Karen/Greg Ambrose wrote:
 
> I've never understood how schools in the eastern time zone (UM, Ohio St.,
> MSU) can be considered western.  Must be going to the NFL school of logic
> where the Arizona Cardinals are an eastern division team and the Atlanta
> Falcons are a western division team.
 
Pretty easy, really, at least for me, considering my background.  The CCHA has Big
10 teams in it, so I will always consider them kin.  Andas to giving them the
label "West", ask the NCAA; they are, after all, the ones that have put the West
Regional in Ann Arbor.  If you'd rather call it the Midwest-Mountain region, be my
guest.  Regardless of terminology, the WCHA and CCHA are linked as one region as
tightly as the ECAC and Hockey East.
 
J. Michael Neal
 
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