re: LSU warms to idea of SEC ice hockey

Kentucky plays ice hockey as a club sport; I don't know if they still do this but a few years ago they would scheduled their home games for midnight as a novelty to get students to attend.

>Doesn't Kentucky have ice hockey? I
>searched ukathletics.com and didn't
>see it.

Ice hockey is generally a "club" sport in the South and usually not an official varsity sport like the sports that are covered on the website that you listed above--UK's club team has a long winning history and even completed in one of the club national title games once back in the 1990's. They outdraw all sports at UK except football and basketball (not too shabby, for a non-varsity sport). UK isn't competing in the new SEC hockey league, because UK is in the ACHA's Division II, but LSU and all the other SEC schools compete in Division III (except Florida, which is also Division II). For what it's worth, I think that the article linked to at the start of this thread has an error--my understanding is that it is actually Florida STATE that is joining the SEC ice hockey league (since UF is in Division II).