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............ ****************************************************************************** * Jayson Moy * One of the VOices of RPI Engineer Hockey * * [log in to unmask] * on 91.5 FM WRPI, Troy * * * And RPI Engineer Baseball now too!!!! * ******************************************************************************