The ask
To the NCAA national office,
Member institutions produce the statistics that make up the official NCAA record: every box score, every play, every season. But when our staff need that data back, for game notes, record books, scouting, player development, compliance reports, or academic research, we usually have to copy it from web pages or re-enter it by hand. This is slow and error-prone, and it puts schools with smaller staffs at a disadvantage.
We respectfully request that the NCAA provide all member institutions with:
The data
- Season and career statistics: team and individual totals, for all championship sports
- Game box scores: team and player statistics for every contest
- Statistical rankings: the official national team and individual rankings
- Historical archives: past seasons, not only the current one
- Coaching history: head coaches by season, with win-loss records and postseason results
The access
- CSV download: bulk files that open in any spreadsheet or analysis tool
- API access: a documented, stable, machine-readable interface for automated use
- For every member institution: credentials available to staff at all Division I, II, and III schools
This data already exists. Making it downloadable would save every athletics department countless hours, improve the accuracy of what we publish, and give every member the same footing, regardless of budget or staff size.
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Institutions represented
- Arkansas State University D-I
- Austin College D-III
- Campbell University D-I
- Carson-Newman D-II
- Central Connecticut State University D-I
- Concordia-St. Paul D-II
- Creighton University D-I
- Duquesne University D-I
- Georgia Southern University D-I
- Georgian Court University D-II
- Hardin-Simmons University D-III
- High Point University D-I
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges D-III
- Iowa State University D-I
- LSU D-I
- MCLA D-III
- Minnesota State University Moorhead D-II
- Mississippi State University D-I
- Notre Dame of Maryland University D-III
- Ohio Dominican University D-II
- Oklahoma State University D-I
- Oregon State D-I
- Stanford University D-I
- Stephen F. Austin State University D-I
- The University of Olivet D-III
- Trinity University D-III
- University of Maine at Presque Isle D-III
- University of Maryland D-I
- University of Nebraska D-I
- University of Northern Iowa D-I
- University of Southern Mississippi D-I
- University of Virginia D-I
- University of Wisconsin - Whitewater D-III
- Valparaiso University D-I
- Virginia Military Institute D-I
- Virginia Tech D-I
- Washington and Lee University D-III
- Western Colorado University D-II
- Westminster College D-III
- Willamette University D-III
- Winthrop University D-I
- Xavier University D-I
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