(reminder: please credit CollegeFencing360.com's research, if using this data for publication or on other websites.)
It took a while to crunch all these numbers and crosscheck them, but this lists looks to be correct for breaking down the 1,441 NCAA fencing entrants in the six-weapon era (2000-09). Note that in the process of crosschecking, CF360 found a couple of corrections to the earlier NCAA Fencing Historical Lists #1 and #2 (these changes have been made to those blog postings). Namely, Penn State actually has totaled 116 six-weapon-era entrants rather than 115 – drawing PSU in a virtual tie with Notre Dame, which has sent 117 fencers to the NCAAs over the past 10 years. (Plenty more coming to the blog later today, Sunday and on through next week).
NCAA Fencing Championship Entrants (Six-Weapon Era; 2000-09)
104 – Columbia
100 – Ohio State
79 – Princeton
78 – Penn
75 – Stanford
73 – Harvard
55 – Yale
47 – NYU
46 – Northwestern (women's team only)
41 – Air Force
41 – Wayne State
39 – Duke
38 – Temple (women's team only)
37 – Rutgers (no longer sponsors varsity fencing)
30 – UC San Diego
30 – North Carolina
26 – Brandeis
26 – MIT
21 – Brown
18 – Cornell (women's team only)
17 – Cal State Fullerton (no longer sponsors varsity fencing)
12 – Johns Hopkins
10 – Boston College
8 – Haverford
7 – Cleveland State
6 – Drew
6 – Tufts (women's team only)
5 – Fairleigh Dickinson (women's team only)
5 – Vassar
3 – Detroit
3 – James Madison (no longer sponsors varsity fencing)
3 – Sacred Heart
2 – Cal Tech
2 – Lawrence
2 – NJIT
1 – Hunter
1 – Stevens Tech
1 – Wellesley (women's team only)
All but four of the current NCAA varsity fencing programs (CCNY, Lafayette, Queens College and Yeshiva) have sent at least one fencer to the NCAAs over the past 10 years.