The Playoff Scoreboard

[robertearle]

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Syracuse is enjoying a good second period and has turned a 1-1 tie into a 5-1 lead over Robert Morris o.O

So now we get to start fretting about whether the NCAA would send the #28th ranked team somewhere other than the #1 seed, because of "travel" (which would just be SO very wrong).

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

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So a team that is 13-21-3 has made the tournament...That may not be the only surprise we see this weekend.

They did score two goals against Wisconsin in their earlier series...

[robertearle]

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They did score two goals against Wisconsin in their earlier series...

One of them against one of the backup goalies (Breanna Blesi).

[vicb]

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So a team that is 13-21-3 has made the tournament...That may not be the only surprise we see this weekend.

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Are you thinkin BC in or out?
And remember that Flanagan needs to go at the cuse after the season ends.

[robertearle]

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So a team that is 13-21-3 has made the tournament...

Including a non-conference record (unless I missed something) of 0-13-1 (!!)

[joecct]

Including a non-conference record (unless I missed something) of 0-13-1 (!!)

Close to that of BC men!

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

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Are you thinkin BC in or out?

Considering that I should avoid thinking...I get the feeling that bc wins their conference tournament, so in. What I don't know is if that feeling is coming from some bad garlic shrimp I ate for dinner?

Oh and I should ask you if the 3 yups you posted in the bc thread represent Clarkson's 3 national titles?

[vicb]

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Oh and I should ask you if the 3 yups you posted in the bc thread represent Clarkson's 3 national titles?

Yup Yup Yup Yup

[TonyTheTiger20]

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So now we get to start fretting about whether the NCAA would send the #28th ranked team somewhere other than the #1 seed, because of "travel" (which would just be SO very wrong).

Haha I don't think we have to worry about this this year. Worst case I can see is if, like, Duluth makes the tournament and Minnesota wins the WCHA, they would send Duluth to #1 Minnesota and Syracuse to #2 Wisconsin. But outside of that, the two eastern teams in 3rd and 4th are going to have two eastern teams to pair up with somewhere from 5 through 7, so there won't be a travel benefit to keeping Cuse out east.

Close to that of BC men!

TOO LATE I already made this self-own of a joke on Twitter

[dd17]

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Including a non-conference record (unless I missed something) of 0-13-1 (!!)

They are one weak team. When's the last time they won a game out of conference?

Hate to say it but a CHA team getting an auto-bit really dampens the integrity of the game.

From a Minnesota/Wisconsin standpoint, one can punch a ticket to frozen 4. Makes winning the WCHA that much more important.

[robertearle]

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Haha I don't think we have to worry about this this year. Worst case I can see is if, like, Duluth makes the tournament and Minnesota wins the WCHA, they would send Duluth to #1 Minnesota and Syracuse to #2 Wisconsin.

Duluth is also "driving distance" to Madison (though certainly farther than to Minneapolis), so in that case Wisconsin would likely host Duluth.

[TonyTheTiger20]

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Duluth is also "driving distance" to Madison (though certainly farther than to Minneapolis), so in that case Wisconsin would likely host Duluth.

You are correct! I forget what rando WCHA team I was thinking of that was driving distance to UM but not UW (or maybe I made that up in my head!). But yeah doesn't matter in this case so nevermind lol

[TonyTheTiger20]

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Also I put "Duluth makes the tournament and Minnesota wins the WCHA" but just meant that Minnesota finished above Wisconsin obviously. I'm a mess, guys. lol

[robertearle]

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You are correct! I forget what rando WCHA team I was thinking of that was driving distance to UM but not UW (or maybe I made that up in my head!). But yeah doesn't matter in this case so nevermind lol

Maybe Bemidji. North Dakota would certainly have fit that description

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So, does actual proximity ever 'win' over bracket integrity? For instance, will Northeastern get BC or BU in the NCAAs more-or-less regardless of seeding position? Because Syracuse to Ithaca, for example. is a pretty short drive...

[TonyTheTiger20]

So, does actual proximity ever 'win' over bracket integrity? For instance, will Northeastern get BC or BU in the NCAAs more-or-less regardless of seeding position? Because Syracuse to Ithaca, for example. is a pretty short drive...

It did a few years ago when the committee sent NU to BC instead of Princeton. But it's a different committee, different committee chair, and different NCAA oversight person. So who knows. If anything, BC to NU would be in play if 5 and 6 are close (which they probably will be), but even that doesn't mean much if the committee doesn't want to do that.

There's *no* chance that Cuse is going to Clarkson though. Even a few years ago it was done by justifying that Princeton was better than NU, not because of money (even if that was the case). There's 0 chance the committee would send the 8 to the 4 when it's the same number of flights to just send them west and send BC or Cornell to southern Canada.