Adam Wodon says >But if BC wins the tournament, I see no way they WON'T get a bye -- I >haven't crunched PWR numbers today - I rarely do -- but intuition, >memory and logic tell me it's true. I'm not sure how that logic works; Clarkson wins the comparison with BC right now, so naively one would expect that to remain the same if both teams go 2-0 and win their conference tournaments. The comparison is very close and I think it hinges on the "last 20" criterion, so someone with more time than I should look closely at this comparison and see what the essential factors are in swinging it one way or the other. I do know that in at least one set of outcomes where they go 2-0 Clarkson gets the bye, while in another instance where Clarkson goes 1-1 and BC goes 0-1, BC wins the comparison. If I had to guess, I'd say that if BC wins the Hockey East tournament and someone other than Clarkson or Yale wins the ECACs, BC gets the bye. But like I said, someone should put the Clarkson-BC comparison under a microscpe. And remember that Harvard becomes a TUC if they win their conference tournament, as does Merrimack. :-) John Whelan, Cornell '91 <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jtw16960/joe.html> Learn about the NCAA selection process on the web at http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?pairwise HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.