Randy May says:
 
> The NCAA does not treat tournaments in any
> different way than regular season games...and regular season games end after
> 5:00 in OT. That's why league DO and SHOULD do it the way they did at the
> Icebreaker. They can do it the other way if they want with 20:00 periods...but
> God help them if a puck goes in right exactly at the 15:00 mark and there is
> some confusion as to whether it was in on time or not. The green light doesn't
> go on at the 15:00 mark.
 
This interpretation cannot possibly be right, because it implies that
the NCAA considers any tournament game decided after the first five
minutes of overtime to be a tie.  Ask anyone at the NCAA, and they
will tell you that BC's record is 2-0, not 1-0-1.
 
Now, the real headaches can start when a tournament game also counts
as part of a *conference* schedule, as with the Northeastern-BC
Beanpot semi in 1997 and the Quinnipiac-Iona semi in the Q cup in ten
days.
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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