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Here's the update of CF360's exclusive breakdown the 1,585 NCAA fencing entrants in the six-weapon era (2000-10).
NCAA Fencing Championship Entrants (Six-Weapon Era; 2000-10)
128 – Penn State
122 – St. John's
112 – Columbia
111 – Ohio State
91 – Princeton
86 – Penn
85 – Harvard
81 – Stanford
61 – Yale
51 – Northwestern (women's team only)
50 – NYU
46 – Air Force
44 – Wayne State
44 – Duke
42 – Temple (women's team only)
37 – Rutgers (no longer sponsors varsity fencing)
33 – UC San Diego
33 – North Carolina
27 – Brandeis
26 – MIT
23 – Brown
21 – Cornell (women's team only)
17 – Cal State Fullerton (no longer sponsors varsity fencing)
12 – Johns Hopkins
12 – Boston College
8 – Haverford
8 – Cleveland State
6 – Drew
6 – Tufts (women's team only)
6 – Vassar
5 – Fairleigh Dickinson (women's team only)
5 – Sacred Heart
3 – Detroit
3 – James Madison (no longer sponsors varsity fencing)
3 – 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 11 years.