Some questions for those of you who "are in the know" or who at least can hazard some educated guesses :-/ : Is there any possibility of the D-II schools having an unofficial national championship for D-II hockey? Could the D-II teams form two mini-leagues or conferences (are some of the teams already in the Northeast-10 for hockey?), and have either conference championships and/or a Challenge Series between the winner of each conference? Maybe Alabama-Huntsville could host it and give out a "Challenger Trophy" every year (Huntsville is home to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) :-) . Aren't there some other sports that have non-NCAA-sanctioned national championships? Wasn't that the case in the early years of D-I hockey? I think the D-II schools could continue to play hockey even if they have no national championship. Some Division I hockey conferences were effectively locked out of the national championship for a while, and yet most of the schools continued to play hockey (e.g., CCHA in early 70s). Tim Newman