Talk:2012 NCAA National Collegiate women's ice hockey tournament

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The result of the move request was: all moved. (non-admin closure) Jenks24 (talk) 14:36, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

– As far as I can tell, there has never been a D-I NCAA championship in women's ice hockey. Since its inception in 2001, it has always been a "National Collegiate" championship, which is the NCAA's term for a championship tournament that combines teams from multiple divisions (in this case, D-I and D-II). Powers T 20:59, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2012 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2011 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2011 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2010 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2010 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2009 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2008 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2008 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2007 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2006 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2006 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2005 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2005 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2004 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2004 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2003 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2003 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2002 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2002 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * 2001 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament → 2001 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
 * Support just on a readability basis: the "I" in the middle is hard to parse. If LP's reasons are sound, let it go ahead. Tony   (talk)  09:54, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support The NCAA refers to this as the NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship, but I think NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament works just as well. For some strange reason that I have yet to understand, women's ice hockey used National Collegiate, while men's ice hockey uses Division I, despite both top tier divisions featuring D-II schools. Make sure the National Collegiate women's ice hockey championship article (which has gotten a bit out of hand) gets a name change too to coincide with this all. – Nurmsook!  talk...  21:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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National Collegiate
Nurmsook: "National Collegiate" is the NCAA's term of art for any championship that combines teams playing at different divisions. On the men's side, teams at D-II schools have two choices: play up to D-I (and be eligible for the postseason), or remain at D-II and play a mostly D-III schedule (and be ineligible for the postseason, since there's no D-II championship). On the women's side, teams at D-II schools can continue to play D-II, play a combined D-II and D-I schedule, and still be eligible for the postseason. It's a little confusing, but it has to do with what a team competing at the D-II level is allowed to do (and it's become even more important now that new play-ups will no longer be allowed). They really ought to convert the men's side to a National Collegiate championship, but the six Northeast Ten schools that play D-II hockey wouldn't be happy having to compete with D-I teams, even other NE10 schools like Bentley and AIC. Powers T 20:29, 30 March 2012 (UTC)