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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNCAA question - How does a little school like St. Peter's, with an...
...undergraduate enrollment of 2600, get to be a D1 school?
I thought the size of an institution had something to do with it. Apparently not.
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NCAA question - How does a little school like St. Peter's, with an... (Original Post)
3catwoman3
Mar 2022
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House of Roberts
(5,087 posts)1. Recruiting
Renew Deal
(81,774 posts)2. Generally, there are rules with minimum thresholds that must be met.
It also depends on the sport. There are a lot of D1 basketball programs. Football has two classifications of D1. St. Peters doesn't play football.
mobeau69
(11,033 posts)3. Here...
Casady1
(2,133 posts)4. Many of these smaller schools have been D1
For a long time. Another school in NY (Wagner) is also D1. I used to watch them in the sixties and they were D1 then. Davidson is also D1 and they are even smaller. Steph Curry went there and they competed against Kareem and UCLA in the sixties and were very good.
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)5. Because they're Peacocks.
Wolf