St. Vincent was turned down for membership in the Division I Northeast Conference yesterday, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Why should you care? St. Vincent, an NAIA member which competes in the association’s Division I for basketball, has been discussed as a possible future Division III member. If so, they’d be a natural for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.

“I think, should they decide to go Division III, we would welcome their formal application,” Joe Onderko, PAC information director, told the newspaper.

Another western Pennsylvania NAIA school, Seton Hill, is in the pipeline to enter Division III, but is making noises about either going to Division II or staying NAIA. Of course, this is the same school that objected when we ran a story on D3football.com about them entering the Division III pipeline, since they didn’t understand the Division III process. 🙂