>with all the talk of so many teams from Hockey East making the NCAA tourney >this year, does anyone know how the other bids work. For example, the winner >of the hockey east tourney at the end of the season has traditonally always >been given a bid, what are the other tournaments or conferences that will >have automatic bids available to them this year? For a different perspective on selection and seeding, please see John Whelan's excellent web site ... http://www.slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/ (especially the "NCAA Features" section). cheers, wayne