Scores 3/5 (Sat.)

negative RPI is removed in the playoffs so no, it is all dependent on how others teams do.

Right now, we have dropped down to number 6 in the PWR. Michigan's win jumped them over Minnesota and us into 4. Even thought the rest of the games are not in yet, I am pretty confident that we are going to stay in this position. We are still in the #2 band, and at 6 we are more likely to be out east then 5. For a number one seed, we will need to win out, and get lucky. So number 2 seed is what I am rooting for, and hopefully then we get a good draw.

Edit: This was done with 3-2-1 bonus, else we are 5, since Miami(OH) is right on the bubble of being a TUC.

It works out pretty the same with bonsuses of 0/0/0, 3/2/1, or 5/3/1

The best new is that Minn trails Mich by 2 comparisons - mainly Minn vs. Mich and Minn vs. BU - both of which Minn loses. So Minn would have to take both those comparisons back to be a #1. And even if they did, which with their sucky play is less than like, we would still have to take the Mich (or another) one back to get stuck in Minnesota.

So we're in fairly good position now to end up east, but lets give it another week before I/we start trying to rattle off all the possibilities

Also cool news: with 0/0/0 and 3/2/1 bonus, we end up in a likely regional of BC/Cornell/BU/NMU in Worcester (not sure if swaps for other regions would change this at all, just did our regions)

And while playing Yale couldn't hurt our RPI, it would keep it the same, while beating another team would raise it.

However, I'm more concerned at this point about Dartmouth - I'd love to see 3 ECAC teams there - and they are twelfth at the moment. Sure, I'd take Yale, but if they can beat Dartmouth, they're on a role. I'm not too much more thrilled about a hot Yale vs. a tired Union/Clarkson. We better be able to beat any of them if all this caring about NCAA seeding means anything.

Never mind 3 ECAC teams (not since 1998), but it's never happened that three Ivy League teams made the NCAAs in the same season. Root for Dartmouth.

[Q]adamw Wrote: Never mind 3 ECAC teams (not since 1998), but it's never happened that three Ivy League teams made the NCAAs in the same season. Root for Dartmouth.[/q]Disagree ,I'm rooting, or routing, for Yale and CLK. I'd like nothing better, well maybe something better ,than to beat that great Coach Taylor and have CLK rough up you know who.

Not that it really matters, but the scores from the top 15 this week:

Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 Colorado College     (12)    25-6-3  556     2          W, L (Denver)
 2 Cornell              (21)    22-4-3  553     2          idle
 3 Denver                (4)    23-8-2  523     1          L, W (Colorado Collge)       
 4 Michigan              (3)    24-7-3  488     4          W, W (Bowling Green)
 5 Boston College               20-6-6  470     5          W, T (Maine)
 6 Wisconsin*                  21-10-3  339     6          T, L (Minnesota-Duluth)
 7 New Hampshire                22-8-4  334     7          T, L (Boston University)
 8 Ohio State                   23-8-3  319     8          W, T (Miami)
 9 Minnesota                   22-12-1  274    12          W, W (Michigan Tech)
10 Boston University           20-11-3  212     9          T, W (New Hampshire)
11 Harvard                      18-8-3  186    11          idle
12 Maine                       18-10-6  171    14          L, T (Boston College)
13 Mass.-Lowell                 19-9-4  117    10          W, L (Merrimack, Providence)
14 Northern Michigan            18-9-7   91    15          W, W (Lake Superior)
15 Dartmouth                   17-10-2   55    NR          W, L, ? (Yale)

* Has won only 1 of its last 9 games.

[Q]Jim Hyla Wrote:

adamw Wrote: Never mind 3 ECAC teams (not since 1998), but it's never happened that three Ivy League teams made the NCAAs in the same season. Root for Dartmouth.[/Q]
Disagree ,I'm rooting, or routing, for Yale and CLK. I'd like nothing better, well maybe something better ,than to beat that great Coach Taylor and have CLK rough up you know who.[/q]

Agreed. Absolutely rooting for Yale. I'd like to get a crappy team come here off a tough weekend. I'd like our guys to have as easy a time as possible and save their energy for the semis. Plus another shutout or two would be nice.