Lynn Burke (thanks for the AP lists, BTW) wrote: >After posting the tournament pairings, I received an e-mail >asking about the ECAC listing for 3-point series in the first round and >how that differs from the other conferences, who are listed for best of 3. >Can someone elaborate because I couldn't provide the answer. Thanks. In the CCHA and WCHA, the first-round series are best-of-three, with all three games being played to sudden-death OT, if necessary. Therefore, each game has a winner and a loser. In the ECAC, the first two (scheduled) games are played as normal regular season games are, with a five-minute OT period (this just changed this year, there used to be no OT) and can end in a tie. The teams are awarded 2 points for a win and 1 point each for a tie. The third game is played only if both teams have two points after the first two games (e.g. they tie both games or each team wins one). So, in a sense, the first team to get three points in the series wins. (The third game is sudden-death.) G. M. Finniss Michigan State University 17-7-3, 22-10-3 WVU '87, UTenn '92, MSU who the hell knows when?