BC snubbed by quirky tourney rule

The NCAA hockey tournament's bracket was revealed Sunday, and one ridiculous rule gave precedent to a No. 4 seed and displaced a pair of No. 1 seeds, including defending national champion Boston College. The 16-team field is comprised of five conference champions and 11 at-large teams, which are determined by an objective mathematical formula, but the brackets are compiled by a selection committee. It's not perfect, and with the smaller field, it can be easy to find faults with the seeding process. But the committee was handcuffed by a senseless rule that screwed over two teams that should have an...