We get this:
1 New Hampshire       38 29- 6- 3 0.8026  2 | 0.6239  3 | 26
 2 Denver              40 32- 7- 1 0.8125  1 | 0.6259  1 | 25
 3 Minnesota           41 29- 8- 4 0.7561  4 | 0.6241  2 | 24
 4 Boston University   37 25- 9- 3 0.7162  8 | 0.5991  4 | 22
 5 Michigan State      40 27- 8- 5 0.7375  5 | 0.5940  6 | 22
 6 Michigan            41 26-10- 5 0.6951  9 | 0.5826  8 | 21
 7 Maine               40 23-10- 7 0.6625 12 | 0.5882  7 | 20
 8 St. Cloud           41 29-10- 2 0.7317  6 | 0.5947  5 | 19
 9 Colorado College    41 26-12- 3 0.6707 11 | 0.5824  9 | 18
10 Cornell             33 24- 7- 2 0.7576  3 | 0.5793 10 | 18
11 Alaska-Fairbanks    37 22-12- 3 0.6351 13 | 0.5607 12 | 16
12 Northern Michigan   40 26-12- 2 0.6750 10 | 0.5568 13 | 15
13 UMass-Lowell        38 22-13- 3 0.6184 14 | 0.5611 11 | 13
21 Wayne State         32 17-11- 4 0.5938 17 | 0.5088 23 |  6
23 Quinnipiac          37 20-12- 5 0.6081 15 | 0.5032 25 |  4
24 Harvard             33 15-14- 4 0.5152 26 | 0.4999 27 |  3

East teams
UNH
BU
Maine
Cornell
Mass-Lowell
Quinnipiac
Harvard

West
Denver
Minnesota
Michigan State
Michigan
St. Cloud
Colorado College
UAF
NMU
Wayne State

One West team has to go East to get an 8-8 split and, for argument's sake, we'll make it Wayne State.

So the brackets look like this.  I have also made a hypothetical regional site for the East and West regions)

East Region  (Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, RI)
UNH vs. Wayne State
Cornell vs. Mass-Lowell

Northeast Region (Centrum, Worcester, MA)
BU vs. Harvard
Maine vs. Quinnipiac

West Region  (Ralph II, Grand Forks, ND)
Minnesota vs. UAF
Michigan State vs. Coll College

Midwest Region (Yost Ice Arena, Ann Arbor, MI)
Denver vs. Northern Michigan
Michigan vs. St. Cloud

Because we can now stagger regions, the East - West pairing we got this year will not have to apply.  For 2003 the pairings are: East - Midwest and West - Northeast (mainly because the dates are already set for Worcester & Ann Arbor Regionals).  Future years should rotate the pairings.

The times just do not work to show all the games on TV at the same time.  Friday and Sunday are OK, but Saturday will have 6 games on the tube which is a college hockey junkie's nightmare.

What I'd like to see in the future is a day off between games to maximize TV.  

Can anyone poke holes in the idea?

Joe
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