> Only 8 teams are in the CCHA tournament; the 9th, 10th and 11th team >miss the tournament - see my "Standings" post. *This* year. But last year, when UAF was only an associate member, they went to the playoffs, along with the 10 full members of the league, hence 11. > The ECAC already allows >all 12 teams in the ECAC tournament Nope. Only the top ten go; Dartmouth and Yale stayed home last year. I suppose a 13-team tournament isn't out of the question; the current format could be modified so that only the top three teams placed out of the preliminary game the Tuesday between the end of the season and the quarterfinal series. But I'd assume it would be the biggest conference tournament in the history of Division I College Hockey. John Whelan Cornell '91 <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/john_whelan/jphock.html> HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.