Glad to hear this.

[No Name]

This never did make any sense.  Playing Miami of Ohio is bad enough but at
least they were division one.  This game just would make no sense.


NKU AGREEMENT: UC has agreed to a new five-year deal with Division II
Northern Kentucky University to play an exhibition game at Fifth Third
Arena.

NKU officials originally thought they were agreeing to a deal to play the
Bearcats in a regular-season game, but UC associate head coach Dan Peters,
who handles most of the scheduling for the Bearcats, said the new agreement
is for exhibition games only.

The Bearcats and Norse have played in an exhibition each of the last three
seasons under one-year agreements. The new deal was an attempt to ensure the
game will continue to be played as the NCAA revises its rules on exhibitions
for Division I schools.

"We wanted to do it ahead of time so we had a pre-existing contract they
would honor," Peters said.

The Bearcats haven't played a Division II school in a regular-season game
since they played NKU on Nov. 27, 1988, the last season of the Tony Yates
coaching era, and have no motivation to do so now. Games against
non-Division I opponents do not count in figuring a team's standing in the
Ratings Percentage Index, which the NCAA Selection Committee uses as one of
its tools in picking the NCAA Tournament field.

Under the new rules, non-collegiate teams are prohibited from playing
exhibition games against Division I schools.