{"id":23691,"date":"1998-01-21T22:55:25","date_gmt":"1998-01-22T04:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1998\/01\/21\/dii-power-bemidji-state-considering-jump-to-di\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:09","slug":"dii-power-bemidji-state-considering-jump-to-di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1998\/01\/21\/dii-power-bemidji-state-considering-jump-to-di\/","title":{"rendered":"D-II Power Bemidji State Considering Jump to D-I"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bemidji State University, a Minnesota school which is a perennial power in NCAA Division II men’s ice hockey, is considering moving its program up to Division I play as soon as next season, the Minnapolis Star Tribune<\/i> reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n
With few teams remaining in Division II hockey and a move down to Division III infeasible under NCAA rules, Division I play is now being seriously considered, longtime head coach R.H. Peters said.<\/p>\n
“We are still conferring about facts and figures, and studying budgets of other programs and of our other sports programs,” Peters told the Star Tribune<\/i>. “I broke it to our players that the move is under discussion.”<\/p>\n
Bemidji State, the defending Division II champion, is 11-5-2 overall this season, and 9-3-0 in the NCHA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bemidji State University, a Minnesota school which is a perennial power in NCAA Division II men’s ice hockey, is considering moving its program up to Division I play as soon as next season, the Minnapolis Star Tribune reported Tuesday. With few teams remaining in Division II hockey and a move down to Division III infeasible […]<\/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