>         There's an article
> <http://www.uscollegehockey.com/news/1997/03/31_schedule.html>
> describing how the NC$$ tournament is being shifted one week so it
> falls after rather than during hype-ball Final Four weekend.  This is
> old news, but one detail surprised me.  I had expected they would
> insert an extra week between the Regionals and Frozen Four, but that
> won't be the case until 2000.  For the next two years, the NC$$s will
> be held on consecutive weekends, just one week later.  (Next year the
> regionals are March 27-29 and the finals April 2 and 4.)
>
>         This makes me wonder: will the conference tourneys be held at
> their usual time in 1998 and 1999, leaving an extra week between them
> and the NC$$s?  When will the NC$$ seedings be announced?  Will teams
> be able to play non-conference games in the intervening weekend, as
> they do in baseball?  This strikes me as the perfect time to hold the
> Big Ten hockey tournament. ;-)
 
There will be no week in between.  The way hockey calculates when the
championship should be held and the way basketball calculates it are slightly
different.  Therefore, the hockey season was to have ended a week later than
the basketball season for the next two years regardless.
 
They won't start shifting it until 2000 because it isn't necessary to
artificially shift it until then.
 
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