Cal State East Bay Is Moving On Up
August 5, 2008 by Kevin Hunter
Filed under Basketball
Congratulations to the Cal State East Bay Pioneers!
Somehow the Pioneers have been bumped up a notch by the NCAA to play basketball and other sports in Division II this fall.
The Pioneers will be an exploratory member and is waiting to be accepted in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) as a “scheduling partner” for the 2009-2010 season and will be eligible for conference championships soon after approval.
The CCAA houses San Francisco State, Sonoma State, Humboldt State, Chico State, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State Stanislaus, Cal State Dominguez Hills, and UC San Diego.
The Pioneers had been playing in Division III and in the California Pacific Conference with such schools as the Dominican University of California (conference champions last season), Menlo College and Holy Names University.
I know. All household names.
The Pioneers men’s basketball team were never really a Division III power and finished last season 9-7 in conference play and 14-14 overall.
That was good enough to move up to Division II?
Sounds good to me.
Let’s give Cal State East Bay a hearty welcome to Division II and wish it the best of luck!
Who rah?
Cal State East Bay, formerly CAL STATE HAYWARD has a long history – successful history in NCAA Div II, in 1991 it went nuts and decided to go Div. III and get hooked up in the NAIA II schools . That was/is an utter failure that the new President of the school wanted to fix immeidately. As he was instrumental in Cal State- Northridge going Div I. That said, CSUEBay has a bursting enrollment at 15000 today, and will have no problem being good in DIvision II. Its just a case of getting real up at Hayward, and competing with similar sized schools in 2009 .
csueb is coming baby !
CSUEB was a NCAC Division II scholl up until an idiot in admin , in 1991 changed it to Div. III, the school is just comining back from a vacation. Long Live Pioner Pete !
CAL SATE EAST BAY IS GOING TO RECRUIT FROM OAKLAND. OAKLAND HADS BALLERS. WATCH OUT CCAA, AINT SEEN NOTHING LIKE OAKLAND BALLERS COM OUT.