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first of all, there is no rule anywhere about what division you are in and your opponents other than those from your conference. there isn't even a rule about your playing an NAIA school like many of the bible/religious schools. but now there is a rule that college teams no longer can play non-college (ie semipro) teams. that new rule now has allowed us to open the season at the holy grail of roundball, pauley pavilion. have we ever played UCLA in basketball before? i remember we always beat them up in baseball (back when we had good teams in the 1980s) and womens basketball (back when they would play us) but ever on the mens side?
many DI schools play schools from other divisions in both preseason and the regular season. UC Riverside made the brilliant move last year of ducking us and scheduling DIII puget sound instead and they lost at home. UC Irvine scheduled two DII schools last year and lost to both of them. so now you don't see those big west schools from DI doing that much anymore, other than with bakersfield which is announcing the move up.
most of our original conference schools from the 1950s and 1960s by the way are Division I. years ago our league had san diego state, fullerton, northridge, riverside, santa barbara, irvine....and only cal state LA and our broncos have failed to move on. if we don't wake up soon the league will be us with channel islands and san marcos. |