Nathan Boyle writes... >The tourney concept proved to unworkable, and instead BG will play two >additional games against Ohio State twice, and will have a single game >against Colgate at the BGSU Ice Arena. Two additional games twice? I hope this doesn't mean that BGSU is playing OSU in *four* non-conference games. It's sad to see CCHA teams having to schedule one another to fill their NC schedule, period, but I'm sure that BGSU-OSU will not be the only example of this by the time the schedules are set. And, as Chris Morgan mentioned, playing two NC games (1-1-0) versus the Buckeyes didn't help BGSU's cause in 1994-95. If I recall correctly, it wasn't the loss that hurt the Falcons, it was simply the games. Change the loss to a win and BGSU still wouldn't have gone to the NCAA tourney. Remove the two games from the schedule and they would have. Of course, hindsight is 20-20 (often 20-10) and this wasn't the only factor keeping BGSU out that year. Fwiw...at last look, Michigan still has three available games on their schedule. It would be nice to identify a pair of teams from the ECAC-HEA that are playing a single NC game and see if they'd be willing to give up that game in favor of each playing UM (insert any CCHA team for that matter). This wouldn't change the number of games played for either the ECAC or HEA team, but would add two for the CCHA team. Of course, *where* to play (RE: $$$$) is probably a big issue. If I'm RPI, I probably have no incentive to give up a home game versus Merrimack to travel to Ann Arbor for a single contest. Likewise, I assume it makes more financial sense for Michigan to play a couple of NC games versus CCHA teams (possibly at home) rather than travel to RPI and Merrimack. Oh well. I'm just looking forward to the schedule being completed. John H ([log in to unmask]) HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.