July 1 - Moving Day 2024

[laker]

Sacramento State to join the Big West in 2026.

https://bigwest.org/news/2025/6/18/s...-big-west.aspx

[njmav1]

The NE10 is a fascinating hockey conference as the history actually runs pretty deep. I wish the NSIC would do the same thing, I could put together an 8 team hockey conference pretty easily, but it would be difficult without a lot of financial backing (and with that lack of deep history).

Is there anything stopping the NSIC (besides finances) from sponsoring the sport within the ACHA instead of the NCAA?

[SW_Mustang]

Yes, since there is no NCAA D2 hockey tournament. There were what, six teams all from the same conference (Northeast 10). And there are NO D2 women's teams- they are playing D1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ockey_programs

Technically - NE10 sponsors at the conference level. It's DII schools playing independent hockey, but it's also not club level hockey. Though it gets referred too as DII for convenience. I think you're right, six schools? I know AIC is joining, but someone might be moving up too - I'd have to look.

The NE10 is a fascinating hockey conference as the history actually runs pretty deep. I wish the NSIC would do the same thing, I could put together an 8 team hockey conference pretty easily, but it would be difficult without a lot of financial backing (and with that lack of deep history).

[laker]

Hockey only. It's one of the few sports a DII team can play at the DI level.

Yes, since there is no NCAA D2 hockey tournament. There were what, six teams all from the same conference (Northeast 10). And there are NO D2 women's teams- they are playing D1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ockey_programs

[SW_Mustang]

Are they talking about hockey only moving to D1 or their entire program?

Hockey only. It's one of the few sports a DII team can play at the DI level.

[SW_Mustang]

With Sonoma State dropping athletics, San Francisco State having talks about doing the same, and no more public California schools waiting in the wings, I guess the CCAA had to start getting proactive. PacWest will be down 3 members in the next 2 years, so I wonder if they start making some moves too

I just saw the SFSU volleyball team in Sioux Falls for the D2 Championship - wild that they're in this position.

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Are they talking about hockey only moving to D1 or their entire program?

Sorry, didn't realize the tweets wording was ambiguous at first. This would be a hockey only move, the original poster writes for College Hockey Network. They actually have five different hockey teams already, one for each ACHA division across both genders, so this seems like a logical next step given the investment they've put into their programs already.

[ctrabs74]

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Are they talking about hockey only moving to D1 or their entire program?

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[crixus]

i wish those schools had football.

I wish every school had football. :)

[ctrabs74]

Vanguard, Jessup, and Menlo all came up recently, so they kind of got out ahead of it.

Westmont is also a fairly new PacWest member and the PacWest is now at 11 members with the six new schools they added in the last decade (Concordia-Irvine joined in 2015; Biola in 2017) to offset the five PacWest members which either moved up to D1 (Dixie State/Utah Tech and Cal Baptist) and three programs who either dropped their athletics programs (BYU-Hawaii and Notre Dame de Namur) or closed (Holy Names) plus the three impending departures (Art U, Azusa Pacific and Fresno Pacific). The PacWest should be okay for now...

I think the only UC/Cal State school that's not in D1 or D2 is UC Santa Cruz and I don't see them moving up from D3 anytime soon. UC Merced is supposed to start in the CCAA this fall, so if you add Fresno Pacific and presuming that Sonoma and SF State both follow through with their plans to drop sports, that still gives the CCAA 12 schools.

[Brandon Misener]

i wish those schools had football.

[D2Rover]

With Sonoma State dropping athletics, San Francisco State having talks about doing the same, and no more public California schools waiting in the wings, I guess the CCAA had to start getting proactive. PacWest will be down 3 members in the next 2 years, so I wonder if they start making some moves too

Vanguard, Jessup, and Menlo all came up recently, so they kind of got out ahead of it.

[Finchwidget]

Fresno Pacific is leaving the PacWest for the CCAA next year. https://goccaa.org/news/2025/6/11/ge...sociation.aspx

With Sonoma State dropping athletics, San Francisco State having talks about doing the same, and no more public California schools waiting in the wings, I guess the CCAA had to start getting proactive. PacWest will be down 3 members in the next 2 years, so I wonder if they start making some moves too

[Inkblot]

Fresno Pacific is leaving the PacWest for the CCAA next year. https://goccaa.org/news/2025/6/11/ge...sociation.aspx