SUWANEE, Ga. -- Men's lacrosse will become the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference's 20th conference-sponsored sport in 2009-2010 as five teams (Birmingham-Southern, Colorado College, Hendrix, Sewanee and Southwestern) will play a single round-robin schedule. 

The team with the best regular season record will be declared SCAC champion - there will be no postseason conference tournament. 

With three more teams coming aboard in 2010-2011 (Centre, Millsaps and Oglethorpe), the SCAC will petition for automatic qualification to the NCAA men's tournament and consider a season-ending conference tournament.