Nationals Question

[JimmyCruse]

Since there are 49 DI teams and 50 DII teams, will that have any bearing on the number of bids given out to teams this season?

[Dave Garland]

Good point Jimmy........

[William Bourque]

it will prob still be 20 and 16...because we all should want to play DI and should move out of DII

[WCRHL]

We will release the team count when we release the bids after March 3rd/4th, but it will likely better reflect the current breakdown of teams.

[RobC]

The breakdown for this year's CRHC IX will be 20 DI, 20 DII, 8 DIII, and 12 B.

Rob Coggin
Dir. League Operations and Officiating
NCRHA

[cdolan]

8 DIII teams? So we can continue to completely suck the rest of the season and have a good chance of going?

[RobC]

8 DIII teams? So we can continue to completely suck the rest of the season and have a good chance of going?

lol, no there are several reasons for increasing the number of DIII teams. 1) there have been a handful of new D3 teams that have been added to various regions over the past couple of years that are very competitive. 2) most D3 teams see at most 1 other D3 team during the regular season, and it is thus even more difficult to determine who should get bids to nationals. 3) The NCRHA has hopes to see growth in this division and the only way to do that is to showcase it so that other community colleges see what they are doing and see the potential of starting a team and 4) it is important to get beyond the same 4 teams playing each other every year in this division.

We are very hopeful that 8 quality D3 teams will be converging on St. Louis in what should be a very competitive and enjoyable event.

[sjuwill]

how many d III teams are there in the ncrha?

[MBurke]

how many d III teams are there in the ncrha?

12, by my count.

[GoRangrHky]

http://www.ncrha.org/standings.php?league_division_id=3

11, since one is an affiliate. Interesting to see who will get left home.

[missionhockey19]

http://www.ncrha.org/standings.php?league_division_id=3

11, since one is an affiliate. Interesting to see who will get left home.

Unless already counted, 10, modesto from the wcrhl has dropped out of the league apparently...so yes, id say your odds of "sucking for the rest of the season" still give you a good shot of making nationals...haha

[yokum]

Test, Test !!!!!

[yokum]

lol, no there are several reasons for increasing the number of DIII teams. 1) there have been a handful of new D3 teams that have been added to various regions over the past couple of years that are very competitive. 2) most D3 teams see at most 1 other D3 team during the regular season, and it is thus even more difficult to determine who should get bids to nationals. 3) The NCRHA has hopes to see growth in this division and the only way to do that is to showcase it so that other community colleges see what they are doing and see the potential of starting a team and 4) it is important to get beyond the same 4 teams playing each other every year in this division.

We are very hopeful that 8 quality D3 teams will be converging on St. Louis in what should be a very competitive and enjoyable event.

To get more competitive DIII teams, why not let them go to Nationals their first year in the league? If a student only goes to a DIII school for one year before transfering, why would he go thru the work of starting a new team knowing he has no chance at Nationals? Then if he transfers to a DI or DII college that has no team, he must do it all over again. This approach has the student not allowed to play Nationals untill his third year of college???

[missionhockey19]

To get more competitive DIII teams, why not let them go to Nationals their first year in the league? If a student only goes to a DIII school for one year before transfering, why would he go thru the work of starting a new team knowing he has no chance at Nationals? Then if he transfers to a DI or DII college that has no team, he must do it all over again. This approach has the student not allowed to play Nationals untill his third year of college???

good point, i totally agree...

[MBurke]

NCRHA has no such policy. Plenty of teams have gone in their first year (from personal knowledge, Towson went to the DI Final Four their first year... Suffolk went in DIII).