To answer John Hughes' question regarding why the NCAA hockey tournament only has 12 teams... It has to do with the NCAA wanting to keep its national tournaments to a particular ratio, i.e., number of teams in the tournament vs. number of teams competting in that sport. If I remember correctly, the NCAA's desired ratio is considerably higher for basketball than it is for hockey, which happens to be approximately 1 in every four teams. Justin Doherty, Northern Michigan