I coached the basketball team at the University of St. Francis for 34 years. In December of 1987 we went to the west coast to play the University of San Francisco.
We were a small, liberal arts university in Joliet, Illinois. I would guess the players on that San Francisco team had never heard of us.Although rare, it did happen that an NCAA Division I team would play a Division III or NAIA team.
Without being said, the bigger school would get a WIN and the smaller school would receive a guarantee, a monetary stipend to offset their travel costs.
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