John Edwards writes: >This brings up another question, in my mind. If the intent of the >"last-20" comparison is to reward teams playing well toward the end of >the season, would it not make more sense to talk about "Last 10" or "Last >15"? >20 games is, at this point, about half the season for most teams. It's >actually more than half for the Ivies. Going back 20 games brings us >either to the Christmas tournaments, or sometime in January. That seems >to me too far back to get an adequate idea of how a team is doing toward >the end of the season. The NCAA is considering modifying the "last 20" criterion for just that reason. See <http://www.ncaa.org/news/19970804/active/3429n11.html>. 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.