NCAA disciplines Buffalo St., Geneseo hockey teams
February 3, 2010
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—The NCAA has barred the Buffalo State and Geneseo collegemen’s hockey teams from the playoffs this season for violating financial aidrules to bolster their rosters with Canadian-born players.
The NCAA Division III committee on infractions ruled last week that bothschools used a grant program, intended to increase enrollment of Canadianstudents, almost exclusively on athletes.
Of the 21 grants awarded to Canadians by Geneseo in 2007-08, 19 went tomen’s hockey players. At Buffalo State, 32 of the 33 grants awarded to Canadianswent to athletes during a two-year span.
Buffalo State’s women’s hockey team is also barred from the playoffs thisseason because it has athletes who received Canadian incentive grants.
