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.

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.

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.

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.

Spiros Polemis
Stockton ME


Deron Treadwell wrote:
> 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