On Info-Hockey-L Deron Treadwell wrote:
 
> It's not quite over yet..
 
> Maine plans to appeal at least the part of the NCAA penalties that
> bans the University of Maine from competing in the 1996-7 NCAA
> Tournament.
>
> "We want closure," Tyler said, "but we also want what is fair to our
> students."
>
> Both Tyler and Hutchinson cited their concern for the players who
> during the last three years have missed two post-season tournaments
> already and that it was these players complete cooperation that made
> this investigation complete and successful.
 
I wish to point out that the NCAA itself did not force the Maine
hockey teams to miss the NCAA tournament "two of the past three
years."
 
In 1993-94 Maine's failure to make the NCAA Torunament was due to the
team having an actual won-loss record of 17-15-4, including a season
ending pair of losses to BU in the Hockey East quarterfinals.
According to Shawn Walsh at the time, it was that record which the
Ice Hockey Selection Committee used to select the 12 teams to the
1994 NCAA Tournament.
 
This past year the University, not the NCAA, choose to not allow the
team to play in the NCAA Tournament as a self-imposed penalty.  The
NCAA likely took the self-imposed penalty into consideration, but
based on the additional scholarships the NCAA has taken away, banning
the team from next year's NCAA Tournament is as severe as implied.
 
 
 
 
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