When Coach Morris said, "Not enough emphasis is placed on the regular season....
I believe he was referring to the fact that it is the tournament champion who
gets the automatic NCAA bid, not the team who played well all season and won
the regular season.  This issue is of more importance in the ECAC, because the
ECAC usually gets two NCAA bids.  With the first one gone to the tournament
champ, that leaves one bid left.  If the regular season champ is not the tour-
nament champ, their can be problems if another team has a better non-league
record.  It creates more bad feelings when one teams gets in and another one
has to sit out.  This past season SLU thought that they should have gotten a
bid when Cornell received it.  SLU was rely on their win over Cornell at the
tournament, forgetting their poorer non-league record.  I think that going to
a single elimination quarter-final would be a mistake, allowing some lower
seeded teams in.  Some unexpected things do happen in the ECAC, even with
home ice- Just look at Cornell final home weekend.
 
 
Mike Zak
Clarkson '87, '90,...