I've seen some discussion about adding Ohio State to the College Hockey Showcase, and possibly creating a five team tournament. Well I would love to see the Big Ten schools find a way to hold some type of tournament, I don't see it happening at all unless there are drastic changes in overall scheduling. The NCAA limits a team to 34 regular season games (games played in Alaska don't count against the limit). The WCHA currently has a 32 game regualar season, and the CCHA uses a 30 game regular season (except for this year since UIC dropped out leaving a 27 game season). Scheduling non-conference games is at a premium. This is one of the reasons why the Showcase is not a tournament. The coaches don't want to be wasting a non-conference game against a conference opponent. If you add Ohio State there are 3 CCHA teams and you end playing teams you see all year. I guess one way around this is to maybe find a way to incorporate league games into a round robin tournament, but that itself would be very tricky. The one way this could work, is if the CCHA and WCHA try some inter-leaugue scheduling where they take one or two weekends and have all CCHA/WCHA matchups. I heard rumors of that idea being discussed, but have not heard any concrete plans. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.