A) place the number 1 seeds
C springs Van Andel Manchester Albany
1) No Dak Minnesota Maine BC
2)
3)
4)
B) place the hosts
C springs Van Andel Manchester Albany
1) No Dak Minnesota Maine BC
2)
3) New Hamp
4) CC
C) observe that i have 7 slots for 4 ccha teams and 3 wcha teams
but no matter what i do, I have a problem
either i have 3 wcha teams in colorado springs or i have another
first round conference matchup. There are three solutions
i) tweak the rpi bonuses enough that CC is overtaken by
notre dame
ii) make #1 seeds travel (no way)
iii) look at the band breaks and see 4-5 both wcha 8-9 both ccha
but i2-13 switches ccha and wcha. let's try that and Put
MSU in michigan to give them a crowd advantage
C springs Van Andel Manchester Albany
1) No Dak Minnesota Maine BC
2)
3) CC New Hamp
4) MSU
D) observe that now things are ok because the teams an be placed such
that there are "good" matchups almost everywhere.
C springs Van Andel Manchester Albany
1) No Dak Minnesota Maine BC
2) CCHA CCHA/WCHA WCHA CCHA/WCHA
3) CC WCHA/CCHA New Hamp WCHA/CCHA
E) fill them in
C springs Van Andel Manchester Albany
1) No Dak Minnesota Maine BC
2) Michigan Denver Duluth Ohio State
3) CC Miami New Hamp Wisconsin
4) MSU
F) and seed the last 3
C springs Van Andel Manchester Albany
1) No Dak Minnesota Maine BC
2) Michigan Denver Duluth Ohio State
3) CC Miami New Hamp Wisconsin
4) Holy Cross MSU Harvard Niagara
G) add overall seedings
C springs Van Andel Manchester Albany
1) 1-No Dak 4-Minnesota 3-Maine 2-BC
2) 8-Michigan 7-Denver 5-Duluth 6-Ohio State
3) 13-CC 9-Miami 11-New Hamp 10-Wisconsin
4) 16-Holy Cross 12-MSU 14-Harvard 15-Niagara
H) notes:
I swapped Denver and Duluth to avoid a replay of the WCHA semis
This pairing features
a) NO first round conference pairings
b) only 1 expected second round conference (wcha) pairings
Let the games begin:
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