I think Minn-Duluth and Northeastern should have changed places.  That avoids a potential second round Minn-Duluth/Denver matchup.  Yes, that takes Minn-Duluth away from basically a home arena environment, but that seems the smaller consideration to me.  Notice that if they had won the right to be the #1 seed in the West, it would have seemed almost automatic to send Denver to Grand Rapids.

Just an opinion.

Tom Rowe 

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Subject: Re: who goes where

Oops, HERE is what we have:
East Regional - Bridgeport CT

  #1 Michigan vs #4 Air Force
  #2 Yale vs #3 Vermont
Northeast Regional - Manchester NH

  #1 Boston University vs #4 Ohio State
  #2 North Dakota vs #3 New Hampshire
Midwest Regional - Grand Rapids MI

  #1 Notre Dame vs #4 Bemidji State
  #2 Northeastern vs #3 Cornell
West Regional - Minneapolis MN

  #1 Denver vs #4 Miami
  #2 Minnesota-Duluth vs #3 Princeton
Boston University is #1 overall seed.  I drafted a complete bracket, which can be found at http://mysite.verizon.net/creasemonkeyhockey/ncaadiv1/tournaments/ncaa/index.html

-Todd


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Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:54 AM
Subject: Fwd: who goes where


> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:29 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > charlie thinks
> > manchester - BU nodak unh ohio st
> > bridgeport - mich yale vermont air force
> > minneapolis - notre dame duluth cornell bemidji
> > grand rapids - denver northeastern princeton miami
>
> Under that bracket, the Minneapolis regional would be problematic for
> Notre Dame. They would face a virtual road game in the first round
> against Bemidji, and follow that up with another one against Duluth.
> (Yes, I know how far Duluth & Bemidji are from the Cities, but both
> are closer than Notre Dame.)
>
> Since the assumption has always been that the #1 seeds are placed in
> regionals first, I think that means that the Irish are heading to
> Grand Rapids.
>
> No conference has more than four teams in the field, so I'll be
> interested to see where Bemidji gets placed. BSU is 37th in the RPI,
> and the other teams (including Air Force) are all in the Top 15, so
> there may be a bracket integrity argument to sending BSU (the clear
> #16) to Manchester to play the overall #1 (BU), and allowing the
> all-CCHA matchup that would come as a consequence (probably
> Miami-Michigan).
>
> I do think they'll drop Duluth into the West Regional, to save that
> flight at least.
>
> If you do both of those, you get this:
>
> Manchester - Boston U, No Dak, UNH, Bemidji
> Grand Rapids - Notre Dame, Northeastern, Princeton, Air Force
> Minneapolis - Denver, Northeastern, Cornell, Ohio State
> Bridgeport - Michigan, Yale, Vermont, Miami
>
> John
>
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> John Edwards
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