Glen Keeney wrote: > I don't see that additional Big 10 programs "requires a splitting off". > Conference games can be played as part of the regular conference - see > Ive League - The Big 10 schools play other schools in addition to Big 10 > conference > games now is all sports. > Sure, but those are non-conference games. I'd like to see some sort of format that would lead to regularized Big 10 conference play and the determination of a league champion. And, no, this couldn't be like the Ivy League does it; all of the Ivies are in the ECAC. Being split between two conferences, the Big 10 teams are going to have to come up some other format, using a fair number of non-conference games to accomplish it. J. Michael Neal HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.