If I seed strictly by the numbers, I get
1 Denver
bye
8 cornell
9 michigan
5 BU
12 mercyhurst
bye
4 Minnesota
2 St Cloud
bye
7 Mich State
10 maine
6 CC
11 lowell
bye
3 New Hampshire
it sends cornell and maine west and minnesota and CC east
and the only matchup at the regionals would be lowell vs unh and that
only if lowell upsets CC
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:56:57 -0600
> From: John T Whelan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: If the Season Ended Today
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I've posted another "If The Season Ended Today" analysis on The Big
> Red What?, indexed under http://slack.net/hockey/ (direct link
> http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?pairwise.020212 ). To cut to
> the punchline, here were the brackets I came up with:
>
> 5W Mass-Lowell (H) 6E Cornell (E)
> 4W Michigan (C) 3E Boston Univ (H)
> 1W Denver U (W) --+--2E Minnesota (W)
> |
> 2W St Cloud (W) --+--1E New Hampshire (H)
> 3W Mich State (C) 4E CO College (W)
> 6W Mercyhurst (M) 5E Maine (H)
>
> Minnesota goes East so they'll be bracketed to play Denver in the
> national semifinal. Lowell goes West to avoid a first-round game with
> Maine or BU. Mercyhurst and CC also get switched because Eire to Ann
> Arbor is a shorter drive than Eire to Worcester, and CC would have to
> fly to either site. So I think the brackets look the same whether or
> not the NCAA tries to reduce travel.
> John Whelan, Cornell '91
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> Enjoy the latest Hockey Geek tools at slack.net/hockey
>
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