On Feb 26, 16:41, Richard S. Tuthill wrote:
>        But there was an interesting facet of Jack's post which caught my eye.
>Sixty or sixty one D-1 teams in a couple of years??? That's not a
>sponsorship rate increase sufficient enough to justify a sixteen team NC$$
>tournament???
 
There's an NCAA rule somewhere (of course there is) which states that the
number of teams involved in an NCAA tournament cannot be greater than X% of the
total number of teams that are fielded in that sport at that division.  X, I
believe, is 25, meaning that for a 16-team tournament to be considered, Div. I
hockey would need at least 64 teams.  Unless the NCAA gives hockey an
exemption, which I think is what was being attempted earlier this year.
 
I believe when this rule was put into effect, the hockey tournament had already
been expanded to 12, and that had to be "grandfathered" in, as there were only
something like 44 Div. I hockey teams at the time.
 
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