UIC Flames Winter, Spring Sports Teams Will Get To Play In Conference Championships After All, Restored After Ban For Violating Horizon League's Bylaws
CHICAGO (CBS) -- UIC athletes will get to participate in conference championships after all, as the Horizon League has restored their eligibility for postseason play – effective immediately.
The UIC Flames teams had been banned because the school did not give a full year's notice before leaving the Horizon League for the Missouri Valley Conference.
The Horizon League said, "UIC administrators rejected any alternative solutions and did nothing to help the student-athletes they claimed to care about."
It should be noted the school did pay the requisite exit fee and then applied for a special waiver of the bylaw with regard to a full year's norice, which was denied.
This doesn't normally happen, although the America East Conference did the same thing to Stony Brook and the Colonial Athletic Association to James Madison when they announced they were leaving those leagues at the end of the school year.