On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Joseph LaCour wrote:

> With Minnesota winning the WCHA, let's see what happens.  I've tried
> a 5-3-1 and a 3-2-1 bonus points and it did not change the seedings,
> nor did the MAAC champion matter.

> Here are the bands:
> 1st seeds:  Cornell, CC, Minnesota, UNH
> 2nd seeds:  BU, Maine, Ferris State, BC
> 3rd seeds:  Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio State, Harvard
> 4th seeds:  Mankato, St. Cloud, MAAC, Wayne State

One subtlety could arise.  If the bonus points are enough to give
St. Cloud the comparison with Mankato, the teams around the 12/13
cutoff (dividing 3 seeds from 4 seeds) are

    _Team_     PWR   Direct Comparisons
11. Ohio State  17     Harvard
12. Harvard     16     SCSU
    SCSU        16     OSU

Now, the reason OSU is ahead of the other two in the PWR is that
Harvard loses a comparison to Northern Michigan and St. Cloud loses
one to Dartmouth.  But if the committee only goes by comparisons among
tournament teams in assigning the bands (which is certainly in the
spirit of what's been done in the past, looking at individual
comparisons), this is a three-way tie for the last two 3-seeds.  The
order by RPI is Harvard > SCSU > OSU, which would give OSU the 4 seed.

This would also help the committee reward the top two teams in the
pairwise by pairing Cornell with Wayne State, CC with the MAAC
champion, Minnesota with OSU, and UNH with Mankato.

I think that's the big question mark, seeding-wise.

                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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