Sorry if the wasted bandwidth annoys anyone but I couldn't resist ---- Mascot- Game- based based Team Mascot 1 1 Maine Black Bears 2 5 Providence Friars 3 9 Mass Amherst Minutemen 4 7 Merrimack Warriors 5 3T Northeastern Huskies 6 6 New Hampshire Wildcats 7 2 Boston University Terriers 8 8 Boston College Eagles 9 3T Mass Lowell River Hawks Clearly Maine is on top using either system, once again proving that a black bear sits anywhere he wants. PC vaulted up in the standings on a league ruling that although friars, minutemen, and warriors were all presumed to be human, all testimony from anyone who had ever seen a friar indicated that they were much larger than other humans. It was rumored that Merrimack might appeal their ranking to the NCAA. However the basis for it according to Hockey East was that the Warriors referred to must be from classical antiquity and not a disparaging reference to native peoples. This would clearly make them smaller than late Eighteenth Century Non-Native People (an apparently acceptable construct.) Inside sources pointed out that when MC heard this they feared that an appeal would result in an unhappy outcome like that suffered by hapless UML which was thrown into 8th due to their change in mascot (coincidentally had they been allowed to keep Chiefs, they would have had the same ranking as from the now-discredited "game-based" scale.) Jackie Parker declined comment, but an unnamed source indicated that BU's world class science departments had been asked to breed a Boston Terrier larger than any conceivable Black Bear. Dave Carroll BU '73 - [log in to unmask]