And reading the NCAA seedings guide leads me to suggest that we have
# 1Seeds: CC, Maine, Cornell, UNH (only one Western team. One Eastern team goes West)
#2 Seeds: BC, Minnesota, BU, UND (2 East 2 West. BU locked to Worcester, Minn locked to St. Paul. Keep BC close to home??)
#3 Seeds: SCSU, Ferris, OSU, Mich (All West teams. 2 gotta go East, and Michigan can't be one of them)
#4 Seeds: Denver, Providence, CHA, MAAC (2 East & 2 West. Put Providence @ the Donut to boost sales).
Playing Joe Schlobotnik here, without benefit of John Whelan's script, sez:
Worcester: #1 UNH #2 BU #3 SCSU #4 MAAC
Providence: #1 Cornell #2 BC #3 Ferris #4 Providence
Ann Arbor: #1 CC #2 UND #3 Michigan #4 CHA
St. Paul: #1 Maine, #2 Minnesota, #3 OSU, #4 Denver
There you have it, no interconference match-ups until round #2 and there could be some doozies for regional finals. Of course, we have a few more weeks of the season, plus playoffs to go through. But what the heck, there's 2 feet of snow on the ground here in MD and things are a bit slow. Plus my back hurts.
Joe LaCour
Clarkson '77/'78
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