Baptist Bible, Keystone and Philadelphia Bible from the NEAC to the PAC. Earlier in the fall, the NEAC lost D’Youville to the AMCC. As previously detailed in this category, the Mid-Atlantic Region is all over the place. The Centennial is the only league in the region untouched for all sports, though it did accept two football-only members, which started play this year.
The MAC? The new PAC, really. Now they have Alvernia, Arcadia, Eastern and Misericordia.
The Landmark? The new MAC, with Drew, Juniata, Moravian, Scranton and Susquehanna.
The NEAC? They’re left with Cazenovia, Keuka, Penn State-Berks, Penn State-Harrisburg, Wells and Wilson. They recently added SUNYIT (a full Division III member) and SUNY-Cobleskill (a future provisional member).
What a mess.
Yes, a mess. Will it get messier?
The only way it could possibly get worse is a merger with the NEAC and I am not sure that the powers that be at the PAC have that much energy. They sure didn’t expend any improving the conference in the last 3-5 years.
Update for archive purposes,
Wells in adding men’s basketball in 2008-09 and women’s club basketball in 2008-09 and women’s varsity basketball in 2009-10.
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables.php?item=1917
Whether this saves the AQ for the NEAC in the next few seasons remains to be seen. It appears that the men will fall short by one team at this time, or until SUNY-Cobleskill finishes the four-year provisional period. (Wilson is a women’s college with a listed enrollment of 396.)