High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) is a College Athletic Conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. Nine of its members are in Minnesota, with two members in South Dakota and one member each in the states of Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. It participates in the NCAA's Division II. It was founded in 1932. With the recent NSIC expansion, the original six member schools have been reunited. With the inclusion of the four new member institutions, it is one of the largest Division II conferences in the country.