At 3:49 PM -0600 12/4/96, TerryTuschen wrote: > I have an idea: Have the tournament with all 5 Div.1 Big Ten teams, and play > a round robin system, with the Host school get a bye in the opening round. > Rotate hosts schools each year. Play out until you have a winner. That > winner becomes the Big Ten champion for the year too. Giving the host team a bye would probably not fly because they're the prime reason for attendance. If they're off the first night, people may not show up. I also can't see a "5v4" type of game involving OSU and one of the others because who's going to want to play three games in the tourney? Any way I look at it, it doesn't seem possible to add OSU to the tourney without asking one of the others to sit out that year. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** (Part-Time) Color Voice of Merrimack Hockey WCAP 980 AM ***** ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** >>> U.S. College Hockey Online http://www.uscollegehockey.com/ <<< HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.