Classification: Prologue: Dan Olsen IBM Global Services Client Services Representative East Fishkill, NY / Building 504 2J5-21 Ph: 8-532-5259 / (914) 892-5259 FAX: 8-532-7588 / (914 )892-7588 Mail: IBMUSM00(DOLSEN) or [log in to unmask] Epilogue: Regards, Dan Olsen The bids will be interesting this year. We really can't speculate as to how many bids each conference may receive until after the conference tournaments though. If there is an upset in the conference tournaments, room would have to be made for that team. If Clarkson, Princeton, or Cornell were to edge out Vermont to win the regular season with the Cats finishing second with a good late season run and some other team won the conference tournament with the Cats finishing second, there is little doubt that Vermont would get a bid. However, if the ECAC continues to mush together and the same team wins both the regular season and the tournament, we may very likely see only two teams from each eastern conference. owner-hockey-l @ MAINE.MAINE.EDU 01-13-97 01:58 PM Please respond to [log in to unmask]@internet To: HOCKEY-L @ MAINE.maine.edu@internet cc: Subject: Re: Exciting Hockey -Reply On Jan 13, 10:59, Joe LaCour wrote: >Fellow alumnus Dan made some interesting points. Could >this year be the year that the ECAC gets more NC$$ bids >than Hockey East? If so, it wouldn't be the first time, though it's only happened once before. In 1993, Hockey East had two teams in the NCAAs (Maine and BU), while the ECAC had three (Harvard, Clarkson, and Brown). The caveat is, Maine and BU were the #1 and #2 seeds, while the ECAC teams were seeds 3 through 5. >Speaking of how the selection cmtte. makes their selection. > Does conference vs conference come into play or does it >just apply to the teams under consideration? Just the teams. Overall conference performance relative to other conferences is not a selection criteria (though one could argue that it shows up indirectly in the opponents' and opponents' opponents' winning percentages used to calculate the RPI). >Side thought - of all the games Prime COULD have made >Game of the Week, why did they pick UMich vs UAF? I >turned the darn thing off after 1 pd Hmph... at least you had the opportunity to turn a televised college hockey game off :-( -- Bill Fenwick Email: [log in to unmask] Digicomp Research Voice: (607) 273-5900 ext 32 HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.