Alan, your opinion makes a good point. How would you include those wins in a formula to determine "the best" team? The best regular season teams almost always get a first round bye (which may or may not be an advantage I suppose). ---------- From: Alan Harder[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 1997 9:33 AM To: Tuschen, Terry Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: "Best Team" On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Tuschen, Terry wrote: >Minnesota teams. You can win 30 or 35 games a year but if you don't >win the final game of the NCAA Hockey season, you are not the >champions Very true. >nor are you the best team. In your opinion. In my opinion, you cannot throw out the entire regular season when determining the best team. Just forget the other 30+ games? Hardly. -Alan HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.