigan; Ben McLemore, Kansas; Mike Rosario, Florida; Nik Stauskas, Michigan


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, East Regional – Washington, D.C., East Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Vander Blue, Marquette; C. J. Fair, Syracuse; Davante Gardner, Marquette; James Southerland, Syracuse


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
During the Final Four round, the champion of the top overall top seed's region was to play against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region, and the champion of the second overall top seed's region was to play against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region. Louisville (placed in the Midwest Regional) was selected as the top overall seed, and Gonzaga (in the West Regional) was named as the final top seed. Thus, the Midwest champion played the West Champion in one semifinal game, and the South Champion faced the East Champion in the other semifinal game.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
Wichita State surprised the college basketball world by reaching the Final Four from the West region. They lost to Louisville in the first semifinal game, 72–68. Michigan defeated Syracuse 61–56 in the second semifinal.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
On February 20, 2018, NCAA took away from Louisville the 2013 winning title and allowed them to pay the fines.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, Final Four all-tournament team
Final Four all-tournament team: Spike Albrecht, Michigan; Trey Burke, Michigan; Mitch McGary, Michigan; Cleanthony Early, Wichita State; Peyton Siva, Louisville; Luke Hancock, Louisville; Chane Behanan, Louisville;


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, Final Four all-tournament team
Final Four most outstanding player: Luke Hancock, Louisville (the first non-starter to earn this title)


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship
Louisville defeated Michigan 82–76 in the championship game. The win gave Louisville its first championship since 1986, and third overall. It became the eighth school to win at least three championships. Head coach Rick Pitino became the first coach to win an NCAA championship with two different schools. Michigan fell to 1–5 all time in championship games (including two losses vacated because of sanctions against the university).


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship
Michigan's Trey Burke scored seven quick points to get Michigan out to a 7–3 lead, but also picked up two quick fouls and sat during much of the first half. With Burke on the bench, Michigan got a spark from freshman Spike Albrecht, a minor role player during the regular season. Albrecht hit four straight 3-pointers en route to a 17-point first half performance, easily surpassing his previous single game best of 7. Louisville trailed Michigan 35–23 late in the first half, before going on a run fueled by four straight three-pointers by Luke Hancock. At halftime, Michigan led 38–37.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship
The second half featured several lead changes before Louisville pushed the margin to 10 on a three-pointer by Hancock with 3:20 remaining in the game. Michigan fought back, closing the gap to four points in the last minute, but ran out of time in its comeback effort.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship
Hancock hit all five three-point shots he attempted in the game and led Louisville with 22 points, while teammate Peyton Siva scored 18 and had a game high 4 steals. Chane Behanan pulled down 12 rebounds to go with 15 points. Burke led Michigan with 24 points. Russ Smith, Louisville's leading scorer on the season, struggled in the game, shooting 3-for-16. Hancock was named as the game's most outstanding player.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Other events surrounding the tournament
On May 10, 2012, the NCAA announced that as part of the celebration of the 75th Division I tournament, it would hold all three of its men's basketball championship games in Atlanta. The finals of the Division II and Division III tournaments were held at Philips Arena on April 7, the day between the Division I semifinals and final. In addition, Atlanta-based tournament broadcaster TBS announced that Conan O'Brien would tape his Conan talk show at The Tabernacle, located a few blocks from the Georgia Dome and Philips Arena, in the week leading up to the Final Four. March Madness studio analyst Charles Barkley and Dick Vitale were among the guests who appeared.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, U.S. television
The year 2013 marked the third year of a 14-year partnership between CBS and Turner cable networks TBS, TNT and truTV to cover the entire tournament under the NCAA March Madness banner. CBS aired the Final Four and championship rounds for the 32nd consecutive year. The tournament was considered a ratings success. Tournament games averaged 10.7 million viewers, and the championship game garnered an average of 23.4 million viewers and a peak viewership of 27.1 million.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Radio
Dial Global Sports (formerly Westwood One) and SiriusXM have live broadcasts of all 67 games.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, International
ESPN International held broadcast rights to the tournament outside of the United States: it produced its own broadcasts of the semi-final and championship game, called by ESPN College Basketball personalities Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Dick Vitale (analyst for the final and one semi-final), and Jay Bilas (analyst for the other semi-final). For the initial rounds, they use CBS/Turner coverage with an additional host to transition between games, with whiparound coverage similar to the CBS-only era. ESPN also has exclusive digital rights to the NCAA tournament outside of North America.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, International, Canada
In Canada, the TSN family of media outlets (including TSN2, RDS, and TSN Radio), which are part-owned by ESPN, own broadcast rights to the tournament. TSN produces separate studio coverage with Kate Beirness, Jack Armstrong, Dan Shulman and Sam Mitchell, but simulcasts CBS/Turner game coverage for the first five rounds (and ESPN International coverage for the Final Four).


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, International, Canada
As in past years, TSN and TSN2 carry whiparound coverage (often in parallel) during the second, third and fourth rounds, in 2013 focusing when possible on games not being broadcast on CBS (as that network, but not the Turner channels, is also widely available in Canada).


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams
This is a list of qualifying teams for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. A total of 68 teams entered the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 37 teams were granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 68.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids
Automatic bids to the tournament were granted for winning a conference championship tournament, except for the automatic bid of the Ivy League given to the regular season champion. Seeds listed were seeds within the conference tournaments. Runners-up in bold face were given at-large berths.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Conferences with multiple bids
All other conferences have only one bid (see Automatic Bids)NOTE: Teams in bold represent the conference's automatic bid.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was a golf tournament contested from May 28 to June 2 at the Crabapple Course of the Capital City Club in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the 75th NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, and the tournament was hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. The tournament was won by the Alabama Crimson Tide who won their first championship by defeating the Illinois Fighting Illini in the match-play championship round. The individual national championship was won by Max Homa of the California Golden Bears who won by three strokes.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The seedings for the regional tournaments were released on May 6, 2013, and the regional rounds were held around the country from May 16 to May 18, 2013.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Venue
This will be the first NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship held at the Capital City Club in Atlanta, Georgia.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2013. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and finals – was hosted by Robert Morris University at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. Robert Morris' bid to host was co-sponsored by VisitPittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Penguins.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Yale defeated Quinnipiac 4–0 in the championship game to win the program's first NCAA title.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The tournament consists of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following were the sites for the 2013 regionals:


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 24. The Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) had six teams receive a berth in the tournament, ECAC Hockey and Hockey East each had three teams receive a berth, and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) and Atlantic Hockey each had two teams receive a berth.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Frozen Four – Pittsburgh
The Frozen Four featured four teams that were seeking their first championship. This was only the second time this had happened since the first NCAA championship tournament in 1948, the other time being in 1958. Additionally, of the four Frozen Four participants in 2013, only Yale had previously reached the tournament semifinals, having finished third in the 1952 tournament. Yale's championship was the first for a team from ECAC Hockey since 1989. The championship game between Yale and Quinnipiac was the first time the championship game was contested between two ECAC Hockey teams since 1978.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the ninth consecutive year ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU, and ESPN3. They also streamed them online via WatchESPN.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Radio
Dial Global Sports used exclusive radio rights to air both the semifinals and the championship, AKA the "Frozen Four."


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 43rd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse. Sixteen teams were selected to compete in the tournament based upon their performance during the regular season, and for some, by means of a conference tournament automatic qualifier. The Divisions I men’s lacrosse committees announced the matchups (16 teams, eight games) on 5 May 2013. Duke defeated Loyola, Notre Dame, Cornell, and Syracuse to capture to their second NCAA Championship.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The tournament started on May 11  and ended on May 27 with the championship game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Schools from eight conferences, America East, Big East, Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), ECAC Lacrosse League (ECAC), Ivy League, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Northeast Conference (NEC), and Patriot League, earned automatic bids into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, leaving eight remaining at-large bids for top ranked teams. Albany (America East), Syracuse (Big East), Towson (CAA), Ohio State (ECAC), Yale (Ivy), Detroit Mercy (MAAC), Bryant (NEC), and Lehigh (Patriot) received automatic bids.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Returning All-Americans in the NCAA tournament
There are thirteen players on the top five teams in division I men's lacrosse (North Carolina, Cornell, Denver, Loyola (Md.) and Syracuse) that were All-Americans in the 2012 season. The only player on one of the top five teams that was a first-team All American in 2012 is RG Keenan from North Carolina. Cornell attackman Rob Pannell was a first-team All American in 2010 and 2011, but missed most of the 2012 season due to a broken foot.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tewaaraton Award nominees in NCAA tournament
There are eight players on the top five teams in division I men's lacrosse (North Carolina, Cornell, Denver, Loyola (Md.) and Syracuse) that were nominees for the annual Tewaaraton award given to the best college lacrosse player.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Major League Lacrosse players (drafted) in NCAA tournament
Major League Lacrosse holds its draft in January each year and selects from collegiate players that are playing their final year of eligibility.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 55th edition of the tournament. The four team College Cup finals tournament was held at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania on December 13 and 15, 2013. On December 15, Notre Dame defeated Maryland, 2–1, to win its first national title.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualified Teams
A total of 48 teams qualified into the tournament proper, either automatically, or through an at-large bid that is determined by a selection committee. Each conference that field varsity soccer teams is awarded one automatic berth into the tournament. Depending on the conference, that automatic berth is either given the champions of the regular season, or the tournament that culminates the regular season. Twenty-two teams earn automatic bids into the tournament, while 26 enter through an at-large bid.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Format
Like previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 48 participants out of a possible field of 198 teams. Of the 48 berths, 23 were allocated to the conference tournament or regular season winners. The remaining 25 berths were supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon teams' Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) that did not win their conference tournament.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Format
The NCAA Selection Committee also named the top sixteen seeds for the tournament, with those teams receiving an automatic bye into the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams played in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament for the right to play a seeded team in the second round.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 2013 at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana at the 90th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2013 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Michigan topped the team standings, finishing 73.5 points ahead of two-time defending champions California. It was the Wolverines' then-record twelfth men's team title and first since 1995.


2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were the 92nd NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 32nd NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on the campus of the University of Oregon from  June 5–8, 2013. In total, thirty-six different men's and women's track and field events were contested.


2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
On the men's side, the team national championship was shared between the Texas A&M Aggies, their fourth title, and the Florida Gators, their second consecutive title. On the women's side, the team national championship was won by the Kansas Jayhawks, their first title.


2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 16 through June 6, 2013 as the final part of the 2013 NCAA Division I softball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college softball teams were selected out of an eligible 284 teams on May 12, 2012. 31 teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and 33 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Softball Selection Committee. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2013 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.


2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National Seeds
Teams in "italics" advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in "bold" advanced to Women's College World Series.


2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National Seeds
9. LSU10. Alabama11. Washington12. Kentucky13. South Alabama14. Nebraska15. Louisville16. Texas A&M


2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media Coverage, Radio
Dial Global Sports provided nationwide radio coverage of the championship series, which was also streamed online at dialglobalsports.com. Kevin Kugler and Leah Amico provided the call for Dial Global.


2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media Coverage, Television
ESPN carried every game from the Women's College World Series across the ESPN Networks (ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU). The ESPN Networks also carried select regional matches and every super regional match utilizing ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3. Austin hosted a regional, and the Texas games aired on Longhorn Network while the other matches will air on ESPN3. This was the second consecutive year Longhorn Network carried regional matches.


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The 2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the men's and women's tennis tournaments played concurrently from May 16 to May 27, 2013 in Urbana, Illinois on the campus of the University of Illinois. It was the 67th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship* and the 32nd edition of the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship. * It was the eighth time the men's and women's tournaments were held at the same venue. It consisted of a men's and women's team, singles, and doubles championships.


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The men's team championship was won by the Virginia Cavaliers, and the women's team championship was won by the Stanford Cardinal. The men's singles title was won by Blaz Rola from Ohio State, and the men's doubles title went to Jarmere Jenkins and Mac Styslinger of Virginia. The women's singles title was won by Nicole Gibbs of Stanford, her second consecutive singles championship. The women's doubles title was also won by the pair of Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria from USC.


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
1. UCLA (Championship Round)2. Virginia (National Champions)3. Georgia (Semifinals)4. USC (Quarterfinals)


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
5. Ohio State (Semifinals)6. Ole Miss (Second Round)7. Tennessee (Quarterfinals)8. Kentucky (Round of 16)


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
9. Duke (Quarterfinals)10. Mississippi State (Round of 16)11. Pepperdine (Quarterfinals)12. Texas A&M (Round of 16)


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
13. Baylor (Round of 16)14. Oklahoma (Round of 16)15. Florida (First Round)16. Vanderbilt (Round of 16)


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
1. Florida (Semifinals)2. North Carolina (Quarterfinals)3. Texas A&M (Championship Round)4. Georgia (Quarterfinals)


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
5. USC (Round of 16)6. Miami (FL) (Quarterfinals)7. UCLA (Semifinals)8. California (Quarterfinals)


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
9. Alabama (Round of 16)10. Michigan (Round of 16)11. Northwestern (Round of 16)12. Stanford (National Champions)


2013 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
13. Clemson (Round of 16)14. Virginia (Round of 16)15. Nebraska (Round of 16)16. Texas Tech (Second Round)


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament was played from March 23 through April 9, 2013. Tennessee continued its streak of making every NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at 32 consecutive appearances. Kansas made the Regional Semifinals for the second year in a row as a double-digit seed, UConn made it into the Final Four for the sixth consecutive year, the longest such streak, and Louisville became the first team seeded lower than fourth in a region to advance to the championship game. For the first time in tournament history, the same four teams were #1 seeds as in the previous year.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
Pending any changes to the format, a total of 64 teams will enter the 2019 tournament. 32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conference's tournament. The remaining 32 bids are "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The tournament is split into four regional tournaments, and each regional has teams seeded from 1 to 16, with the committee ostensibly making every region as comparable to the others as possible[citation needed]. The top-seeded team in each region plays the #16 team, the #2 team plays the #15, etc. (meaning where the two seeds add up to 17, that team will be assigned to play another).


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 64.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2013 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The format is similar to the Men's Tournament, except that there are 64 teams; this in turn means there is no "First Four" round. Thirty-one automatic bids for conference champions and 33 at-large bids were available.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2013 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The subregionals were played from March 23 through March 26. Sites chosen to host first- and second-round games in 2013 include:


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2013 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The Regionals, named for the city rather than the region of geographic importance since 2005, held from March 30 to April 2, were at these sites:


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2013 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
A regional had been scheduled at Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey. However, the NCAA moved the regional to Connecticut because of a recently passed state law allowing single-game betting for professional and collegiate games. NCAA rules do not allow tournament events to be held in states that allow single-game betting.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2013 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
This is the third time that New Orleans has been selected as a women's Final Four location (previously, in 1991 and 2004) and second time at the Smoothie King Center  (previously named Kiefer Lakefront UNO Arena); the 1991 Final Four was contested at the University of New Orleans' Lakefront Arena.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualified teams, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2013 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualified teams, Tournament seeds
Kentucky vs. Navy, Oklahoma State vs. Duke, and Notre Dame vs. Iowa aired on ESPNU. Purdue vs. Louisville aired on ESPNEWS. All other first and second round games aired on ESPN2


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Regional
Almost all first-round games were won by the higher-seeded team except for Creighton, the 10 seed who upset Syracuse 61–56. The top seed, Baylor won easily, by 42 points over Prairie View A&M. The only other game within single digit margin was 6 seed Oklahoma beating Central Michigan by five points.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Oklahoma City Regional
In the second round, three of the four games followed expectations, with the only upset being the 5 seed Louisville over 4 seed Purdue. In the third round, 2 seed Tennessee beat 6 seed Oklahoma as expected, but Louisville upset top seeded Baylor in a result some have called one of the greatest upsets in women's basketball history. Baylor won the National Championship in 2012, going undefeated during the season, and had returned every starter. While they lost one game in the current regular season, point guard Odyssey Sims was injured early in that game. The team had not lost a game in two years when playing at full strength. Louisville, the third best team in the Big East, hit sixteen of 25 three-point attempts, and held Griner to 14 points, after she had averaged 33 points in the first two games.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the first and second round, ESPN aired select games nationally on ESPN, ESPNU, or ESPNews. All other games were aired regionally on ESPN or ESPN2 and streamed online via ESPN3. Most of the nation got whip-a-round coverage during this time, which allowed ESPN to rotate between the games and focus the nation on the one that was the closest. The regional semifinals were split between ESPN and ESPN2, and ESPN aired the regional finals, national semifinals, and championship match.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Dial Global Sports had exclusive radio rights from the regional finals on through the championship.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 32nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The semifinal and championship rounds were played at Villanova Stadium (the home of  Villanova Wildcats football) from May 24–26, 2013.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The University of North Carolina defeated their ACC rival University of Maryland to win their first ever women's lacrosse championship.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field
All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 26 teams were invited to participate. 13 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 13 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds
1. Maryland (19-0)2. Northwestern (17-2)3. North Carolina (14-3)4. Syracuse (16-3)5. Florida (17-2)6. Georgetown (13-5)7. Penn State (12-6)8. Navy (18-1)


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2013 Women's College Cup) was the 32nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina from December 6–8, 2013 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country from November 15–30.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
UCLA defeated Florida State in the final, 1–0 (in overtime), to win their first national title. The Bruins (22–1–3) were coached by Amanda Cromwell.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The Most Outstanding Offensive Player was Jamia Fields from Florida State, and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Ally Courtnall from UCLA. Fields and Courtnall, alongside nine other players, were named to the All-Tournament Team.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The tournament's leading scorer, with 5 goals and 1 assist, was Makenzy Doniak from Virginia.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
All Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. The tournament field remained fixed at 64 teams.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Format
Just as before, the final two rounds, deemed the Women's College Cup, were played at a pre-determined neutral site. All other rounds were played on campus sites at the home field of the higher-seeded team although with a few exceptions. The first round was played exclusively on the home fields of higher-seeded teams (noted with an asterisk below). However, the second and third rounds were played on the home fields of the home fields of the two remaining teams in each bracket with the highest seed (generally the #1 and #2 seed in each bracket with a few noted exceptions). Those teams are also noted with asterisk. Finally, the quarterfinal round, or the championship match for each bracket, was played on the home field of the higher-seeded team, with no exceptions.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2013 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 32nd annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Georgia, runners up at the two previous championships, topped this year's team standings, finishing 84 points ahead of two-time defending champions California. This was the Lady Bulldogs' fifth women's team title.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on December 5, 2013 and ended on December 21, 2013 at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. The NCAA selection show was televised on Sunday, December 1, 2013.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Qualifying teams
The champions of the NCAA's 32 conferences qualify automatically. Twenty-two conferences hold tournaments, while the other ten award their automatic bid on the basis of being the league's regular-season champion. Those that do not hold tournaments are the Atlantic Coast, American Athletic, Big 12, Big West, Big Ten, Ivy League, Mountain West, Pac-12, Southeastern and West Coast Conferences. The other 32 bids are apportioned on an at-large basis. Only the top 16 teams overall are seeded.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Bracket
The first two rounds were held on campus sites (the home court of the seeded team). Regional semifinals and finals were held at pre-determined sites. In 2013, those sites were hosted by Nebraska, Illinois, USC, and Kentucky, all of whom made the tournament and hosted in the first two rounds. Unlike the NCAA basketball tournament, where teams cannot be placed into regionals that they host, the selectors in the volleyball tournament were required to place qualifying teams in their 'home' regionals, in order to reduce travel costs.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Record by conference
*Four tournament matches featured one Big Ten team against another, and likewise one featured one Pac-12 team against another. Each of those matches is counted as one win and one loss for the respective conference.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Record by conference
The columns R32, S16, E8, F4, CM, and NC respectively stand for the Round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, Championship Match, and National Champion.


2013 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Record by conference
The America East, American Athletic, Atlantic 10, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Colonial Athletic, Conference USA, Horizon League, Ivy League, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern Athletic, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Southern, Southland, Southwestern Athletic, Summit League, Sun Belt and Western Athletic Conferences all qualified one team which lost in the first round.


2013 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following human polls make up the 2013 NCAA Division I men's baseball rankings. The USAToday/ESPN Coaches Poll is voted on by a panel of 31 Division I baseball coaches. The Baseball America poll is voted on by staff members of the Baseball America magazine. These polls rank the top 25 teams nationally. Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rank the top 30 teams nationally.


2013 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
The Preseason poll ranked the top 40 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above are: 31. Missouri State; 32. Wichita State; 33. New Mexico; 34. Kent State; 35. Virginia; 36. Southern Miss; 37. East Carolina 38. Coastal Carolina; 39. Dallas Baptist 40. Pepperdine.


2013 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, NCBWA
The preseason poll ranked the top 35 teams. Remaining teams not listed above were: 31. Kent State  32. Southern Miss  33. UC Irvine  34. New Mexico  35. Coastal Carolina


2013 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began on February 15, 2013. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2013 College World Series.


2013 NCAA Division I baseball season
The College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Omaha, Nebraska at TD Ameritrade Park concluded on June 25, 2013 with the final game of the best of three championship series. UCLA defeated Mississippi State two games to none to claim their first championship.


2013 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference standings
This is a partial list of conference standings for the 2013 season.


2013 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference standings, Conference winners and tournaments
Thirty one athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament or a double-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The West Coast Conference will launch a four team tournament for the first time in 2013. The winner of the Great West Conference, which remains in a provisional status, does not receive an automatic bid.


2013 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 2013 season marked the sixty seventh NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with UCLA claiming their first championship with a two games to one series win over Mississippi State in the final.


2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
The 2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 55th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. There were 203 teams in men's Division I competition. The defending champions were the Indiana Hoosiers who defeated the Georgetown Hoyas in the 2012 College Cup. The season concluded with Notre Dame defeating Maryland 2–1 to win its first NCAA soccer title.


2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Season overview, Pre-season polls
Several American soccer outlets posted their own preseason top 25 rankings of what were believed to be the strongest men's collegiate soccer teams entering 2013.


2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Regular season, Major upsets
In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.


2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, NCAA tournament
The College Cup was played at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania on December 13 & 15, 2013. In the semifinals, Notre Dame defeated New Mexico, and Maryland beat Virginia. In the Finals, Notre Dame prevailed 2–1 for its first championship.


2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Award winners, Hermann Trophy/National Player of the Year
The Hermann Trophy for the national men's Player of the Year was awarded by the Missouri Athletic Club and the  National Soccer Coaches Association of America to Patrick Mullins of Maryland. Mullins became the fourth man and the seventh player overall to win the trophy in back-to-back years.


2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Award winners, NSCAA/Continental Tire Men's NCAA Division I All-America Team
On December 9, 2013, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America released their All-American teams for the 2011 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The list included a first, second and third team.


2013 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Award winners, NSCAA/Continental Tire Men's NCAA Division I All-America Team
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 NCAA Division I softball season
The 2013 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2013. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2013 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2013 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 6, 2013.


2013 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 2010 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 30 to June 4, 2013 in Oklahoma City.


2013 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Junior class single game home runs:4 – Alexandria Anttila, Georgetown Hoyas; April 6, 2013


2013 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game
The 2013 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game that determined a national champion in NCAA Division II for the 2013 season. It was played at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, on December 21, 2013, with kickoff at noon EST (11:00 a.m. local CST), and television coverage on ESPN2.


2013 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the 2013 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2013 Division II Playoffs, which began with teams seeded 3–6 in each super region playing in the first round, the winners of which faced teams seeded 1–2 in the second round. From there, the bracket was a sixteen-team single-elimination tournament. The game featured the No. 1 seed Lenoir–Rhyne Bears and the No. 1 seed Northwest Missouri State Bearcats. This was the eighth championship game appearance for the Bearcats and the first championship game appearance for the Bears.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 2012–13 basketball season.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The eight regional winners met at the Elite Eight for the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds held at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. As part of the festivities surrounding the 75th edition of the NCAA tournament, the championship game was played at Philips Arena in Atlanta on April 7, 2013.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format
The champions of 22 of the 24 Division II basketball conferences qualified automatically. The Great Midwest Athletic Conference, in its first season of operation, and the Great American Conference, in its second season, were not eligible for automatic berths. (The Great American became eligible for an automatic berth with the 2014 tournament. The G-MAC did not receive an automatic berth until 2016 because it was not officially recognized as a D-II conference until 2013–14.) An additional 42 teams were selected as at-large participants by the selection committee. As in previous years, the first three rounds of the tournament were organized in regions comprising eight participants in groups of two or three conferences (two in the Central and Midwest regions) with seeds assigned by the selection committee.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format
Traditionally, the Elite Eight regional winners meet in one site for the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. However, as noted above, this was changed for 2013 only, with the quarterfinals and semifinals held in Louisville and the final game in Atlanta.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format
This was the final tournament for the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which disbanded at the end of the 2012–13 school year, with most of the members forming the new Mountain East Conference.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification and tournament format, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams automatically qualified for the national tournament as the champions of their conference tournaments:


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Regionals, West - Bellingham, Washington
All-West Region team: Kwame Alexander (F/CSU San Bernardino) Jobi Wall (F/Seattle Pacific) Patrick Simon (F/Seattle Pacific) John Allen (G/Western Washington) Region Most Outstanding Player Richard Woodworth (G/Western Washington)


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The 2013 NCAA Division II men's soccer championship featured 35 schools in four unbalanced Super-Regional tournaments involving seven to ten teams each. Super-Regional games were played at campus sites.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The Division II College Cup was held at Blanchard Woods Park in Evans, Georgia, and was hosted by the Peach Belt Conference.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
In the national semifinals, Rockhurst (17-3-3) was defeated by Southern New Hampshire 2–1, and Simon Fraser (17-2-2) fell to Carson-Newman 3–2. Southern New Hampshire (21-1-1) won its second Division II crown by beating Carson-Newman (16-5-1) 2–1 in the national final.


2013 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship, Division II College Cup at Evans, Ga.
Attendance: Semi #1 = N/A; Semi #2 = N/A; Final = 1200


2013 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the 32nd annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.


2013 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Ashland defeated Dowling in the championship game, 71–56, to claim the Eagles' first NCAA Division II national title.


2013 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at Bill Greehey Arena on the campus of the St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.


2013 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 2013 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). This is for the 2013 season.


2013 NCAA Division II football season
The 2013 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began on August 31, 2013, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 21, 2013, at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama. This was the final championship played in Florence, after twenty-eight straight finals, before the game moves to Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas. The Northwest Missouri State Bearcats defeated the Lenoir–Rhyne Bears, 43–28, to win their fourth national title.


2013 NCAA Division II football season
The 2013 Harlon Hill Trophy was awarded to running back Franklyn Quiteh from Bloomsburg.


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Conference and program changes
Black Hills State, Lindenwood, Malone, McKendree, South Dakota Mines, and Walsh completed their transitions to Division II and became eligible for the postseason.


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Ohio Dominican (10–1, 9–0)


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Gulf South Conference – North Alabama (10–3, 5–1) and West Alabama (8–3, 5–1)


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Lone Star Conference – Eastern New Mexico (7–3, 5–1) and Tarleton State (7–3, 5–1)


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Mid -America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – Northwest Missouri State (14–0, 10–0)


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Northeast-10 Conference – American International (9–3, 8–1) and Stonehill (8–3, 8–1)


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Playoffs
The 2013 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs involved 24 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The tournament began on November 23, 2013 and concluded on December 21, 2013 with the 2013 NCAA Division II National Football Championship game at Braly Municipal Stadium near the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama.


2013 NCAA Division II football season, Playoffs, Format
Two teams in each super regional earned first-round byes. The first-round winners advanced to face a bye team in their super regional. Second-round winners met in the quarterfinals and quarterfinal winners advanced to play in the semifinals. First-round, second-round, quarterfinal and semifinal games were played on the campus of one of the competing institutions as determined by the NCAA Division II Football Committee. The home team at the championship was determined by the Division II Football Committee and the Shoals National Championship Committee.


2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2013 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 38th national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with four regions consisting of six teams, and four consisting of eight, for a total of 56 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was Linfield, who defeated Southern Maine for the championship.


2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New York Regional
Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park-Auburn, NY (Host: Ithaca College)


2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Mideast Regional
Art Nehf Field-Terre Haute, IN (Host: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)


2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Midwest Regional
Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium-Whitewater, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)


2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Central Regional
Brunner Field in the Duane R. Swanson Stadium-Moline, IL (Host: Augustana College (Illinois))


2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series
Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University/Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau)


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 62 teams held to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. It began on March 2, 2013, and concluded with the championship game on April 7, 2013, at Philips Arena in Atlanta as part of the festivities for the 75th anniversary of the NCAA Tournament. The Amherst Lord Jeffs defeated the Mary Hardin–Baylor Crusaders 87–70 in the championship game. The quarterfinal and semifinal rounds were held in Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia, the traditional Final Four host.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualified teams, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2013 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualified teams, At-large qualifiers
The NCAA Selection Committee, by rule, must select one team from the conferences without automatic berths and non-affiliated schools (Pool B). The Selection Committee makes the remaining 19 selections at-large from all conferences (Pool C).


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket
Unless otherwise noted, all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04)


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, St. Mary's City, MD Sectional
Due to an NCAA ban on postseason games in New Jersey, the first round match between top-seeded Ramapo and Morrisville State was held in Nyack, NY on the campus of Nyack College.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Amherst, MA Sectional
Due to an NCAA ban on postseason games in New Jersey, Stevens was unable to host its first round match between against Randolph-Macon. The match was moved to Bronx, NY on the campus of Lehman College.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Amherst, MA Sectional
Due to a scheduling conflicting, WPI could not host its second round match against Randolph–Macon. The match was moved to Assumption College, also located in Worcester, MA.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams
This is a list of qualifying teams for the 2013 NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Tournament. A total of 62 teams entered the tournament. Forty-one of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the University Athletic Association, which does not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining twenty teams were granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Automatic bids
Automatic bids to the tournament were granted for winning a conference championship tournament, except for the automatic bid of the University Athletic Association given to the regular season champion. Seeds listed were seeds within the conference tournaments. Runners-up in bold face were given at-large berths.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Conferences with multiple bids
All other conferences have only one bid (see Automatic Bids)NOTE: Teams in bold represent the conference's automatic bid.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2013 NCAA Division Men's III Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2012–13 season, the 30th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Wisconsin–Eau Claire defeating Oswego State in the championship game 5-3. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament. Automatic bids were offered to the conference tournament champion of eight different conferences. Three at-large bids were available for the highest-ranked non-conference tournament champions (overall seed in parentheses).


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. The top four ranked teams received byes into the quarterfinal round and were arranged so that were they all to reach the national semifinal the first seed would play the fourth seed and the second seed would play the third seed.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Because the top four ranked teams were split evenly between eastern and western teams these teams were automatically advanced into the Quarterfinal round. The remaining two western teams were placed in the dame First Round game with the winner advancing to play the top western seed. The bottom four eastern teams were arranged as follows; the fourth eastern seed would play the seventh eastern seed with the winner advancing to play the second eastern seed while the fifth eastern seed would play the sixth eastern seed with the winner advancing to play the top eastern seed.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The remaining team, the third eastern seed, received a bye into the quarterfinal to play the second western seed.


2013 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the First Round and Quarterfinals the higher-seeded or ranked team served as host.


2013 NCAA Division III football season
The 2013 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began on August 31, 2013, and concluded with the National Championship Game of the NCAA Division III Football Championship on December 20, 2013, at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. This was the twenty-first consecutive title game held in Salem. The Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks defeated the Mount Union Purple Raiders, 52–14, to win their fifth national title.


2013 NCAA Division III football season
The 2013 Gagliardi Trophy was awarded to quarterback Kevin Burke from Mount Union.


2013 NCAA Division III football season, Playoffs
Twenty-four conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, four conferences had no Pool A bid. The MASCAC and SAA were in the first year of the two-year waiting period; the SCAC and UAA had only four members, three short of the requirement. The American Southwest retained its Pool A bid despite falling below seven active Division III members, but entered the two-year grace period.


2013 NCAA Division III football season, Playoffs
Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 24 Pool A conferences contained 203 schools, an average of 8.5 teams per conference. Twenty-seven schools were in Pool B, enough for three bids.


2013 NCAA Division III football season, Playoffs
The remaining five playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.


2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.


2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, TSN and AP choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.


2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 2013 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams.


2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.


2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The ten finalists for the John Wooden Award are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.


2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans
On February 21, 2013, CoSIDA and Capital One announced the 2013 Academic All-America team, with Aaron Craft headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2012–13 Capital One Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:


2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Senior All-Americans
The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows: Jordan Hulls won the Senior CLASS Award.


2013 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2013 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involved eight schools in single-elimination play that determined the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. Regional quarterfinals were contested on March 15 and 16, 2013. The Frozen Four was played on March 22 and 24, 2013 at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, with the University of Minnesota as the host school.


2013 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The University of Minnesota won the title with a 6–3 win over Boston University, becoming the first NCAA women's hockey team ever to complete a perfect season (41–0–0).


2013 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 2013 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 34th annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States.


2013 NCAA Rifle Championships
The championship was again hosted by Ohio State University at the Lt. Hugh W. Wylie Range in Columbus, Ohio.


2013 NCAA Rifle Championships
West Virginia won the team championship, the Mountaineers' fifteenth NCAA national title in rifle and first since 2009.


2013 NCAA Rifle Championships
Additionally, West Virginia's Petra Zublasing became the fourth person to win both individual championships, smallbore and air rifle, in the same year and the first since Matthew Emmons in 2001.


2013 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
With only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of eight teams contested this championship.


2013 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 2013 NCAA Skiing Championships were held in Vermont and Vermont on March 6–9, 2013. Middlebury College hosted the event with alpine events at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl and Nordic events taking place at the Rikert Nordic Center. The competition was won by the Colorado Buffaloes after compiling the largest final-day comeback in NCAA Skiing Championships history. Twenty-one teams from three regions sent skiers to compete for the NCAA collegiate team championship and individual titles.


2013 NCAA Skiing Championships, Regional Competitions
The NCAA skiing landscape is made up of three regions, each with one conference. The Western Region comprises the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA), the Central Region of the Central Collegiate Ski Association (CCSA) and the Eastern Region of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA). Qualification for the NCAA Championships is not only attained from competition in each regional.


2013 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
The NCAA Skiing Championships are coed championship made up of eight events, two events in both alpine and Nordic racing for both men and women. Alpine events are giant slalom and slalom and Nordic events are classical and freestyle (skate). In Nordic competition, there is typically one shorter interval start race and one longer mass start race, and every two years it flips.


2013 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
In 2013, the events were: Women's Giant Slalom and Men's Giant Slalom on Wednesday, March 6; Women's 5K Classical and Men's 10K Classical interval start on Thursday, March 7; Women's and Men's Slalom on Friday, March 8; and Women's 15K Freestyle and Men's 20K Freestyle mass start on Saturday, March 9.


2013 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
All alpine events took place at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl and Nordic events at the Rikert Nordic Center.


2013 NCAA Skiing Championships, Individual Champions
Individual champions are the winners of each of the eight races. Denver, Colorado and Vermont both captured two individual NCAA Championships while New Mexico and Utah had one apiece. Denver's Kristine Haugen became just the second alpine woman since 1990 and fifth overall to sweep the individual championships.


2013 NCAA Skiing Championships, All-American Honors
All-American honors for skiing are administered by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association and are determined by race results from the NCAA Championships. The top five skiers in each race are awarded a first-team All-America honor while skiers 6-10 are awarded second-team honors.


2013 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 2013 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship was held in Pauley Pavilion, on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, California on April 19–21, 2013. The team competition was won by the Florida Gators. Twelve teams from the six regional meets advanced to the NCAA Division I national team and individual titles. The selection show announcing the regional pairings was held on Monday, March 25 at noon PT on NCAA.com.


2013 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship, Regional Championships
Regional Championships were held on April 6, 2013 at the following six sites with start times between 4 and 6 p.m. local time:


2013 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship, NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship was held in Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 19, 2013:


2013 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship, NCAA Championship (Super Six Finals)
NCAA Championship (Super Six Finals): Los Angeles, California, Saturday, April 20 (4 p.m. PT) -


2013 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship, Individual Event Finals
Individual Event Finals: Los Angeles, California, Sunday, April 21 (1 p.m. PT)


2013 NCAA football bowl games
In college football, 2013 NCAA football bowl games may refer to:


2013 NCBA Division I World Series
The 2013 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division I World Series was played at University of Tampa Baseball Stadium in Tampa, FL from May 24 to May 30. The thirteenth tournament's champion was Penn State University. The Most Valuable Player was Kyle Gilbert of Penn State University.


2013 NCBA Division I World Series, Format
The format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets with the exception of a one-game national championship rather than a best-of-3 format to determine the national champion like the NCAA. Beginning with the 2013 edition of the NCBA Division I World Series, the losers of Games 7 and 8 were sent to the other half of the bracket in addition to the losers of Games 1-4.


2013 NCBA Division II Tournament
The 2013 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division II Tournament was a post-season tournament for the best teams in the NCBA during the 2013 season. 28 NCBA Division II college baseball teams met after playing their way through the regular season to play in the NCBA Tournament. The tournament culminated with eight teams competing for the 2013 NCBA Division II World Series at Brooks Stadium in Paducah, KY.


2013 NCBA Division II Tournament, Districts
The opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight pre-determined sites across the country, each consisting of a four-team field except for Districts VII and VIII, which consisted of a two-team best-of-three format. All other districts were double elimination. The winner of each district advanced to the NCBA Division II World Series.


2013 NCBA Division II World Series
The 2013 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division II World Series was played at Brooks Stadium in Paducah, KY from May 17 to May 21. The sixth tournament's champion was Kennesaw State University. The Most Valuable Player was Aaron Moore of Kennesaw State University.


2013 NCBA Division II World Series, Format
The format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets. There are a few differences between the NCAA and the NCBA format. One of which is that the losers of Games 1–4 move to the other half of the bracket. Another difference is that the NCBA plays a winner take all for its national title game while the NCAA has a best-of-3 format to determine its national champion. Another difference which is between NCBA Division I and II is that Division II games are 7 innings while Division I games are 9 innings.


2013 NCBA Division II World Series, Participants
‡ - denotes school also has a NCBA Division I team


2013 ND15
2013 ND15 (also written 2013 ND15) is an asteroid that is a temporary trojan of Venus, the first known Venus trojan.


2013 ND15, Discovery, orbit and physical properties
2013 ND15 was discovered on 13 July 2013 by N. Primak, A. Schultz, T. Goggia and K. Chambers, observing for the Pan-STARRS project. As of September 2014, it has been observed 21 times with a data-arc span of 26 days. It is an Aten asteroid and its semi-major axis (0.7235 AU) is very similar to that of Venus but it has high eccentricity (0.6115) and small orbital inclination (4.794°). With an absolute magnitude of 24.1, it has a diameter in the range 40–100 m (for an assumed albedo range of 0.04-0.20).


2013 ND15, Trojan dynamical state and orbital evolution
2013 ND15 has been identified as a Venus trojan following a tadpole orbit around Venus' Lagrangian point L4. Besides being a Venus co-orbital, this asteroid is also a Mercury crosser and an Earth crosser. 2013 ND15 exhibits resonant (or near-resonant) behavior with Mercury, Venus and Earth. Its short-term dynamical evolution is different from that of the other three Venus co-orbitals, 2001 CK32, 2002 VE68, and 2012 XE133.


2013 ND15, Potentially hazardous asteroid
2013 ND15 is not included in the Minor Planet Center list of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) because its absolute magnitude is greater than 22.0, even though it comes to within 0.05 AU of Earth periodically. It approached Earth at 0.077 AU on 21 June 2016.


2013 NEAFL season
The 2013 NEAFL season was the third season of the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL). The Brisbane Lions reserves were the premiers for the season after they defeated the Sydney Swans reserves by 8 points in the Grand Final.


2013 NEAFL season, League structure
The league is split into two divisions called the Northern Conference and the Eastern Conference. The two teams who win their respective Conference finals series meet in the Grand Final.


2013 NEAFL season, State games
The two NEAFL conferences participated in state games in 2013, with the NEAFL Eastern Conference (NSW/ACT) competing against the Tasmanian State League and the NEAFL Northern Conference (QLD/NT) competing against the South Australian National Football League.


2013 NEAFL season, Foxtel Cup
Three NEAFL clubs were extended an invitation to compete in the Foxtel Cup knockout competition for 2013. These clubs were 2012 Northern Conference runners up Northern Territory, 2012 Eastern Conference premiers Queanbeyan and 2012 Northern Conference third-ranked team Southport. Their results are shown below:


2013 NECBL All-Star Game
The 2013 NECBL All-Star Game was the 20th exhibition game between all-stars from the New England Collegiate Baseball League's East and West Divisions. The game was held at Robbie Mills Field in Laconia, New Hampshire, the home field of the East Division's Laconia Muskrats, on July 21, 2013.


2013 NECBL All-Star Game, Rosters
The following are the rosters of both the East and West Division All-Star teams:


2013 NECBL All-Star Game, Rosters, East Division All-Stars
John Lieske – New Bedford Bay Sox – Illinois State


2013 NECBL All-Star Game, Rosters, East Division All-Stars
Chris Shaw – New Bedford Bay Sox – Boston College


2013 NECBL All-Star Game, Rosters, East Division All-Stars
Chris Travers – New Bedford Bay Sox – Roger Williams


2013 NECBL season
The 2013 NECBL season was the 20th season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league. Changes for 2013 included the largest league expansion since 2003 with three new teams joining the league to increase the number of teams to 13. These include two expansion franchises, the Plymouth Pilgrims and the Ocean State Waves, as well as the Saratoga Brigade, the former Saratoga Phillies franchise from the New York Collegiate Baseball League, and the NECBL's first foray into New York state.


2013 NECBL season, All-star game
The NECBL's 2013 All-Star Game will be hosted by the East Division's Laconia Muskrats at Robbie Mills Field in Laconia, New Hampshire.


2013 NECBL season, Playoffs
Note: The 4th and final seeds in each division were determined the day after the regular season ended with tie-breaking games. Sanford clinched the 4th seed in the Eastern Division by virtue of their 4-2 home victory over Laconia. Sanford hosted the play-in game due to their season series win over the Muskrats. Holyoke clinched the 4th seed in the Western Division by virtue of their 7-1 home victory over Saratoga. Holyoke hosted the play-in game after winning a coin flip that was performed because the teams split the regular season series 3-3.


2013 NFL Draft
The 2013 NFL Draft was the 78th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players. The draft, which is officially called the "NFL Player Selection Meeting", was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on April 25 through April 27.


2013 NFL Draft
Eric Fisher was chosen first overall by the Kansas City Chiefs, becoming the fourth offensive lineman ever to be selected with the top pick (all of them being tackles), since the first Common draft in 1967. Players who attended high school in 39 of the 50 states were selected in this draft; Florida and California led  with 27 draftees each. South Carolina contributed the most drafted players on a per capita basis with 13 players, or one of every 355,798 residents of the state. Among colleges, Florida State led with 11 players selected.


2013 NFL Draft
A record 11 players from countries other than the United States were selected (Ghanaians Ezekiel Ansah and Edmund Kugbila, Tongan Star Lotulelei, German Björn Werner, Englishman Menelik Watson, Estonian Margus Hunt, Liberian Sio Moore, Jamaican Trevardo Williams, Australian Jesse Williams, Canadian Luke Willson and Zimbabwean Stansly Maponga), breaking the record set by the 2012 NFL Draft. Meanwhile, nine offensive linemen were selected in the first round which ties a record previously set in 1968.


2013 NFL Draft
The following is the breakdown of the 254 players selected by position:


2013 NFL Draft, Early entrants
A record 73 underclassmen forfeited any remaining NCAA eligibility they may have been eligible for and declared themselves available to be selected in the draft. Of these, 52 (71.2%) were drafted.


2013 NFL Draft, Determination of draft order
The draft order is based generally on each team's record from the previous season, with teams which qualified for the postseason selecting after those which failed to make the playoffs.


2013 NFL Draft, Trades
In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.


2013 NFL Draft, Supplemental draft
The supplemental draft was held on July 11, 2013. For each player selected in the supplemental draft, the team forfeits its pick in that round in the draft of the following season. 6 players were eligible, but none were selected.


2013 NFL Draft, Selections by conference
Twelve players from Southeastern Conference (SEC) programs were selected in the first round, which tied the record for most first-round selections from a single college conference set in 2006 by the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2013 NFL Draft, Popular culture
During Super Bowl XLVII, the NFL presented a promotional advertisement for the 2013 Draft featuring retired athlete Deion Sanders attempting a comeback return under the name "Leon Sandcastle". The ad followed the fictional exploits of Sandcastle (portrayed by Ball State cornerback Andre Dawson) through tryouts until he is drafted first overall by the Kansas City Chiefs.


2013 NFL season
The 2013 NFL season was the 94th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL) and the 48th of the Super Bowl era. The season saw the Seattle Seahawks capture the first championship in the franchise's 38 years in the league with a lopsided 43–8 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, the league's championship game. The Super Bowl was played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sunday, February 2, 2014. It was the first Super Bowl hosted by New Jersey and the first to be held outdoors in a cold weather environment. The Seahawks scored 12 seconds into the game and held the lead the rest of the way on the back of their Legion of Boom defense.


2013 NFL season
Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning was named the regular season's Most Valuable Player (MVP) by the voters of the Associated Press (AP) for a record fifth time after compiling passing stats which included regular season records for passing yards and passing touchdowns. Manning also was named the Offensive Player of the Year for the second time in his career. Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly earned Defensive Player of the Year honors.


2013 NFL season
Scoring reached historic levels throughout the league in 2013. As a whole the league set records for total points scored, points scored per game and the number of both touchdowns and field goals scored. The Broncos set a new standard for team scoring in the regular season with 606 points. In addition to the Broncos, ten other teams each scored over 400 points, the greatest number of teams to surpass that benchmark in a single year.


2013 NFL season
The regular season got underway on Thursday, September 5, 2013, with the Broncos hosting the defending Super Bowl XLVII champion Baltimore Ravens in the annual kickoff game. The game presaged the Broncos' historic offensive production with a strong performance by Peyton Manning in which he tied a league record in throwing seven touchdown passes and led the Broncos to a 49–27 win.


2013 NFL season
The game was the start of a disappointing season for the Ravens in which they would finish out of the playoffs with an 8–8 record, thus ensuring that there would be no repeat Super Bowl winner for a tied record ninth straight season. The regular season wrapped up on Sunday night, December 29.


2013 NFL season
The playoffs began with the wild card round which took place the first weekend of January 2014. The league's propensity for scoring did not abate in the post-season, as exemplified by the Indianapolis Colts' wild come-from-behind 45–44 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs' opening game. The Conference Championship games featured the top seeded teams in each conference, the Seahawks in the NFC and the Broncos in the American Football Conference (AFC), hosting the San Francisco 49ers and New England Patriots respectively. Both home teams prevailed to set up just the second Super Bowl matchup of #1 seeds in the past 20 seasons.


2013 NFL season, Player movement
The 2013 league year began at 4 pm EST on March 12, which marked the start of the league's free agency period. The per-team salary cap was set at US$123,000,000. For the first time the league instituted a negotiating period prior to the start of free agency during which time agents representing prospective unrestricted free agent players (though not the players themselves) were allowed to have contact with team representatives with the purpose of determining a player's market value and to begin contract negotiations. This period, which was referred to by some as the "legal tampering" period, began at midnight on March 9.


2013 NFL season, Player movement, Free agency
A total of 524 players were eligible for some form of free agency. Among the high-profile players who changed teams via free agency included:


2013 NFL season, Player movement, Free agency
Eight players were assigned the non-exclusive franchise tag by their teams, which ensured that the team would receive compensation were the player to sign a contract with another team. These players were Brandon Albert (Chiefs), Jairus Byrd (Bills), Ryan Clady (Broncos), Michael Johnson (Bengals), Pat McAfee (Colts), Henry Melton (Bears), Anthony Spencer (Cowboys) and Randy Starks (Dolphins). None of these players changed teams.


2013 NFL season, Player movement, Major trades
The following trades are notable as they involved Pro Bowl-caliber players and/or draft picks in the first three rounds:


2013 NFL season, Player movement, Draft
The 2013 NFL Draft was held April 25–27, 2013, in New York City. Prior to the draft the NFL Scouting Combine, where draft-eligible players were evaluated by team personnel, was held in Indianapolis on February 20–26. In the draft, the Kansas City Chiefs made Central Michigan University offensive tackle Eric Fisher the first overall selection.


2013 NFL season, Officiating changes
Dean Blandino was named as the league's new Vice President of Officiating, succeeding Carl Johnson. Referee Alberto Riveron was then promoted to the league's Senior Director of Officiating, a newly created position as a second-in-command under Blandino. Bill Vinovich, who worked the previous season as a substitute referee, was then assigned to head Riveron's former on-field officiating crew.


2013 NFL season, Rule changes
The following rule changes were approved at the NFL owners' meeting on March 20, 2013:


2013 NFL season, Preseason
Training camps for the 2013 season opened in late July. The Buccaneers camp was the first to open with rookies reporting on July 17. The Cowboys were the first to open camp to veteran players on July 20. All teams were in camp by July 27.


2013 NFL season, Preseason
Prior to the start of the regular season, each team played at least four preseason exhibition games. The preseason schedule got underway with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on Sunday, August 4. The Hall of Fame game is a traditional part of the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame induction weekend celebrating new Hall of Fame members. It was played at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio, which is located adjacent to the Hall of Fame building. In the game, which was televised nationally on NBC, the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins 24–20. The 2013 Hall of Fame class of Larry Allen, Cris Carter, Curley Culp, Jonathan Ogden, Bill Parcells, Dave Robinson and Warren Sapp was honored during the game. The 65-game preseason schedule concluded on Thursday, August 29.