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Oooops, I made a mistake in my last paragraph. UNH or Cornell would go
to Providence not Worcester. Of the two, UNH is by far liklier to go to
Prov. as a first seed, with cornell going to Michigan as first seed there.
Sorry, I almost forgot about BU at Worcester
Spiros Polemis wrote:
> I think that it is possible for Maine to go to Providence, but the lords
> of NCAA may also look at the distance from BC to Providence and send
> them there in place of Maine.
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> NCAA guidelines are strong on the subject of avoiding intradivisional
> match ups in first round, and as it now stands, Maine and BC would each
> be 2nd seeds. Second seed plays third, and first plays fourth in each
> regional. So if it ended just like the below pwr ranking, Maine and BC
> could _not_ be sent to the same venue for the above two reasons. I don't
> know if a higher ranked team within a seeding group (Maine 5th vs BC
> 8th), would get first choice at a nearby regional.
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> But if season ends as below, it is much more likely that Maine goes to
> Worcester as a second seed, with BU (which _has_ to go to Worcester as
> host school) as the no.1 seed there. BC would go as second seed to
> Povidence, as close as you can get to Chestnut Hill.
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> Between first seeds UNH and Cornell, one would go to Worcester, the
> other would go West. If attendance is high factor, then, no doubt, UNH
> would go to Worcester as they would draw more fans there than Cornell
> who would go to Michigan as a no.1 seed there.
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> Spiros Polemis
> Stockton ME
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> Deron Treadwell wrote:
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>> 2002-2003 Division I Men Pairwise Rankings (PWR)
>> Rk Team GP W- L- T Win% Rk RPI Rk PWR
>> 1 Colorado College 37 27- 5- 5 0.7973 2 | 0.5983 1 | 27
>> 2 Cornell 30 25- 4- 1 0.8500 1 | 0.5918 2 | 26
>> 3 Boston University 39 24-12- 3 0.6538 12 | 0.5871 3 | 25
>> 4 New Hampshire 37 24- 7- 6 0.7297 4 | 0.5859 4 | 24
>> 5 Maine 38 24- 9- 5 0.6974 7 | 0.5810 6 | 22
>> Ferris State 37 28- 8- 1 0.7703 3 | 0.5683 8 | 22
>> 7 Minnesota 38 21- 8- 9 0.6711 10 | 0.5853 5 | 21
>> 8 Boston College 37 23-10- 4 0.6757 9 | 0.5802 7 | 20
>> 9 Michigan 37 25- 9- 3 0.7162 5 | 0.5617 9 | 19
>> 10 MSU-Mankato 37 19- 8-10 0.6486 13 | 0.5594 10 | 17
>> 11 North Dakota 39 24-10- 5 0.6795 8 | 0.5588 11 | 16
>> 12 Ohio State 38 23-10- 5 0.6711 10 | 0.5539 14 | 14
>> 13 Denver 39 21-12- 6 0.6154 16 | 0.5555 12 | 13
>> St. Cloud State 35 16-14- 5 0.5286 27 | 0.5541 13 | 13
>> Harvard 30 20- 8- 2 0.7000 6 | 0.5538 15 | 13
>> Providence 36 19-14- 3 0.5694 22 | 0.5470 16 | 13
>> Michigan State 37 22-13- 2 0.6216 14 | 0.5444 17 | 13
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