2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Wisconsin
In the Elite Eight (i.e., West regional final), 29 points from Kaminsky and another career-high 27 points from Dekker helped Wisconsin defeat 2nd seeded Arizona 85–78 in a rematch of the previous year's West regional finals. Wisconsin thus reached the Final Four in consecutive years for the first time in school history. In the Final Four, Kaminsky's second double-double of the tournament (20 points and 11 rebounds) helped Wisconsin end the overall number one seeded Kentucky's perfect season with a 71–64 victory. Kentucky had started the season 38–0, the best start in NCAA history.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Wisconsin
Wisconsin defeated a #16, #8, #4, #2, and #1 seed — the predicted possible seeds in each round — en route to the championship game. They were the second team to accomplish this feat, the other being the 2001–02 Maryland Terrapins, who won the 2002 NCAA Tournament.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Duke
After a 28–3 regular season, Duke beat North Carolina State in the ACC Tournament before losing to Notre Dame in the semifinals. Despite the loss, Duke was selected as the top seed in the South regional as an at-large.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Duke
In the second round (i.e., round of 64) of the NCAA Tournament, Duke defeated 16th seeded Robert Morris 85–56. Quinn Cook scored 22 points and Jahlil Okafor added 21. In the third round (i.e., round of 32), Duke beat San Diego State 68–49 behind 26 points by Okafor to reach the Sweet 16 (i.e., the South regional semifinals). Duke next faced off with 5th seeded Utah. A strong defensive performance limited Utah, the top three-point field goal shooting team in the Pac-12, to four-for-16 (25 percent) on three-point field goal attempts and 57 points overall.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Duke
Okafor struggled against Utah's double teams, but Duke pulled away in the final minutes for a 63–57 win. Justise Winslow had a double-double, with 21 points and 10 rebounds for Duke. In the Elite Eight (i.e., the South regional final), Duke had another strong defensive performance, limiting 2nd seeded Gonzaga to two-for-10 (20 percent) on three-point field goal attempts. Point guard Tyus Jones earned six assists while committing 0 turnovers, and repeatedly scored in the lane as Duke pulled away from a 66–52 victory. Okafor, Winslow, Jones combined for 38 points. Jones earned regional Most Valuable Player (MVP) honors, as he averaged 15 points and 4.5 assists.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Duke
In the Final Four, Duke played 7th seeded Michigan State, surprise winners of the East regional. The Spartans jumped out to a 14–6 lead, before Duke went on a 14–2 run in which Okafor scored seven points. Michigan State went on to miss 17 of their final 20 shots, and trailed 36–25 at halftime. Duke started the second half with an 18–9 run, and the game was never very close after that. The final score was 81–61. Justise Winslow led Duke with 19 points and 9 rebounds, Okafor scored 18 points, while grabbing 6 rebounds, and Quinn Cook added 17 points for Duke. Denzel Valentine scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Michigan State.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Starting lineups
Selected in an NBA Draft (number corresponds to draft round)  † = 2015 All-American


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The first half of the National Championship Game featured 13 lead changes and the two evenly matched teams traded baskets. Duke held the largest lead of the half at six points. Wisconsin did not shoot well early, but managed 11 second chance points as they erased the deficit. At the half, the game was tied 31–31, marking the first such tie since 1988. Wisconsin, which led the nation in fewest committed fouls per game, recorded just two first half fouls. Duke meanwhile committed seven fouls. Jahill Okafor sat the final 4:47 of the first half after picking up two fouls.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Wisconsin scored first in the second half and held the lead for most of the half as both Okafor and Justise Winslow spent extended periods on the bench due to foul trouble. Wisconsin's lead grew, reaching 9 points at the 13:25 mark, before Duke began to narrow the gap. Even as Wisconsin was building a lead, the foul situation was reversing itself– by the 11:43 mark, game fouls were even at 9 for each team. However, Okafor picked up his fourth foul at the 9:18 mark, sending him back to the bench.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Duke tied the game at 54 on a Tyus Jones jumper with 7:03 remaining. Two possessions later, Duke took the lead for the first time in the second half on a Grayson Allen basket at the 5:32 mark. With 3:30 left in the game, Okafor reentered the game with Duke holding a narrow 59–58 lead. He immediately made a difference, scoring on back-to-back possessions to give Duke a 63–58 lead.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
With 1:53 left, a loose ball went out of bounds and the officials initially ruled that Wisconsin's Bronson Koenig touched it last, awarding the ball to Duke. After a lengthy replay review, the officials announced that the call would stand. A Jones 3-pointer on Duke's ensuing possession with 1:20 remaining then made it 66–58 before Frank Kaminsky narrowed the gap to 66–61. After a failed layup by Jones on a run out, Wisconsin cut the lead to 3 on a dunk. On the ensuing possession, Duke was fouled and made both free throws. A Wisconsin miss sealed the victory and Duke won by a final score of 68–63.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Jones finished with a game-high 23 points, while Grayson Allen added 16 for Duke. Guarded by Kaminsky, Okafor was limited to 10 points on the game. Kaminsky led Wisconsin with 21 points and all players with 12 rebounds. Four other Badgers finished in double figures. Wisconsin shot 41 percent for the game, seven percent below their season average.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
After the game, Allen was cited as one of the main reasons for Duke's comeback and win by commentators. Mike Krzyzewski agreed, saying, "We were kind of dead in the water. We were nine points down and Grayson just put us on his back." Commenting on his team's loss, Bo Ryan credited Duke's physical defense saying "There was more body contact in this game than any game we played all year, and I just feel sorry for my guys that all of the sudden a game was like that, and I think they're struggling with that a little bit." Ryan, however, also blamed the officials, citing the disparity in fouls called during the second half (Wisconsin's 13 to Duke's 6) and the controversial replay review near the end of the game.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Media observers were also critical of the controversial replay review. Chris Chase of USA Today wrote that "three highly trained officials, deemed good enough to be reffing in the biggest game of the year, disagreed with all three CBS analysts, all of Twitter and every American watching". Sam Cooper of Yahoo! Sports was perplexed by the officials explanation of the call that "they just couldn't see anything." NCAA's head of officiating, John Adams, later stated that the officials never saw the conclusive angle and got the call wrong as a result.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Jones was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The win elevated Krzyewski to second all-time in men's basketball championships behind John Wooden who coached UCLA to 10. It was his third title in the city of Indianapolis.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage
The Championship Game was broadcast in the United States by CBS. Jim Nantz was the play-by-play man with Bill Raftery and Grant Hill providing on-court commentary. Greg Gumbel and Ernie Johnson Jr. were the studio hosts. Charles Barkley, Seth Davis, Reggie Miller, Clark Kellogg, Kenny Smith and Steve Smith provided studio commentary. ESPN International owned the broadcast rights outside the United States. Dan Shulman served as the play-by-play announcer for the international audience, with Dick Vitale providing commentary.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage
Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One. The Championship Game was also streamed live for free on NCAA.com.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Media coverage
An average of 28.3 million watched the Championship Game on CBS, making the 2015 edition the most viewed NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game since Arizona beat Kentucky in overtime in the 1997 contest.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's  NCAA Division I college basketball. The 77th edition of the tournament began on March 17, 2015, and concluded with the championship game on April 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Duke defeated Wisconsin in the championship game, 68–63. Tyus Jones of Duke was the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 2015 tournament:


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
Second and Third Rounds (Round of 64 and Round of 32)


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
For the second time, Lucas Oil Stadium hosted the Final Four, marking the seventh time the NCAA's home city has hosted the tournament; it is scheduled to do so again in 2021. The 2015 tournament marked the first time since 2005 that no new venues were used, only the third time since 1950 that this has happened. As of 2018, this is the most recent tournament for Cleveland, Columbus, Jacksonville, Portland, Seattle or Syracuse; of these six cities, only Syracuse has not had its next tournament games scheduled.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Kentucky entered the tournament unbeaten. After 22 years without an unbeaten team in the tournament, following UNLV in 1991, this is the second consecutive tournament with an unbeaten team (after Wichita State in the previous). The Wildcats, by beating Cincinnati in the third round, set an NCAA men's record with 36 straight wins to start a season. They would win two more before Wisconsin upset them in the Final Four.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Kansas extended its streak of consecutive tournament appearances to 26 in a row. They have made each NCAA Tournament dating back to 1990. Kansas would qualify again the next two seasons to set the record for consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances formerly held by North Carolina (1975–2001).


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Atlantic Sun Conference champion North Florida, Big West Conference champion UC Irvine, and Mid-American Conference champion Buffalo made their first respective appearances in the Division I tournament.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
With both Buffalo and Albany winning their respective conferences and reaching the tournament, this is the first time two schools in the State University of New York system have reached the Division I tournament in the same year.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Two teams broke appearance droughts of over 20 years with their bids: Colonial Athletic Association champion Northeastern made its first NCAA appearance since 1991, and American champion Southern Methodist made its first NCAA appearance since 1993.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Harvard and Yale played a one-game playoff at the Palestra. Harvard won in dramatic fashion.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Dayton played a First Four game at their home arena, which is usually not allowed during the men's tournament. The NCAA selection committee indicated that putting Dayton in its home arena "falls within the context" of the committee's procedures.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
For the first time since 1995, two 14 seeds recorded wins in the Second Round. On March 19, Georgia State defeated Baylor and UAB defeated Iowa State.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Of the sixteen games played on March 19, five were decided by one point, a single-day record.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
For the first time since 2007 and the fourth time since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, all four 5 seeds won their Second Round games. This was also the first time since 2007 that there were four 4 vs. 5 matchups in the Third Round.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
On March 20, all but one "chalk" team won their game (there was only one upset), compared to the four upsets the previous day.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Michigan State reached its seventh Final Four in the last 18 seasons—the best mark in the nation during that time span.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
For the first time since 2009, multiple 1 seeds reached the Final Four.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
For the first time since 2008, two 1 seeds reached the Championship, between Kansas and Memphis (later vacated by Memphis).


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
Wisconsin was in its first final since 1941, and lost; and Duke in its first final since 2010, and won.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Notables
The Wisconsin loss extended the Big Ten Conference's losing streak in National Championship games to six. As of 2015, Michigan State is the last Big Ten team to win a National Championship, having done so in 2000.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying and selection procedure
Out of 333 eligible Division I teams, 68 participate in the tournament. Eighteen Division I teams were ineligible due to failing to meet APR requirements, self-imposed postseason bans, or reclassification from a lower division.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying and selection procedure
Of the 32 automatic bids, 31 were given to programs that won their conference tournaments. The Ivy League does not hold a tournament, and awards its bid to the team with the best regular-season record. However, whenever two or more teams are tied for the conference title, league rules call for a one-game playoff between the top two teams (or a series of such playoffs if more than two teams are tied), which occurred in this year. The remaining 36 bids were granted on an "at-large" basis, which were extended by the NCAA Selection Committee to the teams it deemed to be the best 36 teams that did not receive automatic bids.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying and selection procedure
Eight teams—the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams—will play in the First Four (the successor to what had been popularly known as "play-in games" through the 2010 tournament). The winners of these games advance to the round of 64.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying and selection procedure
The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 68.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying and selection procedure, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams are automatic qualifiers for the 2015 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying and selection procedure, Tournament seeds
Since the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the four 1 seeds have been seeded overall. This was the third time Kentucky was the overall top seed. The previous time was in that 2012 tournament. Duke was the overall 3 seed for the fourth time, previously advancing to the Final Four in two of those years: 2004 and 2010. Villanova was a 1 seed for the second time in school history; 2006 was the other time. This was the first 1 seed for Wisconsin.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, Midwest Regional – Cleveland, Ohio, Midwest Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Pat Connaughton, Notre Dame; Zach Auguste, Notre Dame; Willie Cauley-Stein, Kentucky; Andrew Harrison, Kentucky


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, West Regional – Los Angeles, California, West Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin; Josh Gasser, Wisconsin; T. J. McConnell, Arizona; Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Arizona


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, East Regional – Syracuse, New York, East Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Denzel Valentine, Michigan State; Terry Rozier, Louisville; Montrezl Harrell, Louisville; Wayne Blackshear, Louisville


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket, South Regional – Houston, Texas, South Regional all-tournament team
Regional all-tournament team: Matt Jones, Duke; Justise Winslow, Duke; Kyle Wiltjer, Gonzaga; Domantas Sabonis, Gonzaga


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Final Four
During the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region plays (Kentucky's Midwest Region) against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region (Wisconsin's West Region), and the champion of the second overall top seed's region plays (Michigan State's East Region) against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region (Duke's South Region).


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Story headlines
The round of 64 started off with multiple upsets with majority of the upsets coming out of the Big 12 conference. The television coverages of CBS and Turner had one of the best overall ratings on March 20, 2015. According to Nielsen estimates, exclusive coverage of the opening full round of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV averaged a 6.6 overnight household rating/14 share — up 10% from last year and the highest since the tournament expanded to four telecast windows for the entire day.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Story headlines
One of the upsets that happened was UAB upsetting No. 3 seed Iowa State 60-59. The 19-15 UAB Blazers qualified for the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011 by winning three-straight to earn the Conference USA tournament title and an automatic bid.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Story headlines
Baylor, a No. 3 seed, took on No. 14 seed Georgia State and with less than three minutes to go, Georgia State staged a 13-0 run to beat Baylor.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Story headlines
"The comeback was punctuated with a three by R. J. Hunter, son of stool-bound coach Ron Hunter, that has already produced a moment sure to go down in history – the elder Hunter, who already tore his Achilles celebrating the team's Sun Belt conference tourney victory, fell off that stool in ecstasy after his son's three dropped to give the Panthers the 57-56 lead that would be the final margin," according to Andy Hutchins.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Story headlines
However, the most talked about headline was UCLA not only making the tournament despite a poor performance in the Pac-12, but also with a call with 13 seconds left when UCLA took on SMU and coach Larry Brown. A late second goaltending that cost SMU the game sparked a lot of attention in sports media and social media. The Bruins moved on to play UAB in the Round of 32. Both teams played each other earlier in the season, when UCLA beat the Blazers 88-76 in the Bahamas back in November. Sam Vecenie a CBS writer, was quoted saying, "Funny part of that story? It was the last-place game of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament. Cool to see how these two teams have turned around their season."


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
The year 2015 marked the fifth 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. TBS aired the Final Four for the second consecutive year.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Television, Commentary teams
For the second consecutive year, the semifinals were exclusive to cable, with TBS airing the standard broadcast with Nantz, Raftery, Hill, and Wolfson. TNT and TruTV aired Team Stream by Bleacher Report broadcasts (known as Teamcasts during the 2014 tournament), which featured localized commentary and features with specific focuses on each participating team.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One had exclusive radio rights to the entire tournament.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams
This is a list of qualifying teams for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. A total of 68 teams entered the tournament. Thirty one 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 36 teams were granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams were seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 68.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was the 77th annual tournament to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I collegiate golf. It was contested from May 29 – June 3, 2015 at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida. The tournament was hosted by the University of South Florida. Two championships were awarded: team and individual. The LSU Tigers won their fifth national title and first since 1955.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
This was also the first time that the men's and women's Division I golf tournaments were played at the same location and time.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Venue
This was the first NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship held at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida, and the first time the tournament was hosted by the University of South Florida.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard
Remaining teams: Washington (890), Texas Tech (891), Virginia (893), Oklahoma State (896), UAB (896), Stanford (899), Charlotte (901), Oregon (902), Arizona State (903), Duke (903), Houston (906), UNLV (906), Florida (910), Oklahoma (910), Clemson (915).


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard
After 54 holes, the field of 30 teams was cut to the top 15. SMU beat Washington on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff for the 15th spot.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Individual competition
The field was cut after 54 holes to the top 15 teams and the top nine individuals not on a top 15 team. These 84 players competed for the individual championship.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2015. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the NCAA, the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and final – were hosted by Hockey East at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Providence defeated Boston University 4–3 to win the program's first NCAA title.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The championship game is remembered for a gaffe goal that allowed Providence to tie the score with less than 10 minutes to play.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The tournament will consist of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2015 regionals:


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:


2015 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 22. The NCHC had six teams receive a berth in the tournament, ECAC Hockey and Hockey East each had three teams receive a berth, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) had two teams receive a berth, and one team from both the Big Ten Conference and Atlantic Hockey received a berth.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Television
ESPN has US television rights to all games during the tournament for the eleventh consecutive year. ESPN will air every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, or ESPN3 and will stream them online via WatchESPN. The Sports Network holds Canadian TV rights to all games. The games are across the network on all five feeds—TSN1, TSN2, TSN3, TSN4, and TSN5. Although they are broadcast under the TSN banner, it is actually asimulcast of the ESPN feed with the ESPN announcers.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Media, Radio
Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will air both the semifinals and the championship.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 45th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse. Eighteen teams competed in the tournament, selected by winning an automatic qualifying conference tournament or as an at-large team based upon their performance during the regular season. The 18 teams were announced on May 3.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The first round and play-in games were played at campus sites. The quarterfinal games were played on May 16 and 17, 2015 at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland (hosted by the United States Naval Academy), and Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver (hosted by the University of Denver).


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The semifinals were played on May 23, 2015, and the championship on May 25, 2015. The semifinals and championship were held at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and were hosted by Drexel University.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Schools from 10 conferences, the America East Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East Conference, Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), Big Ten Conference, Ivy League, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Northeast Conference (NEC), Patriot League, and Southern Conference (SoCon) were eligible for automatic bids into the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, leaving eight remaining at-large bids for top ranked teams.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Albany (America East), Bryant (NEC), Denver (Big East), Johns Hopkins (Big Ten), Towson (CAA), Colgate (Patriot), Syracuse (ACC), Yale (Ivy), High Point (Southern Conference) and Marist (MAAC) were the 10 schools that received the tournament's automatic bids.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Results
The Denver Pioneers beat Maryland 10–5 for the school's first national championship, and also the first-ever NCAA men's lacrosse title for a school located outside the Eastern Time Zone.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Results
Wesley Berg was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, scoring the overtime winning goal in the semifinals. This was Bill Tierney's first championship since he won with Princeton in 2001, and seventh overall coaching title.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game
The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game was the final game of the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, determining the national champion for the 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The match was played at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas, a soccer-specific stadium that is home to Major League Soccer club, Sporting Kansas City. The match was between two-seeded Clemson, and eighth-seeded Stanford. Stanford won the match 4-0.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game, Match, Match details
Assistant referees:Ian Anderson (United States)Cory Richardson (United States)Fourth official:Mark Kadlecik (United States)Fifth official:Josh Carson


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2015 College Cup) was the 57th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's collegiate soccer. The first, second, third, and quarterfinal rounds were held at college campus sites across the United States during November and December 2015, with host sites determined by seeding and record. The four-team College Cup finals were played at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas from December 11–13, 2015.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The defending national champions, the Virginia Cavaliers, were eliminated in the tournament's second round. Stanford won their first-ever national title by defeating Clemson, 4–0 in the final.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
All Division I men's soccer programs except for Grand Canyon, Incarnate Word, UMass Lowell, and Northern Kentucky were eligible to qualify for the tournament. Those four programs were ineligible because they were in transition from Division II to Division I. The tournament field remained fixed at 48 teams.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
Of the 23 schools that had previously won the championship, 13 qualified for this year's tournament.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Format
As in previous editions of the NCAA Division I Tournament, the tournament featured 48 participants out of a possible field of 202 teams. Of the 48 berths, 24 were allocated to the 21 conference tournament champions and to the regular season winners of the Ivy League, Pac-12 Conference, and West Coast Conference, which do not have tournaments. The remaining 24 berths were supposed to be determined through an at-large process based upon the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of teams that did not automatically qualify.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested March 26–28, 2015 at the Iowa Natatorium at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa at the 92nd 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.


2015 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Texas topped the team standings, the Longhorns' eleventh men's team title.


2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships was held from June 10 to June 13, 2015. This was the 94th NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 34th NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The meet was held for the third consecutive year at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, on the campus of the University of Oregon.


2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
In total, 42 different men's and women's track and field events were contested. The men's distance events were historically slow due to wind and heat. University of Oregon was the overall men's and women's winner of the meet by points.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 14 through June 3, 2015 as the final part of the 2015 NCAA Division I softball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college softball teams were selected out of an eligible 293 teams on May 10, 2015. Thirty-two teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and thirty-two teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I softball selection committee. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2015 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Automatic bids
The Big 12, Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, and West Coast Conference bids were awarded to the regular season champion. All other conferences have the automatic bid go to the conference tournament winner.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
Teams in italics advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in bold advanced to Women's College World Series.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
1. Florida (50–6)2. Oregon (46–6)3. Michigan (51–6)4. Auburn (49–9)5. LSU (44–11)6. Alabama (42–12)7. UCLA (45–10)8. Tennessee (42–14)


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National seeds
9. Florida State (45–12)10. Missouri (39–14)11. Oklahoma (45–7)12. Arizona (38–17)13. Louisiana–Lafayette (39–9)14. Georgia (40–14)15. James Madison (47–8)16. Notre Dame (40–13)


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Regionals and Super Regionals
The Regionals took place May 14–17. The Eugene Region was held from May 14–16. All other regionals were held from May 15–17. The Super Regionals took place from May 21–24.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series
The Women's College World Series was held May 28 through June 3, 2015, in Oklahoma City.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Record by conference
The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series Teams, National Semi-Finals, Championship Series, and National Champion.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the championship series. It was streamed online at westwoodsports.com and through TuneIn. Kevin Kugler and Leah Amico provided the call for Westwood One.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
ESPN held exclusive rights to the tournament, with games airing across ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU. Regional and super-regional games were broadcast additionally using SEC Network, ESPN3, and SEC Network Plus. Longhorn Network simulcast coverage of games involving the Texas Longhorns.


2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Media coverage, Television
Coverage of the tournament was highly viewed; the LSU/Michigan and UCLA/Auburn games drew the largest viewership of the bracket round games, coverage of game 3 of the championship series was seen by 2.27 million viewers, and all three games in the championship series had an average viewership of 1.85 million. Viewership of the Women's College World Series was 31% higher than that of the 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament held later in the month.


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The 2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the men's and women's tennis tournaments played concurrently from May 14 to May 25, 2015 in Waco, Texas on the campus of Baylor University. It was the 70th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship* and the 34th edition of the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship*, and the tenth time that 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.


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The No. 3 seeded Virginia Cavaliers defeated the home-team No. 2 Baylor Bears, 4–2, and then the No. 1 seeded Oklahoma Sooners, 4–1, to take the men's title. This led the Cavaliers to win the Capital One Cup for overall men's sports after Virginia also won the 2014 College Cup in soccer and 2015 College World Series in baseball during the same academic year.


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
1. Oklahoma (Championship Round)2. Baylor  (Semifinals)3. Virginia (National Champions)4. Illinois (Third Round)


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
5. TCU  (Semifinals)6. Texas A&M  (Quarterfinals) 7. USC  (Quarterfinals) 8. Georgia (Quarterfinals)


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
9. Texas (Third Round) 10. Duke (Third Round) 11. Ohio State (Third Round) 12. Wake Forest (Third Round)


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Men's Team Championship, National Seeds
13. North Carolina (Quarterfinals) 14. Ole Miss (Second Round) 15. Virginia Tech (Second Round) 16. UCLA (Third Round)


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
1. USC (Semifinals) 2. North Carolina (Quarterfinals) 3. California (Third Round) 4. Vanderbilt (National Champions)


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
5. Florida (Quarterfinals) 6. Georgia (Semifinals) 7. UCLA (Runner-up) 8. Baylor (Quarterfinals)


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
9. Virginia (Third Round) 10. Texas A&M (Third Round) 11. Michigan (Third Round) 12. Oklahoma State (Third Round)


2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Women's Team Championship, National Seeds
13. Alabama (Second Round) 14. Stanford (Quarterfinals) 15. Miami (FL) (Third Round) 16. Texas Tech (Third Round)


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game
The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament, played to determine the national champion for the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Connecticut Huskies defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to win their third consecutive championship. Breanna Stewart was voted Most Outstanding Player for the third straight time. Head coach Geno Auriemma tied John Wooden's record winning ten NCAA national championships.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Participants
This rematch was the second championship meeting in two years between the teams, the Connecticut Huskies and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The players had a subdued rivalry for this game. The New York Times noted the "absence of hostility" that both coaches said reflected the benefits of getting along.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship Game was played on April 7, 2015, at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. Notable performances were by Breanna Stewart, voted three years in a row the Most Outstanding Player, and by point guard Moriah Jefferson, who Stewart said ought to have won MOP. Jefferson scored 15 points, with 5 assists and 4 steals.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Stewart fell in the first half with eight minutes left. She limped off and was retaped. Notre Dame suffered 13 turnovers in the first half and shot only 30 percent from the floor. Notre Dame trailed but was still alive "deep into the second half." Freshman Kia Nurse shot two 3-point baskets with about seven minutes remaining, securing the Huskie's lead. Then senior Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who also scored 15 points overall, sealed their lead by scoring twice.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
President Barack Obama telephoned Auriemma with congratulations, calling the UConn women's basketball program a "sports powerhouse."


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Broadcast
The Championship Game was broadcast in the United States by ESPN. Dave O'Brien was the play-by-play man with Doris Burke providing on-court commentary. Kevin Negandhi served as the studio host. Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo served as studio commentators. ESPN International owns the broadcast rights outside the United States. The Championship Game was streamed for free on NCAA.com.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, Broadcast
Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament was played between March and April 2015, with the Final Four played April 5 & 7. The regional locations, after a one-year experiment allowing tournament teams to host, returned to four neutral sites: Oklahoma City, Spokane, Greensboro and Albany. The subregionals were played 20–23 March, while the regionals were played 27–30 March. This represented a change; in the past, the rounds were played starting on a Saturday and ending on a Tuesday.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
In 2015, the opening rounds and regionals (but not the Final Four) were played starting on a Friday and ending on a Monday. The Final Four was played at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. For only the third time in history, all four of the number one seeds made it to the Final Four.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
Tennessee continued its record streak of making every NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at 34 consecutive appearances. Connecticut also continued its record streak of eight consecutive Final Four appearances.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
Pending any changes to the format, a total of 64 teams will enter the 2016 tournament. 32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conference's tournament. The remaining 36 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).


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 64.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2015 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus. The following sites were selected to host each round of the 2015 tournament:


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, 2015 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
This was the second time that Tampa had hosted a Women's Final Four Basketball tournament; the prior time was in 2008.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals Tournament & automatic qualifiers, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams automatically qualified for the 2015 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket
Unless otherwise noted, all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04).


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Final Four
During the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region plays against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region, and the champion of the second overall top seed's region plays against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region. The committee placed the four No. 1 seeded teams 1 through 4 in each of the four regions, thus determining the Final Four semifinals pairings.


2015 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 aired regionally on ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPN3 and were streamed online via WatchESPN. 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 had the closest score. The regional semifinals were split between ESPN and ESPN2, and ESPN aired the regional finals, national semifinals, and championship match. Coverage began with the selection show on Monday, March 12, 2015.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Media coverage, Radio
Westwood One had exclusive radio rights to the entire tournament. Teams participating in the Regional Finals, Final Four, and Championship were allowed to have their own local broadcasts, but they were not allowed to stream those broadcasts online.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship was the 34th annual tournament to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I women's collegiate golf. It was contested from May 22–27, 2015 at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida. The tournament was hosted by the University of South Florida. Two championships were awarded: team and individual.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship
This was the first time that the men's and women's Division I golf tournaments were played at the same location; the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship will be held in Bradenton from May 29 to June 3.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, Venue
This is the first NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship held at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida. This is the first time the tournament has been hosted by the University of South Florida.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, Format
For the first time in NCAA women's golf history the National Championship would follow the format used for the men's National Championship adopted in 2009. All teams played 54 holes with the team score consisting of the four best scores of the five-player team for each individual round. The top 15 teams and the top 9 individuals after 54 holes advanced to the fourth round. The top eight teams after 72 holes advanced to the match play competition. The individual award was given at the end of the stroke play part of the competition, recognizing the individual who had the best combined score over the four rounds.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, Format
In match play, all five players play just as before and each match is worth one point with matches that end all-square are either postponed then continued, continued immediately or called a halve depending on the scores for both teams. For example, if Team A ties with Team B 2.5–2.5, the match that was all-square after 18 holes resumes in a sudden-death playoff.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard
Remaining teams: UNLV (931), South Carolina (932), Texas A&M (933), Tulane (935), LSU (938), Virginia (938), NC State (942), Campbell (950), California (953).


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, Team competition, Leaderboard
After 54 holes, the field of 24 teams was cut to the top 15.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, Individual competition
The field was cut after 54 holes to the top 15 teams and the top nine individuals not on a top 15 team. These 84 players competed for the individual championship.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 34th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. For the first time, the semifinal and championship rounds were played at PPL Park (the home of the Philadelphia Union of the MLS) in Chester, Pennsylvania from May 22–24, 2015.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
Maryland defeated North Carolina in the final, 9–8, to win their twelfth national title.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds
1. Maryland (17-1)2. North Carolina (15-3)3. Duke (14-4)4. Syracuse (14-7)5. Boston College (15-3)6. Stony Brook (18-1)7. Virginia (11-6)8. Northwestern (12-6)


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2015 Women's College Cup) was the 34th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semi-finals and championship game were played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina from December 4–6, 2015 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2015. The champion was Penn State, who defeated Duke 1-0 in the final.


2015 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. 31 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional 33 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2015 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested March 19–21, 2015 at the 34th 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.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted by North Carolina State University at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
California returned to the top of the team standings, finishing 61 points (513–452) ahead of two-time defending champions Georgia. This was the Golden Bears' fourth women's team title.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began December 4, 2015 and concluded on December 19 at CenturyLink Center, now known as CHI Health Center, in Omaha, Nebraska. The tournament field was determined on November 29, 2015. Nebraska swept Texas in the final to claim their fourth national championship.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Qualifying teams
The champions of the NCAA's 32 conferences qualified automatically. Twenty-two conferences held tournaments, while the other ten awarded their automatic bid on the basis of being the league's regular-season champion. Those that did not hold tournaments were the American Athletic, Atlantic Coast, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West,  Ivy League, Mountain West, Pac-12, Southeastern and West Coast Conferences. The other 32 bids were apportioned on an at-large basis. Only the top 16 teams overall were seeded.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Bracket
The first two rounds were held on campus sites (the home court of the seeded team, with the exception of Creighton. Due to basketball events already being scheduled in Omaha, the Bluejays had to head to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to play the first and second round.). Regional semifinals and finals were held at pre-determined sites. In 2015, those sites were hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, University of Northern Iowa, University of Kentucky, and University of San Diego. 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.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Television
All first and second-round games were broadcast on local networks or digital feeds [Longhorn Network (Austin), SEC+ (College Station, Gainesville), BYUtv (Provo), ESPN3 (Chapel Hill, Lawrence, Louisville, College Station- non-SEC, Austin- non-Texas, Gainesville- non-SEC), TheW.tv (Provo- non BYU), P12 Digital feeds (Los Angeles, Stanford, Seattle), and Big Ten Digital (Minneapolis, University Park, Madison, Lincoln]. The Regional Finals onward will all be on ESPN Networks. ESPN3 will carry all the Regional Semis except one game in San Diego which will be shown on ESPNU. ESPNU will carry all the regional finals. ESPN2 will carry the National Semifinals and Final.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following human polls make up the 2015 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, along with the Perfect Game USA poll, rank the top 25 teams nationally. Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association rank the top 30 teams nationally.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
The Preseason poll ranked the top 40 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above were: 31. Ball State; 32. Wichita State; 33. Tennessee; 34. San Diego; 35. Loyola Marymount; 36. Arkansas; 37. Maryland; 38. Nebraska; 39. UC Irvine; 40. Illinois.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, NCBWA
The preseason poll ranked the top 35 teams in the nation. Teams not listed above were: 31. Nebraska; 32. Oregon State; 33. UC Irvine; 34. UCF; 35. College of Charleston.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2015 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 in February 2015. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2015 College World Series. The College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Omaha, Nebraska at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, ended on June 24, 2015 with the final game of the best-of-three championship series between Vanderbilt and Virginia, won by Virginia.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment
There were many significant conference changes that took effect prior to the season.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment
In addition, the 2015 season was the last for Northern Kentucky in the Atlantic Sun and for NJIT as an independent. In July 2015, Northern Kentucky joined the Horizon League, and the Atlantic Sun replaced the Norse with NJIT. It was also the last for Texas–Pan American (UTPA) as an institution. UTPA merged with the University of Texas at Brownsville in July 2015 to form the new University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). The UTPA athletic program was inherited by UTRGV, with the nickname of Vaqueros, and UTRGV maintains UTPA's membership in the Western Athletic Conference.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball season, Season outlook
For the full rankings, see 2015 NCAA Division I baseball rankings


2015 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference standings, Conference winners and tournaments
Twenty-nine 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 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 2015 College World Series will begin on June 13 in Omaha, Nebraska.


2015 NCAA Division I baseball season, Coaching changes
This table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2015 season until the day before the first day of the 2016 season.


2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
The 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 57th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began on August 28 and continues into November 2015. The season culminated with the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in December 2015. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition. The defending champions were Virginia who defeated UCLA  0–0 (4–2 PKs) to win its seventh NCAA soccer title. The season concluded with Stanford defeating Clemson 4–0 to win its first championship.


2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2014, Conference realignment
NJIT, previously the only Division I basketball independent, played the 2014 season as a single-sport member of the Sun Belt Conference. Although NJIT replaced Northern Kentucky in the Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) in July 2015, the men's soccer team remained in the Sun Belt for the 2015 season due to contractual commitments to that league. NJIT men's soccer will join the A-Sun in 2016.


2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season, Changes from 2014, Conference realignment
Additionally, the 2015 season was the last for Coastal Carolina in the Big South Conference. The Chanticleers will join the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2016 in all sports except football, with that team joining the conference a year later. The arrival of Coastal Carolina will maintain the Sun Belt at six men's soccer members, preserving the league's automatic NCAA tournament berth.


2015 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 2015.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Division I softball season
The 2015 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 2015. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2015 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 2015.


2015 NCAA Division I softball season
Florida won their second title in a row, defeating Michigan in the championship series 2 games to one.


2015 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 2015 Women's College World Series began on May 28 in Oklahoma City.


2015 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Freshman class consecutive wins streak:27 – Megan Good, James Madison Dukes; February 14-May 6, 2015


2015 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Junior class home runs:32 – Lexie Elkins, Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns


2015 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Junior class slugging percentage:1.229% – Torrian Wright, Savannah State Lady Tigers


2015 NCAA Division I women's soccer season
The 2015 NCAA Division I women's soccer season was the 34th season of NCAA championship women's college soccer. The Florida State Seminoles were the defending national champions.


2015 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division II baseball Tournament decided the baseball champion at the NCAA Division II level for the 2015 season. The Tampa Spartans won their seventh national championship, beating the Indians of Catawba College in the national championship. Tampa catcher Nick Tindall was named tournament Most Outstanding Player, while Tampa head coach Joe Urso won his fourth championship with the Spartans.


2015 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Results, Bracket
Hosted by University of Mount Olive and Town of Cary at USA Baseball National Training Complex.


2015 NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship was the 27th women's collegiate field hockey tournament to determine the top NCAA Division II college field hockey team in the United States. The semifinals and championship match were played at Steph Pettit Stadium at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania from November 20 to 22, 2015.


2015 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game
The 2015 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game that determined a national champion in NCAA Division II for the 2015 season. It was played at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas, on December 19, 2015, with kickoff at 3:00 p.m. EST (2:00 p.m. local CST), and television coverage on ESPN2.


2015 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the 2015 NCAA Division II Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2015 Division II Playoffs, which began with four 7-team brackets to determine super region champions, who then qualified for the national semifinals. The game featured the winners of those national semifinal games: No. 1 seed Shepherd and No. 1 seed Northwest Missouri State. This was the first meeting between the teams. This was the Bearcats' ninth championship game appearance, having won 4, while the Rams were making their first appearance.


2015 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball. It began on March 13, 2015, following the 2014–15 season and concluded with the championship game on March 28, 2015.


2015 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The eight regional winners met in the Elite Eight for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. For the second straight year, the final rounds were  held at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.


2015 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
Florida Southern defeated Indiana (PA), 77–62, to win their second national championship and first title since the 1981 NCAA Division II Tournament.


2015 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification
The champions of 22 of the 24 Division II basketball conferences qualified automatically. An additional 42 teams were selected as “at-large” participants by the selection committee. The first three rounds of the tournament were organized in regions comprising eight participants in groups of two or three conferences (two in the Atlantic and Midwest regions). The regionals were hosted at the home court of the top seeded team.


2015 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualification, Automatic qualifiers
The following teams automatically qualified for the national tournament as the champions of their conference tournaments.


2015 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 44th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division II men's collegiate soccer in the United States. The semifinals and championship game were played at Ashton Brosnaham Stadium in Pensacola, Florida from December 3–5, 2015 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2015.


2015 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship, Qualification
All Division II men's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the 38-team tournament field. All Division II men's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the 38-team tournament field. No teams received automatic bids; at-large bids are based on the teams' regular season records and the Quality of Winning Percentage Index.. Teams were placed into one of four unbalanced super-regional brackets, consisting of eight or ten teams, based on geographic location.


2015 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the 34th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.


2015 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
California (PA) defeated California Baptist in the championship game, 86–69, to claim the Vulcans' second NCAA Division II national title and first since 2004.


2015 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.


2015 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Tournament will be the 28th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division II women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game will be played at Ashton Brosnaham Stadium in Pensacola, Florida from December 3–5, 2015 while the preceding rounds will be played at various sites across the country during November 2015.


2015 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
All Division II women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. The tournament field remained fixed at 48 teams. 22 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional 26 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records. Teams were placed into one of eight six-team regional brackets based on geographic location.


2015 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 2015 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). This is for the 2015 season.


2015 NCAA Division II football season
The 2015 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 September 4, 2015 and ended with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 19, 2015 at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Northwest Missouri State won their second national title in three seasons and fifth overall.


2015 NCAA Division II football season, Conference and program changes
Northwestern Oklahoma State and Virginia–Wise completed their transitions to Division II and became eligible for the postseason.


2015 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 2015 NCAA Division II Football Championship Postseason involved 28 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. Miles College, the SIAC champion, was not eligible to postseason due to its participation to the 2015 Turkey Day Classic against Alabama State (FCS).


2015 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2015 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 40th national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Neuroscience Group 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 SUNY Cortland, who defeated Wisconsin–La Crosse in the championship series in two games.


2015 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New York Regional
Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park-Auburn, NY (Host: State University of New York at Cortland)


2015 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series
Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University/Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau)


2015 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship will be the 35th women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the NCAA to determine the top Division III college field hockey team n the United States. The semifinals and championship match will be played at the Turf Field at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia from November 21–22, 2015. W&L is hosting for the second consecutive year.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 62 teams to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The tournament took place during March 2015, with the national semifinal and championship rounds taking place at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Wisconsin–Stevens Point defeated Augustana (IL), 70–54, to win their fourth Division III national championship.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2014–15 season, the 32nd such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Trinity defeating Wisconsin–Stevens Point in the championship game 5-2. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


2015 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 seven different conferences. Four at-large bids were available for the highest-ranked non-automatic qualifiers (overall seed in parentheses).


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. The top two teams from each region received byes into the quarterfinal round. These teams were arranged so they were all four to reach the semifinal round the second eastern seed would play the top western seed and vise versa.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Because only three western teams received byes for the tournament, the third western seed was given the remaining bye into the quarterfinals and matched against the second western seed.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
the remaining six eastern teams were placed in the first round and seeded as follows: the second eastern seed would play the eighth eastern seed, the fourth eastern seed would play the seventh eastern seed and the fifth eastern seed would play the sixth eastern seed. The winner between the fifth- and six-seeded teams, would advance to play the top overall seed.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Because the fourth overall seed was required to play in the first round as the third eastern seed, the winner of its first round match would advance to play the second overall seed rather than the third overall seed. This was done to divide top four seeds evenly between the two semifinal brackets.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the First Round and Quarterfinals the higher-seeded team served as host.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship was the 42nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division III men's collegiate soccer in the United States. The semifinals and championship game were played at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri (the home field of Swope Park Rangers, the USL affiliate of MLS's Sporting Kansas City) from December 4–5, 2015 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country during November 2015.


2015 NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship, Qualification
All Division III men's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the 61-team tournament field. 42 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional 19 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.


2015 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament that involved 64 teams playing to determine the winner of the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship. It began on March 6, 2015, and concluded with the championship game on March 21, 2015, at the Van Noord Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.


2015 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The Thomas More Saints defeated the George Fox Bruins in the championship game, 83–63, to win their first national championship. The two remaining final four teams were the Montclair State Red Hawks and the Tufts Jumbos.


2015 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
On November 16, 2016, the championship was vacated due to NCAA violations.


2015 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship
The 2015 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship is the 30th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division III women's collegiate soccer in the United States. The semifinals and championship game will be played at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri (the home field of Swope Park Rangers, the USL affiliate of MLS's Sporting Kansas City) from December 4–5, 2015 while the preceding rounds will be played at various sites across the country during November 2015.


2015 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship, Qualification
All Division III women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the 64-team tournament field. 44 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional 20 teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records. ALl first and second-round games are played on campus sites while all third and fourth-round games, deemed Sectionals, will be played on the home field of the highest-seeded remaining team of that sectional.


2015 NCAA Division III football rankings
Two human polls and a committee's selections comprise the 2015 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III football rankings. Unlike in Division I's Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the NCAA, Division III's college football's governing body, bestows a national championship on the winner of the Stagg Bowl – the championship round of a 32-team postseason tournament. The main weekly poll that begins in the preseason is the D3Football.com Poll which ranks the top 25 colleges in Division III football. Another weekly poll starting in the preseason is the BennetRank. One additional poll is released midway through the season, the AFCA Division III Coaches' Poll.


2015 NCAA Division III football season
The 2015 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began on September 5, 2015 and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, on December 18, 2015 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. Mount Union, which made its 11th consecutive appearance in the title game, defeated St. Thomas (Minnesota) 49–35 to claim its 19th national title.


2015 NCAA Division III football season, Conference changes and new programs
One school added football at the Division III level and six programs changed conference affiliations.


2015 NCAA Division III football season, Conference changes and new programs
A full list of Division III teams can be viewed on the D3football website.


2015 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
Twenty-five conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, two conferences had no Pool A bid. The American Southwest, which had fallen below the required seven members in 2013, lost its Pool A bid after the two-year grace period; the SCAC had only four members. The MASCAC and SAA gained Pool A bids for the first time, having passed through the two-year waiting period.


2015 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
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 25 Pool A conferences contained 220 schools, an average of 8.8 teams per conference. Twelve schools were in Pool B, enough for one bid.


2015 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The remaining six playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 2015 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 2014–15 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.


2015 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 2015 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.


2015 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.


2015 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 USA Today, Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.


2015 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans
On February 26, 2015, CoSIDA and Capital One announced the 2015 Academic All-America team, with Matt Townsend headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2014–15 Capital One Academic All-America Men’s Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:


2015 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:


2015 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 2015 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 47th annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches was played at the Spieker Aquatics Center at UCLA in Los Angeles, California from December 5–6, 2015. UCLA defeated USC for the 2015 title 10–7.


2015 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Since there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. Under the new format, six teams were invited to contest this single-elimination tournament. The play-in games was played December 3, hosted by Southern California, and the championship will be held December 5 and 6, hosted by UCLA.


2015 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2015 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involved eight schools in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The quarterfinals were contested at the campuses of the seeded teams on March 14, 2015. The Frozen Four was played on March 20 and 22, 2015 at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota with the University of Minnesota as the host.


2015 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The tournament was won by Minnesota with a 4–1 win over Harvard, giving the Golden Gophers their fifth overall title and third in four years.


2015 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
For the first time, the winners of all four Division I conference tournaments received automatic berths to the NCAA tournament. The other four teams were selected at-large. The top four teams were then seeded and received home ice for the quarterfinals.


2015 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 2015 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 36th annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States.


2015 NCAA Rifle Championships
The championships were held at the E.F. Horton Rifle Range at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska.


2015 NCAA Rifle Championships
Two-time defending champions West Virginia again won the team championship, the Mountaineers' seventeenth NCAA national title in rifle.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 2015 NCAA Skiing Championships will be held in Lake Placid, New York on March 11–14, 2015. St. Lawrence will host the event with all alpine and Nordic events taking place at Olympic Center. It is the first time St. Lawrence will serve as host of the championship for the first time and it is the third time it will be held in Lake Placid, the other times being 1980 and 1982.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Skiing Championships, Regional Competitions
Regional championships will take place two or three weeks prior to the NCAA Championships.


2015 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.


2015 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
In 2015, the events are: Men's Giant Slalom and Women's Giant Slalom; Men's and Women's Classical; Men's and Women's Slalom; and Men's and Women's Freestyle. One alpine race is normally run to completion and the other normally alternates between men and women's first and second runs. Nordic distances are 5K and 15K for women's races and 10K and 20K for men's. One Nordic race will be an interval start and the other a mass start.


2015 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venues And Events
All events will take place at Olympic Center in Lake Placid.


2015 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 2015 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship was held at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on April 17–19, 2015. Gymnasts from the six regional meets advanced to the NCAA Division I national team and individual competitions. The team competition was won by Florida Gators for the third time in their program's history.


2015 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship, Regional Championships
The NCAA Regional Championships were held on Saturday, April 4, 2015 at the following six sites;


2015 NCAA football bowl games
In college football, 2015 NCAA football bowl games may refer to:


2015 NCHC Tournament
The 2015 NCHC Tournament was the second tournament in league history. It was played between March 13 and March 21, 2015. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Miami received the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2015 NCHC Tournament, Format
The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.


2015 NCHC Tournament, Format
The winners of the first round series advance to the Target Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.


2015 NCHC Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2015 NEAFL season
The 2015 NEAFL season was the fifth season of the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL). The season began on Saturday, 11 April and concluded on Saturday, 19 September with the NEAFL Grand Final. NT Thunder were the premiers, defeating Aspley by one point in the Grand Final.


2015 NEAFL season, League structure
The structure of the league follows on from 2014 with a single conference involving the three eastern states/territories (Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales) and the Northern Territory. Three clubs decided not to renew their licenses due to financial complications, including Canberra-based clubs, Belconnen and Queanbeyan, and Sydney-based club, Sydney Hills.


2015 NEAFL season, Win/Loss table
Bold – Home gameX – ByeOpponent for round listed above marginThis table can be sorted by margin


2015 NEAFL season, Representative match
The NEAFL representative team played against the Tasmanian State League representative team in the league's sole state match for the year. The match was played on 7 June in Burpengary and the victory was the first time a NEAFL representative side had won since the competition unified in 2014.


2015 NEAFL season, Representative match, Squad
The 2015 NEAFL representative squad consisted of players from all NEAFL clubs excluding AFL reserves teams (Brisbane Lions, Gold Coast, Sydney Swans, UWS Giants). The team contained seven former AFL-listed players, led by two-time premiership winner with Geelong and 200-gamer, Josh Hunt. The side also included young talent in the NEAFL with the inclusion of three 2015 AFL draftees, Josh Smith, Matt Uebergang, and Josh Wagner. The team was coached by AFL Queensland Hall of Famer and former AFL footballer, John Blair. Sydney University captain, Tim Barton, was named as best on ground.


2015 NEAFL season, Awards, Rising Star nominations
The NEAFL Rising Star was awarded to the most promising young talent in the NEAFL competition. Players were nominated each week and must have been under the age of 21 and have played less than 20 NEAFL games.


2015 NECBL season
The 2015 NECBL season was the 22nd season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league. The same twelve 2014 teams returned for the 2015 season, as the divisional alignment remained the same. The Vermont Mountaineers repeated as regular season champions in the Northern Division, while the Newport Gulls edged the Mystic Schooners by a game to claim the Southern Division. The Mountaineers would top the North Adams SteepleCats in the Divisional Finals round of the postseason to advance to the NECBL Championship Series.


2015 NECBL season
There they met Mystic, which stunned the reigning champion Gulls by sweeping them in the South Divisional Finals. Vermont rallied after losing Game 1 of the best-of-three Championship Series, and it took a squeeze play in the top of the 10th inning to score the deciding run for the Mountaineers, who won the franchise's third championship and first since 2007.


2015 NFL Draft
The 2015 NFL Draft was the 80th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players. It took place in Chicago at the Auditorium Theatre and in Grant Park, from April 30 to May 2. The previous fifty NFL drafts (since 1965) had been held in New York City. The 2015 NFL draft was the first to feature an outdoor component, where fans would be able to see the Commissioner on the Auditorium Theatre stage from across the street in the park; this area was called Draft Town. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers held the right to select first because they had the league's worst record in the previous season. The Arizona Cardinals made the final pick in the draft, commonly called Mr. Irrelevant.


2015 NFL Draft
One of the major storylines approaching the NFL draft was the competition between the previous two Heisman Trophy winners, Jameis Winston winning the award in 2013 and Marcus Mariota in 2014. Both were considered excellent prospects and had the potential to become the first overall draft selection. Winston was considered to be a more polished pocket passer and pro-style quarterback, but had several off-the-field issues while playing at Florida State, ranging from a sexual assault allegation to shoplifting incidents. Mariota was considered a better athlete, the fastest quarterback in the draft, and had a better off-the-field reputation.


2015 NFL Draft
However, Mariota ran a spread offense at Oregon which typically had not transitioned well from college to the NFL. Although neither was considered a perfectly safe pick, the two quarterbacks were selected first and second overall. This was only the sixth time in NFL history that this has occurred. (1971, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2012, and subsequently 2016). It was also the first time that two Heisman trophy winners were selected with the first two  overall picks. All 22 running backs selected no longer play for their original team or have already retired.


2015 NFL Draft, Timing changes
Shortly before the draft, the NFL shortened the amount of time for certain selections to be made. The time for seventh-round selections was reduced from five minutes to four minutes; similarly, the time for all compensatory selections, which cannot be traded, was reduced from seven minutes to four minutes.


2015 NFL Draft, Early entrants
Seventy-four underclassmen announced their intention to forgo their remaining NCAA eligibility and declare themselves available to be selected in the draft. An additional ten players who graduated but were still eligible to play college football chose to enter the draft, bringing to 84 the total number of players who chose to forgo college eligibility to enter the draft.


2015 NFL Draft, Overview
The following is the breakdown of the 256 players selected by position:


2015 NFL Draft, Selection 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. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tennessee Titans each finished 2014 with league-worst 2–14 records. The Buccaneers were awarded the first pick in round one due to having a worse strength of schedule. The selection order for subsequent rounds follows the order of the first round, except that teams with the similar records (and the same playoff result for playoff teams) rotate selections round-by-round (e.g. the Titans picked first in the second round).


2015 NFL Draft, Selection order
In addition to the seven picks each team is given (one in each round), the league allocated thirty-two (32) supplemental picks at the ends of round 3 through 7, for a total of 256 picks. The supplemental picks are awarded to teams who had net losses of free agent talent from the previous year.


2015 NFL Draft, Supplemental draft
A supplemental draft was held on July 9, 2015. For each player selected in the supplemental draft, the team forfeits its pick in that round in the draft of the following season. Seven players were available, but only one was selected.


2015 NFL Draft, Trades
In the explanations below, (PD) indicates trades completed prior to the start of the draft (i.e. Pre-Draft), while (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2015 draft.


2015 NFL season
The 2015 NFL season was the 96th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL), and the 50th of the Super Bowl era. To celebrate the 50th season of the Super Bowl, a gold-plated NFL logo and other various gold-themed promotions were used throughout the season. It began on Thursday, September 10, 2015, with the annual kickoff game featuring the defending Super Bowl XLIX champion New England Patriots defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 28–21. The season concluded with Super Bowl 50, the league's championship game, on Sunday, February 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with the Denver Broncos defeating the Carolina Panthers, 24–10.


2015 NFL season
During the 2015 season, the Oakland Raiders, the St. Louis Rams, and the San Diego Chargers announced their intentions to relocate back to Los Angeles in the ensuing off-season (all three teams had previously resided in the city at various points in their history). NFL owners eventually only approved the relocation of the Rams, by a vote of 30–2 on January 12, 2016. Thus, 2015 ended up being the Rams' last season in St. Louis.


2015 NFL season, Player movement
The 2015 NFL League Year began on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. ET. On Saturday, March 7, clubs started to contact and enter into contract negotiations with the certified agents of players who became unrestricted free agents upon the expiration of their 2014 contracts at 4:00 p.m. ET on March 10.


2015 NFL season, Player movement
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, clubs exercised options for 2015 on all players who have option clauses in their 2014 contracts, submitted qualifying offers to their restricted free agents with expiring contracts and to whom they desire to retain a Right of First Refusal/Compensation, submitted a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2014 contracts and who have fewer than three accrued seasons of free agency credit, "Top-51" began, all clubs must be under the 2015 salary cap, all 2014 player contracts expired at 4:00 p.m. ET and trading period for 2015 began. (4:00 p.m. ET).


2015 NFL season, Player movement, Free agency
A total of 453 players were eligible for some form of free agency at the beginning of the free agency period. Among the players who changed teams via free agency included: