Boston College, with their win last night, flipped their
pairwise comparison with New Hampshire, and Mass-Lowell's win improves
their record to .500, making them a TUC and in the process reversing
the UNH/Clarkson comparison.(*) The result of all this is that BC is
now in line to get the second Eastern bye:
 
   Team         lPWR RPI Comps Won
 1 Boston Univ    4 .619 BCNHYaCk
 2 Boston Coll    2 .574   NHYa__
 3 New Hampshire  2 .576 __  YaCk
 4 Yale           1 .565 ____  Ck
 5 Clarkson       1 .570 BC____
 
  (*) That effect hadn't occurred to me: a team wants to have as many
  TUC as possible in its conference, since they're likely to have a good
  record against teams hovering around .500, and more games against those
  teams than will their competitors in other conferences...
 
        The races for the second Eastern bye is *wide* open, folks.
The only sure thing is that Yale would get it if they win the ECAC
tournament.  UNH, Clarkson and BC have all been in a position to get
the bye in the past six days.
 
        As if the conference playoffs weren't enough fun...
 
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
                                     Official Scorer/PA Announcer
                                        U of Utah Ice Hockey Club
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