On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Michael Neal wrote:

> It looks like the primacy of avoiding intra-conference matchups is
> done.  CC is in the North Dakota bracket.

It's not a complete surprise that they didn't work to avoid
second-round intraconference games.  My attention was drawn last week
to the championships manual on the web at
http://www.ncaa.org/library/handbooks/2001_ice_hockey.pdf

There I noticed that first-round intraconference matchups are to be
avoided, but no mention is made of second-round ones.  (Of course, my
impression was that this was never in the championships manual, but
was done anyway.)

Now, what I don't understand is why CC was sent East instead of
Wisconsin and Providence went West instead of SLU.  I guess the former
can be attributed to attendance, but the latter clearly wasn't to
avoid a second-round HE game, since one of those is possible anyway.

BTW, Mike, shouldn't you be annoyed that the NCAA has made another
unpublicized policy change?
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