A question on the "semi-automatic" bids given to the regular-season champs: if a conference has two teams tied for first place at the end of the season, do they both get bids? There have been situations in the past where a league has had co-champions -- in 1995, Maine and BU finished tied atop Hockey East, and last year, Michigan and Lake Superior both were first in the CCHA. The thing is, in both cases, one of the co-champs won the conference tournament and got that automatic bid... and in either case, if that hadn't happened, whichever co-champ didn't get the regular-season-champ bid would have been high enough in the selection committee's rankings to get an at-large bid anyway. But what if a conference has co-champs, neither of whom wins the conference tourney, and at least one of whom would not get an at-large bid otherwise? I know the idea behind the "Colorado College rule" was to make sure a team that wins a regular-season title isn't kept out of the NCAAs, but does this apply to co-champs as well? Do they both get "semi-automatic" bids? Or would the committee give the bid to whichever co-champ had the higher conference playoff seeding based on the tiebreakers? Or whichever one *wasn't* going to get an at-large bid? Or what? -- Disclaimer -- Unless otherwise noted, all opinions expressed above are strictly those of: Bill Fenwick Cornell '86 and '95 LET'S GO RED!! DJF 5/27/94 "I believe Marcel Marceau said it best." -- Madeline Kahn, "Cosby" HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.