On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> On 17 Mar 2002, at 13:46, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> The results are in... (this will look bad if you're not using a fixed-
> width font)
> 5W Michigan (C)                    6E Harvard (E)
> 4W St Cloud (W)                    3E Maine (H)

Actually, ESPN.com lists Michigan as 4W and SCSU as 5W, which is a
little confusing, since it seems to be seeding the teams based on the
total PWR and not the individual comparisons, which the NCAA has been
telling us for years that they do.  This seemingly minor change might
or might not indicate an underlying paradigm shift.

>      1W Denver U (W)     --+--2E Boston Univ (H)
>                            |
>      2W Minnesota (W)    --+--1E New Hampshire (H)
> 3W Mich State (C)                  4E Cornell (E)
> 6W CO College (W)                  5E Quinnipiac (M)

[...]

>> 1. If BU is the fourth seed, does the committee juggle things to
>> keep New Hampshire east, either by shuffling the brackets or by
>> swapping BU into the third spot?

> Answer: Yes.  It's not clear exactly what reasoning the committee
> applied, but (IMO) good sense prevailed in keeping the Wildcats
> east in the face of the written procedures.

Although if the written procedures are at odds with "good sense", they
should not have been written in that way in the first place.  It's not
like no one thought of this possibility.

More later, but I have to fly in the morning.
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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