Ralph N. Baer notes several schools as possibly non Div. I:
> Alaska-Anchorage, Alaska-Fairbanks, Clarkson, Duluth, Ill-Chicago,
> LSSU, Lowell, Merrimack, Michigan Tech, N. Mich, RPI, St. Cloud, St.
> Lawrence, Union, and W. Mich.
Well, Western Michigan is most definitely division I. They are members of
the Mid America Conference which includes the following schools:
Bowling Green (CCHA)
Toledo
Akron
Kent (CCHA)
Ohio
Miami (CCHA)
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Western Michigan (CCHA)
Ball State
Also, I don't know about all sports at the University of Ilinios at Chicago,
but they do field a Division I basketball team which shares the confines of
the Pavilion which was built in 1982. As the story goes, the NC$$, in their
infinite wisdom, damn near precluded UIC from competing in Div. I basketball
because they did not have a large enough average home attendance in 1981. Of
course the facility which they repalced when they built the Pavilion did not
hold a large enough crowd that they could have possibly met that criterion.
And so they were almost faced with having built a beautiful building for
basketball and hockey and then not being able to play at the top level.
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