I've come up with nearly the same thing.

MW (Mad): 1-Michigan, 8-SCSU, 12-Wisc, 16-AF
E (Alb): 2-Miami, 7-BC, 9-MSU, 15-Niagara
W (CS):  3-NoDak, 5-CC, 10-Clarkson, 14-Princeton
NE (Wor): 4-UNH, 6-Denver, 11-Minn, 13-Notre Dame

#1 line: For both CCHA schools, Madison is closer than Albany, so
Michigan goes to Madison, Miami to Albany. That leaves UND in
Colorado, and UNH at Worcester.

#2 line: CC (#5) has to go to their own regional. Denver gets the tie
with BC, based on RPI, but I wonder if attendance might not push BC
into the Worcester regional.

#3 line: Wisconsin (#12) has to go to their own regional. Rather than
switching Michigan State & Wisconsin, I just assumed that Wisconsin
would be placed first, and then the other #3s would essentially be
"bumped" one down. That leaves one intraconference matchup
(SCSU-Wisconsin), and it actually works out not too badly, since if
one #2 seed is going to be stuck playing a road game, it better that
it's the lowest. The other possible change I could see is dropping
Clarkson into the Albany regional, instead of Michigan State. That
would restore the 7-10 matchup and help that regional's attendance,
given that their only eastern team right now would be BC.

#4 line: No switches here on my bracket. However, I could see the
Committee switching Princeton and Notre Dame. That would put Princeton
on a bus, rather than a plane (Princeton to Worcester is 226 miles),
and might help Worcester's attendance. I would be surprised to see it,
though.

John

On 23/03/2008, David Parter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I just read Adam and Mike's bracket guess on collegehockeynews.com, and
>  I don't see how it gets so complicated. Maybe it is, but maybe it
>  isn't. They came very close to what I came up with, but I didn't have to
>  twist and contort as much:
>
>  First, I just setup the "natural" brackets, without assigning sites:
>
>  (same as Charlie had, of course):
>
> > mich, st cloud, msu, AF
>  > mia, denv, clarkson, niagara
>  > und, bc, minnesota, princeton
>  > unh, cc *, wisc*, notre dame
>
>
> Then, I looked at two factors: where the #1 seeds go and where the host
>  schools have to go. I did these at the same time...
>
>  the "michigan" bracket goes to Madison
>  the bracket with "cc" in it goes to Colorado Springs
>
>  swap msu (9) with wisconsin (12) -- same band, but makes changes the
>  "natural" order of the first-round matchups.
>
>  swap unh(4) and und(3) since und "should" to to Colorado Springs:
>
>  madison   - mich st cloud, wisc, af     (1, 8, 12, 16)
>  albany    - mia, denver, clark, niagara (2, 7, 19, 15)
>  cc        - und, cc, msu, nd            (3, 5, 9, 13)
>  worcester - nh, bc, minn, prin          (4, 6, 11, 14)
>
>  first round league matchups? st cloud/wisc is the only one, and the
>  WCHA, as everyone has noted, has to have at least one.
>
>  potential second round matchups? und/cc and nh/bc. if you want to avoid
>  them, then you have to ship nh to Colorado, which doesn't seem like a
>  good idea.
>
>  we'll know in less than 24 hours...
>
>
>       --david

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