I heard an interesting comment on the roundball selections (which is all you hear out here :-) ... UCLA went to the east regionals even tho they won the Pac-10, and Arizona stayed home (viewed as an advantage) even tho they did not win ... the committee reasoning? Arizona was a much stronger 11-1 out of conference record .... seems to me if the WCHA really believed they were the top conference and wanted 3 or 4 entries in the NCAA frozen four this year ... as they might deserve ... a good way to convince people would be to win a significant number of games against, say, some of the top CCHA teams (close for travel) ... but without that data, I must say it is hard to pick any of the "middle six" for any special consideration. I would think a good solid middle team from another conferecne which had a decent winning out of conf percentage would turn some heads.... just another advantage to increasing out of conf games, IMHO. Tony Buffa RPI '64 HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.