J. Michael Neal writes
 
> They were faced with
> exactly the same situation as last year, and made exactly the opposite call.
 
Not quite:  last year the question was whether to switch the #4 team
out of a region instead of #5, while this year with the unbalanced
split they decided to switch #4, #5 *and* #6.  This year's situation
was more analogous to 1997, where they did not swap three teams.
 
What I wonder is whether, if Princeton had won the ECAC conso and made
the field, they would have sent BC West instead of SLU (and DU East
instead of Michigan).  That's exactly the sort of thing they *didn't*
do last year.
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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