Oops!  I wrote:
 
>Interesting.  I see that all four correspondents presume that a western
>team will be seeded as #6 East.  One goes so far as to project western
>teams getting the #5 and #6 East seeds, but that seems unlikely.  Looking
>at TCHCR, RPICH, and the various polls, it does seem credible that seven
>western teams could make the tournament.
 
.. but I didn't look at the predicted seedings closely enough.  Each
correspondent seeded seven western teams and five eastern ones.  One of
them, Bob Croce, showed two western teams crossing over to eastern seeds,
and one eastern team getting a western seed.  I didn't catch it until after
I posted my response.  Still interesting.
 
-- Erik
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Erik Biever                                                     Ski-U-Mah!
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