Conference changes

[gordonmann]

Wells announced it is closing at the end of this academic year.

https://www.wells.edu/announcement-of-closure/

[ziggy]

Hendrix returning to the SCAC in 2025: https://www.hendrix.edu/warriors-return-to-SCAC-2025/

[Ralph Turner]

Hendrix returning to the SCAC in 2025: https://www.hendrix.edu/warriors-return-to-SCAC-2025/

Travel partner for UOzarks & football rival for Lyon!

SCAC Commish Dwayne Hanberry is something!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

IT's public now, so I can tell you Eastern Nazarene College will be ceasing operations pretty much ASAP.

[KnightSlappy]

IT's public now, so I can tell you Eastern Nazarene College will be ceasing operations pretty much ASAP.

[mailsy]

IT's public now, so I can tell you Eastern Nazarene College will be ceasing operations pretty much ASAP.

Sorry to hear. I know the feeling

[gordonmann]

Provisional Pipeline for 2024-25 (Assumed, not confirmed)
Full membership: Asbury, Warren Wilson
3rd year provisional members: Hartford, Lyon
2nd year provisional members: Carlow
1st year provisional: Penn State-Brandywine

Exploratory: Regent, Mayville State, Johnson and Wales (NC)

* Games against Year 3 provisional members count the same as games against full-members for regional-ranking and tournament selection purposes

Conference Changes Starting in 2024-2025
Asbury joins the CCS
Berea leaves the CCS for the HCAC
Birmingham-Southern (SAA) closes
Brockport leaves the SUNYAC for the E8
Cabrini (AEC) closes
Concordia (Texas) leaves the ASC for the SCAC
Defiance (HCAC) leaves D3 for NAIA
Eastern Nazarene (NAC) closes
Fontbonne athletics in limbo? (closing in 2025-26)
Johnson & Wales (RI) leaves the GNAC for the CCC
McMurry leaves the ASC for the SCAC
Morrisville State leaves the UEC for the SUNYAC
Penn State-Brandywine joins the UEC (provisional pending)
Pratt leaves the C2C for the AEC
SUNY Canton leaves the NAC for the SUNYAC
SUNY Geneseo leaves the SUNYAC for the E8
SUNY Poly leaves the NAC for the E8
Texas-Dallas leaves the ASC for D2 (application process pending)
University of the Ozarks leaves the ASC for the SCAC
Wells (AMCC) closes
CCS expected to gain Pool A bid
Expecting 43 Pool A bids, 0 Pool B bids, 21 Pool C bids

Conference Changes Starting in 2025-2026
Anna Maria leaves GNAC for the MASCAC
Ferrum leaves the ODAC for D2 (application pending)
Fontbonne (SLIAC) closes
Hendrix leaves the SAA for the SCAC
Hiram leaves the NCAC for the PAC
John Carroll leaves the OAC for the NCAC
LeTourneau leaves the ASC for the SCAC
Southwestern leaves the SCAC for the SAA
SUNY New Paltz leaves the SUNYAC for ?TBD?
Trinity (Texas) leaves the SCAC for the SAA
Expecting 43 Pool A bids, 0 Pool B bids, 21 Pool C bids

[ziggy]

Clarks Summit University has announced its closure: https://twitter.com/ClarksSummitU/status/1807816931480621119

[Berewyn]

A few updates to the list:

Fontbonne will continue to sponsor a majority of its sports in 2024-2025: https://fontbonnegriffins.com/general/2023-24/releases/20240610raaz46

Johnson & Wales isn't moving from the GNAC to the CCC until 2025-2026: https://cccathletics.com/sports/2023/4/18/about.aspx

SUNY New Paltz isn't leaving the SUNYAC until 2026-2027: https://nphawks.com/news/2024/4/3/general-suny-new-paltz-initiating-two-year-process-to-seek-a-new-athletic-conference.aspx

[Inkblot]

SUNY New Paltz isn't leaving the SUNYAC until 2026-2027: https://nphawks.com/news/2024/4/3/general-suny-new-paltz-initiating-two-year-process-to-seek-a-new-athletic-conference.aspx

And now we know where they're going. https://njacsports.com/news/2024/7/2/general-suny-new-paltz-to-become-a-full-member-of-the-njac-in-2026-27.aspx

[gordonmann]

Good stuff, Berewyn. Thanks.

[CNU85]

SUNY New Paltz isn't leaving the SUNYAC until 2026-2027: https://nphawks.com/news/2024/4/3/general-suny-new-paltz-initiating-two-year-process-to-seek-a-new-athletic-conference.aspx

And now we know where they're going. https://njacsports.com/news/2024/7/2/general-suny-new-paltz-to-become-a-full-member-of-the-njac-in-2026-27.aspx

Oh crap. That messes up the recently formed Coastal Lacrosse Conference. I will need time to sort through what all this means. The NJAC and the CLC will have 4 teams each. I'm not sure what that means in the eyes of the NCAA.

[Ralph Turner]

Now that SUNY New Paltz is becoming a full member of the NJAC, does that lessen psychological barriers to allowing schools such as CNU, Salisbury and Mary Washington into the NJAC?

(Pratt is leaving the C2C. UC Santa Cruz, Mount Mary and Warren Wilson are unique cases on their own.)

[ziggy]

SUNY New Paltz isn't leaving the SUNYAC until 2026-2027: https://nphawks.com/news/2024/4/3/general-suny-new-paltz-initiating-two-year-process-to-seek-a-new-athletic-conference.aspx

And now we know where they're going. https://njacsports.com/news/2024/7/2/general-suny-new-paltz-to-become-a-full-member-of-the-njac-in-2026-27.aspx

Oh crap. That messes up the recently formed Coastal Lacrosse Conference. I will need time to sort through what all this means. The NJAC and the CLC will have 4 teams each. I'm not sure what that means in the eyes of the NCAA.

Maybe it's an over-active sense of imagination but all these conference moves always has me wondering what the next domino to fall will be. The NJAC expanding beyond the state lines combined with exiting relationships with the CNU-Mary Washington-Salisbury triad (2 as affiliate members in football, this Coastal Lacrosse Conference thingy) sure lets the mind go wild with possibilities!

[CNU85]

Ziggy,

It does make you wonder. However, I believe the key is in the NJAC announcement where they mention that overnight travel is not an issue with New Paltz. It is an issue with CNU and UMW. I just don't see it happening. The NJAC, other than football, does not need SU, CNU or UMW (non football school). If a couple of NJAC schools started football to increase enrollment and the reached the AQ limit without CNU and SU....bye bye!