If you include MSU and CC with 2 each it would seem to move a bit further
south and west.
Bob Hamilton

-----Original Message-----
From: HAMPTON Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: CHN News Alert: SYRACUSE GETS SERIOUS


>The geographic center may not be meaningful either. In a geographic
average,
>each school weighting is based on distance, so that the average is a
>distance. What is missing in a "college hockey center" for the US is a
>weighting based upon success or NCAA titles. If instead each school were
>weighted by the number of NCAA titles they have won, the center would be
>between Milwaukee WI and Gary IN because Denver (7), North Dakota (7),
>Wisconsin (6), and Minnesota (5) would pull the center west, but BU (4),
>RPI, BC, Cornell and Maine (2) and Harvard (1) would pull the center east,
>yet Michigan (9), Michigan Tech (3), Lake Superior State (3), plus Bowling
>Green and No. Michigan (1) would help to pull the center east from
>southeastern South Dakota (that is assuming the NCAA allows the use of the
>word Dakota).
>
>Nathan Hampton