Only schools I can think of that did it in the last 30 years or so that actually did it:
Hartford - dropped to D3 in 2021
St. Francis of Brooklyn - dropped athletics after 22-23 season
Northeastern Illinois - dropped athletics in the late 1990's
Birmingham-Southern - dropped to D3 in the early 2000's; closed its doors last summer but was a captivating sports story where the baseball team made the CWS AFTER the school had officially ceased operations and the coaches/staff were working for free
Morris Brown - dropped athletics in the early 2000's, school had some major money laundering issues but I think still exists as a university
Savannah State - dropped to D2 about 5 years ago
Winston-Salem State - moved up to DI in mid-2000's and joined the MEAC but dropped back down to D2 within 5 years
U. of New Orleans - dropped to D3 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina but moved back up to DI within few years. I actually went to a UNO-LSU baseball game in New Orleans in spring 2009.
Wayne State had DI hockey, not sure if they dropped the program or moved down. Don't remember them as a DI school otherwise. Didn't know West Chester was ever DI -- maybe DI basketball but DII in football. Of course, if you go pre-Dayton Rule you had a bunch of schools that were DI in basketball only into the 1970's and 1980's -- Catholic, NYU, CCNY are the 3 I can think of. I'm sure there were more. How long ago did the Carlisle Indians shut down athletics
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