｡ 1976 (January 14-17) — Delegates at the 70th Convention and third Special Convention stage the first roll-call vote in Convention history (need-based aid is rejected in the vote).

｡ 1976 (March 29) — Indiana University, Bloomington, finishes an undefeated season with its victory in the Division I Basketball Championship (no Division I men’s basketball team subsequently has gone undefeated).

｡ 1976 (May 19-23) — Kalamazoo College wins the first Division III Men’s Tennis Championships, claiming the first of its seven titles between 1976 and 1993 under coach George Acker.

｡ 1976 (May 25-28) — California State University, Stanislaus, wins the first of six straight Division III Men’s Golf Championships team titles under coach Jim Hanny (the team repeated the feat with six more consecutive championships from 1984 to 1989).

｡ 1976 (June 4-6) — The first Division III Baseball Championship is played at Marietta College.

｡ 1978 (January 11-13) — Division I realigns into I-A and I-AA for football.

｡ 1978 (March 18) — The first Division II Ice Hockey Championship is conducted at Springfield College.

｡ 1978 (March 18) — North Park College wins the first of five Division III Basketball Championships between 1978 and 1987 (three times under coach Dan McCarrell and two times under coach Bosko Djurickovic).

｡ 1978 (August 10-11) — The Division I Basketball Championship is expanded to 40 teams.

｡ 1978 (September 27-28) — J. Neils Thompson, Edgar A. Sherman and Walter Byers testify before House Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation about issues pertaining to the NCAA enforcement program.

｡ 1978 (December 16) — The first Division I-AA Football Championship is conducted in Wichita Falls, Texas.

｡ 1979 (March) — The first two-year agreement with ESPN is signed to televise selected championships; programming begins September 7.

｡ 1979 (March 24) — Herb Brooks claims the last of his three NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Championships as coach at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, less than one year before coaching the U.S. Olympic team to its "Miracle on Ice" at Lake Placid, New York.

｡ 1979 (March 26) — Michigan State University (and Magic Johnson) defeats Indiana State University (and Larry Bird) in the Division I Basketball Championship final. The telecast on NBC attracts a rating of 24.1, the highest ever for the event.

｡ 1979 (August 13-14) — The Division I Basketball Championship is expanded to 48 teams.Photographer/NCAA Photosphoto caption - first line first line first line first line next line next line next line next line next line next line third line third line third line third line third.Scott May and Quinn Buckner celebrate Indiana’s 1976 basketball championship.