Brian Morris wrote: > But I don't need to bash the West for their policies, I > think the tourney composition has already done that. Well, I don't know about that. True, the WCHA will likely have only two teams in the NCAA Tournament this year, but I don't think it was because of the WCHA policy regarding so many conference games. I think it was because Denver, almost considered a lock in January, finished their season going 2-8-1. With a record like that, it hardly matters if you play those games in or out of conference. Last year, four WCHA teams made the tournament, and they still had the same number of conference games. The year before that, two, and the year before that, four. Other than an intriguing pattern that seems to emerge, I see no immediately obvious ill effects from the fact that the WCHA plays at most four non-conference games, at least come tournament time. -Lee-nerd [log in to unmask] "It is not written in the stars that I will always understand what is going on - a truism that I often find damnably annoying." -Robert Heinlein HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.