>Is there any chance the NCAA will decided to abandon a couple of the >bracketology rules in order to keep teams from traveling all over the >country given the current elevation in terrorist threat and a war on? >Maybe a 1st round conference matchup is a better alternative to sending >a team from the east out west or vice versa. The NCAA has apparently not chosen to do that for squeak-ball, so I doubt it will change for hockey (and I personally hope it will not change). Baseball did it pretty well, I think, by cancelling their Japan trip, but having no other affect on the season. Maybe ME-Hockey is not the place to discuss this, but does anyone really think it's more unsafe in a plane over the US this week, than in an auto? Baghdad is probably not a good place for the Frozen Four next month, though. cheers, wayne