Charlie Shub comes up with the following brackets:
 
>> New Hampshire                   cornell
>> Denver                          Miami
>>         Clarkson        North Dakota
>>         BU              Michigan
>> vermont                         Minnesota
>> colorado                        Michigan State
 
J. Michael Neal replies:
 
>I don't think that this is the format that the NCAA will come up with,
>but if it is, I would very strongly object as a Gopher fan.  Minnesota
>finished far ahead of Miami in the PWR rankings (4th vs. 10th).
 
        How about sending them to the East regional, as in my "plan
D"?  I think Charlie's setup is "better" than mine, but the NC$$ will
probably avoid shuffling seeds, for reasons you indicate.
 
>If the NCAA puts that high a priority on avoiding
>conference match-ups, then something is wrong.
 
        Ordinarily, I'd agree, but having rematches of two conference
championship games, each set up by the #3 seed in the region beating
the #6 seed, is pretty distasteful.
 
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