USIAA Bowling Rules:
Scholarship and Roster Rules:
- All programs can only have a max of 15 players during the regular season; this limit is lifted to 125 players for preseason tryouts only.
- All programs can choose whether to allow athletic scholarships or not; start-up programs are given a max of 5 years to decide whether or not to provide athletic scholarships to players.
- All scholarship programs can only have a max of 8 total scholarships, and a max of 4 full scholarship players.
- All programs can only have a max of 12 players on the active roster for all regular season games.
- All programs are required to give all 3 inactive players free season tickets in the designated student sections for all home games.
- 3 points for 1st place
- 2 points for 2nd place.
- 1 point for 3rd place.
- 0 points for 4th place or worse.
- All programs play a 14-invitational season (may only host 1) beginning in the second week of October and ending in the third week of March; each invitational can only have a max of 7 teams, for 6 games per team per invitational (84 total games).
- The Tournament is a 32-team single-elimination tournament beginning on the first week of March and ending 11 weeks later.
- The programs selected to enter the tournament are the 16 conference champions & runner-ups.
- To be eligible for the post season, all programs must have a minimum record of 42-42 (or 41-43 with good academic standing), and not be on probation.