Charlie Shub comes up with the following brackets: >> New Hampshire cornell >> Denver Miami >> Clarkson North Dakota >> BU Michigan >> vermont Minnesota >> colorado Michigan State J. Michael Neal replies: >I don't think that this is the format that the NCAA will come up with, >but if it is, I would very strongly object as a Gopher fan. Minnesota >finished far ahead of Miami in the PWR rankings (4th vs. 10th). How about sending them to the East regional, as in my "plan D"? I think Charlie's setup is "better" than mine, but the NC$$ will probably avoid shuffling seeds, for reasons you indicate. >If the NCAA puts that high a priority on avoiding >conference match-ups, then something is wrong. Ordinarily, I'd agree, but having rematches of two conference championship games, each set up by the #3 seed in the region beating the #6 seed, is pretty distasteful. John Whelan, Cornell '91 <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jtw16960/jshock.html> Cornell Men's Ice Hockey: Back-to-back ECAC and Ivy League Champions HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.