{"id":43386,"date":"2012-03-19T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=43386"},"modified":"2012-03-19T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:40:10","slug":"rit-womens-program-moving-to-division-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2012\/03\/19\/rit-womens-program-moving-to-division-i\/","title":{"rendered":"RIT women&#8217;s program moving to Division I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester Institute of Technology will announce on Tuesday that it is moving its women&#8217;s hockey program to Division I beginning next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers, who won the Division III national title on Saturday, have reportedly been accepted into the College Hockey America conference and will begin league play in 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p>Sources tell USCHO.com that RIT will play an independent schedule next season before joining the CHA as it completes its two-year probationary process. The Tigers will play a full CHA schedule in 2013-14, but will be ineligible for post-season play. RIT will then become a full-fledged member in 2014-2015.<\/p>\n<p>This move preserves the CHA&#8217;s hopes for an automatic qualifier. With the addition of Penn State and Lindenwood next season, the conference would have had the necessary six teams before today&#8217;s announcement that Niagara is immediately dropping its women&#8217;s hockey program. RIT will become a full member of the league in 2014-15, meaning that the CHA would be able to seek an autobid for its conference champion in the 2016-17 season, unless a sixth member joins the conference before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester Institute of Technology will announce on Tuesday that it is moving its women&#8217;s hockey program to Division I beginning next season. 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