^Not everyone realizes Tufts is in NESCAC. Even within NESCAC Tufts is treated as an outlier.
Of the ways to group the NESCACs, one would be as the ten “NESCAC LACs.” Tufts of course is a NESCAC, but overlaps in many ways with schools in other groupings at least as much as, and probably more than, it does with those in its own athletic conference.