On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Erik Biever wrote:
> Nathan Eric Hampton writes:
>
> > #5 Duluth over #4 St. Cloud State
> > Only big game of the tournament, because the winner makes the NCAA final
> > 12 and the loser doesn't.
> I'm not sure that's right.  If you use John Whelan's excellent
> speculation tool at ...
>
> http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?hypo
>
> ... it appears that either UMD or SCSU would need at least two wins at
> the WCHA Final Five, plus some fortuitous circumstances.
 
Not according to the scenario I just ran.
 
I had SCSU beating UMD in the 4-5 game, but losing to UND and CC. St.
Cloud ended up as my 12th team. (Due to matchup fun 'n' region-switching
they became the 5th seed in the West, FWIW.)
 
[I had UND beating Wisconsin for the WCHA, OSU over Michigan State for
the CCHA, Clarkson over Yale (and Harvard over Cornell for third) in the
ECAC and BC over UML in HEA.]
 
> It is clear that the loser of the Thursday game will go no further.
 
I'd agree with this statement.
 
Now I'm going to see if I can get Princeton or Cornell an at-large berth.
Wish me luck!
 
John
 
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