>> Here are the NCAA Tournament Seedings, from HOCKEY-L. Sorry, no >> Maine. :-( Maine made such a terrific run, but because Princeton won >> the ECAC Tournament Maine did not get an at-large bid. > >If it came down to a choice between Maine and UNH ; Maine was obviously the >stronger team down the stretch. Sometimes it's hard to figure the reasoning >behind the selections. Is Maine still being "punished" for their past >infractions? Oh come on! You've gotta get out more. :-) The NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament selection is done by formula based 100% on performance. Argue with the formula, if you'd like, but the selections have nothing to do with politics or smoke-filled rooms (unlike NCAA basketball which is more-or-less based on a formula). There are a number of good sources of information on how the selections are made. US College Hockey Online has a short description at http://www.uscollegehockey.com/news/1998/01/26_pwr.html John Whelan has an excellent discussion of this at http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?pairwise I can especially recommend the recent article by Adam Wodon on the subject, now available at http://www.uscollegehockey.com/tournament/032097.html The March archives of Hockey-L also have significant discussion of the tournament selection and seedings. Deron may have had too good a time cheering on our favorite Black Bears last weekend, because as DaveH pointed out, at least 3 teams were ahead of Maine at the end. Now if Maine had only scored the third goal of their last game, *everything* would have been different! :-) > Can't wait til October. With the exception of the Final4 and a few months of warm weather ... ME TOO! :-) Cheers to our hockey bears that have again made us proud, wayne Wayne T. Smith [log in to unmask] Old Town Landing Co-owner of the College Hockey lists - Hockey-L/Info-Hockey-L/Hockey3