Re: D1 Final eight
(1) Committee only cares about comparisons of teams in the tournament for the seeding. Committee does not care that Cornell loses comparisons to UConn and Wisconsin like the USCHO Pairwise. Cornell beats Clarkson and UNH. Cornell is No. 5
(2) Committee does not but too much weight on tiny UNH edge over Clarkson in RPI. Clarkson dominates other categories (including head-to-head). UNH is No. 7.
I've been predicting Clarkson > UNH for days now if it came down to a tourney bid. UNH would've missed the tourney if Ohio State had won the WCHA tourney.
(3) Committee probably considers sending UNH to Harvard to avoid intraconference play, but thinks that would be too big a violation of bracket integrity
There were also two intraconference matchups in 2008.
You missed the explanation.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.
(1) Committee only cares about comparisons of teams in the tournament for the seeding. Committee does not care that Cornell loses comparisons to UConn and Wisconsin like the USCHO Pairwise. Cornell beats Clarkson and UNH. Cornell is No. 5
(2) Committee does not but too much weight on tiny UNH edge over Clarkson in RPI. Clarkson dominates other categories (including head-to-head). UNH is No. 7.
I've been predicting Clarkson > UNH for days now if it came down to a tourney bid. UNH would've missed the tourney if Ohio State had won the WCHA tourney.
(3) Committee probably considers sending UNH to Harvard to avoid intraconference play, but thinks that would be too big a violation of bracket integrity
They've de-emphasized this since 2006, when No. 6 Harvard was sent to play No. 1 Wisconsin, and No. 8 BC was sent to play No. 3 Dartmouth. It's just generally not feasible to avoid without compromising bracket integrity.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.
There were also two intraconference matchups in 2008.