Dan Doucette asks:
 
>Is the automatic bid based upon regular season HE champion or the winner of
>the playoff series ?  If  the playoffs do indeed determine the automatic
>tournament bids, then the real question is what the seedings are for the
>PLAYOFF series.
 
        Both the regular season and playoff champions in all four
Division I conferences receive automatic bids to the NCAA tournament.
If there are co-champions in the RS, the automatic bid goes to the one
that wins the tie-breaker(s) and gets the top seed in the conference
tournament.
 
        In addition, as of last season, any team winning both the RS
and tournament titles in a conference gets an automatic first-round
bye in the NCAAs.
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
                                     Official Scorer/PA Announcer
                                        U of Utah Ice Hockey Club
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