>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