The geographic center may not be meaningful either. In a geographic average,
each school weighting is based on distance, so that the average is a
distance. What is missing in a "college hockey center" for the US is a
weighting based upon success or NCAA titles. If instead each school were
weighted by the number of NCAA titles they have won, the center would be
between Milwaukee WI and Gary IN because Denver (7), North Dakota (7),
Wisconsin (6), and Minnesota (5) would pull the center west, but BU (4),
RPI, BC, Cornell and Maine (2) and Harvard (1) would pull the center east,
yet Michigan (9), Michigan Tech (3), Lake Superior State (3), plus Bowling
Green and No. Michigan (1) would help to pull the center east from
southeastern South Dakota (that is assuming the NCAA allows the use of the
word Dakota).

Nathan Hampton 


On 1/10/07 8:37 AM, "Rowe, Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Lets not confuse mode with average.  MA and NY may have the most, but
> when you look for the geographic center of hockey its going to be well
> west of there.  Alaska will exert undue influence because of distance,
> but even a minority of teams out West can shift the balance point.  I
> haven't done the math, but I would wager the hockey center of the US is
> probably somewhere between Western PA and Eastern MI (conceivably even
> in Canada someplace).  In the meantime, with all due respect to places
> like Boston, for my money, the center of college hockey is still
> Minnesota (even though as a Wisconsinite the social rules of engagement
> mandate that I hate them  :-)).
> 
> Tom Rowe
> Stuck in Div III hell in Stevens Point, WI
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joe Makowiec
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:50 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: CHN News Alert: SYRACUSE GETS SERIOUS
> 
> At 1-9-2007 08:52 AM, Deron Treadwell wrote:
>> Boy, it does sound like this could be pretty serious.  I would think
>> Syracuse would be a welcome addition to the community.
> 
> The though struck me during the Governor's Cup (featuring 3 New York
> teams plus one from Connecticut) that New York has a lot of DI men's
> hockey.  I was trying to come up with some way to do a Governor's Cup
> similar to the Beanpot, but it would be tough, even if you included
> regular-season games.  But the addition of one more NYS team would make
> New York the center (or at least the center of gravity) of the DI men's
> hockey world.
> 
> State   Teams
> MA      10
> NY      10
> MI      8
> MN      5
> CT      4
> CO      3
> OH      3
> AK      2
> NH      2
> PA      2
> RI      2
> AL      1
> IN      1
> ME      1
> ND      1
> NE      1
> NJ      1
> VT      1
> WI      1
> 
> Question for discussion: What league would they go into?  ECAC, and
> bring RIT along too?
> 
> Joe
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