but if the season truly ended today that would imply that all the tourneys
had finished which means even if all the number one league teams won out
3-4 of the others would have lost. in that case NH wins but BU loses ,
Cornell wins, and probably minn and CC lose before the conf finals.
assuming ST cloud and Denver get to stay at 1-2 that makes cornell at worst
4-5 and probably the  2 seed in the east...

>If I seed strictly by the numbers, I get
>1       Denver
>bye
>8       cornell
>9       michigan
>
>5       BU
>12      mercyhurst
>bye
>4       Minnesota
>
>2       St Cloud
>bye
>7       Mich State
>10      maine
>
>6       CC
>11      lowell
>bye
>3       New Hampshire
>
>it sends cornell and maine west and minnesota and CC east
>and the only matchup at the regionals would be lowell vs unh and that
>only if lowell upsets CC
> > Date:         Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:56:57 -0600
> > From: John T Whelan <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject:      If the Season Ended Today
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > I've posted another "If The Season Ended Today" analysis on The Big
> > Red What?, indexed under http://slack.net/hockey/ (direct link
> > http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?pairwise.020212 ).  To cut to
> > the punchline, here were the brackets I came up with:
> >
> >            5W Mass-Lowell (H)                 6E Cornell (E)
> >            4W Michigan (C)                    3E Boston Univ (H)
> >                 1W Denver U (W)     --+--2E Minnesota (W)
> >                                       |
> >                 2W St Cloud (W)     --+--1E New Hampshire (H)
> >            3W Mich State (C)                  4E CO College (W)
> >            6W Mercyhurst (M)                  5E Maine (H)
> >
> > Minnesota goes East so they'll be bracketed to play Denver in the
> > national semifinal.  Lowell goes West to avoid a first-round game with
> > Maine or BU.  Mercyhurst and CC also get switched because Eire to Ann
> > Arbor is a shorter drive than Eire to Worcester, and CC would have to
> > fly to either site.  So I think the brackets look the same whether or
> > not the NCAA tries to reduce travel.
> >                                           John Whelan, Cornell '91
> >                                                  [log in to unmask]
> >                                      http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/
> >
> > Enjoy the latest Hockey Geek tools at slack.net/hockey
> >
>
>
>
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