Where Every Division I Lacrosse School Stands on Revenue Sharing

Last week, the College Sports Commission released a list of schools that will participate in revenue sharing for the 2025-26 academic year.

The list includes all current members of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC. Division I schools from other conferences had to formally “opt in” to revenue sharing by June 30, 2025. This will happen annually under the terms of the NCAA vs. House settlement that went into effect July 1.

Of more than 140 schools that have Division I men’s and/or women’s lacrosse, more than 100 have opted in to the agreement for next year.

As part of the settlement, schools now can begin directly compensating their student-athletes through revenue sharing, with that compensation pool capped at around $20.5 million in 2025-2026. The pool is set to increase 4 percent annually for the next 10 years. The intent is to allow schools that opt into the settlement to pay student-athletes for revenue they help generate. It’s up to each school on how they share the revenue between their sports.

Below you will find a complete list of Division I lacrosse-playing schools that did NOT opt in, with their conference affiliation in the sport.

• As previously reported by Justin Feil, the Ivy League and Patriot League have opted out as conferences. This means they won’t be bound to roster limits (38 for women’s lacrosse and 48 for men’s lacrosse) but will not pay players directly. These conferences house some of the top programs in Division I lacrosse.
• Most schools that have recently reclassified from Division II to Division I, like Le Moyne and Mercyhurst, do not appear on the CSC opt-in list — creating contrast especially in the Northeast Conference.
• Notable outliers include Air Force and Bellarmine in the Atlantic Sun, Binghamton and UMBC in the America East and Hobart in the Atlantic 10. Johns Hopkins, which like Hobart is Division III in most other sports, opted in as part of the Big Ten.

Regardless of whether an institution opts in to revenue sharing, all Division I student-athletes will be subject to the new rules and requirements around third-party NIL deals.

NON-PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS

Air Force (Atlantic Sun) 
American (Patriot) 
Army (Patriot) 
Bellarmine (Atlantic Sun) 
Binghamton (America East) 
Boston University (Patriot) 
Brown (Ivy) 
Bucknell (Patriot) 
Central Connecticut (Northeast) 
Colgate (Patriot) 
Columbia (Ivy) 
Cornell (Ivy) 
Dartmouth (Ivy) 
Fairleigh Dickinson (Northeast) 
Gardner Webb (Big South) 
Harvard (Ivy) 
Hobart (Atlantic 10) 
Holy Cross (Patriot) 
Iona (Metro Atlantic) 
Lafayette (Patriot) 
Lehigh (Patriot) 
Le Moyne (Northeast) 
Loyola (Patriot) 
Manhattan (Metro Atlantic) 
Mercyhurst (Northeast) 
Navy (Patriot) 
New Haven (Northeast) 
Penn (Ivy) 
Presbyterian (Big South) 
Princeton (Ivy) 
Queens (Atlantic Sun) 
Saint Francis (Northeast) 
Stetson (Atlantic Sun) 
Stonehill (Northeast) 
UC Davis (Big 12) 
UMBC (America East) 
Wagner (Northeast) 
VMI (Northeast) 
Yale (Ivy)

Here is a conference-by-conference breakdown of which Division I lacrosse schools have opted in and out of revenue sharing. All told, 49 of 77 Division I men’s programs and 98 of 133 Division I women’s programs will be able to compensate athletes directly next year.

DIVISION I MEN

America East

In: Bryant, NJIT, UAlbany, UMass Lowell, Vermont

Out: Binghamton, UMBC

Atlantic 10

In: Delaware, High Point, Richmond, Saint Joseph’s, St. Bonaventure, UMass

Out: Hobart

Atlantic Coast Conference

In: Duke, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Virginia

Out: None

Atlantic Sun Conference

In: Jacksonville, Mercer, Utah

Out: Air Force, Bellarmine, Queens

Big East Conference

In: Denver, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John’s, Villanova

Out: None

Big Ten Conference

In: Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers

Out: None

Coastal Athletic Association

In: Drexel, Fairfield, Hampton, Hofstra, Monmouth, Stony Brook, Towson

Out: None

Ivy League

In: None

Out: Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

In: Canisius, Marist, Merrimack, Sacred Heart, Siena, Mount St. Mary’s, Quinnipiac

Out: Iona, Manhattan

Northeast Conference

In: Cleveland State, Detroit Mercy, Robert Morris, LIU

Out: Le Moyne, Mercyhurst, Wagner, VMI

Patriot League

In: None

Out: Army, Boston University, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Loyola, Navy

DIVISION I WOMEN

America East Conference

In: Bryant, New Hampshire, UAlbany, UMass Lowell, Vermont

Out: Binghamton, UMBC

American Conference

In: Charlotte, East Carolina, Old Dominion, James Madison, South Florida, Temple, Vanderbilt

Out: None

Atlantic 10 Conference

In: Davidson, Duquesne, George Mason, George Washington, La Salle, Rhode Island, Richmond, Saint Joseph’s, St. Bonaventure, Virginia Commonwealth

Out: None

Atlantic Coast Conference

In: Boston College, Cal, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech

Out: None

Atlantic Sun Conference

In: Coastal Carolina, Delaware, Jacksonville, Kennesaw State, Liberty, Lindenwood

Out: Queens, Stetson

Big 12 Conference

In: Arizona State, Cincinnati, Colorado, Florida, San Diego State

Out: UC Davis

Big East Conference

In: Butler, Denver, Georgetown, Marquette, UConn, Villanova, Xavier

Out: None

Big South Conference

In: Furman, High Point, Longwood, Mercer, Radford, Winthrop, Wofford

Out: Gardner Webb, Presbyterian

Big Ten Conference

In: Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Rutgers, USC

Out: None

Coastal Athletic Association

In: Campbell, Drexel, Elon, Hofstra, Monmouth, Stony Brook, Towson, William & Mary

Out: None

Ivy League

In: None

Out: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

In: Canisius, Fairfield, Marist, Merrimack, Niagara, Rider, Sacred Heart, Siena, Mount St. Mary’s, Quinnipiac

Out: Iona, Manhattan

Mid-American Conference

In: Akron, Central Michigan, Detroit Mercy, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Robert Morris, UMass, Youngstown State

Out: None

Northeast Conference

In: Delaware State, Howard, LIU

Out: Central Connecticut, Fairleigh Dickinson, Le Moyne, Mercyhurst, New Haven, Saint Francis, Stonehill, Wagner

Patriot League

In: None

Out: American, Army, Boston University, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Loyola, Navy