{"id":23452,"date":"1999-06-19T10:42:20","date_gmt":"1999-06-19T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/06\/19\/ecac-moving-towards-automatic-qualification-to-ncaa-diii-tournament\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:05","slug":"ecac-moving-towards-automatic-qualification-to-ncaa-diii-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/06\/19\/ecac-moving-towards-automatic-qualification-to-ncaa-diii-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"ECAC Moving Towards Automatic Qualification to NCAA D-III Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
The NCAA Division III ice hockey committee has recommended to the Division III Championship Committee that the ECAC East<\/a> and Northeast<\/a> receive automatic qualification to the 2000 D-III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship. The proposal will reviewed in July.<\/p>\n ECAC East members will be meeting on June 28 to discuss league structure and playoff format for the 1999-2000 season.<\/p>\n Northeast membership and D-II ECAC members will be holding a similar meeting over the summer. In order for them to receive the automatic bid, the East and Northeast conferences must consist of only D-III schools.<\/p>\n Currently, D-II schools in ECAC leagues are St. Anselm in the ECAC East and Assumption, New Hampshire College, St. Michael’s and Stonehill in the ECAC Northeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NCAA Division III ice hockey committee has recommended to the Division III Championship Committee that the ECAC East and Northeast receive automatic qualification to the 2000 D-III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship. The proposal will reviewed in July. ECAC East members will be meeting on June 28 to discuss league structure and playoff format for […]<\/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