Bracketology, '07 edition

[Will]

[quote ftyuv][quote RichH]Congrats to the Knights and the Saints.  Let's Go North Country!![/quote]
I know we're supposed to fall back on conference loyalty and all that, but why'd it have to be the North Country?  I think I'd even rather P-ton make it, and their license plate has a turd on it.  *grumble*[/quote]

It was bound to happen sooner or later, as Clarkson and St. Lawrence have both been historically strong programs who have suffered a few weak seasons lately, until now.  Princeton, on the other hand, has never been all that committed to hockey as far as I can tell (if I'm counting correctly, they've had a grand total of one NCAA appearance and five winning seasons since the ECAC was formed).  From all appearances, Princeton is really just a step or two above Union.  Maybe that's changing with Gadowsky behind the bench; we'll just have to wait and see.  Until then, though, I want to see ECAC programs seriously committed to hockey succeeding (except at Cornell's expense), and that includes Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote CAAB]I'm with you (!) on the obvious discrimination that the NCAA selection committees have AGAINST Cornell staying in the East. Yes... isn't it amazing that SLU, third in the ECACHL tourney no less gets to stay in the East, and Cornell, had to toe the road twice before in the midwest, even though we did better. When we did get to play the quarter games in the east (NH & BC), at least we were 1 - 1 and made it to the frozen four once of the two.[/quote]

[jkahn]

There's been some discussion here and elsewhere that the committee went strictly by the numbers in 2005 and 2006, but that isn't true for 2005.  CC was #2 in PWR and Denver #3.  However they made Denver #2 overall seed, yet sent them east.  Then CC, as the #3, went to Grand Rapids.  
Regardless of the CC-Denver flipping, normally #2 would've gone to Grand Rapids.  However, conveniently having #3 there also allowed for placing #6 Michigan in Grand Rapids, instead of shipping them east vs. #3.
Also, #5 Cornell played #10 Ohio State.  It would've been impossible to place us in a 4-5-12 region, as #4 Minn. and #12 BU were both hosts, but a 5-11 matchup (would've been Wisconsin) was possible, but Wisconsin went to Grand Rapids in a 6-11 matchup, thus leaving a 7-12 matchup in BU's region.
Prior to the placement of teams, there was some speculation that the committee could simply flip the 5-12 matchup east in the region with #3 and have the 6-11 matchup go to Minnesota.  While the committee didn't violate the sanctity of the 4-5 matchup, they did use some creativity of their own.

[French Rage]

The funniest part is WCHA people pissed because
a) SCSU had to go east
b) multiple WCHA teams were placed in the same bracket

Now, with 3 teams and 2 western regionals, I think we can see the logical problem here.

[ebilmes]

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