>From: Karen/Greg Ambrose <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      Re: NCAA Seedings
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Greenie writes:
>>
>
>I've come to the conclusion that there are only 3 criteria when the
>committee selects the at-large teams and then slots them - the PWR, the
>desire to avoid, if posssible inter-conference matchups and, last but not
>least, the attendance factor.  In a comparison of UNH vs. Yale, UNH won on
>2 of the criteria - PWR and potential attendance.  Why this second factor
>is not acknowledged more on the list is beyond me, since the governing body
>is, after all, referred to as the NC$$.
>
>Greg Ambrose
>
 
Congratulations, Greg, you answered your own earlier question about
Bertagna.  The simple fact that this weekend proved that you could stack
the committee with your family, your team mascot, the head of your Friends
program, and, despite all that,to paraphrase Warner Wolf:  If you are a
college hockey team, and your power ranking is 13th, YOU LOSE !
 
It's all by the numbers, so monkeys could be on the selection committee.
 
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