The University
of Tennessee lacrosse team is a member of the SouthEastern Lacrosse
Conference (SELC) which is a division of the United States Lacrosse
Men's Division Intercollegiate Association (USL MDIA).
SELC
The
ten member insitutions of the SELC A Division in which the University
of Tennessee is placed in are: Auburn University, Clemson University,
Emory University, University of Florida, Florida State University,
University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State University
and Virginia Tech. The SELC A Division is then subdivided into
a Red Division (ACC Schools) and a Blue Division (SEC Schools).
UT has seven required divisional games each year. UT often plays
the other SELC A division teams that we are not required to play
as well as some of the sixteen members of the SELC B Division
teams.
USL
MDIA
The
SELC is one of nine conferences in the USL MDIA. The other conferences
in the USL MDIA are: Central Collegiate Lacrosse Association,
Great Rivers Lacrosse Conference, Lone Star Alliance, Pacific
Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League, Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse
League, Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference, Upper Midwest Lacrosse
League and Western Collegiate Lacrosse League.
Scheduling
Typicaly every year the team schedules one large non-conference
road trip in which two or three games will be played against teams
from one of the other eight conferences. In recent years those
trips have been to Michigan ('00), Illinois ('01), Indiana ('02),
Texas ('03) and Missouri ('04).
The
University of Tennesse also hosts many non-conference teams each
year due to its prime location in the southeast. The warm weather
and lacrosse tradition of Tennessee has brought in Marquette University,
University of Missouri, Indiana University, Texas A&M University,
University of Michigan, University of Buffalo, University of Illinois,
Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Bridgewater State College, New York University
and (NCAA Varsity Division II) Mars Hill all since the 2000 season.
Every
year though the Vols decline around a half dozen teams who want
to come to Knoxville. This is because the team has one of the
largest schedules in the country every year with roughly sixteen
games from February thru April.
The
team is currently beginning to schedule their non-conference portion
of the 2005 season. Look for the Vols to head up to the Northeast
in '05.
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