I recently read somewhere that the NC$$ has a rule on how many teams
can participate in the Div I championship tournament.
 
This related to Colgate and their decision to drop Div I Baseball.
 
Seems that they base the number of teams in the tournament on the
percentage of the schools involved at the Division I level.
 
This is based on basketball which has 298 teams in Div I.
 
If a team has 95-100% participation from the 298 teams, then
a 64 team tournament can be done.
 
And the percentages were broken down further, so if the number of teams
participating had reached a certain percentage, then they could have
so many teams in the tournament. Baseball was falling close to moving
from a 48 team tournament to a 32 teams tournament because the number
of schools in Div I baseball were declining.
 
My question here is how does this affect Div I hockey?
Is this a reason a larger number of teams can not be
had in the NC$$ college hockey tournament?  And if the MAAC decides to come
through with a full Div I hockey program, and the ACHA teams go from`
club status to Div I will this increase Div I hockey tournament team?
 
Can anyone clarify this rule or does anyone else have knowledge of it?
 
I guess what I'm saying is:
 
Help............
 
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