At 9:33 AM -0500 2/6/97, Bill Fenwick wrote:
> There is one other possibility, and it's really stupid and I hope HE doesn't
> do
> this... but perhaps when they say "won-loss record vs HE teams" they mean in
> ALL
> games, not just conference ones.
 
No, Ed confirmed that only conference games are considered.
 
> Obviously, Providence gets seeded lower than BU and Lowell based on
> head-to-head
> record, but BU and Lowell are still tied.  Then what?  Do we move on to the
> next
> tiebreaker and award the highest seed to Lowell based on league wins (14 to
> 13),
> or do we start all over and give BU the highest seed based on their 2-1
>record
> against Lowell?  Under ECAC rules, we would start over, in order to avoid
> giving
> Lowell a higher seed in a three-way tie than they would get had there been
> only
> a tie between two teams.
 
HE would also go back to the first two-team tiebreaker once you get down to
two teams, to break that two-team tie.
 
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