> I'm not sure what "smaller schools" means??? Are non-Big-10 schools > considered "small schools"? Not in general, in my mind. > Name the "small schools" that are now in the CCHA, ECAC, HE and WCHA. From the Team Information pages on US College Hockey Online: WCHA: School Enrollment * Wisconsin 40,305 * Minnesota 36,995 Alaska Anchorage 20,000 St. Cloud State 14,252 North Dakota 11,500 Denver 8,471 Northern Michigan 7,820 Minnesota-Duluth 7,600 Michigan Tech 6,460 Colorado College 1,900 CCHA: School Enrollment * Ohio State 54,000 * Michigan State 40,647 * Michigan 36,468 Western Michigan 26,555 Bowling Green 17,000 Miami University 16,000 Notre Dame 10,126 Ferris State 9,495 Alaska Fairbanks 6,200 Lake Superior State 3,301 Hockey East: School Enrollment Mass Amherst 24,125 Boston University 15,568 New Hampshire 12,250 Maine 11,000 Northeastern 11,000 Boston College 8,894 Mass Lowell 6,000 Providence 3,512 Merrimack 2,000 ECAC: School Enrollment Cornell 12,900 Vermont 7,500 Harvard 6,671 Brown 5,812 Yale 5,200 Princeton 4,500 Rensselaer 4,300 Dartmouth 4,200 Colgate 2,700 Clarkson 2,600 St. Lawrence 2,000 Union 1,900 Independents: School Enrollment Connecticut 25,000 Mankato State 12,450 Villanova 5,994 Iona 5,500 Canisius 4,780 Air Force 4,100 Army 4,000 Niagara 2,865 Holy Cross 2,600 Fairfield 1,300 * Big Ten School Looks fairly obvious which schools are smaller. There are quite a few that do not compare in size to the Big Ten schools. The five Big Ten schools comprise 35% of the total enrollment of the 51 schools. FYI: Average enrollment size: 11,732 Mean enrollment size: 7,500 -------------------------------------------------------- Paul Barber [log in to unmask] <A HREF="http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m028/barbe016/">Paul's Home Page</A> <A HREF="http://freenet.msp.mn.us/ip/nhoods/mpls/dmra/">Downtown Minneapolis Residents Association (DMRA)</A> HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.