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Mike writes: >Next season, it appears, the NC$$ DivII tourney will once again go >away because there are only 13 schools that are DivII and playing >hockey, and something like 40 are needed. I would guess that like in >1984, the DivII schools will be given the option of either remaining >under the DivII classification and not having a national title to >compete for, or declaring as a DivI Independent. Also, in 1984 there were a lot of D-III schools with D-II hockey programs (Plattsburgh, RIT, Elmira, Union) who simply began calling themselves D-III programs and kept the same schedule, leagues, etc. If I remember correctly, the SUNYAC, ECAC East, ECAC West and NCHA all continued virtually unchanged when the D-II tournament was eliminated. The programs that were hurt by this were the TRUE D-III schools (mostly in the ECAC North and South) who now had almost no shot at a national title. The only D-II teams that were truly effected, were to my recollection Lowell, Merrimack and Huntsville, who went D-I around that time or shortly after, and possibly the Alaska schools. I also think Mankato began saying around this time that they intended to go D-I in the near future. >(Moving down to DivIII isn't an option since you cannot play below your >division.) This is puzzling because in the years when there wasn't a D-II tournament, I remember D-II schools like Bemidji and Mercyhurst being invited to, and in the case of Bemidji, winning the D-III tournament in 1986. Chris Lerch Xerox RIT '84 & '91