There is a report in today's NCAA News of the meeting of the
NCAA Men's Hockey Committee. It is online at
http://www.ncaa.org/news/19990816/active/3617n21.html
The three major items reported:
(1) The committee "hopes" that bracket expansion will be
possible soon, given the fact that there will be 60 Division
I teams by 2001-02.
(2) The committee "Denied a request from the MAAC for a
waiver of the 2-year waiting period for automatic
qualification to the championship. The MAAC is eligible for
automatic qualification to the championship effective
2000-01."
(3) The committee voted to implement a minimum seating
capacity of 15,000 for Frozen Four sites beginning with the
2004 championship.
On a related note: does anybody know if the regional sites
for 2001 have been selected? It seems like they are very
late with that decision.
Alton
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