[2] Manhattan has been a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference since its inception in 1980 and has fielded a softball team each year since 1987.

[3] Despite this, the Jaspers have managed to win the conference regular season championship only twice in that timespan, sharing titles in both 1994 and 2009 with Canisius and Fairfield respectively.

[6][7] The Jaspers returned to the tournament for the first time in 22 years in 2021 where they faced off against sixth ranked Arkansas and were defeated 8–0 innings via the mercy rule.

[13] The college was hit with several penalties, which included being placed on two years of probation, a $5,000 fine, a suspension for the softball head coach for the first two non-conference games of the 2024 season, a 16-day prohibition against all softball recruiting activities during the June/July 2023 contact period, a five year show cause penalty for the former assistant coach, and a vacation of all records in which the student athletes competed while ineligible.

[14] The MAAC released a statement in support of the NCAA's findings, while also maintaining they will continue to work with Manhattan to ensure the penalties are enforced.