Greenie wrote:
 
> Maybe it's just me, but being the #1 East seed didn't do BU much good when
> it came to it's position in the brackets. Yeah, I know "it really doesn't
> matter who you play at this time of year, you'd have to beat them anyway"
> but really -- it seems to me that playing the Wisconsin or UNH is a much
> tougher route than winning the Clarkson-Colorado College victor.
 
That's how it may seem, but by the numbers Clarkson ranks higher than either
UNH or Wisconsin in PWR and wins the individual comparisons with both teams.
This was an answer people gave me when I complained about similar things to me,
so I'll pass it along, and this even makes sense.
 
J. Michael Neal
 
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