With these changes MAWHL now had a nine-team league divided into North and South regional divisions.

Teams in the nine-team league played each other just once before the league split into two.

The speculation started when Arkansas, the only non-Texas school in the nine-team league, announced that it would join the S.E.C. next year.

This season, the nine-team indoor league expanded to Monterrey, Mexico, and St. Louis.

This nine-team league has not had a full-time commissioner since its first, Lou Lamoriello, now the president of the Devils.

The PCC continued as a nine-team league through 1958.

Again with Morton at the helm, the Maumees won 68 games, lost 64, and finished fourth in the nine-team league.

The Stars of 1890 won 55 games and lost 72 to finish seventh in the nine-team league.

In a preseason poll of Big East coaches, Calhoun's team was picked to finish eighth in the nine-team league.

It has been suggested that BC might have remained if the Big East had spun out its non-football schools and reconfigured as an eight- or nine-team league.