>A couple years ago there was a thread where we all agreed on which initials >stood for which school. >With MSU already established to refer to Michigan State U., can we pick >something else for Mankato St.? How about MS? This is kind of like working out postal abbreviation for all the states (and provinces) which begin with 'M'. FWIW, Here's the set of two-letter abbreviations I came up with for use in my pairwise comparison tables: Merrimack =>'Mr', Maine =>'Me', 'Mankato State' =>'Mk', 'Mass Amherst' =>'MA', 'Mass Lowell' =>'ML', Miami =>'Mm', Michigan =>'Mi', 'Michigan State' =>'MS', 'Michigan Tech' =>'MT', Minnesota =>'Mn', 'Minnesota-Duluth' =>'MD' 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.