Adam Wodon says
 
>But if BC wins the tournament, I see no way they WON'T get a bye -- I
>haven't crunched PWR numbers today - I rarely do -- but intuition,
>memory and logic tell me it's true.
 
        I'm not sure how that logic works; Clarkson wins the
comparison with BC right now, so naively one would expect that to
remain the same if both teams go 2-0 and win their conference
tournaments.  The comparison is very close and I think it hinges on
the "last 20" criterion, so someone with more time than I should look
closely at this comparison and see what the essential factors are in
swinging it one way or the other.  I do know that in at least one set
of outcomes where they go 2-0 Clarkson gets the bye, while in another
instance where Clarkson goes 1-1 and BC goes 0-1, BC wins the
comparison.  If I had to guess, I'd say that if BC wins the Hockey
East tournament and someone other than Clarkson or Yale wins the
ECACs, BC gets the bye.  But like I said, someone should put the
Clarkson-BC comparison under a microscpe.  And remember that Harvard
becomes a TUC if they win their conference tournament, as does
Merrimack. :-)
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
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