I just noticed that with Nebraska-Omaha joining the CCHA, MSU-Mankato playing a full WCHA schedule, and the formation of College Hockey America (which ruins my one-letter conference abbreviation scheme, BTW, unless I call them 'A'), every bona fide Division I team will be part of a conference next year. The closest thing to a Division I Independent will be Wayne State, who will presumably be on probation for a couple of years, by which time they're also supposed to be in CHA. Weird. (And really inconvenient that the NCAA turned down's hockey's proposal of a 16-team tournament with not one but *two* fledgling conferences asking for bids in 2000-2001. John Whelan, Cornell '91 [log in to unmask] http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/ ------------------------------------------------ only 69 days until the Swiss premiere of Star Wars Episode I: "The Phantom Menace"! Thank you for not spoiling. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.