>> >In any case, my BIG QUESTION is what happens if
>> >YALE gets the BYE seed and no other ECAC team is
>> >in the top 12 PWR ... does the second ECAC bid
>> >come from PWR ratings or from the ECAC RS
>> >standings???
 
>>         I believe it would be done on the basis of pairwise
>> comparisons among the remaining ECAC teams.  Remember that the
>> committee no longer just uses the total PWR; they look at individual
>> comparisons among teams competing for a slot, seed or whatever.
 
>Is there anything that actually says a conference is guaranteed two
>teams?  I know a spot is guaranteed to the r.s. champ and the playoff
>champ, but if the same team wins both, doesn't that just create another
>at-large spot.  Since the selection rules have hardly been static this is
>probably not a situation a selection committee had counted on.
 
        Each conference is guaranteed two bids even if the same team
wins the regular season and conference titles.  For instance, in 1995,
if Clarkson had won the ECAC tournament, Vermont would have gotten an
at-large bid despite not being in the top twelve.
 
>Example - Colgate is currently the #2 ECAC team in the PWR at #11.  If
>Yale won ECAC tourney and two leagues have surprise tourney champs
>(Colorado College, Northeastern, Ohio State, and Minnesota are all
>candidates) I believe the ECAC would recieve only 1 bid (Yale).
 
        If that happened, with the current comparisons in effect,
Wisconsin would be the odd man out, since they're #10 in the PWR and
lose pairwise comparisons with the nine teams above them.
 
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
                                     Official Scorer/PA Announcer
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