{"id":24108,"date":"2001-09-22T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2001-09-22T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/09\/22\/nescac-suspends-rule-prohibiting-atlarge-bids-to-ncaas\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:17","slug":"nescac-suspends-rule-prohibiting-atlarge-bids-to-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2001\/09\/22\/nescac-suspends-rule-prohibiting-atlarge-bids-to-ncaas\/","title":{"rendered":"NESCAC Suspends Rule Prohibiting At-Large Bids to NCAAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
The presidents of the 11 members of NESCAC have agreed to suspend for 2001-02 the rule prohibiting NESCAC teams from accepting NCAA at-large bids. The one-year exemption was approved while discussions continue over reforming conference rules on post-season play.<\/p>\n
Without the exemption, only the NESCAC tournament champion would have been allowed to accept an NCAA bid for the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n
The ten-member Division III NESCAC men’s hockey conference separated from the ECAC East to conduct its own post-season tournament in the 2000-01 season, although the two conferences maintain an interlocking schedule. As NESCAC tournament champion last season, Middlebury received the conference’s first NCAA automatic qualifier.<\/p>\n
In other action, the presidents approved a recommendation by conference athletic directors to retain the seven-team post-season tournament in men’s hockey as well as in other sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The presidents of the 11 members of NESCAC have agreed to suspend for 2001-02 the rule prohibiting NESCAC teams from accepting NCAA at-large bids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n