This has been brought up a few times in the past week, but I don't really agree RPI was totally "snubbed" in the NC$$ tournament in 1990. The final standings of 89-90 bear this out... 1 Colgate 22 18-3-1 37 101-62 || 38 31-6-1 179-119 | 13-3-0 2 RPI 22 14-8-0 28 131-107 || 34 20-14-0 176-151 | 6-6-0 3 Cornell 22 12-7-3 27 86-69 || 29 16-10-3 109-92 | 4-3-0 Clarkson 22 12-7-3 27 91-77 || 35 21-11-3 156-116 | 9-4-0 some important things to note are... - Clarkson was only one point behind RPI (27 vs 28) - The Knights had a 2-0 record vs. RPI and a better non-league record that year. Presumably, before the ECAC tournament, RPI had a 3-5 nonleague record; Clarkson's appears to have been 7-1. - Both teams lost to Colgate in the ECAC tournament, it's just that Clarkson faced them the first night. (Probably irrelevant anyway) - The only reason RPI beat ECAC #1 and #2 on the last weekend is that they were travel partners who happened to be at the Field House for the last week of the season. (And RPI's final 6-5 OT win over Cornell was one helluva game, i'm telling you!) It's not inconceivable that Clarkson swept these two teams at home, also. If you go by those rules of "marginal picks," I, as an Engineer fan, really think that Clarkson deserved the pick over the Engineers. One other thing to note from these stats is how wild RPI games were ... the Engineers had (by far) the most goals "for" and (marginally) the most goals "against" of any team in the ECAC... at an RPI game you'd see an average of about 11 goals scored... whew! :) sorry, Rich, I don't mean to be objecting to everything you say here... it's just the way it looks to me... Cheers, Ross RPI '91 Go go go you red red red!