----------------------------- Begin Original Text ----------------------------- How many more people would have watched the "game-of-the century" between Maine and Michigan last year if it was not up against a Final Four b-ball game? Getting more people to see games like that one is the easiest way to grow the sport. ----------------------------- End Original Text ----------------------------- The Maine-Michigan game was on Thursday; none of the basketball was until Saturday. The game had enough trouble competing with golf, which won't go away by moving it a week. I'm just going to keep repeating this: for a variety of reasons, college hockey isn't very likely to go "Big Time" in the near future, and I don't really consider this to be a bad thing. J. Michael Jackson HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.