FWIW the selection committee did a superior job in determining the schedule.
They avoided intraconference matchups as much as possible and followed the
PWR as well as can be imagined.  Consider the rankings from USCHO:
 
Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
 1 Wisconsin           40 31- 8- 1 0.7875  1 | 0.6095  1 | 25
 2 Maine               38 26- 7- 5 0.7500  4 | 0.6082  2 | 24
 3 North Dakota        39 26- 8- 5 0.7308  5 | 0.5982  3 | 23
 4 St Lawrence         33 24- 7- 2 0.7576  3 | 0.5886  5 | 22
 5 Niagara             27 18- 7- 2 0.7037  8 | 0.5723  8 | 20
 6 New Hampshire       37 23- 8- 6 0.7027  9 | 0.5921  4 | 19
 7 Colgate             33 23- 8- 2 0.7273  6 | 0.5701  9 | 19
 8 Boston College      38 26-11- 1 0.6974 11 | 0.5835  6 | 18
 
 
*       The top four rankings are the four bye teams.  If everything falls
into place among those four, #1 would play #4, and #2 would play #3 in the
semifinals.
*       If #8 Boston College wins its first round game, they would play #1
Wisconsin in the quarterfinals.
*       If #7 Colgate wins its first round game, they would play #2 Maine in
the quarterfinals.
*       If #6 New Hampshire wins its first round game, they would play #3
North Dakota in the quarterfinals.
*       All four Hockey East teams are in separate brackets.  The earliest
any of them would meet would be in the semifinals.  A semifinal matchup
would not be a repeat of any HEA conference game.
*       No other intraconference matchup can occur until the championship
game.
 
 
 
Edward N. Moller
Controller
Mount Ida College
Newton Centre, MA  02459-3323
Tel (617) 928-4515
Fax (617) 928-4746
[log in to unmask]
 
HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey;  send information to
[log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.