The Tri-State Conference men's collegiate league has long been a hybrid competition with one segment being part of the National Small College Rugby Organization (NSCRO), and the rest were in Division 2, but now everyone is part of the same organization as the Tri-State D2 men's teams have joined NSCRO.
The Tri-State teams: Marist College, William Paterson University, Monroe College, Seton Hall University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) Kings Point, are all in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
“NSCRO is solely focused on collegiate rugby and given NSCRO's established track record of serving hundreds of teams in the country this is the best option for the Tri-State teams," said Conference Commissioner Tony Brown. The Tri-State Conferences joins ten other conferences that currently make up the new men's Open Division and will compete in the playoffs leading to a Fall National Championship.
Currently there are 8 men's teams in the Tri-State Conference that are already members of NSCRO and participate in the small college championship.
Three men's D2 conferences remain uncommitted, officially: Rocky Mountain (seven teams), New England-Wide (11 teams, including four from the old Rugby Northeast), and the SCRC D2 (six teams).
| Men D2 College Conferences Now With NSCRO | ||
| Allgeheny | Great MW North | MARC East |
| Alderson Broaddus | UW Whitewater | Villanova |
| Kent State | Marquette | Lehigh |
| IUP | Minnesota - Duluth | TCNJ |
| West Virginia | Northern Michigan | Moravian College |
| Wheeling University | UW Platteville | East Stroudsburg |
| Milwaukee | Drexel | |
| Cardinals | UW Stout | |
| George Mason University | MARC West | |
| Old Dominion University | Great MW South | Shippensburg |
| Radford University | Illinois State | York |
| University of Virginia | Loyola - Chicago | Scranton |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Northern Iowa | Bloomsburg |
| Virginia Military Institute | UIC | Millersville |
| DePaul | ||
| Deep South | Northern Illinois | Northern Lights |
| Spring Hill College | Western Illinois | Minnesota State University Mankato |
| Southeastern Louisiana | Minnesota State University Moorhead | |
| Univ. of New Orleans | Great Lakes | North Dakota State University |
| Louisiana Tech | Grand Valley State | South Dakota State University |
| Tulane | Bethel | St. Cloud State University |
| UL-Lafayette | Central Michigan | University of North Dakota |
| Ferris State | Winona State University | |
| Gateway East | Saginaw Valley State | |
| St. Louis U. | Oakland | Southern |
| SIU | Calvin | Furman |
| Washington U. | Eastern Michigan | UNC |
| Principia | Hope College | UNCW |
| Maryville | Bloomsburg | Citadel |
| Millersville | UNCC | |
| Gateway West | App State | |
| UMS&T | MCRC | ECU |
| Pitt State | Eastern Kentucky | |
| John Brown | Kent State | Tri-State |
| Central Missouri | Marshall | USMMA, Kings Point |
| UMKC | Southern Indiana | William Paterson |
| Thomas More | Marist College | |
| Western Kentucky | RPI | |
| Xavier | Monroe | |
| Marian College | Seton Hall | |
