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Which brings me to another question about the NCAA tourney: are the "new"
D-I teams, Mankato and later Nebraska-Omaha, instantly accorded a chance
into the tourney? At the basketball D-I level, our program at Cal Poly,
elevated to D-I status 2 yrs ago and a recent addition to the Big West (I
think) will NOT be eligible for the conf tourney, winner of which gets an
auto bid to the roundball feast. Apparently it takes 8 yrs of comp at the
D-I level to be eligible for postseason? The logic is that they just
don't want every school jumping in and this is a way of discouraging it.
Seems it might just be a basketball rule because there are already about
300 teams. Hockey, it seems, has the reverse problem. Anyone know for
sure if it is a blanket policy or from sport to sport????
Tony Buffa
RPI '64 Hoping they will score again before the year is out ... :-)
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Mike Machnik wrote:
> At 8:37 AM -0700 11/19/96, Scott Quakkelaar~ wrote:
> > why is niagara ineligible for the playoffs?
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> It's just the way the ECAC West decided to handle it. Niagara is in its
> first season of having a team and being in the ECAC West. The conference
> just decided to count the games in the conference standings but not to
> allow Niagara to be eligible for the playoffs this year. Any more than
> that, I have not heard...
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