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.
>
> 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
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