Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference - Conference History

Conference History

The TCAC was created in 1985 from the western division of the old Volunteer State Athletic Conference. The charter members were Belmont University, Bethel College, Blue Mountain College, Christian Brothers University, Cumberland University, David Lipscomb University, Freed-Hardeman University, Lambuth University, Trevecca Nazarene University, and Union University. The TCAC survived in that form until 1995 when both Belmont and Christian Brothers announced their intentions to go to the NCAA. Lipscomb would follow in 1996. The remaining teams formed a new conference, the TranSouth Athletic Conference which exists to the present.