With UNH being knocked out by PC last night, some have raised the question of whether that would affect UNH's seeding for the NC$$s. I added in the following results to see what happens to Clarkson and UNH: * Clarkson sweep of Cornell * Brown sweep of Princeton * Vermont sweep of Colgate * Clarkson semi win over Vermont * Brown semi win over Harvard * Clarkson final win over Brown That would be semi and final matchups with the two other ECAC teams with the highest Win%'s, so as to help Clarkson the most by playing them. UNH still has an edge, but it is just under .01 - yet, still large enough that I do not believe the results of any other games could enable Clarkson to finish ahead of UNH in the RPI. So Clarkson's only hope would be to finish within .01 of UNH as I mentioned and force the comparison with other factors. UNH starts out with a +3: +2 for head-to-head, and +1 for the RPI. That leaves three other factors: Last20, CommonOpp, and TUC (record vs teams under consideration). I have not bothered to do the last 3 yet. BUT... Even if Clarkson won all three, giving us a tie in the comparison, the tiebreaker is the RPI. And as I said, I am fairly certain (without doing a more extensive investigation) that there is no way Clarkson will finish ahead of UNH in the RPI. So no, it appears that Clarkson can do nothing to catch UNH for what would be the third seed in the East. Remember that this is IF the committee does follow the same procedure they have followed the last couple of years. Somehow I will not be surprised if they throw a new wrinkle that we do not expect into things. It always seems to happen. (Last year, it was keeping the regional hosts at home.) --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93