Those Michigan fans also travel very well, so that would be great, I can
bring ear plugs so I don't have to listen to that F-ing song either!!!  LOL

Carol
GO Gophers!!!

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Pamela Sweeney <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> As an alternative, if you set the 1-4 and 2-3 matchups, then move them
> around to minimize the possibility of intraconference matchups:
>
> 1 BC v 16 AF
> 6 Ferris v 11 Denver
>
> 2 Mich v 13 Cornell
> 8 Minn v 9 BU
>
> 3 Union v 15 WMU
> 7 UMD v 10 Maine
>
> 4 NoDak v 14 Mich St
> 5 Miami v 12 Mass-Lowell
>
> No reason to think the Committee will do that as they've said in the past
> that avoiding second round matchups is not a priority, and this moves NoDak
> and Mich farther from home.  A chance at an all-CCHA 2nd rounder can't be
> avoided with 5 teams in the tourney, but should it happen, it would at
> least be in the Great Lakes watershed.  (Of course, the 5 teams does
> release the committee from having to shuffle the 4 seeds, if they don't
> want to, but you still end up with Cornell in either GB or SP, since they
> tend to keep the overall #1 with an Automatic Qualifier)
>
> "Avoiding 2nd-round match-ups" would give them cover for making sure
> there's a Hockey East team to help attendance in the Bridgeport regional.
> It also lets them rely on Minn to support the St. Paul regional and try to
> salvage GB attendance with traveling Whioux fans.
> -Pam
>



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