Hiya folks. Once upon a time, I was a 22 year old, first year graduate student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, who had never seen a hockey game in his life. Convinced by a friend, I purchased season tickets for the Gophers, and slowly got into the thick of things. In fact, I became an avid fan. Anyway, early that season, I told my friend that Minnesota would meet Harvard in the NCAA final (I had just come from Columbia, and I *hated* Harvard). As fate would have it, my prediction was correct, although the outcome was not to my liking. I would like to offer my prediction for this year - I don't understand all of the tourney seed/bracket junk, so it may be an impossibility, but anyway, here it is - just two teams, no scores, no winner. MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS VS. MAINE BLACK BEARS I *HATE* Maine! :-) Martin Isaac Lewison [log in to unmask] "I root for MINNESOTA, and whoever is playing *WISCONSIN*" MINNESOTA - 1992 WCHA CHAMPIONS - HOCKEY MADE IN THE USA