Which brings me to another question about the NCAA tourney: are the "new" D-I teams, Mankato and later Nebraska-Omaha, instantly accorded a chance into the tourney? At the basketball D-I level, our program at Cal Poly, elevated to D-I status 2 yrs ago and a recent addition to the Big West (I think) will NOT be eligible for the conf tourney, winner of which gets an auto bid to the roundball feast. Apparently it takes 8 yrs of comp at the D-I level to be eligible for postseason? The logic is that they just don't want every school jumping in and this is a way of discouraging it. Seems it might just be a basketball rule because there are already about 300 teams. Hockey, it seems, has the reverse problem. Anyone know for sure if it is a blanket policy or from sport to sport???? Tony Buffa RPI '64 Hoping they will score again before the year is out ... :-) =============== On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Mike Machnik wrote: > At 8:37 AM -0700 11/19/96, Scott Quakkelaar~ wrote: > > why is niagara ineligible for the playoffs? > > It's just the way the ECAC West decided to handle it. Niagara is in its > first season of having a team and being in the ECAC West. The conference > just decided to count the games in the conference standings but not to > allow Niagara to be eligible for the playoffs this year. Any more than > that, I have not heard... HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.