Even though I know it is against the general principles to refer to that other winter sport (the orange ball one), I can think of an analogy to the Thursday game the WCHA is going to add. When the Big East had nine members in the their conference, the had a single preliminary game with the 8 and 9 teams on the first evening of play, then the winner played the last game the next night against the #1 team. This structure existed until Miami joined the conference to give them two first round games (10vs7 and 9vs8). It will be interesting to compare the effect of format of the two 10-team post season tournements next March, to see if either favors an upset. I would say, however, that by putting UAA as #10, the #2 seed in the WCHA looks a whole lot nicer than #1, but #1 will have that Cup that Carol and Pam have written about, (and I imagine most of the teams would not mind that trade). (See even us easterners can talk about general college hockey. Although judging from that sentence and the one in Bill's last post, we need some help with grammer). William Sangrey Cornell '87 & '9? Let's Go RED!!!