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I wrote an article about it for The College Baseball Blog: NAIA announces new playoff format.
Now that you've read it, the next subject is, what does this mean for UBC?
It means that after the 2008 season, Region I will cease to exist. What will probably happen after that is, the Thunderbirds will play a Cascades Collegiate Conference schedule, which means that they will continue to play Albertson^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hCollege of Idaho, Concordia-Portland, Corban, and Oregon Tech. Lewis-Clark State will probably go back to playing the same sort of independent schedule that they played prior to 2007.
However, the four CCC members plus UBC falls one team short of the six teams that are required for the conference chanpion to get an automatic bid. They will have to look further south to get that sixth team. That probably means Simpson University, a Christian school with 1,200 students in Redding, CA, or Patten University, a Christian school with 700 students in Oakland, CA. Simpson is a long bus ride, and Patten is a short plane flight. Patten has the stronger of the two programs, but Simpson already plays Corban and Oregon Tech.
Update on Jan. 29:The scenario described in the previous paragraph isn't going to happen. The NAIA decided that conferences will not get an automatic bid unless the six baseball-playing teams are full members; bringing in a couple of baseball-only members won't do. So, all of the former Region I teams will have to qualify for the opening playoff round as independents.
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