A Patriot League occurs as college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Section I personally personally-AA for footb100% & Section I for all more sports. There are vii football members & eight members for basketball & more sports.

A Patriot League was profiled in the John Feinstein book, The Last Amateurs. Around it, Feinstein followed all the league's men's five when you took a 1999-2000 year.

There are eleven unfair or even good-whale member schools:

American University [non-football member] United States Military Academy [Army] [non-football member] Bucknell University Colgate University Fordham University [football-only member] Georgetown University [football-only member] College of the Holy Cross Lafayette College Lehigh University United States Naval Academy [Navy] [non-football member] Villanova University [member only in women's lacrosse]