Rico writes:
>1.  Who came up with the two game, total goals concept for a play-off
>series?  This has always struck me as possibly the most poorly devised of
>all the alternatives.  Either make it a best of three or a single game.
>The ECAC play-off system (two games with a ten-minute mini-game if it's a
>split) seems a somewhat happy compromise.
 
When the NCAA expanded the postseason tournament from four teams to eight
teams in 1981, the quarterfinals were set up as a two-game, total goals
series.  In 1989, having expanded the tournament to 12 teams the year
before, the NCAA changed the qualifying round and the quarterfinals from a
total-goals series to a best-of-three format.
 
In addition, the quarterfinal rounds for each league's postseason tour-
nament, except for the ECAC's, are best-of-three.  I believe the ECAC's
Division III playoff series are the two-game format as well (with a minigame
if necessary).
 
Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86
LET'S GO RED!!
 
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