presuming no ties in the 3 consolation games, there are 256 scenarios for tomorrow's games. I have a shell script that generates the PWR statistics for each scenario, and then counts how many times a team finishes in different positions. That table is reproduced below. There are at least 3 teams (ECAC champ, Atlantic Hockey Champ and Niagara) that are not high in the PWRs who will get automatic bids. Umass will get an automatic bid if they win Hockey East tomorrow. Unfortunately, I can't tell you how many of those 128 scenarios have each of three bubble teams finishing 13th team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- North Dakota 256 Boston College 256 Maine 256 Minnesota 256 Minnesota-Duluth 256 Michigan 144 48 64 Denver 48 144 64 Ohio State 64 64 48 16 64 Wisconsin 88 44 32 92 Miami 36 42 122 40 16 New Hampshire 4 122 86 44 Michigan State 80 176 Notre Dame 134 102 20 Colorado College 86 134 36 Colgate 36 12 112 46 /"\ ASCII Ribbon charlie shub \ / Campaign Against University of Colorado at Colorado Springs X HTML in e-mail [log in to unmask] (719) 262-3492 / \ and news http://cs.uccs.edu/~cdash (fax) 262-3369