----- Original Message -----
From: "John T Whelan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:56 AM
Subject: If the Season Ended Today


> I've posted another "If The Season Ended Today" analysis on The Big
> Red What?, indexed under http://slack.net/hockey/ (direct link
> http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?pairwise.020212 ).  To cut to
> the punchline, here were the brackets I came up with:
>
>            5W Mass-Lowell (H)                 6E Cornell (E)
>            4W Michigan (C)                    3E Boston Univ (H)
>                 1W Denver U (W)     --+--2E Minnesota (W)
>                                       |
>                 2W St Cloud (W)     --+--1E New Hampshire (H)
>            3W Mich State (C)                  4E CO College (W)
>            6W Mercyhurst (M)                  5E Maine (H)
>
> Minnesota goes East so they'll be bracketed to play Denver in the
> national semifinal.  Lowell goes West to avoid a first-round game with
> Maine or BU.  Mercyhurst and CC also get switched because Eire to Ann
> Arbor is a shorter drive than Eire to Worcester, and CC would have to
> fly to either site.  So I think the brackets look the same whether or
> not the NCAA tries to reduce travel.
>                                           John Whelan, Cornell '91
>                                                  [log in to unmask]
>                                      http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/
>
> Enjoy the latest Hockey Geek tools at slack.net/hockey
>


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