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D1 Final eight

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Not that I think UNH will be any easier than Minnesota (though if Harvard gets Minnesota and wins, they could just stay there for the week :D ) but I'm rooting for Cornell (well that's sickening to say) so Harvard gets a home game.
 
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Ok, I project

BU @ Mercyhurst
UNH @ Harvard

Cornell @ UMD
Clarkson @ Minnesota

The most uncertain issue is whether UNH/Clarkson are like this or swapped. I suspect I'm right, because it avoids an intraconference matchup, and the teams' RPIs are really close. We'll see what the final PWR looks like.

BU-Mercyhurst and Cornell-UMD to me are the most compelling quarterfinals. You get all 4 conference champions and the nation's hottest four teams in two quarterfinals. But that tends to be the way things go with autobids. I think Cornell in particular is underrated at No. 7, and it's a tough draw for UMD.
 
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dave1381 said:
Ok, I project

BU @ Mercyhurst
UNH @ Harvard

Cornell @ UMD
Clarkson @ Minnesota

The most uncertain issue is whether UNH/Clarkson are like this or swapped. I suspect I'm right, because it avoids an intraconference matchup, and the teams' RPIs are really close. We'll see what the final PWR looks like.

BU-Mercyhurst and Cornell-UMD to me are the most compelling quarterfinals. You get all 4 conference champions and the nation's hottest four teams in two quarterfinals. But that tends to be the way things go with autobids. I think Cornell in particular is underrated at No. 7, and it's a tough draw for UMD.
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I'm guessing that UNH will make the trip to Cambridge. When they picked Dartmouth over Clarkson for the #8 seed in '08, they had an unavoidable intraconference matchup with Harvard who took the #1 seed that year. They can avoid that this year and I believe they will.
 
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Updated ranking on the USCHO site...

Code: 
Rk    Team               PWR    RPI
1     Mercyhurst         18    .6337*
2     Minnesota-Duluth   17    .5864
3     Minnesota          16    .5782
4     Harvard            15    .5664*
5     New Hampshire      13    .5561
6t    Cornell            12    .5564*
6t    Clarkson           12    .5558*
6t    Connecticut        12    .5464*
9     Boston University  10    .5370
 
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That would suggest Cornell to Minneapolis, Clarkson to Duluth.
 
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Just got to say, my heart goes out to UConn.....it took a perfect storm for them to be eliminated from this tournament. No offense to either Cornell or BU, hefty congratulations in fact, but think about it....

It took all of the following to occur to edge out UConn... 1.) BU upsetting UNH just to be in the final game 2.) Obviously BU beating UConn, but the final dagger was 3.) Cornell with the upset win over Clarkson. Again, obviously, if UConn beats BU they get the autobid, but I think even if one of the other two events had a different result we'd be seeing Huskies in the mix.

What a difference 24 hours makes....unreal!

Congrats UConn on a great season!
 
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Just to finish that thought... Here are the brackets as they were announced.

Boston Univ. @ #1 Mercyhurst

Cornell @ #4 Harvard


New Hampshire @ #2 Minnesota-Duluth

Clarkson @ #3 Minnesota
 
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Yup, I vastly underestimated how much Cornell would rise in RPI, and that UNH would fall so far that the committee couldn't send them to Bright.
 
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IceIsNice said:
but the final dagger was 3.) Cornell with the upset win over Clarkson. !
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Upset Win ?. Cornell did win the Regular season ECAC crown when Clarkson slipped up near the end of the season. Hardly an upset.

Either way both are in the tourney, so let's go ECAC.:)
 
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Are times available for the games? So far, all I've heard is

Clarkson @ Minnesota, 4 PM CT, Saturday, March 13.
 
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ARM said:
Something I'm used to.:o Everybody was wrong, including the computer. :p
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I wouldn't say that we were doing anything wrong... The committee just decided to look at the comparisons of UNH, Cornell, and Clarkson against each other rather than the total number of comparison each of the three had won.

Cornell held the comparisons over UNH (2-1) and Clarkson (3-2).

UNH vs. Clarkson... the components of the comparison were 2-2, with UNH having the RPI and TUC, and Clarkson having COP and H2H. Given that the RPI difference was .0003, the committee likely decided the H2H was the better tiebreaker.

So that puts it (in order): Cornell, Clarkson, UNH.
 
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ARM said:
Are times available for the games? So far, all I've heard is

Clarkson @ Minnesota, 4 PM CT, Saturday, March 13.
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From the BTD blog...

BU @ Mercyhurst, 2 PM ET, Saturday
UNH @ UMD, 2 PM CT, Saturday
 
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Hmmm....

Just seems very odd; UNH is #5 in the ranking but instead of getting #4 Harvard (would have been nice to see them play in Cambridge) they get shipped out to play #2 Minn-Duluth.

I have never seen something like this in the Men's seeding, which I am more familiar with. There they especially try to avoid first-round match-ups between division foes.
 
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