I'd love to see that line-up at Albany next weekend.  Two of my
favorite teams to watch (Maine, Wisconsin) would be there.  But I don't
think the selection committee will be that clean with their selections.
  I think Maine will go to Manchester since that is closest to them, and
they won the HE tournament.  BC will be "punished"  for losing to BU by
being sent to Albany.  Harvard will be placed in either Albany or
Manchester.  I'm not sure the Committee is willing to return to the
days when seeds were moved around regardless of the travel times.
On Sunday, March 21, 2004, at 02:25 AM, Wayne T. Smith wrote:

> Responding to my own (dumb) post:  (sorry!)
>
> CC has to go to the West Regional as host (as UNH goes to the NE
> Regional). Simply switching HC & CC corrects this, but makes #1 NoDak's
> regional the toughest, as well as having 3 out of 4 WCHA teams.  Maybe
> I
> should have rooted for UMass beating Maine last night (and taking CC's
> place)?  Nah.
>
> The problem my layout started with was a CCHA Michigan vs Miami 2/3
> matchup in the West, which I resolved sending Denver there from the NE
> for Michigan.
>
> So to resolve this, I'm going to move the whole NoDak regional to Grand
> Rapids, and still switch Michigan for Denver. Minnesota would open with
> fellow WCHA CC, but I don't think that can be helped without
> reorganizing the top 4 seeds (ME or BC West & MN East), something the
> Committee seems reluctant to do.  So here's my redress ...
>
> Midwest - Grand Rapids, MI
>
>  1 North Dakota vs 16 Holy Cross
>  7 Denver vs 9 Miami
>
>        (winner of winners to Frozen Four game 2 - home team)
>
> West - Colorado Springs, CO
>
>  4 Minnesota vs 13 Colorado College
>  5 Minnesota-Duluth vs 12 Michigan State
>
>       (winner of winners to Frozen Four game 2 - visiting team)
>
> Northeast - Manchester, NH
>
>  2 Boston College vs 15 Niagara
>  8 Michigan vs 11 New Hampshire
>
>        (winner of winners to Frozen Four game 1 - home team)
>
> East - Albany, NY
>
>  3 Maine vs 14 Harvard
>  6 Ohio State vs 10 Wisconsin
>
>        (winner of winners to Frozen Four game 1 - visiting team)
>
> P.S. the real story still on ESPN2 Sun at 2:30 ET.
>
> cheers, wayne
>