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New Sport: Women's Bowling
IAA Fan:
Cabinet refers automatic qualification proposal for bowling
Bowling Committee hopeful the recommendation will be approved by new oversight committee to start in 2018
February 18, 2015 11:35amGreg Johnson
Women’s bowling is closing in on a guaranteed path to its postseason, but one step remains.
During a conference call Feb. 10, the Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet referred a decision on when to implement automatic qualification for the NCAA Women’s Bowling Championship to the newly formed Competition Oversight Committee.
The proposal from the NCAA Bowling Committee would provide conference champions with an automatic spot in the NCAA championship beginning in 2018. The Competition Oversight Committee, part of the new Division I governance structure, will determine whether to approve that implementation date.
Committee members believe the automatic qualifier will encourage schools weighing the addition of new sports to consider bowling.
Currently, tournament participants are selected as at-large participants in the eight-team bracket. Four conferences (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Northeast Conference, Southwest Athletic Conference and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) account for 36 of the 63 schools that sponsor the sport.
There are 27 teams that do not have conference affiliation.
By rule, six active members must have conducted conference competition together for the preceding two years to be eligible for automatic qualification.
The bowling committee believes the 2018 time frame will allow schools not in a conference to strategically align themselves and allow for better planning when considering conference affiliation.
Committee members feel the automatic qualification will also provide the ability to monitor the number of conferences and develop a plan if the number of conferences exceeds 50 percent of the eight-team bracket.
IAA Fan:
Rank Team Won Loss Pct.
1 Nebraska 85 20 640
2 Fairleigh-Dickinson 86 22 580
3 Arkansas State 68 27 534
4 Central Missouri 83 38 504
5 Stephen F. Austin 73 34 442
6 Vanderbilt 88 38 426
7 SAM HOUSTON 84 40 382
8 Wisconsin-Whitewater 62 33 328
9 Maryland-Eastern Shore 89 42 288
10 North Carolina A&T 70 38 272
11 McKendree 50 31 235
12 Saint Francis (Penn) 74 41 167
13 Sacred Heart 53 35 156
14 LIU-Brooklyn 58 46 152
15 Saint Francis Brooklyn 79 50 118
16 Valparaiso 47 60 77
17 Delaware State 75 48 69
18 Norfolk State 54 34 41
19 Kutztown 55 47 40
20 UAB 60 49 39
Last Year's national champs were Sam Houston State, the prior 3 years were Nebraska. The more that I look at this, the more I like the idea. I did not realize that the OHSAA is one of the few that sponsor girls bowling. I guess a two-time recent DI champ is from this part of Ohio & I cannot seem to find her.
popsicle:
Where will the women bowl, 1AA? I would presume that these are off campus venues. Any sport we might win at I am all for.
IAA Fan:
Strollo said in this week's announcement they have not found a venue.
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