I just noticed that with Nebraska-Omaha joining the CCHA, MSU-Mankato
playing a full WCHA schedule, and the formation of College Hockey
America (which ruins my one-letter conference abbreviation scheme,
BTW, unless I call them 'A'), every bona fide Division I team will be
part of a conference next year.  The closest thing to a Division I
Independent will be Wayne State, who will presumably be on probation
for a couple of years, by which time they're also supposed to be in
CHA.  Weird.  (And really inconvenient that the NCAA turned down's
hockey's proposal of a 16-team tournament with not one but *two*
fledgling conferences asking for bids in 2000-2001.
 
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